Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Maple Glen, PA

Aging 1980s Colonials Along Welsh Road

At about forty years old, original decks, trim near grade and garage sills are where carpenter ants and termites turn up, often after a downspout has soaked the wall.

Subdivisions back onto stream buffers and tree lines that give mice cover on the way to garages, while odorous house ants nest under landscape stone.

The typical Maple Glen house is a two-story center-hall colonial or a split-level with a brick or stone front, siding on the other three sides, and a deck off the kitchen built from pressure-treated lumber in the early 1980s. Treated wood from that era lasts a long time, but the joists, ledger boards and stair stringers still rot where water collects, and carpenter ants move into that soft wood within a season or two.

The maples and oaks planted when these neighborhoods were new are now full-grown, shading roofs and dropping branches onto gutters. Clogged gutters overflow down the fascia, and that steady drip feeds carpenter ants, carpenter bees and termites in the trim. With fewer than one home in ten rented, owners tend to stay many years, so slow problems like these build quietly until a swarm or soft board gives them away.

Reaching Maple Glen via Route 309

Our path runs up I-476, east on the Turnpike one exit, then north on Route 309 to Welsh Road. Thom and his team check the foundation, deck, garage and attic, then write a quote; the inspection costs nothing.

Two Townships, One Community

Part of Maple Glen falls in Upper Dublin Township and part in Horsham Township, so permit questions depend on your side of the line. Spring House lies just west along Route 63. Welsh Road (Route 63) and Limekiln Pike cross near the center of the community, with neighborhood shopping close by and long subdivision streets branching off both. Fort Washington State Park and the Wissahickon valley lie a few miles south, and the former Willow Grove naval air station land sits to the north in Horsham. Children attend either the Upper Dublin or the Hatboro-Horsham School District, depending on the side of the line, and both follow Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002 integrated pest management rules for public schools. For us, that adds up to owner-occupied homes asking for termite and carpenter ant inspections, garage mouse exclusion before winter, and seasonal perimeter service through the warm months.