Rodent Control in Murray Hill, Jacksonville

A railroad town turned neighborhood

Murray Hill started as a separate town that drew workers from railroad shops nearby, and Jacksonville annexed it in 1925. Much of the housing is small wood-frame bungalows and cottages from the 1910s through the 1940s, many raised on piers, with later block homes mixed in. Lots are small and houses close together.

Raised homes with old floorboards and gaps around plumbing let house mice in from below. Neighbors' houses are close enough that mice and rats move between them along fences and under porches.

Small lots, shared fences

Murray Hill lots are narrow, and houses sit close together with shared fences and hedges. Rats travel fence tops between yards, and mice move under porches from one house to the next. That means a neighbor's woodpile, compost bin or chicken coop can feed rodents that end up in your crawl space. Sealing your own house is still the fix that works, but it helps to talk to neighbors about food sources. If one house on the block gets treated and sealed, the rodents often move to the next unsealed one.

Edgewood Avenue and Fishweir Creek

The commercial strip along Edgewood Avenue has restaurants, bars and shops in older storefronts with shared walls. That draws rats to the alleys and dumpsters behind.

Fishweir Creek runs along part of the neighborhood's edge toward the river. Homes near the creek and its wooded banks see Norway rats and burrows in yards.

For most Murray Hill homes, the plan is mouse control with careful sealing of the crawl space and walls, plus roofline work when roof rats are involved.

Common Murray Hill rodent work

• Mouse Control
• Mice in Walls Removal
• Exclusion and Sealing
• Rat Burrow Treatment
• All rodent services

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