Rat Control Tring

Rat Control in Tring

Tring has more water around it than almost anywhere else we cover. The Grand Union reaches its summit here, the reservoirs that feed it sit just outside the town, and the whole area is a well-known wildlife site because of them.

That is lovely, and it is also a very large permanent reservoir of wildlife including rats, sitting immediately next to a town.

Combine it with period housing and you have a place where the outside of the building matters a great deal.

Ring 01908 465226 and tell us what you have seen in Tring.

Water everywhere

Canal, Reservoirs and Seasonal Movement

Permanent water with permanent cover supports a permanent population. Most of the year it stays out there. What brings it in is the same as anywhere: cold weather, high water, and a food source that appears.

The seasonal pattern here is pronounced. Autumn and the first hard spell produce the calls, and properties on the town side of the canal or the reservoirs feel it first.

Period property

Old Buildings on the Edge of It

Old buildings have more ways in than new ones — unsealed service entries, gaps behind render, rotten timber at ground level, and drainage altered over a century.

Put an old building next to a large permanent wildlife population and the proofing work is the whole job. Treatment deals with what is inside; closing the routes decides whether it happens again next autumn.

What we ask

Booking a Visit in Tring

How close the property is to the canal or the reservoirs, and roughly how old it is. That decides most of what we need to know before we arrive.

You will be told what we found, what we did and what still needs closing. Where the way in is somebody else’s to fix - a drain, a neighbour, a managing agent - we will say so rather than patch it.