...to be cross with the local Council?

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I have a wasps' nest in the house. They get in through a hole high up in a spot of mortar - near the bathroom.

I came home from holiday (I always close internal doors when I go away) only to find the kitchen awash with dead wasps and live ones trying to get out of the kitchen window - hot weather while I was away, I suppose. I think they get in somewhere near the washing machine or above the gas boiler. There were some in the bathroom as well but a lot fewer. None in any other room. This is the first time I've noticed any.

I was advised to contact the Council's Pest Control Department so I did only to be told that they don't 'do' pest control any more. What do I do now. I'm forever vacuuming picking up dead wasps and letting out the live ones.

Claimed Perhaps the charge depends on the size of the items.

Wasps I can live with paying to get rid of them -in fact we did in a rent house 15 yrs ago - but all pests think is wrong especially ones which are health hazard - our council charges for getting rid of rats...
A couple of years ago the council gave me a home composting bin (part of a trial thing) it was great until I started finding bits of egg shell etc outside the bin - something was eating from it ...
Then found out that rats love compost bins...they nest in them.
Called the council and they wanted to charge me - in the end said they would come and inspect for free but if I had rats I would have to pay ££££ for them to deal with them ... I think this is so wrong ...if someone is a broke they have to live with rats - maybe allowing them to breed - making the problem so much worse ....
Anyway very nice man came - stuck a big stick in the bin and poked around and said if I had rats they would have come running out and left...never found out what had been snacking in there ...and was never really comfortable using it afterwards...
(wasn't before really - it was full of worms - they used to hang around the lid in big clumps - happy compost apparently -but I'm worm phobic)
Really glad when they started collecting food waste again...

macdoodle I've only just read this thread, and I can tell you that as recently as 25 years ago, our council had pest control that was free. As I used to know the chap (there was only one) who did it.

The council provide the service for free to their tenants because they are the landlord and have a huge vested interest in getting pest control issues sorted. Some (though certainly not all) private landlords will do the same for their tenanted properties.

Add message | Report | Message poster ClaimedByMe Sat 30-Aug-14 21:30:45
Oh and I have now decorated the outside of my house with Waspinators, not very attractive but they seem to work

Waspinator? Made by Phineas and Ferb?

I don't mean them, do I? I mean the mad scientist guy....sorry