Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Schuylkill Township, PA

Pickering Creek, Park Woodland and 1970s Houses on Big Lots

Census (ACS) estimates show about 8 percent of Schuylkill Township households renting and a 1976 median build year. Older farmhouses and fifty-year-old homes have stone foundations, outbuildings and decks where mice and termites get in.

Park woods and stream valleys support deer and blacklegged ticks, and shaded ground along Pickering Creek keeps mosquitoes around all summer.

The township's housing comes in layers. Along the older roads you still find stone farmhouses and bank barns built in the 1700s and 1800s, a wave of ranches, split-levels and colonials filled in during the 1960s and 1970s, and a smaller set of newer houses went onto the remaining fields. Each layer brings its own weak spots: rubble foundations and log sills in the farmhouses, settled block walls and tired garage seals in the mid-century homes, and mulch-covered sills on the newer ones.

The ground is steep in places. Mount Misery rises at the park's western end, and the Pickering and Valley Creek valleys cut deep, shaded ravines between neighborhoods. That shade keeps roofs and trim damp under tall oaks and tulip poplars, which suits carpenter ants, and it keeps the leaf litter moist for blacklegged ticks well into fall.

Deer from the park browse right up to foundations, and tree-of-heaven along road edges and old fields draws spotted lanternflies every August.

Route 252 to Valley Forge, Then Route 23 West

We follow Route 252 to Valley Forge and Route 23 west along the park. We look over the home, sheds and the line where lawn meets forest, and you get a written quote.

Between Phoenixville, Charlestown and the Park

Schuylkill Township borders Phoenixville and Tredyffrin Township, and Valley Forge park forms its eastern edge. Valley Creek runs along the eastern side toward its meeting with the Schuylkill at Valley Forge, and Pickering Creek flows across the township to reach the river near Phoenixville, passing the Pickering Creek Reservoir. Route 23 follows the park's edge, and Route 29 runs south from Phoenixville toward the Great Valley. Township children go to Phoenixville Area schools, which keep Act 35 integrated pest management plans and alert families before treatments. Because PDA's lanternfly quarantine covers all of Chester County, egg masses on trees, stone walls and trailers are worth reporting and destroying. The calls we expect here come from that mix of park, creek and old farmland: tick yards next to the woods, mice in farmhouse cellars and barns, carpenter ants in shaded rooflines, and termite checks on decks and stone foundations.