How To Seal Roof Vents From Rats

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How to seal roof vents from rats.

If your home here in the valley has been struggling with pests call us for a free pest inspection and be sure to talk to our techs about our home sealing service. Remove sources of standing water no matter how small including plant saucers water fountains birdbaths and leaky faucets. Wearing gloves when cutting hardware cloth would prevent cuts since the fabric is sharp. How to repel roof rats before the weather gets too cold seal your home by covering any holes larger than a quarter inch with steel mesh or cement and seal up and repair air vents.

Hardware cloth may be used to seal openings such as attic vents as shown in the picture. We seal around air conditioners and electrical boxes install weather stripping screen your roof vents and apply caulking to seal windows. This video shows us revisiting a job we did for a customer in. Caulk cracks screen the sewer stacks on the roof and.

Seal your home roof rats can enter through openings as small as a nickel so be diligent sealing cracks and crevices. Caulk all exterior. Get inch 1 27 cm or 0 64 cm inch hardware cloth from a box or hardware store. Install 1 4 inch wire mesh hardware cloth over attic roof and crawl space vents to prevent birds entry bats squirrels rodents and other wildlife.

Pest control for your roof. Tips to prevent roof rats from entering your attic. Fill small holes with steel wool. Learn how you can seal your home.

Rats climb down and get into your plumbing system and get into your home through the toilet. Use lath screen or lath metal cement hardware cloth or metal sheeting to fix large holes. Getting rid of roof rats. Learn where rats live and the routes they use.

How to keep wildlife from entering. The soil vents also known as a vent stack can let rats into your home. Attic vents and crawl space vents. If you have overhanging trees textured walls or anything that would let a rat climb on your roof then you should have aluminum screens installed on all your soil vents.

Typically rats prefer to live and build their nests in attics where it s dark and where there. Check for holes in exterior walls and near water heaters washers dryers dishwashers and under sinks. Securely fasten the cloth over any vents on the roof that may provide access to the attic. Put caulk around the steel wool to keep it in place.

Don t forget to install covers on your soffit vents as well.