Ant Control High Wycombe

Ant Control in High Wycombe

High Wycombe has a great deal of flatted and shared accommodation and a lot of older terraced housing on the steep valley sides. Shared buildings change an ant job in one specific way.

In a house you can follow the trail out of the building. In a first- floor flat you often cannot, because the route runs inside the structure from a ground-level nest you have no access to.

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Flats

When You Cannot Follow the Trail Out

Ants that get into the base of a building will work upwards through cavities, service ducts and the gaps round pipework, and they will come out in a first or second-floor kitchen with no visible route to the outside at all.

That is the hardest version of this job and it is why treating a flat in isolation so often disappoints. The colony is at ground level, usually outside, and getting at it may mean access to a communal area, a ground- floor flat or the landlord's ground.

Where the evidence points that way we put it in writing, because in a managed block that note is what gets the ground floor and the perimeter looked at rather than leaving you treating a worktop.

Photographs on this page are for illustration purposes only.

Shared kitchens

HMOs and Student Houses

In a house in multiple occupation the shared kitchen is the reward and the trail is the route to it. Several people's food, bins that fill faster than anyone empties them, and nobody quite responsible for behind the units.

That does not create the colony, which is outside, but it is what keeps the trail reinforced and makes the bait compete against thirty other options. The treatment works considerably better with the bins and the spills dealt with, and we will say which of them is actually doing the damage.

What we ask

Before the Ant Visit in High Wycombe

Tell us which floor the trail is on, whether you can see where it comes in, and who manages the building. That decides most of what we need to know before we arrive.

What we are looking for is where the line goes when it leaves the building. Treatment deals with the colony at the end of it; clearing the trail achieves nothing on its own.