Pest Control North Kensington

Pest Control in North Kensington

North Kensington is one of the most diverse and densely built-up parts of west London, stretching from the Westway down to Ladbroke Grove and from Kensal Rise across to Notting Hill. The area includes grand Victorian terraces that have been split into flats, council estates like the Lancaster West Estate and the streets around Golborne Road and everything in between. That density of housing and the sheer number of people living close together create ideal conditions for pests. Mice are everywhere in North Kensington. The converted Victorian houses have multiple entry points where floors, walls and services have been altered over generations of subdivision and mice travel through these old buildings via pipe runs, skirting voids and ceiling cavities. We handle mouse control across North Kensington constantly and in a building split into six or eight flats it is rarely just one unit that has the problem.

Rats are a serious and ongoing issue too. The Victorian sewers under this part of London are old and in many places damaged and rats use them as a highway system beneath the streets. They surface through broken drains, cracked soil pipes and gaps around manholes, appearing in basements, ground-floor kitchens and back gardens. The Portobello Road market and the many food businesses in the area add to the picture, generating organic waste that supports rat numbers above ground as well. Rat control in North Kensington often begins with a drain survey to find where they are entering from below.

Bed bugs are a growing concern here, especially in the flatted housing where people move in and out frequently. They travel on furniture, clothing and luggage and they spread between flats through shared walls and service routes. A bed bug treatment needs to be thorough and usually involves at least two visits to catch all stages of the life cycle. Cockroaches turn up in some of the older blocks of flats, using the warm pipe runs and ducts to move between units and fleas are another regular call from the ground-floor flats and garden flats that are common across the area.