Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Cheltenham Township, PA

City-line blocks and the Tookany Creek corridor

Near the Philadelphia border, Norway rats and mice move between alleys, garages and yards. Older apartment buildings in Elkins Park and Melrose Park share basements and trash rooms, which helps bed bugs and German cockroaches spread.

The wooded Tookany Creek parkland keeps damp shade close to many homes, so mosquitoes breed into fall and carpenter ants find softened trim. Seventy-year-old porches and sills invite termites.

Housing here runs from Gilded Age stone mansions and big 1920s houses in Elkins Park, Wyncote and Laverock to brick twins near the city line and garden apartment complexes from the 1950s and 1960s. The large old houses have slate roofs, carriage houses and deep fieldstone basements with many entry points for mice and squirrels, while the twins and apartments share walls, pipes and trash areas that carry roaches and bed bugs between households.

Terrain adds to it. Tookany Creek and its small tributaries run through a wooded valley, and houses set into its slopes often have damp basements, retaining walls and window wells that hold water. That moisture brings camel crickets, centipedes and termites, and the mature canopy over most streets keeps gutters clogged and trim wet.

From Media across to Cheltenham Township

We travel I-476 north and the Turnpike east, then come down Route 309 into the township. Thom and his team inspect free of charge, mark entry points and send a written quote. Apartment owners can ask us to check adjoining units the same day.

Arcadia University, Tookany Creek and the township's villages

Cheltenham Township includes Elkins Park, Wyncote, Melrose Park, La Mott and part of Glenside, and is home to Arcadia University. Elkins Park and Wyncote have their own pages. Old York Road, Route 611, runs through Elkins Park past Frank Lloyd Wright's Beth Sholom Synagogue, and Arcadia University's Grey Towers Castle stands on its Glenside campus. Curtis Arboretum in Wyncote and the Tookany Creek Parkway give the township much of its green space. Cheltenham High School, in Wyncote, anchors the Cheltenham School District, whose schools follow Pennsylvania's Act 35 pest management and notification rules, and SEPTA regional rail stops at Elkins Park, Melrose Park and Jenkintown-Wyncote. The work follows that mix: rat and mouse programs along the city line, building-wide roach and bed bug work in garden apartments, and termite, squirrel and carpenter ant calls from big houses on wooded lots.