Squirrel Control in Potters Bar

Squirrel Control in Potters Bar

Potters Bar has green belt all round it and a lot of mature planting within the town itself — inter-war streets here were laid out with trees and those trees are now eighty or ninety years old.

Street trees are the detail worth knowing. A mature street tree sits in front of the house rather than behind it, which puts the route onto the front elevation — and the front elevation is the one people never think to check.

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Street trees

Check the Front, Not Just the Back

People inspect the back of the house because that is where the garden is and where they assume wildlife comes from. On a street with mature planting, the route is frequently at the front: a limb over the pavement reaching the eaves, a bay roof, a porch, or the front corner where a downpipe runs.

Front elevations also tend to have the older, more decorative roofline detail on inter-war houses — bay roofs, small dormers, decorative bargeboards — and all of that is more to fail than a plain rear elevation.

Street trees are usually the council's, so cutting back is not within your control, which again puts the weight on the roofline itself.

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