Marylebone and Bayswater's mansion blocks
The large mansion blocks around Marylebone and Bayswater route heating pipes, water and cabling through shared vertical risers, and mice can move floor to floor inside that structure without crossing a communal corridor at all. Scratching behind a kitchen unit is often the first sign a resident actually notices.
Ground-floor shops with flats above
Where a shop or cafe sits at ground level with flats above, as is common around Marylebone High Street and Bayswater's parades, a mouse problem starting in the commercial kitchen below can travel up through the same service voids that connect the two.
Finding the nest
Nesting close to food, usually within a few metres, means droppings in a cutlery drawer or a chewed cereal box point somewhere nearby, a kitchen void, under the sink, or behind an integrated appliance, just as near Mayfair, where grand stucco terraces. Even before the nest turns up, locking food away already matters, just as near Victoria, where mixed commercial and residential streets close to the station and the coach terminal.
What to do this week
- Store dry food, pet food and bird seed in sealed containers
- Check behind the cooker and fridge if you can safely move them
- Note where droppings appear and whether they return after cleaning
- Ask neighbours or the managing agent whether anyone else has reported mice
- Keep an eye on cables near appliances for fresh gnawing
Booking mouse control in Westminster
Mouse control anywhere in Westminster is £190 for a flat and £240 for a house, and because around Soho, where dense mixed-use streets of restaurants, mentioning that when you book mouse control points us towards the likely route in, with the rest of the detail on the Westminster mouse control page.
