Pest Control
The Pest Control Service exists to ensure that Salford is kept free from the nuisance of pests and the damage which they can cause.
The service is provided for pests considered to be a risk to public health or food safety including rats, house mice, cockroaches and fleas. A service is also provided to control pests that may become a nuisance in houses such as a wide range of beetles, silverfish, earwigs and wasps.
- Speedy response and eradication of pests
- Free treatment in occupied domestic properties for rats, mice, cockroaches and bedbugs
- Appointment system for treatments available on request (telephone number 0161 909 6500)
- Free advice leaflets available (see fact sheets at bottom of this page)
- Maintenance contracts for businesses for added peace of mind
- A programme of baiting Salford's sewers to ensure that rat numbers are kept to a minimum
What to expect from us
If you tell us that you are suffering from rats, mice, cockroaches or bedbugs we will respond quickly and certainly visit you within three working days. We also publish details of our latest customer satisfaction surveys.
If you are suffering from other pests such as ants or wasps then we make a charge to cover our costs. We require payment before a treatment visit is made. When payment is received we will endeavour to visit you within five working days, but often much sooner.
We accept payment by most major credit cards over the telephone.
A Life of Grime
Salford's Pest Control Service was featured in the BBC's A Life of Grime series filmed in 2001.
If you require a pest control treatment from our service you can either report it online or by contacting us on the telephone number below.
The following insect fact sheets are available to download from this site:
Downloadable documents
- Bed bugs (Adobe PDF format, 275kb)
- Bees (Microsoft Word format, 22kb)
- Black ants (Adobe PDF format, 179kb)
- Booklice (Adobe PDF format, 196kb)
- Carpet and larder beetles (Adobe PDF format, 356kb)
- Cockroaches (Adobe PDF format, 320kb)
- Eradicating Cockroaches in Food Premises (Adobe PDF format, 88kb)
- Fleas (Adobe PDF format, 233kb)
- Flour beetles (Adobe PDF format, 186kb)
- Foxes (Microsoft Word format, 24kb)
- Grain beetles and grain weevils (Adobe PDF format, 529kb)
- Houseflies (Adobe PDF format, 241kb)
- Moths - Stored Products (Adobe PDF format, 468kb)
- Pests DIY Treatment (Microsoft Word format, 290kb)
- Pharaoh's Ants (Adobe PDF format, 110kb)
- Rats (Adobe PDF format, 512kb)
- Eradicating Rats and Mice in Food Premises (Adobe PDF format, 279kb)
- Spider Beetles (Adobe PDF format, 286kb)
- Wasps (Adobe PDF format, 592kb)
If you are unable to view documents of these types, our downloads page provides links to viewing software.
Who to contact
- Name
- Environment Directorate
- Address
- Turnpike House
631 Eccles New Road
SALFORD
M5 2SH
- Telephone
- 0161 909 6500
- environment@salford.gov.uk
This page was last updated on 21 October 2008
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