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Pest control news, and what it means for your site
We publish when something genuinely changes for the people who run commercial premises, food businesses and housing stock. Every piece is sourced, and every piece ends with what it means in practice.
23 September 2026
Working from home empties the room, not the building
An office closed part of a floor to bed bugs this month and told staff they could work remotely. That decision buys time. It is not the treatment, and the clock it starts runs slower than most people think.
14 September 2026
Proof the building before the rats are out, and you seal them in
A block with rats in its walls, a sealed bin store, and residents moved out and back again. Rat proofing works. Done in the wrong order, it traps the problem inside.
12 September 2026
A bed bug waiting list is sorted by who complained, not by where the bed bugs are
Three council tower blocks, hundreds of residents, and a queue for individual flats. The treatment is not the hard part. Choosing the unit of work is.
7 September 2026
They cleaned it more often. The flies got worse.
Two social housing cases reported in the last fortnight have the same shape, and it is not the one the coverage reaches for. In both, something was done. In neither was it the thing that would have worked.
25 August 2026
Fifty-six days to attend: when the contractor is the delay
A council report on a Kent restaurant contains a sentence most pest contractors would rather you did not read. The infestation was found in March. The pest controller arrived in May.
24 August 2026
The report reached the landlord. It never reached pest control.
Two rodent cases in social housing reported this week have the same shape, and it is not the one most coverage reaches for. In both, pest control had already attended. What failed was everything around it.
23 August 2026
Twelve days shut: how a hygiene emergency closure actually works
A town centre restaurant was closed by its council on the day it was inspected and did not trade again for twelve days. The mechanism that did it can be used on any food business, the same afternoon, and reopening is not on your timetable.