Pest Control in Augusta, Maine

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Augusta is a city of small households — 9,453 of them, averaging under two people each — with a mix of older single-family housing, rented apartments, mobile and manufactured homes, and outbuildings. Rodent work here reflects that mix.

The job we did here

Rats were digging beneath a trailer and getting inside. We placed exterior bait stations where the travel routes were, filled the holes we found, and the problem was resolved.

That is the shape of nearly every rat job: the animal you see indoors is the symptom, and the burrow system outside is the cause. A trailer, a mobile home or a building on piers is particularly exposed, because the underside is sheltered, undisturbed and usually easy to dig into.

How much of Augusta sits off the ground

The trailer job was not a one-off type of building for this city. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates) counts 527 mobile homes among Augusta’s 10,164 housing units — 5.2% of the total, a higher share than in Lewiston, Auburn or Waterville, where the same survey puts it between about 1.6% and 4.1%. Add the decks, sheds, porches on posts and garages on slabs that go with ordinary single-family lots, and a lot of Augusta has a sheltered, unwatched space underneath it.

On a manufactured home, the places that matter are specific:

• The skirting, where panels have lifted, cracked or been left off behind steps
• The ground line along the baseboards, where a burrow entrance hides behind vegetation
• The plumbing drop and the electrical feed, where they pass up through the floor
• The underbelly wrap, which should be continuous and not hanging down in pockets
• Steps, decks and additions built against the home, which often have open undersides of their own

That list is in addition to the inspection below, not instead of it.

What the exterior inspection looks for

• Burrows at the foundation, under a slab edge, or beneath a shed, deck, trailer or woodpile
• Smooth runs in the grass, and grease marks where fur repeatedly contacts a surface
• Gaps at the bulkhead, crawlspace vents, and skirting on manufactured homes
• Utility and drain penetrations packed with something soft
• Bins, compost, pet food and bird feeders within travel distance

What holds when it is sealed

Rats chew. Foam alone fails, loose steel wool fails, and a plastic vent cover fails. What holds is hardware cloth mechanically fastened, sheet metal over chewed edges, mortar at masonry, and copper mesh packed behind sealant in the small gaps. The quote names the material for each repair. The rodent exclusion page explains how that is priced, and rodent control covers trapping and stations.

A mid-century city, mostly

Augusta’s housing is younger, on average, than its neighbors up and down the river corridors. The same Census survey dates 28.7% of the city’s units to 1939 or earlier, the lowest pre-war share of the six cities this site covers (only the town of Oxford, at 10.9%, is lower), while 1,495 units (14.7%) were built in the 1970s and 1,128 (11.1%) in the 1960s. It also counts 1,598 units — 15.7% — in buildings of ten or more apartments.

That spread matters for which pest turns up where. On a 1960s or 1970s house the inspection still walks the whole shell, but the usual suspects shift towards the sill, the garage door and the utility entries. A larger apartment building brings the shared-wall questions — cockroaches and bed bugs traveling between units — that the cockroach and bed bug pages deal with.

The neighborhood conversation

Rats forage across property lines, so an Augusta rat job is often a street problem rather than a property one. Where the burrow system or the food source is next door, the report says so plainly — and we will put it in writing if that helps you raise it with a neighbor or a landlord.

Ticks in Kennebec County

Ticks here run close to the Maine average. Maine CDC’s 2024 tickborne illness report counted 295 Lyme disease cases among Kennebec County residents — 229.6 per 100,000, against 230.0 for the state as a whole — plus 112 cases of anaplasmosis.

There is town-level evidence too. Of 61 ticks sent from Augusta to UMaine Cooperative Extension’s Tick Lab, 22 (36.1%) carried the Lyme bacterium and eight (13.1%) carried Babesia. These are ticks residents chose to submit, not a structured survey, and the lab is clear that a positive tick is not a diagnosis for the person it bit. Six of the same 61 (9.8%) carried Anaplasma.

If you find an attached tick, remove it, keep it, and note the date; the lab’s own guidance is not to wait on a test result before talking to a doctor about symptoms. Yard treatment reduces how many ticks there are to find in the first place, and the tick control page explains the season.

Everything else

The same city produces ordinary residential work: mice with the first cold, carpenter ants in damp framing, ants and wasps in summer, and tick work on properties with a wooded edge from April through September.

Free residential inspections and quotes. Call or text Ryan Blouin at 207-740-4441.

Services available in Augusta

• Rodent Control
• Ant Control
• Tick Control
• Mosquito Control
• Cockroach Control
• Bed Bug Control
• Residential Pest Control
• Commercial Pest Control
• Wasp, Hornet and Carpenter Bee Control
• Carpenter Ant Control
• Rodent Exclusion and Entry-Point Sealing
• Attic Clean-Outs, Insulation and Sanitation
• Flea Control

Updated 2026-10-02. Kennebec County — other towns we cover.