Professional Rat Control in Plumstead

Old Ground, Old Drainage

Plumstead was built quickly to house Royal Arsenal workers, and the small two-up two-down terraces on the low ground near the river carry that history in their construction. Dense terraces sharing subfloors and party walls, connections into a drainage system that has been in the ground a very long time, and a water table that remembers what the land used to be.

The practical consequence is that a defective or redundant drain connection is a realistic explanation here rather than an exotic one. A rat entering a property through a broken connection or an unsealed redundant branch is inside without ever crossing the garden, and no amount of treatment closes that route.

Uphill is different

The larger, later houses climbing towards Plumstead Common are a more conventional job - gardens, sheds, boundaries and gaps at ground level - and the common itself, protected open space since an Act of Parliament in 1878, is wildlife habitat on the doorstep rather than a rat reservoir.

Signs You May Need Rat Control in Plumstead

The full list is on the Rat Control Greenwich page.

• Gnawing on something that is not food. Cable sheathing, plastic pipework, timber, plasterboard corners and the edges of stored boxes.
• Noise with weight behind it. Movement under floorboards, in a ceiling void or behind a stud wall, usually after dark and usually in the same part of the property each night.
• Disturbed ground outside. Burrows against a wall, under decking, beside a shed base or next to a drain cover, often with a worn path leading away.

How We Deal With Rats in Plumstead

The survey establishes whether the route is at ground level or below it before anything is placed, because on this ground that distinction decides whether treatment will hold.