Rodent Proofing Hackney

Rodent Proofing in Hackney

In Hackney's Victorian terraces, gaps where pipes pass through party walls and damaged airbricks are the entry points we most often find.

In the borough's estates, gaps around service ducting and communal bin stores can also give rats and mice a way in.

Old drain runs beneath Homerton and Clapton

Homerton and Clapton were built up around the same time as much of Hackney's Victorian terracing, and the drains underneath them are just as old. A cracked pipe or a loose joint gives rats a way up into the ground beneath a house, and from there into floor voids that run the length of a row of houses. Scratching under a ground-floor room with no obvious hole outside is usually the first sign something below has failed.

Shared walls in Dalston's converted terraces

Much of Dalston's Victorian housing has been split into two or three flats over the years, and each conversion added its own partition walls, boxed-in pipework and service runs between floors. A mouse doesn't need much more than a gap the width of a finger to use any of these as a corridor, which is why an infestation that starts behind one kitchen can turn up two floors away within a matter of weeks.

What Rodent Proofing Covers

• Sealing small, accessible gaps around pipework and cabling
• Damaged air bricks and worn thresholds
• Gaps around meter boxes and service ducts

When to Book It

Proofing works best straight after a rat or mouse treatment, while the entry point is still fresh in mind — but it can be booked on its own too, anywhere in Hackney.