Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Langhorne, PA

Converted 18th-century houses on Route 413

Large old homes divided into apartments share walls, attics and plumbing, so bed bugs, cockroaches and mice move from unit to unit.

Stone cellars stay damp, and old timber framing softens where water gets in, which invites carpenter ants. Loose mortar and old cellar doors leave mice plenty of entry points.

Census (ACS) figures put the median Langhorne home at 1938, and the oldest houses along Maple Avenue and Bellevue Avenue are far older than that. Many were built with fieldstone cellars, plaster on lath and balloon framing, a style with open wall cavities that run from cellar to attic. Those cavities act like highways: a mouse or roach that gets in at the foundation can surface on the third floor.

Conversions add to the problem. When a big house is split into three or four apartments, new kitchens and bathrooms are plumbed through old floors, and the cut-outs around pipes are rarely sealed. With about 42% of borough homes rented, move-ins happen all year, and each one is a chance for bed bugs or German cockroaches to arrive in boxes or used furniture. Mature shade trees over these lots also keep roofs and gutters wet, which feeds the carpenter ant problem.

Booking a Langhorne visit from Media

We head up I-95 and come in on Route 413. Thom or a technician from his team inspects the cellar, shared hallways and the units where pests were seen. Owners of multi-unit houses get a written quote covering each unit after the free inspection.

Langhorne Borough inside Middletown Township

Langhorne is a small borough surrounded by Middletown Township, with Route 413 as its main street. Newtown is a short drive north. The town was long known as Four Lanes End for the crossroads where Route 413 and Maple Avenue, now Route 213, meet, and much of the center is a historic district of 18th- and 19th-century homes. SEPTA's Langhorne station on the West Trenton Line sits just outside the borough, Core Creek Park lies a few minutes away in Middletown Township, and borough children attend the Neshaminy School District. The Route 1 corridor runs just outside town. In practice, our Langhorne work is concentrated in a few blocks: bed bugs and roaches in divided houses near the crossroads, mice climbing through old wall cavities, and carpenter ants and termites in the porches, sills and cellar stairs of the oldest homes.