Wasp Nest Removal
Single visit treatment with professional-grade insecticide. Often treatable the same or next day in season (April-October). Wasps die back; the nest is treated, not just sprayed.
From £80Rats in the loft, shed, stables or under decking? Cornwall rural and urban rat pressure is year-round. We match you with a Cornwall pest controller for a proper treatment-and-proofing programme — not just bait scattered and walked away from.
Cornwall has both brown rats (the common UK rat, found everywhere) and a more limited black rat population around the older coastal towns and harbour areas. Brown rat populations are sustained by Cornwall's mix of rural farming, holiday-let food waste, and the milder coastal climate that keeps activity going through winter. A single brown rat can produce 200+ offspring in a year if conditions are right, so leaving an infestation untreated is rarely the cheap option.
Cornwall rat control prices (2026):
Why a programme — not a single visit:
The CRRU Stewardship Regime:
Wildlife considerations — why bad rodent control matters:
Rural Cornwall pest pressure is particularly heavy from autumn onwards as rats move indoors. Outbuildings, garden sheds, feed stores, stable blocks and loft spaces are the common harbourage. Proofing is the long-term answer — wire wool in pipe gaps, metal mesh over air bricks, brush strips under doors — and most good pest controllers include detailed proofing advice (and sometimes the work itself) as part of the programme.
Getting a rat control specialist in Cornwall shouldn't be a guessing game. Here's how the match works.
Fill in the quote form: your Cornwall postcode, the pest and where you've seen it, how long it's been a problem, and whether it's a home, holiday let or commercial property.
We send your details to a Cornwall rat control specialist covering your area. They contact you direct with a written quote.
Your matched controller attends, treats and (where the pest needs it) returns for follow-up visits and proofing advice. You sign off and pay them direct — no markup from us.
Need something other than rat control? We cover the full range of Cornwall pest control — wasps, rats, mice, seagulls and pigeons, bedbugs and commercial contracts.
Single visit treatment with professional-grade insecticide. Often treatable the same or next day in season (April-October). Wasps die back; the nest is treated, not just sprayed.
From £80Rats in the loft, shed, garden or stables. Two to three-visit programme: treatment, follow-up, proofing advice. CRRU-stewardship-compliant rodenticide use.
From £180Mice in walls, behind the oven, in the loft. Treatment plus the proofing that stops them coming back. Ask about discreet visits if you're a landlord.
From £150Spikes, netting, post-and-wire systems, scaring deterrents. Lawful work stays within the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 and Natural England licensing.
From £300Holiday lets, restaurants, hotels, food businesses, schools, landlords. Contract inspections, electronic site logs for EHO.
From £30/moIndicative Cornwall prices. The pest controller gives a firm written quote after attending — figures below are typical 2026 starting points.
Single visit, accessible nest. Roof, two-storey or cavity-wall nests typically £120-£200.
Two to three visits — treatment, follow-up, proofing advice. Stewardship-compliant bait stations.
Per room, insecticide programme. Heat treatment whole-property £400-£800.
Per site, monthly inspection. Holiday lets, restaurants, hotels, food businesses.
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Everything you need to know about rat control in Cornwall.
From £180 for a standard 2-3 visit programme (treatment, follow-up, proofing advice). Rural properties with multiple outbuildings run £250-£400. Commercial premises are quoted on site. Ongoing contract cover for holiday lets, restaurants and food businesses is typically £30-£80 per month per site.
One-shot bait drops almost always fail. Rats are wary of new objects (neophobia), need time to take bait, and a single visit doesn't identify or close the ingress points. A proper programme is: visit 1 (survey, baiting), visit 2 (check, top-up, fresh signs of activity), visit 3 (final check, remove stations, proofing advice). Single visits are a false economy.
Only when used properly. Professional pest controllers use locked, tamper-resistant bait stations outdoors — these prevent dogs, cats, foxes and birds from accessing the bait directly. Secondary poisoning (a predator eating a poisoned rat) is the bigger ecological concern; the CRRU Stewardship Regime exists specifically to reduce that risk. For wildlife-sensitive sites, ask about trap-based or proofing-only approaches.
The Campaign for Responsible Rodenticide Use is the UK industry stewardship body. From 1 January 2026, all professional SGAR users must hold current stewardship-specific training certification (less than 5 years old) or be members of a CRRU-approved CPD scheme. Sellers won't supply users who can't show this. Ask to see a pest controller's CRRU certification before they start.
Droppings are the easiest tell: rat droppings are 10-20mm long, dark brown, capsule-shaped; mouse droppings are 3-5mm and pellet-shaped. Sounds: rats are heavier — you hear gnawing and the occasional thump in lofts and walls; mice are scuttling and lighter. Damage: rats gnaw through plasterboard, plastic pipes and wiring on a serious scale; mice nibble. If you're not sure, ask the pest controller — they'll identify on the first visit.
No. Modern rat treatment uses locked bait stations placed at ingress points, in lofts, under decking, in outbuildings. The property is fully usable throughout. Pets should be kept out of the immediate bait station area (locked stations make this almost moot anyway). Children should not handle bait stations directly — straightforward to manage.