Though the feeling you get after finally having the wildlife from your attic removed is undoubtedly one of relief, the process of dealing with the situation fully doesn’t end once the animals have been removed. 

If you’ve had a wildlife infestation in your attic, attic restoration is a crucial step in preventing similar infestations in the future. What an infestation tells us is that the animal (or animals) found their way in to your home a first time, and if they did it once then they can definitely do it again. 

Wild animals also cause a lot of damage during their stay in your attic, no matter how short of a period they were there for. If wildlife has been removed from your attic, it’s time to take the next step—attic restoration.

Serious Damage

Once animals have found their way into your attic, they start to make themselves comfortable. Unfortunately, the way they do this is by damaging your property. Mice, for example, will chew through a huge variety of materials in order to create nests and to get warm. They’ll chew through insulation, soft concrete, wood paneling, and wood beams, all of which can do serious damage that needs to be addressed immediately. 

For one, if a significant amount of mice are making indentations in the structural beams of your home, they could be significantly weakening the structures that keep your attic (and house) intact. 

Secondly, mice tend to chew through electrical wiring as well. This isn’t just a problem of inconvenience, such as Internet connections that are suddenly going out or lamps that won’t switch on. Loose electrical wiring in your attic can be a serious fire hazard. Many attribute a significant portion of the fires that are deemed to have “unknown causes” to mouse infestations. Attic restorations services ensure that all of these potential damages are dealt with swiftly and effectively.

Carriers of Disease

Removing the physical presence of the animal itself isn’t enough to negate the threat of transmission because most animals transmit disease through their droppings, which will have found themselves all throughout your attic during the period in which the wildlife had taken up residence. 

Bats, for example, are known carriers of Histoplasmosis, a fungus that can be found in bat guano, or bat droppings. 

Mice are also known carriers of disease. Mice droppings, urine, and saliva can all transmit Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS), an infection with symptoms that resemble the flu but that can have more serious consequences. While the solution of removing animal waste from your attic might seem easy, it’s actually a very difficult task. 

Much of the droppings and urine left behind by wildlife will be in hard-to-reach places or areas you might not think to look. If you don’t remove all traces of the wildlife, however, you can still get sick. 

Removing traces of wildlife saliva from your home is even more difficult as it’s not something you can clearly see. This sort of removal requires special equipment and safety gear, both of which are used during attic restoration. Having your attic restored is the safest way the ensure that your home is no longer contaminated by the animals that were living there.

Entry Points

As mentioned earlier, if wild animals got in once, they can get in again. We tend to think of gaping holes or visible entry points when we consider how animals have come to live in our attics. The reality is much scarier, and smaller.

Most animals only need a hole the size of a dime to gain entry in to your home. Raccoons, for example, have sharp claws that they can use to expand even the smallest of cracks or gaps to the outside. Attic restoration guarantees that no animal finds a way into your home again.

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