Pest Control Paddock Wood

Pest Control in Paddock Wood

Paddock Wood is a busy small town in the Low Weald between Tonbridge and Maidstone, built around its railway junction and the agricultural industries that made it grow. The town has a mix of Victorian houses near the station, 20th-century estates and new developments on the outskirts, all surrounded by some of the most productive farmland in Kent. The orchards, hop gardens and soft fruit farms that ring the town have made it a centre for fruit growing and packing for well over a century. Rats are drawn to the food processing and storage facilities as well as to the farms themselves and they also follow the railway embankment and the streams that cross the area. We carry out rat control right across Paddock Wood, covering residential streets, commercial premises and the farms on the outskirts.

Mice are the single most common pest in the town. The Victorian terraces near the station have shared cavity walls that let mice travel from one property to the next and the newer estates can be affected too where utility pipes and cable entries leave gaps. We deal with mouse control on a very regular basis and always tackle the entry points alongside the treatment, because removing mice without sealing the building just leads to the same problem a few weeks later.

Wasp nests are common in summer across all parts of the town and the orchards and fruit farms nearby add to the wasp numbers when the crop ripens. We handle wasp removal throughout the season. Flea treatment is another regular call in a town with this many family homes and pets. The railway line provides a corridor for rats and foxes to move through the area and the food industry gives them a reason to stay. Paddock Wood is one of the busiest towns we cover in the TN area for pest work and the combination of housing, industry and farming explains why.