Salt Lake City neighborhood
Pest control in the Avenues, Salt Lake City, UT 84103
The city's oldest neighborhood, with historic homes on steep streets above downtown. Avenues homes see mice and spiders in old foundations, bats in attics and boxelder bugs on sunny walls.
Quick answer
Pest control in the Avenues is mostly about old houses. Historic homes on the steep streets above downtown have stone and brick foundations, attics with gable vents and mature trees around them, so mice, spiders, bats in attics, wasps under eaves and fall boxelder bugs are the common calls.
The Avenues at a glance
- Served from
- Our Redwood Road service office in Salt Lake City
- Most common calls
- Mice, bats, spiders, wasps and boxelder bugs
- Busiest season
- Late summer bats, fall rodents
- ZIP codes
- 84103
Common calls
What Avenues homes call about most
Local knowledge
Historic homes, historic gaps
The Avenues is Salt Lake City's oldest residential neighborhood, a grid of steep streets north of downtown lined with Victorian-era and early twentieth-century homes, many with original foundations and attics.
Old foundations and settled sill plates let mice and spiders in. Open gable vents and loose eave boards let bats and wasps in. Mature trees on narrow lots bring boxelder bugs and elm seed bugs onto sunny walls.
We work carefully on older materials and seal gaps in ways that suit historic homes.
Local conditions
Old houses and bat season
About a quarter of Salt Lake City's homes predate 1940, and the Avenues holds a large share of them, with attics and foundations that have had a century to open up. Bats are one result: in summer 2022 the state confirmed rabid bats in Salt Lake County and Weber County, each involving contact with a person or pet, and about 15 rabid animals are found in Utah each year. A bat in the living space is always worth a call.
Bat exclusion is best done outside the summer pup season, so plan it for late summer or fall.
Sources: point2homes.com, ksltv.com
Coverage
Streets and pockets we cover
We cover the whole Avenues, including:
- Lower Avenues
- Upper Avenues
- 11th Avenue area
- Ensign Peak area
- Memory Grove edge
- City Creek Canyon edge
- Avenues historic district
Through the year
A year of pest calls in The Avenues
Spring
Ants in old kitchens and bats returning to attics.
Summer
Wasps under eaves and bats at dusk.
Fall
Mice and spiders in historic basements, boxelder bugs on sunny walls.
Winter
Mice in walls and the right time to plan bat exclusion.
Yes. Century-old foundations have more gaps, so fall mouse calls are common.
Sometimes, behind gable vents and loose boards. Avoid contact and call for exclusion.
Yes. We use methods that suit older brick, stone and wood.
Late summer or fall, outside the pup season.
Our Redwood Road service office, a short drive west.
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