Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Narberth, PA

Pre-war twins and apartments near Haverford Avenue

Twin houses from the 1920s and 1930s share a center wall from basement to attic, and mice move along it freely. Small backyards sit only a few feet apart, so one neighbor's woodpile or compost bin affects the whole row.

Apartments above storefronts share heat runs and plumbing with the businesses below, giving cockroaches and bed bugs an easy route upstairs.

Lots are small and the street trees are old. Big limbs reach over porch roofs and gutters, and squirrels travel them to rooflines where wooden soffits and built-in box gutters have softened with age. Many houses keep their original front porches, with tongue-and-groove floors and posts on low piers, and that damp, shaded wood is where carpenter ants and termites start.

Density concentrates trash, too. Rear driveways and alleys hold rows of cans and recycling bins, and dumpsters behind the Haverford Avenue businesses add a steady food source, which is why rats appear in a borough that otherwise feels quiet and suburban. Narrow side yards keep foundations shaded and wet, so ants and centipedes work in along the base of the walls.

Getting from Media to the Narberth business district

We come north on I-476 and east on Montgomery Avenue, then park near your block since street parking is tight. The inspection is free, and Thom and his team write up the quote before leaving.

A borough surrounded by Lower Merion

Narberth is an independent borough entirely surrounded by Lower Merion Township, with a station on SEPTA's Paoli/Thorndale Line and shops along Haverford Avenue. Wynnewood and Merion Station border it. Haverford Avenue is the commercial heart, with restaurants, coffee shops, a neighborhood movie theater and offices within a few blocks of the train station, and many storefronts have apartments above them. With almost everything within walking distance, one property's habits reach the neighbors quickly: a restaurant grease bin, an untended compost pile or a vacant twin can affect several houses at once. The work a borough this compact produces follows the calendar: mice in shared twin walls each fall, roaches or bed bugs in apartments above shops, rats near trash areas behind the business district, and termite or carpenter ant checks on old porches in spring.