Pest Control Kensington

Pest Control in Kensington

Kensington is one of London's wealthiest and most architecturally impressive neighbourhoods, running from Kensington Palace and the gardens down through the grand terraces of Kensington Church Street, Kensington High Street and the residential streets that stretch towards Earl's Court and South Kensington. The housing is overwhelmingly Victorian, with large terraced houses, many now divided into flats and stucco-fronted crescents that are iconic to this part of the city. The sheer age and scale of these buildings creates a busy pest control environment. Mice move through the internal cavities, service risers and gaps between subdivided units with ease. Basement flats and kitchen areas at garden level are where problems tend to be noticed first, but the mice can be present throughout the building.

Kensington Palace Gardens and Holland Park provide large areas of green space that border the residential streets. These parks support grey squirrels in large numbers and the squirrels spread into the loft spaces and roof voids of the surrounding properties. Rats also use the parkland as habitat and the Victorian drainage network beneath Kensington's streets provides routes for rats to enter buildings through cracked underground pipes. Basement properties in this area are particularly at risk from sewer rats and we regularly carry out work that combines pest treatment with drainage investigation to find and fix the source of the problem.

Kensington High Street and the surrounding commercial streets have a high concentration of restaurants and food outlets and the waste from these businesses feeds both rats and mice. The many hotels and serviced apartments in the area also bring bed bug risks, as guests from around the world move in and out. Wasp nests turn up during summer in the decorative rooflines and behind the stucco facades of the Victorian terraces. Kensington is a demanding area for pest work because the buildings are valuable, the construction is old and the combination of green space and commercial activity keeps pest pressures constantly high.