£190 for the programme. In a converted 1930s semi the harder question is whether the rats are yours at all, or the building's.
£190 for the complete programme, including return visits until activity stops.
Establish whether it is only your flat first. In a converted house, rats travel along original floor voids and service runs, and a building-wide source is not one tenant's to solve.
Rayners Lane has a great many 1930s semis divided into two or three flats. The conversion added walls; it rarely sealed the routes that were already there.
A 1930s semi split into flats keeps every connection it had as one house. Somebody has to look at the whole building, and it usually is not the tenant.
£240 for a house, £190 for a flat, proofing from £180. Published before anyone visits.
View Rat Control Rayners Lane →| Route | Notes |
|---|---|
| Defective drainage | The commonest, and a building matter rather than a tenant one |
| Gaps around soil or waste pipes | Where they pass through a floor or wall |
| Under kitchen units | Into the plinth void, then along the floor void |
| Behind or beneath a bath | Boxed pipework with an open route below |
| A communal riser or duct | Building-wide, and the freeholder's |
| Under a flat entrance door | A gap over about 15mm |
| An external vent or air brick | Failed, broken, or never meshed |
| Flat | House | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | £190 | £240 |
| External treatment | Where accessible | Yes |
| Shared routes | Often decisive | Rare |
| Who may be liable | Landlord or freeholder | Owner |
| Duration | 2–4 weeks | 2–4 weeks |
With the freeholder's or managing agent's instruction, yes — and in an affected building that is usually the right answer.
It will clear your flat. Whether it holds depends on the building.
Yes. It is awkward and it is how a building problem gets solved rather than passed around.
Wasps in a shared roofline? £90 fixed cost in Rayners Lane, guaranteed for 30 days.
£190 for the complete programme including return visits. Proofing is quoted separately from £180.
Along original floor voids, service runs chased in later, boxed pipework serving several flats, and a shared subfloor void.
It will clear your flat. Whether it stays clear depends on whether the rest of the building is clear.
A communal or structural source is normally the freeholder's or landlord's responsibility, not the individual tenant's.
Report it in writing with photographs and the date. Rats normally engage a landlord's repairing obligations, particularly where drainage or structure is the route in.
Photograph and date everything before cleaning anything, check your check-in inventory, and report it in writing immediately.
Your council's environmental health team can act if a landlord will not deal with it.
Yes. More than one flat affected means a building problem, and that changes who resolves it.
£190 for the programme. Ask the other flats first — it may not be yours to solve.
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