11/19/2023 0 Comments Art of rally controller supportHe is a people person – and he gets to meet all sorts of them: billionaires, drug addicts, sex workers, famous football managers, hoarders, a royal family (not the British one). You come back in a couple of weeks and there’s loads of dead ones you’re picking up carcasses or you see the bait boxes are empty and you think: ‘Yeah, we’ve had a good result and the people are happy.’” He finds the work satisfying: “You go to a job and it’s absolutely alive – rats or mice or bedbugs. King leaves bait boxes containing poison – an anticoagulant similar to warfarin – and will return in a couple of weeks to check on them. There are lots of droppings, especially under the kitchen units and behind the fridge (the mice like the warmth). The problem is mainly in the kitchen – where the food is. ![]() I am not going to dwell on the recording studio, as we do a few mouse jobs and this is not the worst. He slings his anti-rodent weaponry into a bag: pastes, grass seed, purple grain, Quorn … wait, Quorn? “Yeah, these are hipster mice. The back of the van is packed full of poisons, sprays, gels and traps. Our first job is a mouse problem at a recording studio in Hackney, east London, not far from where King is based. I am tagging along for a few days to find out why he has never been busier. He has five technicians and the same number of vans. King started out at Rentokil 35 years ago, at 19, before setting up on his own a couple of years later. Rentokil, the best known name in the sector, says the number of inquiries related to bedbugs in the UK rose by almost one-third between January and September in July, it reported a 65% year-on-year increase in infestations in the UK. Plagues of rats and mice are rampaging through many of England’s older hospitals, with some NHS trusts having to call in exterminators almost daily. ![]() You will have heard about the bedbugs, even if you are lucky enough not to have experienced them first-hand. ![]() It is boom time in the world of pest control.
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