Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Glenside, PA

Pre-war twins, stone foundations and Glenside's hills

Houses nearly a century old have mortared stone or block foundations that crack and shed mortar, letting in mice and the occasional Norway rat. In a twin, a shared party wall means one side's mice soon become the other side's mice.

Sloped lots send water toward basements, and that dampness supports subterranean termites, carpenter ants, camel crickets and centipedes. Easton Road's restaurants and shops add rodent and cockroach pressure for nearby blocks.

Houses from the 1938 median were built for coal heat, and many still have a sealed-over coal chute, an abandoned flue or an old oil-line hole in the foundation. Those forgotten openings are among the first places we look when mice show up in a finished basement. Slate roofs, wide eaves and mature street trees give squirrels an easy route into attics, and their gnawing at the roof edge opens a second door for mice.

About one household in four rents, often in converted twins and small apartment buildings near the train station, where tenants change every year or two and bed bugs and German roaches arrive with the moves. Cracked clay sewer laterals under older yards can also let Norway rats surface in a basement floor drain, a problem newer suburbs rarely see.

Up the Blue Route and down Route 309 to Glenside

Most trips run up the Blue Route to the Turnpike, then down Route 309 toward Glenside, about 40 minutes. In a twin, we check the shared wall and ask whether the neighbors have seen activity, since treating one side alone often falls short. Thom and his team inspect free and leave a written quote.

Arcadia University, Wyncote and Glenside's neighbors

Glenside straddles Cheltenham and Abington townships, with Arcadia University on Easton Road and SEPTA's Glenside station near the center of town. Wyncote, Jenkintown and Oreland are all a short drive away. Arcadia University's Grey Towers Castle was built as the estate of sugar refiner William Welsh Harrison, and the Keswick Theatre, a 1920s playhouse on Easton Road, still draws evening crowds. Glenside station is where SEPTA's Warminster and Lansdale/Doylestown lines split, so commuters fill the rentals within walking distance. Students attend either the Cheltenham or the Abington school district depending on which side of the township line they live, and both districts follow Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002 integrated pest management rules. Those anchors explain our usual calls here: mice in stone foundations, termites under porches, bed bugs and roaches in rentals near the station, and logged, documented service for the restaurants and shops along Easton Road.