Cockroaches
If you think you have spotted signs of a cockroach infestation, or even an individual cockroach our professional pest control technicians can help.
Our domestic cockroach treatment is based on a 2-visit treatment, a total cost of £144 including VAT. This will consist of identifying, baiting, monitoring and professional recommendations on how to prevent a reinfestation from occurring. N.B. Additional chargeable visits at £72 per visit, may be required, depending on level of infestation, our technician will discuss this with you during a treatment.
Some facts about cockroaches
Myth: Cockroaches can survive a nuclear explosion.
Truth: Whilst cockroaches can survive 10x the radiation that a human can survive, they cannot survive a nuclear blast. It is therefore not suggested as a recommended removal procedure, there are indeed much easier ways to get rid of them.
Myth: Cockroaches only invade dirty homes.
Truth: Cockroaches might enter clean homes, depending on ease of access to the water and food sources in the home. Dirtier homes just provide easier access, so it is more common. Therefore, it is important to not only keep your home clean, but also to ensure that cracks, crevices and points of entry for cockroaches and other insects are properly sealed to deny harbourage.
Coming across cockroaches can be very distressing whether in your home or a business. In the UK we most commonly come across the German (Blattella Germanica), Oriental (Blatta Orientalis) and Brown Banded (Supella longipalpa) cockroaches. Whilst none of these can survive in our weather externally, they can all be found in different environments within our homes.
Why we control cockroaches
Numerous health conditions are closely related to the presence of cockroaches in your home, to name a few:-
Food Poisoning: After eating rotting food on the floor or wherever they find it, they can crawl over and infect utensils and food preparation surfaces.
Dysentery: Comes from ingesting their droppings, which they leave behind wherever they go.
Allergies: Cockroach skin, droppings and saliva are some of the most common causes of an allergic reaction in the UK.
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Where you will find them
Both cockroaches can be found around heating ducts, pipes, stoves and sinks. Most call outs relate to the German Cockroach.
German Cockroach
The German cockroach favours higher temperatures and humidity, with a common nickname for it being the “steam fly”. You are likely to find them behind appliances where you have warm motors, such as an oven, fridge or boiler.
Oriental Cockroach
Oriental cockroaches will thrive in cool, damp areas such as basements and drains.
Signs of a Cockroach infestation
Lifecycle
German cockroaches undergo three distinct life phases: egg, nymph and adult this is described as an ‘Incomplete Metamorphosis’. Their entire life cycle spans approximately 100 days, although this is dependent on factors such as temperature and diet.
Droppings
German cockroaches undergo three distinct life phases: egg, nymph and adult this is described as an ‘Incomplete Metamorphosis’. Their entire life cycle spans approximately 100 days, although this is dependent on factors such as temperature and diet.
Harbourage
All stages of the cockroach (Instars) will harbour together where possible until competition for food sources drives them to find new places. They prefer spots where they can just about fit into and provides a constant source of heat such as under a fridge, microwave or boiler.
Active hours
Cockroaches are nocturnal (active during the night), any sightings during the day are indicative of an infestation. If their harbourages are disturbed i.e. the moving of a bin, they will quickly scatter.
Smell
Although a cockroach does not smell on its own: an infestation will carry a heavy odour. People often describe the smell as sweet, almond like and obnoxious. Due to their preferred habitats it is often accompanied by the smell of rotting food.
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You can’t go wrong with our reasonable price structure, alongside top-quality pest control services with no hidden charges.
What Our Clients Say
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Common Insects and Rodents
Below are a list of some of the more typical rodents and insects we provide pest control for.
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RG1 Reading
RG2 South Reading, Whitley, Aborfield, Shinfield
RG4 Caversham, Emmer Green, Sonning Common, Chalkhouse Green, Sonning-on-Thames, Playhatch, Mapledurham, Tokers Green, Kidmore End, Gallowstree Common, Dunsden, Cane End
RG5 Woodley
RG6 Earley, Lower Earley
RG7 Aldermaston, Beech Hill, Beenham, Bradfield, Brimpton, Bucklebury, Burghfield Common, Chapel Row, Englefield, Farley Hill, Grazeley, Mortimer, Sheffield Bottom, Silchester, Southend, Spencers Wood, Stanford Dingley, Stratfield Mortimer, Stratfield Saye, Sulhamstead, Swallowfield, Theale, Three Mile Cross, Ufton Nervet, Upper Bucklebury, Wasing, Wokefield Park
RG8 Aldworth, Ashampstead, Lower Basildon, Upper Basildon, Checkendon, Cleeve, Cray's Pond, Exlade Street, Goring, Pangbourne, Purley-on-Thames, South Stoke, Streatley, Sulham, Tidmarsh, Whitchurch-on-Thames, Whitchurch Hill, Woodcote
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RG10 Cockpole Green, Charvil, Crazies Hill, Hare Hatch, Hurst, Kiln Green, Knowl Hill, Ruscombe, Shurlock Row, Twyford, Waltham St Lawrence, Wargrave, Warren Row, Whistley Green
RG12 Bracknell, Easthampstead, Popewood
RG18 Frilsham, Hampstead Norris, Yattendon, Hermitage
RG19 Ashford Hill, Headley, Bishop's Green, Greenham, Thatcham (West Berkshire)
RG20 Ashmansworth, Chieveley, Compton, Ecchinswell, Leckhampstead, Highclere, Kingsclere, Sydmonton
RG26 Tadley, Baughurst, Bramley, Brimpton Common, Hannington, Pamber End, Pamber Heath
RG30 Tilehurst, Purley-on-Thames
RG31 Calcot, Tilehurst, Burghfield
RG40 Finchampstead, Wokingham
RG41 Barkham, Sindlesham, Winnersh, Wokingham
RG42 Binfield, Hawthorn Hill, Priestwood, Warfield, Winkfield Row, Bracknell Forest
RG45 Crowthorne, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham
OX10 Wallingford, Benson, Berinsfield, Cholsey, Dorchester
OX49 Watlington, Christmas Common, Cuxham, Stokenchurch, Chalgrove
OX11 Blewbury, Harewell, Aston Tirrold, North and South Moreton
OX14 Sutton Courtney, Abingdon
SL0 Iver, Iver Heath, Richings Park, Thorney
SL1 Slough, Burnham, Cippenham, Chalvey, Upton, Littleworth, Salt Hill
SL2 Britwell, Farnham Common, Farnham Royal, Stoke Poges, Egypt, Hedgerley
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SL4 Windsor, Old Windsor, Eton, Eton Wick, Clewer, Dedworth, Cranbourne, Winkfield, Dorney, Spital, Oakley Green, Woodside, Boveney
SL5 Ascot, Sunninghill, Sunningdale, North Ascot, South Ascot, Burleigh, Cheapside
SL6 Maidenhead, Taplow, Bray, Bray Wick, Cookham, Cookham Dean, Cookham Rise, White Waltham, Hurley, Hurley Bottom, Holyport, Pinkneys Green, Woodlands Park, Furze Platt, Hitcham, Littlewick Green, Burchett's Green, Paley Street, Stud Green, Touchen End
SL7 Marlow, Marlow Bottom, Little Marlow, Medmenham, Bisham, Lower Woodend
SL8 Bourne End, Well End
SL9 Gerrards Cross, Chalfont St Peter, Chalfont Common, Horn Hill
HP8 Chalfont St. Giles
HP9 Beaconsfield, Forty Green, Holtspur, Jordans, Knotty Green, Seer Green
HP10 High Wycombe, Flackwell Heath, Handy Cross, Hedsor, Loudwater, Penn, Tylers Green, Wooburn, Wooburn Green, Wooburn Moor
HP11 Wycombe Marsh
HP12 High Wycombe, Booker, Sands
HP13 High Wycombe, Downley, Totteridge
HP14 Beacon's Bottom, Bledlow Ridge, Bolter End, Bradenham, Cadmore End, Hughenden Valley, Ibstone, Lane End, Naphill, Northend, Stokenchurch, The City, Upper North Dean, West Wycombe
GU15 Camberley
GU17 Blackwater
GU18 Lightwater
GU19 Bagshot
GU20 Windlesham
GU25 Virginia Water
GU46 Yateley
GU47 Sandhurst
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