Cockroach Control Services in The Nottingham Area

If you are unlucky enough to have found cockroaches at home or place of work then you will want to act right away, rest assured that Pest Professionals in Nottingham can help. We can assist to provide you with instant advice and help with any cockroach issue in two very easy and effective steps:

The no obligation phone consultation service applies to both residential and business customers in the Nottingham area. No coackroach extermination job is too big or too small for us to take a look at. Where relevant we have the ability to suggest on any immediate action required to safeguard your health, property or belongings before a visit. If a visit is called for we let you know if there will be a call out fee and also advise on the most likely costs of any cockroach treatment should it be necessary.

Why Are Cockroaches a Serious Problem?

When you have knowledge of how cockroaches operate, you quickly realise why you need to get rid of them straight away. Cockroaches foul their environment with faeces or castings and with regurgitated food items, and they move indiscriminately from their filth to food and back again. They will eat anything from food fragments, to paper and cardboard and even fabric. They taint materials with their distinctive ‘musky, oily’ smell and even the air in infested premises may contain fragments of their excrement. The opportunity for the spread of pathogens like salmonella and other diseases is obvious and it’s no surprise that their presence causes great distress. We won’t go further (although we could!) however the bottom line is that if you have cockroaches, you will need to exterminate them and you need a professional pest controller to do the dirty work.

The most common (and probably most revolting) cockroach in the UK is the Oriental Cockroach. Adults are about 20-30mm long and dark brown. Throughout the day they spend their time in harbourages, grouped together. They are usually on the ground floor only because they are poor climbers. Their activity peaks in the hours of darkness– if you start seeing them in the day the infestation may be severe. They tend to prefer damp, dark places ordinarily so are often discovered under fridges, in drains, near pipes and in sewers.

Indications Of Cockroaches

1. Lingering oily, musky odour
2. Small black or brown cylindrical droppings about 2mm long
3. Cockroach casts– take a note of where you find these
4. Observing them in daylight– usually a sign that the infestation is well established

Cockroach Control

Before any work to exterminate cockroaches is performed, it is essential to first identify the cockroach species. This will provide the pest controller with the biology, life cycle and typical habit information of the pest which will be instrumental in helping draw up the required approach. The pest controller will then seek to establish where they are coming from. If this is not possible, they may assist in planning the use of night-vision cameras in this process.

A combination of sticky traps, professional strength gel baits and non-chemical control methods is commonly recommended, and monitoring should be put in place. If the infestation is well established, an integrated approach drawn up by an experienced professional pest controller is essential.

If you need sound advice or swift solutions to cockroaches issues anywhere in Nottingham or the surrounding towns and villages – speak to us.