A borough built on old infrastructure
Camden sits on some of London's oldest drainage and, in King's Cross, some of its busiest railway and canal land, and rats move through both. In the dense Victorian terraces of Kentish Town, an ageing drain is usually the route. Nearer King's Cross, the railway cuttings and Regent's Canal give rats cover that has nothing to do with any individual building.
Kentish Town: when the drains are the route
The Victorian terraces of Kentish Town sit on drainage that has carried the area's housing for well over a century, and a cracked pipe or shifted joint gives rats a way from the sewer into a floor void without ever showing themselves outside. Scratching under the floor or a smell near the stairs, with nothing visible outdoors, points this way.
King's Cross: canal and railway cuttings
Around King's Cross, the railway cuttings and the banks of Regent's Canal give rats long, sheltered corridors that run for miles with no need to enter any building at all - until food or warmth draws them off that route and into a flat or a bin store nearby.
Getting rid of them: the order that works
- Confirm the animal and note where and when you've seen or heard it
- Remove easy food: bird feeders, split bin bags, food left out overnight
- Book professional treatment rather than laying poison where children or pets could find it
- Leave any burrow or hole open until treatment is complete
- Close the route in once activity has stopped
Closing the route for good
In Camden's Victorian terraces, entry points are usually found where old pipework passes through party walls, or where basement airbricks have deteriorated. On the borough's larger ex-council estates, proofing is more often about service ducts and gaps around communal bin store doors. Our rodent proofing service deals with the accessible gaps above ground.
Booking rat control in Camden
Rat control anywhere in Camden is £190 for a flat and £240 for a house, and because around Camden Town, where dense Victorian terraces and converted flats around the market and high street, mentioning that when you book rat control points us towards the likely route in, with the rest of the detail on the Camden rat control page.
