Pest Control and Exterminator Service in Valley Township, PA

Airport-area buildings, Lincoln Highway homes and field edges

Hangars, warehouses and shops near the airport and along Business Route 30 have big doors, loading areas and stored materials that invite mice, rats and spiders, especially after nearby fields are cut.

Homes from around 1990 are now in their mid-thirties, the age when decks, sill plates and trim near soil start drawing subterranean termites. Older houses along the Lincoln Highway add stone and block foundations with more mouse entry points.

With only about one home in six rented, most calls come from owners of the subdivisions built around that 1990 median: vinyl siding over wood sheathing, attached garages, poured basements and mulched foundation beds. Mulch piled against the siding keeps the bottom course of wood damp, and that is the first place we probe for termites and carpenter ants.

The wide mowed grass around the runways, the hayfields beyond it and the stormwater basins built with many of these subdivisions shape the rest of the risk. Short grass and field edges hold voles and field mice, the basins hold water long enough to breed mosquitoes after July storms, and big sunny walls on metal buildings draw wasps, cluster flies and stink bugs in early fall.

West on the Route 30 bypass to Valley Township

From Media we cut over to the Route 30 bypass and continue west past Coatesville, about 55 minutes. Commercial customers can schedule recurring service on a set week; homeowners should give a few days' notice. Thom or a team member inspects free and writes up a quote.

The county airport and Valley's Coatesville neighbors

The Chester County G.O. Carlson Airport sits in the township just west of Coatesville. West Caln Township lies to the north and Parkesburg a few miles west along the rail line. The airport's hangars and runway sit on open ground west of the city, and the Philadelphia-to-Harrisburg rail line that carries Amtrak's Keystone trains crosses the township on its way to Parkesburg. Business Route 30, the old Lincoln Highway, carries older houses, shops and light industry, while newer subdivisions branch off toward the fields. Students attend schools in the Coatesville Area School District, and under Pennsylvania's Act 35 of 2002 those schools follow integrated pest management plans. In practice, that layout gives us three kinds of work here: logged rodent service for hangars and metal buildings, termite and ant checks on 1990s homes, and fall mouse and stink bug calls from houses facing open ground.