Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Hatfield Township, PA

Colmar Apartments, Townhomes and the Route 309 Strip

Garden apartments and townhome rows from the 1970s share walls, attics and plumbing, so roaches, mice and bed bugs can move between units. Tenant turnover keeps bringing in new hitchhikers.

Restaurants, stores and industrial buildings along Route 309 and the rail line produce food waste and shelter, which supports rats and mice that spread to nearby homes.

That 1979 median reflects a building boom of garden apartment complexes and townhome developments in the 1970s and 1980s, spread across the roads between Colmar and the Lansdale border. Those buildings share trash enclosures, laundry rooms and common hallways, and when one apartment hosts German cockroaches, the shared plumbing stack can carry them to every floor. Townhome rows built with slab-on-grade garages also leave expansion joints where termites can enter unseen, and many of those slabs are now more than 40 years old.

The township mixes its housing with industrial parks, food processing and trucking. Warehouses, loading docks and pallet storage give rats and mice cover close to residential streets, and drainage ditches along the rail line and the edges of industrial lots stay wet enough to breed mosquitoes. Remaining open fields and stormwater basins add field mice and stink bugs to the fall mix.

From Media to Colmar: How a Visit Works

We drive I-476 north to the Northeast Extension, exit at Lansdale and come over to Route 309, about 55 minutes. Property managers can line up several units for the same trip. Thom and his team inspect for free and leave a written quote for each unit or for the building.

Hatfield Borough, Lansdale and the Route 309 Corridor

Hatfield Township surrounds the separate borough of Hatfield and borders Lansdale. Colmar has its own SEPTA station on the Lansdale/Doylestown Line, and Souderton lies north along Route 309. Route 309 runs north and south through Colmar, lined with strip centers, restaurants and service businesses, while industrial and food processing buildings fill much of the land on either side. Colmar's station on SEPTA's Lansdale/Doylestown Line puts commuter parking and apartment complexes within walking distance of the tracks. County Line Road forms the township's border with Bucks County, and Cowpath Road and Orvilla Road carry local traffic between neighborhoods. Hatfield Township is part of the North Penn School District, whose public school buildings follow Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002 rules for integrated pest management and notice before applications. Food plants and warehouses here generally answer to inspectors and customer auditors, so their pest service needs records as well as results.