What Can a £120 Pest Inspection Tell You About a Duxford Property?

A £120 pest inspection tells you what you are dealing with, where it is really based, how it is getting in and what should be done about it. The most surprising part, for many people, is the gap between where they noticed the problem and where it actually is.

Noticed in one place, living in another

Pests are usually seen at the edge of their range, not the centre. A Duxford household might find droppings in a kitchen cupboard when the activity is coming from a garage next door to the house, or hear scratching in a bedroom when the route runs along a wall cavity from the garden. If you only treat the place you saw something, the cause stays where it is.

The village mixes old cottages with newer houses on the edges, and many properties have a garage, shed or other outbuilding close by. We inspect those along with the house, because that is frequently where the trail begins.

What we look at

• The outside walls, eaves, airbricks and pipe entries
• Garages, sheds and any store where feed, bird seed or boxes are kept
• The loft and any accessible voids
• Kitchens, utility rooms and anywhere food is stored
• Vegetation and stored materials close to the walls

What you get back

You receive a written report with the identification, the extent and location of the activity, a list of access points and a recommended treatment with a price. Photographs are included where there is something worth showing. If an area could not be reached, the report says so and says why.

What it cannot do

It is a record of one day. Activity can change, and a clear report in spring is not a promise for the autumn. Sealed voids and unsafe roof spaces are noted instead of entered, and it is not a structural survey. Where the real answer is a builder or a drainage specialist, we will tell you.

For how the figure is built up, see our pest inspection cost guide. The Duxford inspection page describes the service itself.

A typical scenario

Take a Duxford cottage with a lean-to store at the back. Droppings turn up behind the cooker, and the owner puts poison down in the kitchen. The inspection might show that the route runs from the store, along a pipe run, into the kitchen wall. Treating the store and closing that route does more than any amount of bait behind the cooker. That is the sort of finding a fixed-price visit is meant to produce.

If you are in Duxford and cannot work out what is going on, call 01223 902388 or use WhatsApp, and tell us where you noticed it. We can advise on the sensible first step.