How Much Does Mouse Control Cost in Greenwich? Our £190 & £240 Prices

The Published Price

The Same Figures as Rats, and a Completely Different Job

People notice that the two prices match and reasonably assume the work is interchangeable. It is not. The figures match because the amount of work involved happens to land in the same place, not because a mouse is a small rat.

Three differences change everything about how the visit is spent:

1. Mice sample in tiny amounts at many points. A rat will feed heavily in one place. A mouse takes a little from many, which means control has to be distributed across the routes rather than concentrated where the droppings look worst.
2. Mice are curious about new objects, not suspicious of them. That is the opposite of a rat, and it changes how quickly you would expect to see a result.
3. One property can hold several nesting sites at once. Finding a nest is not the same as finding the problem, which is the single most common reason a kitchen goes quiet for a fortnight and then does not.

So the survey time goes into mapping the network rather than into finding one burrow, and the follow-up is about confirming the whole network was reached rather than confirming a bait point was taken.

Why a House Is More Than a Flat

Same reason as any property-priced service here: a house adds a suspended floor void, a roof space, an external envelope with air bricks and pipe penetrations, and often outbuildings. In mouse work the subfloor matters particularly, because a kickboard void under fitted kitchen units is very frequently open to it, and that is a route between the kitchen and the whole ground floor.

What the Cheap Route Actually Costs

It is worth doing this arithmetic honestly, because a lot of people arrive having already spent money.

Traps and retail bait from a supermarket are inexpensive. The difficulty is that they are almost always placed where the person can reach rather than where the mice are travelling, and in numbers suited to a much smaller population than the property has. That reduces activity in one part of the house for a while, which reads as progress, and the network carries on.

Ultrasonic plug-in devices are the other common purchase. There is no good evidence they clear an established mouse population, we do not sell them and we do not recommend them. If you have one running it is worth mentioning, purely so we know what has already been tried.

The Cost That Sits Next to the Treatment

In houses - particularly the interwar and 1930s stock across Eltham and the estate housing further out - mice are very often incomers rather than residents. Activity that starts in October in a property that was quiet all summer is pointing at an entry point, not a long-established colony.

That is the situation where proofing earns its money, and it is priced separately at £180, up to 1 hour for exactly the reason set out on the pest proofing page: the amount needed varies enormously, and bundling it would mean the people who need none subsidise the people who need hours of it.

The practical version: treatment removes the mice that are in. Closing the air brick or the pipe entry decides whether next October is a repeat.

Flats, Blocks and Converted Houses

In a block or a converted house, mice move between flats through service risers, boxed pipework and the gaps around waste pipes. A population on one floor can be feeding on another, and a single-flat treatment reaches a fraction of it.

We will say so plainly when that is what the evidence shows, rather than selling repeat treatments that cannot reach the problem. The effective instruction in that situation is a building-wide one through the managing agent, and a report describing which penetrations are open and where is usually what makes that conversation move.

The Same Price Across All Seven Areas

Greenwich, Blackheath, Woolwich, Eltham, Charlton, Plumstead and Abbey Wood, all at the published figure. No travel loading, no postcode adjustment.

Three Times We Will Tell You a Treatment Will Not Hold

The published price buys a treatment. It does not buy a promise that the treatment can reach a problem that is not inside your property, and there are three situations where we will say so before you spend the money rather than after.

The population belongs to the building

In a block or a converted house, where the routes run through service risers and communal voids, a single-flat treatment reaches a fraction of the population. The effective instruction is a building-wide one through the managing agent, and a report describing which penetrations are open and where is what moves that along.

The route is under a party wall

In terraced housing the void beneath a suspended floor frequently does not stop at the party wall, and neither does the roof space. If your neighbours have the same thing, that is genuinely useful information and it changes the plan.

There is a food source we cannot remove

An accessible bin store, a neighbouring property with a long-standing problem, or feed and spillage in a shared area. Treatment against a continuous food supply is a holding operation, and it should be sold as one or not at all.