Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Jenkintown, PA

1930s Stone Twins and Apartments Off Old York Road

Prewar houses often have fieldstone foundations, old coal-chute openings and gaps where newer pipes were punched through the walls. A mouse needs only a dime-sized opening to get in.

Apartment buildings near the station share heating risers and plumbing chases, which German cockroaches use to move between floors. Renter turnover brings bed bugs in on used furniture and luggage.

Ninety-year-old houses carry layers of change: oil-to-gas conversions, rewired walls, replacement windows and basements finished in different decades. Each change can leave an abandoned pipe hole, an unsealed cable entry or a cavity behind paneling where mice nest out of sight. Deep stone-walled basements stay cool and damp, which keeps camel crickets, silverfish and centipedes active all year.

Up top, box gutters and wood soffits on prewar twins soften when leaves back the gutters up, and carpenter ants and squirrels move into that damp wood. Mature street trees drape branches over rooflines and give both an easy path. Restaurants and shops along Old York Road add rodent and cockroach pressure to the apartments above them and the blocks behind them, especially where trash is stored in shared alleys.

Our Route from Media to Old York Road

We take I-476 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, then local roads to Old York Road, roughly 40 minutes. Thom and his team do a free inspection of the basement, kitchen and shared spaces, and you get a written quote before any treatment begins.

Near Abington, Wyncote and Elkins Park

Jenkintown is a compact borough wrapped by Abington and Cheltenham townships, with SEPTA Regional Rail stopping at Jenkintown-Wyncote. We also work in Wyncote, Elkins Park and Abington Township, where housing of a similar age brings the same mice and roach problems. Old York Road is the borough's main street, with storefronts, restaurants and the Hiway Theatre close to apartments and older homes. The Jenkintown-Wyncote station, served by several SEPTA Regional Rail lines, sits on the Wyncote side of the borough. The Jenkintown School District runs a single K–12 campus, and the residential blocks around it are tightly built on small lots. Because houses sit so close together, a mouse or roach problem rarely stops at one property line, and we often suggest neighbors compare notes. Typical calls are mice in stone basements from October on, German cockroaches in apartment kitchens, bed bugs after a move-in and carpenter ants in porch roofs after a wet spring.