Nottingham runs hot. Hockley and the Lace Market hold one of the latest-licensed bar belts in the East Midlands, with several venues licensed to 4am at weekends. The Trent University and University of Nottingham student belts together drive a city-centre and inner-suburb housing market that turns over thousands of tenancies every September. The hotel cluster around Old Market Square, the Lace Market and the Castle generates continuous bedbug, rodent and complaint-driven callouts. JG Pest Control is open every weekend, every evening and every UK bank holiday with one exception: Christmas Day. We answer the phone early in the morning, late into the evening, all day Saturday and all day Sunday. If you have a rat in a Lace Market kitchen at 11pm, a wasp nest above a Hockley bar entrance at 6am, or a bedbug call from a Castle Quarter hotel at midnight, we are the call. BPCA Level 2 Certified Technicians, unmarked vans, fully guaranteed.
24 hour Nottingham pest control: 0115 743 0010
Open every weekend, every evening and every bank holiday except Christmas Day. Same-day callout across NG postcodes. Unmarked vehicles.
We cover every Nottingham postcode from NG1 through NG17, plus the wider NG ring out to Beeston, West Bridgford, Long Eaton and Mansfield. Out of hours rolls to our national line on 0330 053 9002. Related: 24 hour pest control UK | emergency pest control | Nottingham pest control.
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Open when the rest of Nottingham is shut
The defining feature of JG Pest Control in Nottingham is the operating window. We work early starts. We work late evenings until the last Hockley venue is shutting down. We work every Saturday and every Sunday at the standard rate, not a weekend uplift. We work the full UK bank holiday calendar including Good Friday, Easter Monday, both May bank holidays, the August bank holiday, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The only day in the year we are closed is Christmas Day itself, and even then the national line is monitored for genuine life-safety emergencies. Compare that to the rest of the Nottingham pest control market: most independents close at 5pm Monday to Friday, take the full weekend off and shut from mid-December until the second week of January. For a Lace Market bar, a Castle Quarter hotel or a Beeston student-let agent running through every weekend of the year, that is not a workable supplier.
For 24 hour, same-day or emergency pest control anywhere in Nottingham, call 0115 743 0010 or request a callback.
24 hour, emergency and same-day cover across Nottingham
24 hour callout, all NG postcodes
Round the clock cover for Nottingham city centre, the Lace Market, Hockley, the Park, Sherwood, Mapperley, Carrington, Forest Fields, Hyson Green, Radford, Lenton, Dunkirk, Wollaton, Beeston, Chilwell, Long Eaton, West Bridgford, Gamston, Edwalton, Ruddington, Arnold, Carlton, Netherfield, Gedling, Bingham, Bulwell, Bestwood, Top Valley and the wider NG suburban ring. Phones answered live, every hour of the day.
Emergency response, prioritised
An emergency to us is a problem that cannot wait until tomorrow. A rat in a working kitchen during a Friday service in Hockley. A wasp nest blocking a Lace Market hotel entrance at the start of the weekend. A cockroach sighting in a Trent Bridge restaurant ahead of an EHO visit. A bedbug call from an Old Market Square hotel with a guest checked in. We route emergency calls to the nearest available Nottingham-based technician and target arrival inside two hours where the call allows.
Same-day for everything else
Same-day is the default for Nottingham. Call before mid-morning and we will normally have a technician with you that afternoon. Call later and we will offer a confirmed window for the same evening or first thing the next day, with Saturday and Sunday morning slots available without a weekend uplift. Most of our standing accounts across the city rely on this turnaround.
Bank holidays included
Every UK bank holiday except Christmas Day, we operate as normal. Good Friday, Easter Monday, both May bank holidays, the August bank holiday, Boxing Day, New Year’s Day. Nottingham’s hospitality, student-let and visitor trade all peak across exactly these dates, and we make sure our standing accounts know they will not be left without a pest controller on the day they need one most.
Where in Nottingham we handle most out-of-hours work
Hockley and the Lace Market bar belt (NG1)
The Hockley and Lace Market late-night cluster, running from Goose Gate and Stoney Street across to Pelham Street, Carlton Street and the Broadway, is the latest-licensed bar belt in the East Midlands. Several venues hold 4am licences on Friday and Saturday nights. The after-service window from 2am to dawn is when we attend most often: rodent baiting after the last service, drain fly investigations between sittings, wasp removals before evening trade, cockroach jet treatments before EHO walk-throughs.
Old Market Square and Castle Quarter hotels (NG1)
The Nottingham hotel cluster around Old Market Square, Maid Marian Way and the Castle Quarter generates a steady stream of weekend bedbug callouts driven by city-break and visitor trade. We attend in unmarked vehicles, work through staff entrances, treat the affected room and write up the visit before the next booking checks in. Standing arrangements available for several operators on monthly contract pricing.
City-centre student belt: Lenton, Radford, Dunkirk (NG7)
The University of Nottingham and Trent University student belts converging through Lenton, Radford, Dunkirk and Hyson Green run hot in September and January. Mice in shared kitchens off Derby Road and Lenton Boulevard, rat sightings in back gardens, wasp nests in Victorian eaves and bedbug imports from the freshers cohort all generate calls outside normal letting-agent hours. We work direct with tenants, landlords and agents and can handle multi-bedroom HMOs in a single visit.
Beeston and Chilwell student belt (NG9)
The Beeston and Chilwell student belt south of Nottingham, fed by the University of Nottingham main campus, is the second concentration of HMO pest demand. Streets off Lower Road, Albert Road, Wollaton Road and the lanes around the tram corridor generate steady year-round work. We hold standing arrangements with several Beeston letting agents and PBSA operators.
Hospital, clinical and care callouts
Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham City Hospital, the wider Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust estate, the Nottingham Nuffield and a heavy concentration of care homes across Mapperley, Sherwood, West Bridgford and Beeston, all generate clinical-grade pest callouts. Rodent activity in a clinical area, wasp activity near a care-home entrance, flies in a treatment area, bedbug imports from admissions. These calls do not wait.
Restaurants and takeaways across the city
The Nottingham food scene, from Hockley independents through the Beeston high street, the West Bridgford gastropubs, the Bridgford Road restaurant row and the Lace Market evening venues, generates regular evening and weekend callouts. If you run a kitchen and need a confidential out-of-hours visit before service tomorrow, call 0115 743 0010 .
What an out-of-hours Nottingham visit looks like
- Call answered live. Real person, every hour of the day, no answering machine and no overseas call centre. Nottingham-aware dispatcher who knows the postcodes, the routes and the technician on duty.
- Job triaged. We grade the call. Genuine emergency (rat in a working kitchen, wasp nest on a customer route, EHO follow-up tomorrow) gets the next available technician. Same-day non-urgent gets a confirmed window.
- Technician dispatched. Nottingham-based technician in an unmarked vehicle, BPCA Level 2 Certified, fully insured, carrying the full kit for rodent, wasp, cockroach, bedbug, fly and bird work.
- Treatment on arrival. We do not survey then quote then come back. We treat on the visit, with the price agreed before any work starts. For commercial sites we produce a written job sheet on the spot.
- Follow-up if needed. Most pests need a single visit. Rodent baiting and large nest work may need a return, and we schedule it before we leave.
For hotels, bars, restaurants and serviced apartments across central Nottingham we hold standing arrangements that give priority dispatch, agreed pricing and a single named contact.
Nottingham 24 hour pest control FAQs
Are you really open 24 hours in Nottingham?
Yes. The phone is answered live every hour of the day, every day of the year except Christmas Day. We hold a technician on call covering Nottingham and the wider NG postcode area at all times, and we will attend a genuine emergency overnight. For non-urgent calls received overnight we will book the earliest morning slot, often before 8am.
Do you charge extra for weekends, evenings or bank holidays?
Saturday and Sunday daytime work is the standard rate, the same as any weekday. Evenings up to about 8pm are standard rate. Late-night and overnight callouts carry an out-of-hours uplift that is fully quoted on the phone before we dispatch, so you always know the figure in advance. Bank holiday work is the standard rate.
Are you open on Christmas Day?
No, that is the only day of the year we close fully. We are open Christmas Eve and Boxing Day as normal. The national line is monitored on Christmas Day itself for genuine life-safety issues only.
How quickly can you reach a Hockley or Lace Market address?
Central Nottingham (NG1, NG2, NG3, NG7) we target two to three hours for emergency calls, often faster in the evenings when traffic is lighter. Outer Nottingham (NG4 through NG17) including Beeston, Long Eaton, West Bridgford, Arnold and Mansfield is typically same-day for any call received before mid-afternoon.
Will the van be marked as a pest control vehicle?
No. Our vans carry no JG Pest Control livery, our technicians do not wear branded clothing on commercial jobs unless requested, and we are happy to attend through staff or trade entrances. For Lace Market hotels and Hockley venues this discretion is usually the deciding factor.
Do you cover the late-night Hockley and Lace Market bar trade?
Yes. The Hockley and Lace Market venues hold some of the latest licences in the East Midlands and we work the after-service window every weekend. Rodent baiting, drain fly investigation, cockroach treatment, wasp removal and pre-EHO walk-through prep are all routine after midnight.
Which Nottingham postcodes do you cover?
All NG postcodes including NG1 to NG9 across Nottingham city and the immediate suburbs, NG10 to NG17 across the wider Greater Nottingham belt including Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Eastwood, Hucknall and Mansfield. If you can give us a postcode on the phone we will confirm immediately.

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Phones answered live every hour of the day, every day of the year except Christmas Day. Open every weekend, every evening, every bank holiday. BPCA Level 2 Certified Technicians, unmarked vehicles, fully guaranteed work.
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