Having a wildlife problem in your home is a real pain. Not only do you have to deal with the scratching noises in your ceiling every night and the inconvenience of eviction, but once the pests are removed, you still have a lot of work to do.
Whether it’s a mouse infestation, a bat colony, or a family of raccoons living in your attic, getting your home back to pre-wildlife condition is no easy feat.
There’s a simple solution, though. Your life and your home can both improve with attic restoration.
1. Fixing Structural Damage
Mice, squirrels, raccoons, and other wildlife are more than just a nuisance—they’re destructive. Rodents will chew and gnaw through virtually any material in the structure of your home. From drywall and wallboards to wood beams and soft concrete—nothing is sacred. The acidic nature of urine can burn through the tannins in wood, leading to damage. Raccoons, with their strength and agility, will rip through your vent covers, soffits, pipe covers, and other parts of your roof to get inside. This can weaken the integrity of your home.
It’s imperative to fix this structural damage caused by rodents and other wildlife byreplacing broken parts of your home. Attic restoration specialists can identify, restore, and repair all damaged areas of your roof and attic to get your home back to its pre-wildlife conditions.
2. Reducing Risks of Floods and Fires
Rodents will not only chew and tear through your structural materials, but your pipes and electrical wiring, too. Birds will leave flammable materials in your vents from their nest-building activities. This can lead to risks of fires and floods. If you don’t take care of this damage as soon as possible, you could end up with much costlier—and hazardous—problems on your hands.
Most homeowner’s insurance policies don’t cover this type of damage caused by wildlife interference. As a result, if a fire or flood does occur, you may be on the hook for the costs. Investing in attic restoration is the more cost-effective choice.
3. Replacing Insulation
Your attic’s insulation helps keep your household warm. For this same reason, it’s also a prime spot for wildlife to live. It’s warm,safe, and it’s an excellent hiding spot. Rats and mice even use it to build mazes to get around.
The point is if you’ve had wildlife living in your attic, you likely need to have your insulation replaced. It will be soiled with urine and feces and it will likely to be torn to pieces, too. To keep your home insulated and your hydro costs low, you need attic restoration services. The specialists will remove and discard the soiled and torn insulation and replace it with new insulation that’s up to code.
4. Clean Up
If you’ve had wildlife in your attic, it’s going to be immediately obvious. Raccoons will use one area of your attic as a latrine, mice will leave droppings everywhere, and bats will leave urine stains on your walls and piles of guano near their entryways.
Squirrels, mice, and other animals will bring materials like twigs and leaves into your home in order to build their nests. This simply makes a mess of the place. What’s more, raccoons will leave the remnants of their dinners all over the place—the floors will be littered with old bones and rotten food.
Attic restoration specialists will take care to clean up the messes left behind by wildlife.
5. Decontaminating
Messes aren’t the only things wild animals will leave behind, however. Many wild animals are carriers of zoonotic diseases, which are diseases that can be passed to pets and humans. Mice carry hantavirus. Bats and birds carry histoplasmosis. Raccoons carry roundworm. All animals can carryectoparasites, such as fleas, lice, and ticks.
Cleaning up the mess isn’t good enough. You need full decontamination in order to reduce the health risks associated with having wildlife in your home. This step of the process is critical to your health and safety, and it should be performed by professionals who have the safety equipment and gear required for protection.
Do you need wildlife removal services? Request a quote today!