Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Springfield Township (Montgomery County), PA

Postwar Brick and Stone Beside the Wissahickon Valley

Houses from the early 1950s have block or stone foundations with mortar that has softened over 70 years. Mice squeeze through gaps about the size of a dime, and in fall they come in from the wooded creek corridor.

Shaded lots under mature oaks and maples keep foundations damp. That moisture favors subterranean termites and carpenter ants in porch framing, window sills and old garage trim.

Springfield's villages were built out quickly after the war, so whole streets share one construction recipe: capes, colonials and brick twins on full basements, with original basement windows, clay sewer laterals and cast-iron drains. When one of those details fails on a block, it tends to fail on the neighbors' houses too.

Freeze-and-thaw cycles open the joints where stone front steps and porches meet the main wall, and wet leaves from street trees pile into window wells. Those wells hold water against the foundation, feeding termites, camel crickets and the damp that silverfish follow. Oak and maple limbs over the roofline also give squirrels a short jump to gable vents and loose soffits. Once inside, they chew wiring and nest in the blown-in insulation that many of these houses received decades after they were built.

The Drive from Media to Bethlehem Pike

We go up I-476 to the Turnpike and east to the Fort Washington exit, then down Bethlehem Pike, about 35 minutes. Thom and his team look over the foundation, basement, attic and porch framing during the free inspection and give you a written quote before any work begins.

Chestnut Hill's Border and the Whitemarsh Line

Springfield Township borders Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill neighborhood and Whitemarsh Township on the Wissahickon side. We also cover nearby Glenside, where the housing is a close match. Bethlehem Pike is the township's main commercial road through Flourtown and Erdenheim, lined with restaurants, small offices and service businesses whose back doors and dumpsters are the usual rodent concern. Mermaid Lane and Stenton Avenue lead toward Chestnut Hill, and Oreland has its own stop on SEPTA's Lansdale/Doylestown Line. Fort Washington State Park and the Wissahickon Creek border the western side near Flourtown, so homes on those wooded slopes see more ticks, carpenter ants and fall mice than blocks closer to the city line. Public school buildings in the Springfield Township School District follow Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002, which calls for integrated pest management plans and advance notice of pesticide use.