Rat Removal Atlanta Service to Control Rats

Rats and other rodents have become a menace for Atlanta residential and commercial properties. Rats enter houses, chew up stuff and also spread diseases. They make colonies in the attic. In fact, they love your attic space. This is the space in your house that the rats find most inviting since these are solitary spaces uninhabited by human beings. These places are also warm. Thus the rats can make colonies in the attic space of your house and continue to multiply in numbers. They also source ample food from the household. With nesting and food supply ensured, the rats can infest households in a short time. But rat infestation is bad for you and your property.

Harmful Effects of Rat Infestation     

Rats have strong jaws and sharp teeth. They can tear up and chew almost anything including asphalt and wood. It is really difficult to keep things safe once there has been a rat infestation in your house. As the rats gain access to your property, they tear up stuff and also chew up wooden stuff. They may also chew up computer hardware, especially wires and make computers non-functional. If you don’t call a Rat Removal Atlanta service quickly, you may just be a mute spectator to a trail of destruction of your household items. So make sure to call a rat removal service as soon as you notice the presence of rats.

Nevertheless, chewing up and cutting up things is not the only problem that rats pose to households and commercial properties. They also carry some virus and pathogens in their body. If they die in your house, these virus and pathogens may spread in your house and affect your family members. If rats have spread to the extent of an infestation, there is also a fear of rat scratch or bite. You need to treat such bites and scratches.

How Do Rats Enter Your Property

Rats enter your property through on the ground avenues as well as over the ground avenues. These are acrobatic rodents. Some of these rodents also live in trees while some others live in burrows made on the ground. These rodents have the ability to glide across hanging wires, ropes or tree branches and drop onto the roof. From the roof, the rats can enter the attic space with some difficulty. In fact, it is not much of a difficult task for them. They have the ability to act on small openings and make them bigger for entry. They can just wriggle through holes and enter the property. Since most roofs have some or the other imperfection, in most cases the rats are able to make way through them into the attic. Once a rat gets into the attic, it is just a matter of time before others in the colony would follow it.

However, rats can enter on the ground too. They can chew up wood, plastic and many other materials. They can also make way through brick and sometimes mortar and get into a building. They have a favorite entry point and it is the drain pipe of your house. They can also make their way through the kitchen drain system. In fact, this is an avenue that rats just love to access.

Prevention Is Better Than Cure

Removing rats is a tedious task. You need to call a rat removal Atlanta service for that. But if you can prevent rats from getting into your house in the first place, the task becomes easy. So make sure that the ends of all drain pipes are enclosed with dense wire mesh. This will make sure that rats cannot enter the drain pipes.

To guard against rat entry by making way through mortar, wood etc., you need to make sure that there are no burrows in close proximity of the house. If you find a burrow call a Rat Removal Atlanta service and show the burrow to them. They can trap all the rats from the burrow and relocate them to the wild.

To guard against rats gliding across tree branches, supply wires or hanging ropes, you need to make sure that there are no vulnerable points on the roof. Also the roof vent needs to be guarded with dense wire mesh so that rats cannot make their way through it.

Squirrel Removal Atlanta Services

Atlanta homes regularly bear the brunt of squirrel intrusion. Since the rodents multiply fast, an intrusion rapidly turns into an infestation. You need to call a Squirrel Removal Atlanta service as soon as you notice the presence of squirrels. Squirrels stray into houses both on the ground and over the ground. Since they mostly stay in trees, it is easier for them to glide over arching tree branches and drop onto the roofs of houses. Since they are an acrobatic lot, they may take the help of supply lines too and drop over the roof of your house. Once they are on the roof, they can find their way into the attic. They have a wonderfully strong jaw with which they can chew anything. They also have sharp teeth which helps them to cut up and slice through almost anything. So, all they need is just a semblance of opening. They can prise open such openings and make way through them. That indicates that if the roof is compact with no vulnerable point anywhere along the joint lines, the squirrel can do little. However, this is only an ideal condition. In most cases, roofs have some or the other vulnerabilities. The squirrel can take advantage of such vulnerable points and make its way into the attic. Professionals for Squirrel Removal services would like to inspect your roof top in order to detect vulnerabilities, if any.

Inside the attic

Once inside the attic, the squirrels multiple fast. It is the perfect refuge for mating and bringing up baby squirrels. For food they forage in the house and bring things to the attic. With all the basic items for sustenance in ample supply, they multiply fast and gradually spread throughout the property. As they spread some of them may get trapped in crevices and cracks and die. Such rotting dead bodies of rodents not only gives off foul smell, but also may spread diseases. Moreover, as they spread you can find their poops over. This may also be poisonous. Moreover, they can chew and destroy your costly furniture and furnishing. A Squirrel Removal Atlanta service can help you to prevent such a wide spread infestation. If infestation has already taken place, these services can help you to remove the rodents completely.

Squirrel removal                                                 

Squirrel removal is the only way since exterminating is not encouraged. In fact, you cannot kill wild animals in Atlanta even if they have strayed inside your property. So, you need to remove them. To remove them you need to be aware of their food habits, life cycle etc. A Squirrel Removal Atlanta service has all the information needed to devise a removal plan. They mostly use traps to trap the squirrel and then remove them all the way to the wild. However, a good Squirrel Removal Atlanta service will not only remove the squirrel, but also take concrete steps so that squirrels cannot enter your property again. They seal off all the openings through which squirrels can enter your house. That is why it augurs well for a household to call a specialist when there is a squirrel infestation.

Entry points  

Squirrels may discover multiple entry points to your property. In fact, it is difficult for a household to identify all such potential entry points. They are present not only on the roof, but also on the ground. So, you need to seal the opening on the ground too. The Squirrel Removal Atlanta services have the best idea about the openings on the ground which need to be and can be sealed in order to frustrate the attempts of squirrel to enter the property. However, it is a fact that all entry points cannot be sealed effectively.

Insect Repellent Sprays

Apart from sealing the entry points, the Squirrel Removal Atlanta services also use insect repellent powders. They spray insect repellent powders around the property. Smell of this powder deters the rodents from entering your property.         

Catching the squirrels

These services catch the rodents and relocate them to the wild. They use traps to catch the rodents. They place multiple traps at multiple points so that none of the squirrel can escape the traps. Since Atlanta wilderness laws debar you from killing wild animals, the only way is to relocate the squirrels to the wild.