Pest Control Borehamwood

Pest Control in Borehamwood

Borehamwood is a busy commuter town in Hertsmere, best known for the Elstree film studios that have been making movies and television here since the 1920s. The town itself is a mix of 1930s housing around Elstree Way and Shenley Road, large post-war estates at Hillside and Cowley Hill and some newer developments near the centre. The 1930s housing is where most of our mouse work takes place. The cavity walls, suspended timber floors and airbricks of these homes create the perfect conditions for mice to enter at ground level and move through the building using the internal voids. The inter-war streets around Theobald Street and Elstree Way are among the busiest we cover in the WD postcode for mouse calls and the work runs from early autumn right through to spring.

The Hertsmere countryside presses close to the edges of Borehamwood, with farmland and green belt land to the south and west. This rural fringe is a source of rats that move into the gardens of properties on the town's edges. Allotments, playing fields and the open spaces around Aberford Park add to the food and cover available and rats follow the drainage channels and garden boundaries into the residential areas. The Tykes Water, a small stream running through the town, provides another route that rats use year-round.

The high street along Shenley Road has a good range of restaurants and takeaways and the waste from these businesses feeds the pest population in the town centre. Wasp nests are common across Borehamwood during summer and the sheer volume of 1930s and post-war housing means there are thousands of potential nesting sites in loft spaces, wall cavities and garden sheds. Squirrels are a regular feature in the properties near the woods and green spaces on the town's fringes. Borehamwood is a practical, family-oriented town and dealing with pests promptly is part of how people look after their homes here.