Wasp Nest Removal Heaviley

Heaviley climbs the A6 immediately south of Stockport town centre, which makes it one of the quickest addresses on our books. Ring from an SK2 terrace in the morning and the nest is usually dead by teatime. The fee is £60 whatever the roof holds, there is nothing to pay for the visit itself, and if wasps are still flying a few days later the return costs you nothing.

Why the Heaviley terraces suit wasps

Between Wellington Road South and Hempshaw Lane the streets run in tight Victorian and Edwardian rows, most of them still under their original slate. Slate is the detail that matters here. After a century the fixing nails rust through, a course creeps a few millimetres out of line, and the lead around the chimney stacks lifts at its corners. Every one of those faults is a doorway into the roof void, and a queen scouting in May needs only one.

The back alleys do their share of the work too. Heaviley empties its bins into the ginnels behind the houses, and by August those alleys feed any colony that has switched from hunting insects to chasing sugar. Where a nest sits in a terrace roof here, the flight line often drops straight from the ridge to the wheelie bins below.

Three positions account for most of our SK2 visits:

• Roof voids entered beside lifted flashing or a slipped slate, usually announced by a dry scratching over a front bedroom.
• The joint where a rear extension roof meets the original brickwork, a weak spot on the streets around Cale Green park.
• Air bricks and cellar grilles at pavement level, which German wasps favour more than people expect.

Shared roofs, one treatment

Party walls rarely seal a roof void completely, so the humming you can hear may belong to a nest whose entrance sits over the boundary. That changes nothing in practice. One treatment through the entrance kills the colony wherever the paper ball actually hangs, and we will happily speak to a neighbour if the ladder needs to go up on their side.

The fee, plainly

Wasps and hornets are £60, and a hornet nest takes no more treating than a wasp one despite the extra noise it makes. Bumblebees are £70 on the occasions treatment is genuinely justified; more often we advise leaving them, since a bumblebee colony fades out on its own before autumn and never reuses the nest. Payment comes after the work, not before.

Booking from SK2

Call 07770 015197 with the street name and a rough idea of where the wasps are entering, or leave your number on the form and we will ring back. Cale Green, Mount Pleasant, the grammar school side of the A6 and the rows down towards the Davenport boundary all count as Heaviley to us, at the same fixed rate, seven days a week.