Ant Control Tring

Ant Control in Tring

Tring sits at the foot of the Chilterns where the chalk comes up to the scarp, though the ground turns to clay as you go north-west towards the vale. The housing is heavily period and converted, with old brick and flint terraces and gardens that have been gardened for a long time.

Where the soil is thin over chalk it drains extremely well and warms early, which suits ants; and old buildings have soft lime mortar and worn thresholds. Between them that is a good combination for ants and an awkward one for sealing.

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Old mortar

Soft Pointing and Low-Level Gaps

Lime mortar that has weathered, a plinth course that has lost its pointing, a worn stone threshold, a gap where a later extension meets rubble-filled wall: an old building has a great many low-level openings and they are not all sealable without doing something you would rather not do to the fabric.

So on a period property the emphasis shifts further towards dealing with the colony and away from proofing. Close what can sensibly be closed, treat the nest properly, and accept that in a building like this the sealing is a secondary measure and not the answer.

Photographs on this page are for illustration purposes only.

Terraces

Shared Paths and Party Boundaries

In an old terrace the path, the yard and often the drain run past more than one property, and a colony under a shared path is a shared problem. Treating one side while the other is untouched gets you a quiet few weeks and then the same call.

Where the evidence sits at a boundary we say so and put it in writing. It is easier to raise with a neighbour when it is written down by someone who has looked at it.

What we ask

Before the Ant Visit in Tring

Tell us the age and construction of the building, where the trail comes in, and whether a shared path or yard is involved. 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.