From the park trees to the roof line
A grey squirrel is equally at home crossing tree canopies or running along a fence top as it is moving across the ground, as anyone near Enfield Town will recognise, where the Georgian market-town core around the New River and the town centre. Houses close to mature trees around either park usually have a branch overhanging the roof that acts as a bridge, and from there the squirrel needs only a weak spot at the eaves.
Streets bordering Grovelands and Broomfield Park
The residential streets edging Grovelands Park and Broomfield Park sit right beside mature woodland and specimen trees, giving squirrels a short hop from park canopy to roof. A check at the eaves each autumn is worth doing here before a quiet loft turns noisy over winter.
The Georgian houses of Enfield Town
The older, larger houses around Enfield Town's conservation area often have bigger, more accessible lofts once a squirrel is inside, giving it more room to nest and more places to cause damage before being noticed.
Confirming it is a squirrel
When it happens tends to be the most reliable clue, as anyone near Bush Hill Park will recognise, where a mix of Edwardian terraces and 1930s houses near the golf course and station. Timing gives it away: squirrels are only active during daylight hours, so early-morning and late-afternoon thumping fits a squirrel, while any noise overnight means rats or mice, as anyone near Winchmore Hill will recognise, where leafy streets of larger Edwardian and 1930s houses around the village green.
Checking for damage
Without going in, check from the loft hatch with a torch for signs like squashed or shredded insulation, gnaw marks on timber, chewed storage boxes and droppings by the water tank - the same pattern holds near Enfield Town, where the Georgian market-town core around the New River and the town centre. If cable has been gnawed, that's the most serious sign, bare wiring is a fire hazard, so don't touch it and get an electrician out - the same pattern holds near Bush Hill Park, where a mix of Edwardian terraces and 1930s houses near the golf course and station.
What not to do
- Block the entry hole while squirrels may still be inside; they chew a new way out, sometimes into the house
- Put down poison in the loft
- Catch a squirrel and release it elsewhere
One point is purely legal rather than practical, grey squirrels are classed as invasive non-natives, and releasing a trapped one back into the wild is illegal, true near Palmers Green too, where 1930s suburban semis and Victorian terraces along the Green Lanes shopping stretch.
Booking squirrel control in Enfield
Our squirrel trapping service in Enfield is £280, and since around Enfield Town, where the Georgian market-town core around the New River and the town centre, it helps to say when you book squirrel control whether the sounds are by day or night and whether trees overhang the roof, with more on the Enfield squirrel control page.
