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.
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