Squirrel Control in Chesham

Squirrel Control in Chesham

Chesham sits in a valley with wooded sides, and a lot of the housing runs up those slopes. Where a street is cut into a hillside, the trees behind it are frequently at or above roof height.

That removes the jump entirely. A squirrel does not need to leap from a branch to a gutter if the ground behind the house is already level with the eaves, and it makes the usual advice about cutting branches back considerably less useful here.

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Sloping ground

When the Trees Are Above the Roof

On a hillside street the geometry works against you. The bank behind the house, the trees on it and the roof are all at similar heights, so there is no gap to create and nothing to cut back that would make a difference.

Which shifts the whole weight of the job onto the roofline itself. If the route cannot be removed, the roof has to be genuinely closed rather than mostly closed, and that means checking the rear elevation properly — which on a hillside terrace often means access arrangements rather than a ladder against the front.

Terraced roofs add the party-wall question: in older terraces the wall often stops at ceiling level, so an opening several doors along can serve your loft.

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