PestUK Customer Information - PEST UK

Providing pest control services in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, London, Middlesex, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Midlands, West Sussex, Wiltshire. Est. 1985.

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How do you keep a restaurant pest-free?

Restaurants and pests Many restaurants are unsure of how best to prevent pests from disrupting their business. At PESTUK, we are often asked how to keep a restaurant pest-free.  Food premises can attract all kinds of pests. For example, rats, mice, ants, flies, and cockroaches. We find that a pest control contract will keep these premises

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Rats and Mice at Winter

Rodents and Homes. At PEST UK we know this time of year can lead to an increase of rat and mice activity within homes. The colder weather can make our homes an inviting destination for Rats and Mice. People are also more likely to feed birds in the cold weather which can attract rats and

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BPCA bogus pest controller warning

We came across an article recently where the BPCA has been encouraging residents in the West Midlands  to ask for ID before allowing pest controllers into their homes. A conman was jailed for 7 years, after posing as a pest controller, and conning people, particularly elderly and vulnerable people, out of thousands of pounds. Simon

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Food Hygiene Ratings

Food Hygiene Ratings from 0-5 are awarded to businesses to reflect the standard of food hygiene on the premises. We’ve all seen the headlines where a food establishment has received a score of 0. No matter how quickly the business addresses the issues raised (and in some cases they do appear to be minor, petty

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Hounslow Pest Control

Hounslow Pest Control PEST UK offer a comprehensive pest control service for Hounslow. Not only are PEST UK much cheaper than the pest control service offered by Hounslow Council’s pest control department but the service they provide is a high quality reasonable priced pest control service for domestic premises, commercial premises, schools and many other

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Pest Control

Pest Control in the UK is supplied by private companies and some time by the local council. There is a great difference between private companies and local Authority in the way that the service is provided and the quality. In the past it was normally the fact that council would be cheaper than pest control

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Pest Control Prices

First it is a fallacy that the local council charge less than private companies. Unless you are on some benefits most London Councils (and a lot of councils outside London) will charge well over the private company equivalent. In most cases in my experience they offer a vastly inferior service in comparison with service, timing,

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Pest Control

Pest Control: This time of year is very important for the pest control industry, it makes the absolute polar opposite of our summer season. Where wasps and bees are extremely prevalent in the summer months, during the winter holidays we tend to see a vast number of rodents problems. Even more so in domestic properties

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Pest Companies in Hounslow

Pest Control Companies in Hounslow There are many pest control companies in Hounslow area and there needs to be! The south of the area has a railway line running through it (railway lines, major roads, rivers, canals etc are a conduit for rats, mice, squirrels and some insect pests). Surprisingly Hounslow Council pest control Dept

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PEST UK Hounslow

PEST UK Hounslow cheaper than The Council! PEST UK has recently opened a pest control office in Hounslow. The address and phone number the new Pest Control office is: PEST UK (Hounslow) 32 Kingsley Rd Hounslow TW3 1NS Tel: Hounslow 020 8945 3481 The PEST UK Hounslow Office Web Page is: Hounslow PEST UK Web

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Operation Smile – PEST UK

Operation Smile UK & PEST UK’s Annual Donation For the last 3 years PEST UK has donated 1% of annual profits to Operation Smile and this year (December 2015) we are donating again. This year we are donating £999.00. There are several reasons that we donate 1% of our annual profits to a charity. First

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Pest Control in Restaurants and Food Premises

Restaurants, fast food outlets, food retailers and food manufacturers all need adequate pest control measures in place. Pest control needs to be in place throughout the food chain – from the arrival and storage of raw ingredients, right through to waste disposal. All food premises will need to monitor their storage, processing areas, kitchens and

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Pest Control in Wokingham – PEST UK

Wokingham is a small wealthy town situated in Berkshire between Reading and Bracknell. The Wokingham Borough Council covers a wide area from Crowthorne in the South to Wargrave in the north. At PEST UK we carry out a variety of pest control treatments in the Wokingham area including cockroaches, bed bugs, fleas, rats, mice, squirrels,

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Pest Control in Woking

Pest Control in Woking: Woking in Surrey was one of the first areas that PEST UK expanded into after Berkshire and Basingstoke. Woking is a fairly wealthy area with a cross section of pest problems that include Bed Bugs (these sometimes indicate poorer housing conditions but can also mean people travelling abroad and staying in

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Pest Control Farnham

Pest Control in Farnham: Although Farnham in Surrey is a small market town it is actually in a densely populated part of England that are all linked together in a ribbon of buildings that include the towns of Farnham, Aldershot, Farnborough, Frimley, Camberley, Sandhurst and Lightwater. PEST UK have had the Farnham pest control office

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Pest Control Ascot

Pest Control in Ascot: PEST UK has had a pest control Ascot, Berkshire office for several years. Ascot is a small but prosperous area in Berkshire and does not suffer from some areas from poor sewer infrastructure that leads to rat and mouse pest problems. It does have a railway line running through the South

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Pest Control Bracknell

Bracknell & Pest Control Pest Control Bracknell PEST UK: PEST UK recently (2015) opened a Pest Control Bracknell Office in Bracknell. We already had technicians in Ascot, Wokingham, Reading and Camberley so a new Pest Control office serving the Bracknell area completes the area. Bracknell does not have any ‘special’ problems that some areas do.

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Pest Control Harrow

Pest Control Harrow: PEST UK have in the past year expanded into the Northwood/Harrow area. PEST UK now have a Pest Control Harrow office at: 9 Chyngton Court London Rd Harrow HA1 3LZ Tel: 020 8226 4138 and one at Northwood: 30 Acre Way Northwood Middlesex HA6 1ST Tel: 020 8226 5046. Harrow and Northwood

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Pest Control Fleet

PEST UK have had a Pest Control Fleet office area for many years now due to the high population in and around this area. We treat many pests within our company such as rat or mouse infestations, flea treatments or wasp nests at a very competitive price. Our prices are all advertised on our website

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Pest Control in Wokingham

PEST UK have a long history of pest control in Wokingham and the surrounding areas. See up in 1989 PEST UK used to carry out contracts and one off pest control jobs both for domestic and commercial customers. It helped private pest control companies like hours as Wokingham District Council (now called Wokingham Borough Council)

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Pest Control Contracts

Today I carried out a quote for a pest control contract at a Council Recycling Plant run by a private company. Rats were everywhere, the evidence pointed to thousands. The building was relatively new but rats were inside the cavity and the electrical cables under the weigh bridge had been damaged by rats chewing through

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Pest Control Franchises

A Pest Control Franchise can cost anything from £20 000.00 to £80 000.00. This will often cover a van, training and equipment. There will also be an annual or monthly fee to cover the ‘licence’ or franchise fee. This will pay the company and for advertising, typically maintenance of the main or regional web site,

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PEST UK & Operation Smile

PEST UK is a local pest control company servicing the South of England for both commercial and domestic pest control problems. In 2013 we decided that we would give 1% of our profits to charity. (or £400.00, whichever was greater) This decision was made because we wanted to give something back, it is good publicity

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PROMPT Professional Pest Controllers Register

PROMPT/BASIS The PROMPT/BASIS organisation ensures that individual members (the individual is the member not the company) have the correct pest control qualification to start with, the minimum requirement for entry into the scheme is the Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) Pest Control Certificate, The RSPH/BPCA Level 2 Award or Level 2 Certificate in pest

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BPCA Accreditation – UK trade association for pest control companies

The British Pest Control Association The British Pest Control Association or BPCA is a UK trade association for pest control companies. BPCA Accreditation differs from other pest control trade associations (such as the National Pest Technicians Association or npta) in that its members have to be fully trained, insured and abide by the BPCA’s code of

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Trading Standards Approved

Buy With Confidence The Buy With Confidence scheme was set up by Local Authorities with the help of Trading Standards. As yet the scheme does not cover the whole of the UK and the areas are based on Local Authority areas and currently most areas covered by the scheme are in London and the southern

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Councils & Pest Control

Spring Weather, Councils & Pest Control: The weather has improved and already the number of calls to PEST UK for Ladybirds, Cluster Flies, Bees and Squirrels have increased. The Ladybird call outs have increased from previous years and in fact we are getting more calls for Ladybirds than we are for Cluster Flies. These are

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Women in Pest Control

Women in Pest Control by Jim Dunn of PEST UK: I was slightly taken aback when I found out that my new work colleague Mel was actually a woman, not a man, as it got me thinking that we are in fact a very male dominated profession. Back when I started in the business in

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Rats & Mice After Storms

Rats and mice after storms You may notice a sudden infestation of rats and mice after storms or prolonged periods of rain. This is not unusual as our homes are ideal conditions for rodents following a storm. The rain and wind during a storm will damage rodents’ natural nesting spots and force them to higher

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Operation Smile & PEST UK

PEST UK are proud to support Operation Smile with a percentage of all profits being donated to help put a smile on the face of a child somewhere in the world. Operation Smile is an international children’s medical charity, working with a team of dedicated medical volunteers who provide safe, effective reconstructive surgery for children

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