Wasp Nest Removal Burnage

Burnage runs south from the Levenshulme boundary down to the Didsbury border, and it is really two places stitched together. At its centre is Burnage Garden Village, laid out between 1908 and 1910 by Manchester Tenants Ltd — 136 Arts and Crafts semis and short terraces on avenues with grass verges, street trees and a clipped hedge in front of nearly every house. Around it sit the interwar semis that went up along Kingsway after the road was cut through, plus the older streets either side of Burnage Lane and Errwood Road. Both kinds of house give a founding queen somewhere dry and undisturbed to start in April, and both make her hard to notice until the colony is at full volume in August.

Where we find nests in Burnage

• Open rafter feet on the Garden Village houses. The overhanging timber eaves that give those roofs their character leave a gap at every rafter, and behind it is a warm, empty roof void. It is the entry point we treat most often in the Village.
• Boxed soffits along Kingsway and Mauldeth Road West. The 1930s semis have wide soffit boards that shrink and lift at the mitred corner above the bay. New queens find the same weak corners every spring.
• Behind hedging grown up against the elevation. Privet, beech and hawthorn pressed close to the brickwork gives wasps a sheltered approach and hides the flight line completely, which is why Burnage nests are so often reported weeks later than they should be.
• Garages, sheds and the void under decking on the long back gardens off Fog Lane and around Green End.
• Ground nests in banks and rough grass at Cringle Fields and along the railway embankment near Burnage station, usually found the hard way with a strimmer.
• Disused chimneys and open air bricks on the older rows nearer Burnage Lane.

Nobody expects you to have found the nest first. A steady stream of wasps going in and out of one point on the roofline is enough to work from, and so is a dry rustling heard through an upstairs ceiling on a still evening. Leave any entry hole open until we have been. Wasps shut inside a void will work through plasterboard looking for another way out, which turns a straightforward outdoor job into an indoor one.

What it costs here

Any wasp or hornet nest in Burnage is £60. That is the entire price — no call-out fee, no evening or weekend premium, and nothing extra for a nest sitting under a second-floor gable or deep in a hedge bottom. It covers the assessment, the treatment, and a free return visit if there is still activity after 48 hours. Bumblebee nests are £70, though if one is tucked away somewhere it is doing no harm we will say so and let you decide, because a bumblebee colony dies back on its own by early autumn.

Booking a Burnage visit

Ring 07770 015197 and if you call before mid-afternoon we can normally treat the same day, seven days a week. We cover the whole of M19 — the Garden Village, Burnage Lane, Errwood Road, Green End, the Kingsway semis and the streets running down to Fog Lane. There is also a callback form on this page if it is easier to leave your number and let us come back to you.