What the £90 Fixed Price Actually Buys
One price, one nest, wherever in London the property stands. The figure does not shift with the postcode, the floor a flat is on, or whether the entrance is under the slates of a terrace or in the grass of a suburban lawn. It covers our attendance and the treatment of the nest you have found. What it does not cover is building work: refixing a soffit board, repointing a stack or opening a boxed-in pipe run are jobs for a roofer or a builder, before or after we have been.
A second nest at the same address is a second nest, and you will hear what that comes to before anything is arranged. Commercial premises are quoted for the site rather than at the domestic fixed price.
What makes a nest standard
Standard means ordinary and reachable. A nest in eaves or soffits, inside an air brick or a wall cavity, in a disused chimney, a loft, a garage, a shed or a bird box, deep in a hedge, or in the ground beneath a lawn all fall inside it. So do domestic heights: the roofline of a two-storey terrace or a three-storey conversion is routine, as is a garden reached through the house or a side gate.
The few cases we would raise before you book
- An entrance on a tall block that can only be worked from a tower, a platform or roof access the building's managing agent has to arrange
- A nest sealed inside a void that a builder would have to open up before anyone could reach it
- A nest that can only be approached across a neighbour's garden, a locked communal roof or a shared balcony, where permission has to come first
- Bees, which are not handled the way wasps are, and some of which are better left alone entirely
- Several nests at one address, or a business site, both of which are quoted rather than assumed
London Property Types and How We Reach the Nest
What decides a wasp visit in London is rarely the insect and almost always the access. In a Victorian terrace the nest is usually on the roofline or in the brickwork, and the garden is reached either down a side return or through the house, so we need to know which. In a house converted into flats, the roof, the eaves and the stack belong to the building rather than to any one flat, so it is worth telling the freeholder or the managing agent even when you are the person booking. Purpose-built blocks add communal walkways, bin stores and balconies, and an entrance may sit above a neighbour's window rather than yours. Interwar semis with gardens and garages give the easiest working room; flats above shops the least, because the low roof over the shop's back extension is often no part of the flat.
Height, access and what we can get to
Most domestic nests sit between head height and the ridge of a two-storey roof, and that is the range this visit is built around. Above it the job becomes access equipment rather than pest control, which is the point at which a phone call beats an arrival. Tell us how high the entrance is and what stands beneath it, and we can say before you commit whether it is the standard job. Wasps nesting inside walls covers the one case where what you see outside tells you least about what lies behind.
What to Tell Us When You Book
- The building: house, converted flat, purpose-built flat or flat above a shop, and which floor you are on
- Where the insects are going in - roofline, wall, chimney, loft, shed, hedge or the ground
- Roughly how high the entrance is, and what is underneath it
- How the back of the property is reached, and whether a gate or a communal door needs a key
- Anyone in the household who has reacted badly to a sting before
- A photograph, if one can be taken from a safe distance
The 30-Day Terms, Written Out
The fixed price is guaranteed for 30 days from the visit: if the nest is still active inside that window, we return and there is nothing further to pay. Active carries its ordinary meaning - a working two-way stream at the same opening - rather than the stragglers that drift about afterwards, or a fresh nest a different queen has begun elsewhere on the building. How long wasp nest treatment takes to work describes what the following days normally look like, and will wasps return after treatment explains why a dead nest is not taken over the next year.
Where We Work
Wasp work runs across all 33 boroughs at the same fixed price. Brent is the borough written up in full so far: Wasp Nest Removal Brent gives the borough view and leads down to the individual areas, and Pest Control Brent lists every service there. For the practical side - whether a nest is live, what to do while you wait, and why an entrance must never be blocked - our London wasp advice is the page to read. If the noise above a bedroom ceiling is heavier than insects it is squirrel control you want, and winged insects boiling out of a path joint on one humid afternoon are flying ants.
