Pest Control and Exterminator Service in North Coventry Township, PA

Route 100 retail, 1970s homes and the Schuylkill

Restaurants, grocery stores and dumpsters along the Route 100 corridor feed rats, mice and flies, which travel along drainage swales and wooded strips into nearby neighborhoods.

Homes from around 1970 are now more than 50 years old. Block foundations, original sill plates and crawlspaces give mice, termites and camel crickets plenty of openings, and the riverbank woods add moisture and cover.

North Coventry's land rises steeply south from the Schuylkill into wooded hills, so many 1970s neighborhoods sit on slopes where rainwater runs toward the uphill side of the house. Block foundations on those lots wick moisture and grow efflorescence, and crawlspaces under additions stay humid most of the year. The riverbank itself is floodplain woods and old industrial ground, where Norway rats burrow and mosquitoes breed in pools left after high water.

Typical houses from around 1970 are ranches, split-levels and bi-levels with wood siding or early aluminum siding, original single-pane basement windows and attached garages with worn door seals. Fifty years of settling have opened the joints where siding meets the foundation. Behind the Route 100 shopping area, wooded drainage strips and stormwater channels connect commercial lots to residential streets, giving rats, mice and German cockroaches carried in on deliveries a short path to nearby homes.

Route 422 to Pottstown, then over the river on Route 100

We follow Route 422 west to Pottstown and cross the Schuylkill on Route 100, about 55 minutes from Media. Businesses can set a standing visit day; homeowners should call a few days ahead. Thom and his team inspect free of charge and provide a written quote.

North Coventry beside Pottstown and East Coventry

Coventry Mall anchors the Route 100 retail strip, and the township faces Pottstown across the Schuylkill. East Coventry Township lies downstream to the east. Route 100 crosses the Schuylkill from Pottstown and runs south through the township's commercial strip toward the hills, and Route 724 (Schuylkill Road) follows the river's south bank east and west. The Schuylkill River Trail runs through the township along the old rail corridor, and French Creek State Park lies a short drive south. North Coventry students attend the Owen J. Roberts School District. The township mixes shopping centers and restaurants near the bridge with 1970s neighborhoods, newer subdivisions farther south and wooded land toward the hills. Those pieces produce restaurant and retail service along Route 100, rodent work where commercial lots meet homes, and termite, cricket and mosquito calls from older houses on damp, sloping lots.