Caulk all exterior.
How to seal attic from rats.
Seal your house from rodents in the peripheral walls that these pests might be using to get in.
Use lath screen or lath metal cement hardware cloth or metal sheeting to fix large holes.
Following the above steps and maintaining your attic s cleanliness will ensure that your attic is not rodent friendly.
Learn what kinds of foods rats eat.
Typically rats prefer to live and build their nests in attics where it s dark and where there.
Snap traps are the most humane and efficient way to get rid of rats in the attic.
Around holes for electrical plumbing cable and gas lines.
A hole or crack that small is all a mouse needs to enter your.
Once we have located the parts of your attic that have been compromised and infiltrated we will get to work on sealing and blocking all of the entry points and making the attic rodent proof.
Leave a few unset traps out with peanut butter to make the rats feel comfortable around them.
Here are some things you can do at home to help prevent rats from entering your attic.
Learn how you can seal your home.
Fill small holes with steel wool.
Make sure ivy and tree limbs are trimmed back from the sides of.
Learn where rats live and the routes they use.
Put caulk around the steel wool to keep it in place.
Rats are naturally distrustful of new things placed in their environment so you have to get them used to the traps before setting them.
Insulation drywall and often items in an attic hide these pests so this process will sometimes require insulation replacement and repair.
But don t stop there.
Set up traps and check on them on a weekly basis.