Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Penn Wynne, PA

1950s colonials on the Overbrook city line

Along the edge with Overbrook, Norway rats and house mice move between alleys, garages and backyards without regard for the city line. Older detached garages and basement window wells are their usual way in.

Seventy-year-old porches, basement sills and wood steps close to soil are classic subterranean termite targets, and damp basements suit ants and silverfish.

Most Penn Wynne streets were built out between the late 1920s and the 1950s with brick and stone center-hall colonials, Cape Cods and a scattering of ranches, set on modest lots with mature street trees. Many have basements with glass-block or steel-frame windows, old oil-line and water entries through the foundation, and screened porches or sunrooms added on piers. Each of those details leaves small gaps, and a house mouse needs one only about the size of a dime.

Yards are compact and often edged with English ivy, pachysandra and dense shrubs. Ivy against a foundation hides rat burrows and gives mice a sheltered route to the sill. Leaves pile up in porch roofs and gutters under the old oaks and maples, and the softened wood beneath them is where carpenter ants nest.

Summer brings Asian tiger mosquitoes, daytime biters that breed in a bottle cap of water, to the buckets, planters and clogged downspouts of closely spaced back yards.

Media to Penn Wynne by the Blue Route and Haverford Road

We take I-476 north, then follow Haverford Road east toward the city line. Thom and his team look over the basement, garage and porch at no charge, then hand you a written quote.

Penn Wynne's Lower Merion setting

Penn Wynne is a residential community in Lower Merion Township, bordering Philadelphia's Overbrook neighborhood, with Wynnewood and Narberth close by. Haverford Road runs through the neighborhood toward the city line, and Penn Wynne Elementary School and the Penn Wynne branch library serve the community. Both belong to Lower Merion's public system, whose schools must notify families before applications and use integrated pest management under Act 35. The Overbrook neighborhood across the line has older, denser rowhouse blocks, which is part of why rodent pressure runs higher on the streets nearest Philadelphia. Ardmore lies a short drive west. With so many owner-occupied houses now around seventy to ninety years old, the work we expect here centers on the house itself: rat and mouse sealing at garages and foundations, termite and carpenter ant inspections on porches and sills, and seasonal perimeter visits for ants, stink bugs and spiders.