Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Levittown, PA

Levitt slabs, additions and converted carports

On a slab house, termites cannot be spotted climbing a basement wall. They come up through cracks, the joint where the slab meets the foundation edge and openings around pipes, then feed inside wall framing. Additions, enclosed carports and new patios add more seams where new concrete meets old.

Converted carports and garages often have gaps at the old slab edge, letting mice in each fall. Odorous house ants nest under the slab and trail into kitchens.

The original models, chiefly the Levittowner and the Jubilee, were compact houses with radiant heat coils set into the slab. That warmth reaches the soil under and beside the floor through winter, so termite colonies can stay active close to the house longer than they would beside an unheated crawlspace.

Seventy years of remodeling means few houses are alike now: second-story expansions, rear family rooms, and new kitchens and baths with fresh plumbing cut through the slab. Every new penetration is a path for ants and termites. Lots are small and evenly spaced, so one property's woodpile, shed or overgrown fence line affects mice and yellow jackets on both sides, and mature shade trees along the curving streets fill gutters and keep fascia damp enough for carpenter ants.

Booking a Levittown visit from Media

We take I-95 north through Philadelphia and set Levittown visits in advance, often grouped with other lower Bucks stops. Thom and his team inspect slab edges, additions and plumbing access for free and put the quote in writing.

Levittown's sections across four lower Bucks municipalities

Levittown spreads across Bristol Township, Falls Township, Middletown Township and Tullytown, organized into named sections where the streets share a first letter. Levitt & Sons built the community between 1952 and 1958, more than 17,000 houses in all, and section names still work as directions: a Snowball Gate address points to one neighborhood, a Holly Hill address to another. Telling us your section when you call helps us plan the route between other lower Bucks stops. Levittown Parkway and New Falls Road link the sections, Bristol Pike, US 13, runs along the southern edge, and SEPTA's Trenton Line stops at the Levittown station in Tullytown. Depending on the section, children attend the Bristol Township, Neshaminy or Pennsbury school district. The work here is overwhelmingly homeowner work: slab and addition termite checks, mice at carport seams, ants through floor cracks and wasps under the eaves in summer.