Bishopdale pest control at the foot of the Grampians
Bishopdale sits at the foot of the Grampians, on the saddle where Waimea Road crosses between the city and Stoke. Homes beside bush reserves see rats move in when it turns cold and wasps nest in sunny banks by late summer. Richard handles both, and the first look is free.
Richard under a house when the phone goes? Someone still picks up, and he calls you back.
Roof to subfloor
Outside: Richard walks the whole section: eaves, walls, sunny banks, sheds, compost and woodpiles, for wasp traffic, ant trails and the way rats get in.
- Where
- On the Bishopdale Saddle, below the Grampians
- Postcode
- 7010 / 7011
- Common jobs
- Rats, wasps, mice
What to send Richard
- A photo of the holes, droppings or nest
- Where you’ve seen them: roof space, inside, under the floor or outside
- How long it’s been going on
- Who’s home: kids, pets, or a business open to the public
- For borer: the rough age of the house
- Work
- Borer, rats and mice, wasps, household pests
- Area
- Nelson, Stoke and Richmond
- Experience
- 15+ years in pest control
- Quotes
- Free inspection and quote
- Phone, or fill in the formPictures of what you’ve spotted help.
- Richard rings youHe asks what you’ve seen, and where.
- Free inspection and quoteRoof space, subfloor and section, then a price.
- Treated where they’re workingThen he checks back that it’s done the job.
Rats, wasps and more in Bishopdale
Bishopdale's houses back onto green space: the Grampians above, and Bishopdale Reserve, Station Reserve and the retention dam bank among the streets. A bush edge gives rats cover and wasps nesting ground, and both end up at the house, rats in the roof space when the nights get cold and wasps in a bank or under the eaves through late summer. Richard treats them, plus mice, cockroaches, ants, flies and borer.
Richard walks the boundary first, along the reserve side, looking for burrows, runs and wasp traffic. Then he climbs through the ceiling hatch and crawls beneath the house to find where rats are nesting. Treatment goes on those runs and into the nest. For wasps he deals with the nest and searches your section for any more, and after any job he checks in that it worked.
How Richard works in Bishopdale
Tell Richard what you’ve found
Call, or send the form with a photo of the holes, droppings or nest and where you saw it.
A free inspection
Richard comes out and goes through the ceiling cavity, the subfloor and the section, to find where they’re working and how they get in.
A clear quote
He shows you what he found and quotes the treatment before any work starts.
Treated where they work
Bait stations on the runs, the nest itself, the timber the borer is in: each pest is treated where it lives.
He checks in afterwards
Once the treatment has had time to work, Richard gets back in touch to see that it has.
Living at the foot of the Grampians
The Grampians rise straight behind Bishopdale, and the reserves run down into the streets. That edge is where a Bishopdale job starts: rats travel along it, and a dry bank facing the sun is where a wasp queen likes to start a nest in spring. Waimea Road crosses the low saddle here on its way over to Stoke, and the houses either side of it sit under the same hills.
Two wasps build the big nests. German wasp nests are grey and common wasp nests are brown, and both grow to about the size of a soccer ball. The Asian paper wasp, now reaching the top of the South, builds a much smaller nest, about the size of a pear. Whichever you've got, keep clear and let Richard treat it.
The suburb grew up around Bishopdale, the estate Bishop Edmund Hobhouse bought in 1862, and it's still growing, with more people living here now than in 2018. New houses are snug, dry and warm inside, which is just what a mouse is after once winter arrives.
Prompt & thorough . Recommended
Tips for Bishopdale
- Watch the sunny bank on your section in spring. A single wasp going in and out of a hole is a queen starting a nest, and it's a smaller job now than in March.
- Grey nest or brown, don't knock it or block the hole: wasps defend a nest hard. Keep children and pets clear and tell Richard where it is.
- Keep long grass and garden waste cut back on the reserve side, so rats have no cover up to the walls.
Bishopdale questions
There's a wasp nest in the bank at the back of our Bishopdale section. What does Richard do?
Richard locates the hole the wasps are using, treats the nest through it, then searches the rest of the section and along the reserve fence. He often finds more nests than the one you'd spotted.
Does Richard cover both sides of the Bishopdale Saddle?
Yes. Richard works all along Waimea Road, from Nelson South over the saddle to Stoke, and Bishopdale sits right in the middle of that run.
Wasps are getting into our roof space through the eaves. Can Richard reach the nest?
Yes. Richard goes up into the roof himself and treats a nest in the roof space or a wall cavity right where it sits, then checks the eaves for a second way in. A nest inside the roof is a job for Richard, not for a can of spray poked through the soffit.
We also work nearby in Nelson South, Stoke and The Brook. All Nelson suburbs
A free inspection in Bishopdale
Tell Richard what you’ve found and where. A photo of the holes, droppings or nest helps him see it before he comes out.
What to send Richard
- A photo of the holes, droppings or nest
- Where you’ve seen them: roof space, inside, under the floor or outside
- How long it’s been going on
- Who’s home: kids, pets, or a business open to the public
- For borer: the rough age of the house
Richard will be in touch to talk it through, then come out, inspect and quote. If you go ahead, he treats them and checks in afterwards.
Rather talk? Call 0800 166 028
Thanks, we’ve got your details.
Richard will be in touch to talk it through and set a time for the free inspection.