Pest Control Anerley

Pest Control in Anerley

Anerley is a south London neighbourhood wedged between Penge, Crystal Palace and South Norwood, with the ground climbing steeply toward the Crystal Palace ridge. The streets are mostly Victorian and Edwardian terraces, built on the hillside in tight rows with long narrow gardens running behind them. These older houses have all the features that make rodent control a regular job: suspended timber floors over shallow voids, original clay drainage and airbricks that have crumbled over more than a century. Mice are the single biggest pest issue in Anerley. They come in through gaps at ground level and work their way up through the building using the pipe runs and partition walls. In houses that have been converted into flats, the problem multiplies because the mice use the original structure to move between units. Our mouse control in Anerley always includes a detailed check of how the mice are travelling through the building.

Rats are present too, especially along the streets closest to the railway lines that cut through the area. Railway embankments provide cover, food waste and nesting opportunities and the rats move out into the gardens and buildings nearby. The back alleys between the terraces are another hotspot where bins attract rodent activity. Damaged drains under the Victorian streets give rats a route from the sewer to the surface and a CCTV survey often reveals the broken joint or collapsed section that is causing the problem. We carry out rat control across Anerley with drain checks included where the evidence points to an underground route.

Crystal Palace Park sits just up the hill and the mature trees there and in the gardens along Anerley Hill support grey squirrels that regularly enter roof spaces. Wasps nest in the lofts and behind the decorative barge boards of the Victorian houses each summer and the steep south-facing gardens warm up quickly in the sun, creating perfect conditions for nests. Our wasp removal in Anerley runs through the season and we also handle flea treatments which come up often in an area with plenty of cats and carpeted homes.