Pest Proofing in New Westminster
Queens Park heritage homes, Fraser River corridor, century-old entry geometry

Yes. The Fraser River will always produce external pressure — the question is whether your building has accessible entry points. A century-old Queens Park home carries the most accumulated entry geometry of any residential stock in Metro Vancouver. Rodent-grade hardware cloth at crawl vents, sill-plate gaps, and pipe penetrations stops the re-entry cycle.

On a typical Queens Park heritage inspection: original crawl-space vent mesh that has deteriorated for a century, settled sill-plate lines from 100 years of building movement, original pipe penetration caulk from the early 1900s long since failed, door frames with century of shrinkage gaps, and soffit and eave entry points used by both rodents and wildlife.

Yes. Heritage-appropriate rodent-grade materials are applied at entry points in ways that do not affect character-defining exterior elements or alter the heritage fabric.

Yes. 1940s Sapperton homes carry similar accumulated entry geometry to the newer end of Queens Park's range. Brunette Creek's rat corridor adds external pressure similar to the Fraser River situation.

Pest proofing uses rodent-grade materials — hardware cloth, metal flashing — that hold against gnawing. Standard maintenance uses caulk and foam that rodents push through within days.

Metal exclusion lasts as long as the surface it is anchored to.

Yes. On Queens Park heritage homes, both ground-level rodent entry points and elevated wildlife access points are typically present.

Yes. Heritage home audits in Queens Park are a common service — we document every entry point with photographs.