Pest Control Westwood, NJ — Homes, Apartments and Downtown Businesses

Exterminator in Westwood, NJ: the Pascack Valley's downtown

Westwood is the busy center of Bergen County's Pascack Valley, with a walkable downtown of shops and restaurants around the NJ Transit Pascack Valley Line station. It sits among Hillsdale, Emerson, River Vale and Washington Township, and the Pascack Brook runs through town.

Around the downtown you'll find older colonials and Victorians on tree-lined streets, plenty of capes and split-levels from the mid-1900s, and apartment buildings and townhouses within walking distance of the train. Those three kinds of buildings get different pests, and we plan around that: a 100-year-old house with a stone foundation leaks mice in ways a newer townhouse doesn't, and an apartment building shares roaches and bed bugs along its walls.

We're based in Garfield, usually about 25 minutes south of Westwood depending on Route 17 and Kinderkamack Road traffic. When you call, we'll give you an honest arrival window.

Damp basements, water bugs and mosquitoes near the brook

Low ground near a brook means wetter soil, sump pumps working hard after storms, and basements that smell a little musty in summer. Pests follow moisture:

• Oriental roaches (water bugs): big, dark, slow roaches that come up from floor drains and crawl along basement walls. They need water, so a dehumidifier and full drain traps help a lot. Our treatment is gel bait plus an insect growth regulator plus a follow-up, with a 90-day warranty — see water bug control.
• Drain flies: tiny fuzzy flies hovering over a basement sink or floor drain. We find and treat the breeding source in the drain, in homes and businesses.
• Mosquitoes: standing water in yards, clogged gutters and low spots after rain. We do yard treatments for mosquitoes, ticks and fleas; mosquito treatment starts from $95 plus tax — see mosquito control.
• Carpenter ants and termites: both love wood that stays wet, like a sill plate near a leaky foundation corner.

The fix almost always starts with the water. We'll point out the moisture problems we see so the treatment lasts.

Ants, termites, wasps and wildlife around Westwood houses

Westwood doesn't have its own page for each of these yet, so here's the short version with links to our New Jersey pages:

• Ants: small ants on the counter in spring are best handled with baits the workers carry home; large black ants at night may be carpenter ants — see ant control.
• Termites: mud tubes on the foundation and spring swarmers are the signs. We inspect, treat and repair damaged sill plates, joists and framing ourselves, and do VA / NPMA-33 reports for home sales — see termite inspection.
• Wasps and bees: we remove yellow jacket, hornet and wasp nests, treat carpenter bees in fascia and decks, and relocate honey bees with a beekeeper — see bee and wasp removal.
• Squirrels, raccoons and bats: big old trees put squirrels right on the roof. We use one-way doors and seal the entries — no trapping and relocating — and repair chewed soffits and fascia, add chimney caps, and do bat exclusion — see wildlife removal.
• Ticks: yards that back onto brush or the brook edge can hold ticks; ask about a yard tick treatment — see flea and tick control.

Pest control for Westwood's downtown restaurants and shops

Downtown Westwood packs restaurants, cafes, salons and stores into older buildings that share walls, basements and back alleys. A roach or mouse problem in one space rarely stays there.

For businesses we set up scheduled service around your hours, keep written service records you can show an inspector, and look hard at the places pests start: under kitchen equipment, floor drains, dumpster areas and the back door. We handle drain flies too, by treating the breeding source in the drains. See restaurant pest control and commercial pest control.