Pest Control in Kensington, CA

Pest pressure in Kensington

Kensington is a small unincorporated community of older homes stacked along steep, winding, heavily wooded lanes above Berkeley, with sweeping bay views. The dense tree canopy and hillside setting bring roof rats, tree squirrels, raccoons, skunks and deer right to the houses, and shaded wood-frame homes carry drywood termite and carpenter-ant risk. Narrow lots and mature gardens keep ants and rodents pressing indoors.

• Older homes on steep, wooded lanes above Berkeley
• Dense tree canopy brings roof rats, raccoons and skunks
• Shaded wood-frame homes face termites and carpenter ants

Kensington homes and local pest pressure

Kensington is a small, unincorporated hill community of older homes stacked along steep, winding, heavily wooded lanes above Berkeley, with sweeping bay views and a dense tree canopy over almost every lot. That canopy and the hillside setting put houses squarely in the wildlife corridor. Roof rats and tree squirrels run the branches straight onto rooflines and into attics and eaves, and raccoons, skunks and even deer work the steep yards and gardens. The older, shaded wood-frame homes carry drywood termite risk up in attics and trim and draw carpenter ants into the damp, soft wood of eaves and decks under all that tree cover. The narrow lots and mature, well-watered gardens keep Argentine ants and rodents pressing indoors. It’s a leafy, settled place where the beauty of the woods and the age of the homes combine to keep roof rats, termites and carpenter ants near the top of nearly every job.

Pest control around Kensington

We reach Kensington coming up I-880 through Oakland and onto I-80, then up into the hills, covering El Cerrito, Richmond, Orinda over the ridge, and the Berkeley and Oakland hill lines nearby. The work is almost all older-home hillside residential — roof-rat and wildlife exclusion off the canopy, termite inspections, carpenter-ant and ant control in the shaded wood and gardens. The overhanging oaks and the steep, narrow lots are the giveaways for where rats and squirrels cross onto the roofs.

• Dense canopy funnels roof rats and squirrels onto rooflines
• Shaded wood-frame homes carry drywood termites and carpenter ants
• Mature gardens keep ants and rodents pressing indoors