Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Pottsgrove, PA

Why 1970-era houses beside Pottstown let pests in

Fifty-year-old homes have settled. Gaps open where siding meets the foundation, garage door seals flatten, and old utility openings loosen. A mouse needs only a gap about the size of a dime.

Mature yards with stumps, mulch beds and firewood stacks suit subterranean termites and carpenter ants, which work unseen in sill plates and porch framing.

Houses built around 1970 here are mostly ranches, split-levels and two-story colonials on block foundations, with aluminum or wood siding, wood-framed basement windows and attached garages. Many have since gained a rear deck or sunroom, and the footings and ledger boards of those additions are often where termites show up first. Window wells fill with leaves and hold water against the frames, softening wood and giving camel crickets and centipedes a damp way in.

The land around the community adds pressure. Wooded stream corridors draining toward the Manatawny Creek and the Schuylkill hold deer, ticks and mosquitoes, while fields and hedgerows toward the township edges supply field mice and stink bugs each fall. Shade trees planted when these neighborhoods were new now overhang roofs, giving squirrels and carpenter ants a bridge to the attic.

From Media to Pottsgrove by way of Route 422

We take the Blue Route to Route 422 west past King of Prussia. Thom or a member of his team walks the outside first, foundation, garage and yard edges, then the basement and attic. The inspection is free, and a written quote comes before any treatment.

Pottsgrove in the Schuylkill Valley near Pottstown

Pottsgrove sits along the Route 422 corridor in the Schuylkill River valley, next to Pottstown. We also serve Sanatoga and Upper Pottsgrove Township. The community sits on the western side of Pottstown, where Route 422 and the Manatawny Creek valley mark the edge between the borough's older blocks and the subdivisions beyond. High Street runs east into downtown Pottstown, and Route 100 heads north toward Gilbertsville. Pottsgrove Manor, the restored eighteenth-century home of Pottstown founder John Potts, stands near the creek. Local families are served by the Pottsgrove School District. With roughly 95% of homes owner-occupied, almost every call here is a homeowner's, and the usual list is short: mice in garages and basements from October on, termite checks on decks and additions, carpenter ants in damp trim, stink bugs on sunny siding and yellow jackets in landscaping by late summer.