Prevent Squirrels From Entering Your Home

When it comes to squirrel control methods some homeowners think securing trash can lids, clearing the yard, and mulching around plants should be enough. However, many have learned this might not be a permanent solution to prevent squirrels from entering your home.

Homeowners need a wildlife exclusion system to secure areas that critters could use as an entry point to the house. This form of seal-up is used to prevent future rodent infestations and damage.

Rather than relying on a repellent that uses smell or sound, squirrel exclusion methods are physical barriers that prevent these critters from entering your home and should be installed by professional pest management technicians.

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How Squirrels Keep Getting in Your House

Squirrels, like the gray squirrel and red squirrel, can enter a home by using overhanging branches, utility lines, or climbing up siding. Once the critter has made its way to the house, garage, or other structure squirrels will then chew holes in the vents, eaves, and roofline.

Squirrels can squeeze through holes and vents less than 2 inches wide. Cracks or openings in basements, garages, eaves, and chimneys act as an open invitation for these critters to make their nests.

Squirrels can damage siding, ruin insulation, and chew through electrical wiring if they get into your home.

Finding The Right Wildlife Exclusion Products for Your Needs

Once you know you have unwanted wildlife in your home, you know you have a problem. That’s where the techniques of professional wildlife exclusion come in. Exclusion products from Catseye Pest Control are tailored to fix the issues on the exterior of the home.

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Attic & Roof Barriers

From the first-floor windows to the peak of the roof, wildlife exclusion systems shield your home from rodents, bats, and other nuisance wildlife that may find their way inside through the upper-part of the structure.

Technicians will replace and/or seal soffit and fascia with high-performance metal while also sealing ridge vents and any other gaps that could act as entry points to the first floor and the top of the home.

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Foundation & Window Barriers

From the first-floor windows down to the foundation, these exclusion products ensure there are no openings for critters to make their way into your home or other structure.

Technicians use premium materials to seal-up the entire area where the home meets the foundation. Any visible holes are filled in, including holes in the foundation, gaps in siding, J-channel, and window trim, as well as corner posts.

This process ensures there isn’t a way for wildlife to get into the lower half of the home, especially when paired with trench barriers.