Pest Control Norbury

Pest Control in Norbury

Norbury sits in the London Borough of Croydon, a busy south London suburb straddling the A23 London Road with a mix of Edwardian semis, 1930s housing and flatted conversions. The streets either side of Norbury station are densely packed and that density is the main driver of pest activity. Mice thrive in this kind of environment. The older houses have been subdivided into flats over the decades and every conversion creates new gaps around pipe runs, floorboards and partition walls that mice exploit. Shared walls between terraced and semi-detached properties mean that a mouse problem rarely stays in one house. We deal with mouse control across Norbury regularly and the job always involves tracking down how they are getting in, not just dealing with the ones you can see.

Rats are common too and the Victorian drainage network beneath these streets is the main reason. Older sewers crack and collapse over time, giving rats a route from below ground into gardens, basements and even kitchens. The allotments and green spaces along the railway line provide additional habitat and food sources that support rat numbers in the area. Rat control in Norbury often starts with a CCTV drain survey to find the point where they are getting in from below.

Norbury has a busy high street with restaurants, takeaways and food shops and the waste from these businesses attracts both rats and pigeons. Pigeon control is needed on some of the commercial buildings along the London Road where flocks roost and nest on ledges and in gaps in the brickwork, leaving droppings that damage the building and create health concerns. Fleas are another regular call, often from the ground-floor flats and conversion properties where cats are kept. A flea treatment needs to cover all the floors and soft furnishings where eggs and larvae are hiding, not just the areas where bites are happening.