Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Lansdowne, PA

Victorian Porches, Stone Foundations and the Darby Creek Edge

Lansdowne's Victorian singles and twins often have balloon-frame walls that run open from basement to attic. A mouse that gets in at the stone foundation can reach the second floor without crossing a room. Porch decking and columns that stay damp invite carpenter ants and carpenter bees.

About a third of households rent, many in big old houses divided into apartments or walk-ups near Baltimore Avenue, so bed bugs and cockroaches move between units. Darby Creek and its wooded banks keep the borough's edge humid through summer and hold the standing water mosquitoes need.

Many of these houses still heat with radiators or carry abandoned chimney flues, and the pipe chases, old flues and gaps around slate or aging shingle roofs give squirrels and mice a way into attics. Third-floor rooms under steep Victorian roofs run hot and dry in summer, conditions that pantry moths and carpet beetles handle well.

Mature street trees drop leaves into box gutters and built-in porch drains. When those clog, water sits against fascia and porch framing for weeks, softening the wood carpenter ants prefer and breeding mosquitoes right on the roofline.

Our Baltimore Pike Route From Media to Lansdowne

Baltimore Pike carries us east from Media into Lansdowne. Thom and his team start with a free top-to-bottom inspection of foundation, porch underside, kitchen, bedrooms and attic, because in a balloon-frame house the problem often shows up far from where it started. You get a written quote before treatment. We're open 7 days, 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Lansdowne Theater, Baltimore Avenue and the Rail Line to Media

Lansdowne's business district runs along Lansdowne and Baltimore avenues, anchored by the historic Lansdowne Theater, and its SEPTA station sits on the same Regional Rail line that serves Media. The borough lies between Upper Darby Township, Yeadon and East Lansdowne. It belongs to the William Penn School District, which runs Act 35 integrated pest management plans. The borough has two Regional Rail stops, Lansdowne and Gladstone, and the brushy rail right-of-way between them works as a travel lane for rats and mice. The theater block and storefronts along Lansdowne and Baltimore avenues put restaurants, upstairs apartments and shared alleys close together, the setting where German cockroaches and rats move between businesses and homes. Parts of Lansdowne are listed as National Register historic districts, so sealing work on original stone and wood trim should use materials that blend in, such as mortar patching instead of foam.