If you’ve had wildlife living in your attic, even for just a short while, you could benefit significantly from attic restoration. While inhabiting your home, wild animals will make a mess of the place and massively damage your attic. Mice and squirrels will chew through wood beams, pipes, soft concrete, paneling, and anything else they find. Raccoons, squirrels, and other animals will spread food debris and nesting materials all over your attic. Mice, bats, and birds can spread pathogens and create health risks. All wild animals will leave droppings and urine behind as well as strong odours.
Even though you may have evicted the problem wildlife, your work isn’t done. Your attic can be in complete disrepair after the wildlife eviction, and you must restore it to ensure safety standards are met and contaminants are removed. You need attic restoration.
Keep reading to find out what’s involved in the process.
Cleaning
Attic restoration specialists will begin by cleaning your attic of debris, food, nesting materials, feces, urine, and other waste.
These specialists are well trained in their roles and can ensure that no hidden areas are left uncleaned. Every nook and cranny will be cleaned. This will ensure that no dangerous mould begins to grow on feces accidentally left behind. It will also remove the terrible odours that come from wild animal droppings. And it will also eliminate the pheromones that can draw other animals to your home.
Decontaminating
Bat guano can contain a dangerous histoplasmosis-causing fungus, which can go airborne during clean up. Other birds can also spread diseases like candidiasis, cryptococcosis, salmonellosis, and St. Louis encephalitis through their droppings. Mice can infect you with many dangerous diseases, such as Hantavirus, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, typhus, and even the black plague. These are all zoonotic diseases that can be passed to you and your family if you are not careful. It can put your health at risk.
What’s more, wild animals can also bring ectoparasites, roundworm, tapeworm,and other pathogens into your home. Once the host animal is evicted, these ectoparasites like mites, ticks, and fleas can move on to you or your pets as new hosts.
Part of the attic restoration process is decontamination. For safety reasons, decontamination should only be performed by professionals with the training, experience, gear, and equipment required to reduce risks of infection. This includes biohazard suits and HEPA-filter masks.
Insulation Replacement
Insulation is a prime material used by wildlife in your attic. They use it as materials to build their nests. They hide in it to stay warm and to stay out of sight. And some animals, like mice, will create tunnels in your insulation to create a sort of maze that they can move through. And as wild animals spend time in your insulation, they will not only damage it, but also contaminate it with feces and urine.
The insulation must be replaced, and attic restoration specialists can remove, discard, and replace it. Not only will insulation replacement reduce health risks from fecal matter, but it will also reduce your energy bills and ensure that you’re compliant with safety guidelines.
Roof Repairs
In order to get into your attic, most animals will find vulnerable areas on your roof to squeeze through. Larger animals may rip up part of your roof to make bigger holes that they can crawl through.
Attic restoration also includes roof repairs, from the implementation of roof vent, gable vent, and fan vent guards to gutter protection and soffit repairs, the specialists will ensure that your roof is back in shape and that extra protections are put in place to ensure that no other animals can sneak back in.
Do you need wildlife removal services? Request a quote today!