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Rodent proofing: finding and closing every way in

Cleaning the attic is a start. Sealing every entry point is what keeps rats and mice from simply coming back.

Rodent Proofing

Performing a cleanup of your attic is a fantastic start to protecting the safety of your family and home, but the threat of rodents does not end there. Rats and mice can repopulate and reappear even after a thorough cleaning, because they are very resourceful when it comes to hiding places and entry points.

Plugging the hole is not exclusion

Simply plugging the hole that mice and rats use to enter your home is not enough to prevent them from using those entry points again, which is why experts are normally required to solve these issues properly.

A mouse gets through a gap the width of a pencil; a rat needs about the size of a quarter. Foam and steel wool stuffed in a gap gets chewed out. Exclusion means hardware that resists gnawing, fastened to sound material, at every opening — not just the obvious one.

We read the evidence before we seal

Our staff members are experts at finding the evidence of where rodents in your home like to eat, sleep and defecate. Runways in the insulation, rub marks along framing, droppings concentrated in one bay: each of those points back toward a route, and the route points to the opening.

We are fully equipped to find any and all entry points that rats and mice can use to enter your home and to make sure they can never use them again. The CDC has shown that rat-proofing programs like the one offered by Attic Heroes produce positive public-health outcomes.

Insulation is usually part of the answer

In many cases additional insulation installation is necessary after exclusion, because the material the animals nested in is contaminated and has to come out. Attic Heroes is ready to provide that service at the lowest cost you will find, so the two scopes happen in the right order and you only pay for one mobilization.

Doing it the other way around — new insulation first, sealing later — buries the entry points under fresh material and guarantees you will be back up there within the year.

Rodent Proofing

What the job includes

  • Full exterior and attic survey for entry points and evidence
  • Photographic record of every opening found, with its location
  • Sealing with gnaw-resistant hardware fastened to sound material
  • Attention to roof-to-wall junctions, eaves, vents and utility penetrations
  • Removal of nesting material and contaminated insulation
  • Sanitation of the affected area after removal

Signs you need this

When it is worth calling us

  • Noises overhead that start after dark and move
  • Droppings in the garage, along walls or in the attic
  • Chewed wiring, cardboard or food packaging
  • An exterminator removed the animals but nothing was sealed

Frequent questions

Frequent questions

Our scope is exclusion, cleanup and sanitation — finding the routes, closing them and removing the contamination. Extermination is a licensed pest-control activity and we will tell you plainly if that is the step you need first.

Hardware sealing at a sound substrate is a permanent repair. What changes over time is the house: a new roof, a new solar install or storm damage can open a route that did not exist. That is why the photo record of what we sealed matters.

Yes. Rats and mice can be vectors of parasites, bacteria and viruses, and the droppings and urine left in insulation stay hazardous after the animals are gone. That is why removal and sanitation are part of the job and not an upsell.

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