Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Elkins Park, PA

Old York Road stone houses and the Tookany Creek valley

Many Elkins Park homes are well over 70 years old, with stone foundations and deep basements. Worn mortar and old utility openings let in mice, while the Tookany Creek valley's woods and moisture support carpenter ants, termites and Norway rats.

Brick twins and apartment buildings share walls, pipes and basements, so German cockroaches and mice move between units. Mature trees overhanging roofs give squirrels and carpenter ants a bridge to attics.

The 1953 median hides a wide spread. Elkins Park grew first as a Gilded Age retreat, and some of the oldest stone houses still have carriage houses, servants' wings and ivy-covered walls. Ivy gives mice a ladder and wasps a sheltered spot to build, and detached carriage houses with dirt or old brick floors often hold rats long before anyone notices them near the main house.

After the war came brick twins and garden apartment buildings with steam heat, where radiator pipes pass through every floor. Those pipe sleeves are the highways German roaches use between kitchens. Along the Tookany Creek Parkway, shady lawns and damp leaf litter keep mosquitoes biting into September and give termites steady moisture at porch footings.

Turnpike to Willow Grove, then down Old York Road

We take the Blue Route and Turnpike east to the Willow Grove interchange, then follow Route 611 south down Old York Road into Elkins Park, about 40 minutes. Larger houses take longer to walk, so mention attics, garages or carriage houses when you call. Thom and his team inspect free and leave a written quote.

Beth Sholom, Cheltenham Township and nearby Jenkintown

Elkins Park lies within Cheltenham Township, with SEPTA's Elkins Park station on the regional rail line and Jenkintown just up Old York Road. Wyncote and Glenside are a few minutes west. Elkins Park also holds Lynnewood Hall, the vast Widener mansion designed by Horace Trumbauer, and the Elkins Estate, built for the family that gave the community its name. Salus University sits on Old York Road, and the old Tyler School of Art campus was here until Temple University moved the school to its main campus in North Philadelphia in 2009. Students attend the Cheltenham School District, which, like all Pennsylvania public districts, keeps an integrated pest management plan under Act 35 of 2002. That mix of mansions, twins and apartments gives us varied work: mice and squirrels in large stone houses, roaches and bed bugs in apartment buildings, and termite and mosquito calls along the creek.