Pest Control Walham Green

Pest Control in Walham Green

Walham Green is the old name for the area around Fulham Broadway in south-west London and while the name may have fallen out of everyday use, the neighbourhood is very much alive. It centres on Fulham Broadway with its shopping centre, restaurants and the constant flow of people heading to Stamford Bridge on match days. The Victorian terraces that line the side streets are typical inner London housing, built tightly together with shared party walls and original features that have settled and shifted over more than a century. Mice are the most common pest issue in these houses. They move through cavity walls, follow pipe runs between floors and squeeze through gaps that would seem impossibly small. In a terrace, one house having mice often means the neighbours do too.

The concentration of restaurants and food businesses along Fulham Broadway and North End Road generates waste that draws rats into the area. Rat control around the commercial strips is an ongoing task, with damaged sewers beneath the streets providing the main access route for rats moving between the underground drainage network and surface level. Properties on the roads closest to these busy streets see more rat activity than the quieter residential streets further away, but nowhere is completely immune in an area this dense.

The blocks of flats and converted houses around Walham Green also generate regular calls for bed bug treatments. With a high proportion of rental properties and frequent tenant changes, bed bugs get carried in on furniture and luggage and can go unnoticed until the problem is well developed. Flea treatments come up regularly too, particularly in ground-floor flats with access to shared gardens where cats pick up fleas from other animals. The busy, built-up nature of Walham Green means pest control is just part of the cost of living in this part of London.