Pests can be anything from roosting pigeons damaging your building, to being infested with bedbugs. Whatever it is, and wherever it is, if it is causing your discomfort and stress, as well as possibly causing ill-health, you need the services of a professional pest controller.
I’m Gary Coates and as part of West London Pest Control, I help both domestic and business customers in and around Chessington to be pest free.
The abundance of pests is one reason why we sometimes need help to keep them at bay. My work was featured as part of the BBC documentary “Oxford Street”. This series highlighted what is needed to ensure that a mile and a half stretch of street is kept vermin and pest-free, as far as is possible.
In essence, pests are attracted to where humans are, simply because some of our habits and routines are not only advantageous to a pest, but beneficial to them to. Many pests are opportunistic in habit, thus when they see an overflowing refuse bin on a high street, they know that they have come across an abundant food source.
Unfortunately, in some cases, once the pest has a grip on an area, it can be hard to shake. Sometimes, people will attempt to tackle the issues themselves but, may make little if any difference to the problem or, worse still, actually spread or inadvertently encourage the pest problem.
Some pests also present a danger to human health. Bacteria in rat’s urine, for example, the dust form dried birds dropping, the spreading of salmonella by cockroaches, the possibility of being stung by a wasp or bee are just some of the dangers that face humans when certain pests invade their home, business, garden, outbuildings, public spaces and so on.