Pest Control Kensington

Pest Control in Kensington

Kensington is one of London's most prestigious areas, with a mix of grand white stucco terraces, mansion blocks and garden squares that date from the mid-19th century. The streets around Kensington Palace, Holland Park and the museums on Exhibition Road are lined with some of the most valuable residential property in the world, but pests make no distinction based on postcode. The buildings here are old, often Grade II listed and the combination of deep basements, aging drainage systems and multiple conversions creates conditions where rats and mice thrive behind the polished facades. Rats in Kensington typically come up through the drainage. The sewer network under these streets is Victorian and the constant subsidence and root damage from the mature trees in the garden squares takes its toll on the pipes. We carry out rat control in Kensington with drain surveys as a standard first step, because fixing the drainage is the only way to stop rats returning.

Mice are an even more common problem. The terraces have been subdivided into flats and maisonettes and every subdivision creates new voids, service routes and gaps where mice can move around unseen. The grand proportions of these buildings mean the wall cavities are deep, the cornicing leaves gaps at ceiling level and the timber floors have spaces beneath that mice use as highways. Mouse control in Kensington demands a detailed understanding of how these period buildings are put together, because the entry points are often hidden behind original architectural features that cannot simply be ripped out and replaced.

Holland Park and the gardens within the Kensington squares support grey squirrels and provide nesting sites for wasps. Wasp nests in the decorative parapets, chimney stacks and behind the stucco mouldings of these buildings need to be treated carefully to avoid damage to the fabric. The restaurants and hotels along Kensington High Street and in the side streets add commercial pest control needs to the residential work, making Kensington a demanding area that requires expertise and discretion in equal measure.