Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Upper Pottsgrove Township, PA

1990s Subdivisions Built on Pottsgrove Farmland

Neighborhoods built on farmland inherit its rodents. Field mice and voles live in leftover hedgerows, then move into garages when the weather turns.

Mid-1990s homes have pressure-treated decks and deep mulch along foundations. That mulch holds moisture and shelters odorous house ants. Wood decks from the same years are now around thirty, so ledger boards and stair stringers near the ground deserve a probe.

A 1995 median means two-story colonials with vinyl siding, OSB sheathing and J-channel trim around every window. That trim leaves narrow gaps where stink bugs, lady beetles and cluster flies slip behind the siding each fall, and from there they find the attic. Finished basements with sump pits and a walk-out door on sloped lots are common too, and the sump pit and the bottom of the walk-out door are where crickets, centipedes and mice tend to get inside.

Builder detention basins at the low corner of many Route 100 subdivisions hold runoff for days after a summer storm, and the drainage swales leading to them stay soggy, so mosquitoes hatch within a short flight of back decks. Ornamental pears and maples planted along the streets in the 1990s now reach the gutters, giving carpenter ants and squirrels a path to the roof.

Our Route to Upper Pottsgrove

We drive US 422 west to Pottstown and turn north on Route 100, on a time confirmed in advance. Thom and his team inspect at no charge, explain what they find and give you a quote in writing.

North of Pottstown, South of Gilbertsville

Upper Pottsgrove sits between Pottstown and Gilbertsville and shares the Pottsgrove School District with Lower and West Pottsgrove. It is mostly residential, with farmland at its edges. Route 100 runs north through the township from the Route 422 interchange at Pottstown, carrying commuters and shoppers toward Gilbertsville, with most subdivisions branching off it on curving streets and cul-de-sacs. New Hanover Township lies to the east and Douglass Township to the north, both still largely farm and woodland, which is why field mice and deer never feel far away. Students attend the Pottsgrove School District, where public schools follow integrated pest management plans under Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002. With almost nine homes in ten owner-occupied, the calls we expect are steady and seasonal: ants in spring, wasps and mosquitoes in summer, and mice and stink bugs once fall arrives. Pottstown's older borough blocks and the Schuylkill lie just south, a few minutes down the same highway.