Rodent Control Tips To Help You Avoid getting a Rat Infestations from a rat exterminator.
Once you’ve rid your home of the dreaded roof rat and the norway rat, keep them out by checking the following around your home:
Seal cracks and holes in your home’s walls, roof, attic, basement, and foundation with steel wool and caulk.
Store food (including pet food) in sturdy containers with fitted lids.
Put screens beneath air vents.
Trim trees, bushes, and other vegetation back from exterior walls providing them access to your attic.
Eliminate sources of standing water inside and outside your home.
Remove potential nesting sites, including debris and leaf piles, from your yard.
Close garbage cans.
If you think they have progressed past a small amount of rats, to an rat infestation will determine a lot, click on the box below for an attic inspection checklist
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One of your first indications of a rat infestation may be the appearance of pellet-sized dropping in your home and attic. These feces are a good indicator of how long your problem has been there, with fresh droppings appearing very dark and soft. After 4-5 days, the droppings will lose their color and harden. While there are 40 – 50 species of rats and mice in Texas alone, you are most likely to find Roof Rats and/or Norway Rats causing problems in and around your home. Rats can be incredibly destructive house guests, creating problems seen and unseen, such as:
Destroying the insulation in your attic
Leaving feces and urine in your attic and walls
Chewing on wires and ducting in your attic
Spreading diseases to you, your family, and your pets
Because of their prolific breeding habits and their destructive nature, it is important to have any rat problem taken care of immediately. Call us now for a free inspection of your home.
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HEALTH RISKS
Contamination of food and disease transmission are two major concerns with rat infestations. Rats will contaminate your food with feces and urine while searching for something to eat which transmits diseases to humans and pets. Rat mites, fleas and lice can also carry diseases and will infect animals and people.
The CDC lists several rodent-transmitted diseases, including:
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome
Murine typhus
Rat-bite fever
Leptospirosis
Eosinophilic meningitis
Several bacterial infections including Salmonella and Listeriosis
Control of rats and eradication of infestations should decrease the chance of exposure to these diseases and reduce the risk of infection.
RATS IN YOUR HOME OR WALLS ?
Rats are nocturnal creatures, so most people who have a rat infestation report hearing squeaking, scratching, gnawing, and digging noises at night. These sounds often come from the attic due to the rats burrowing in the insulation to nest, however, it is not uncommon to hear the noises in your walls, kitchen, laundry rooms, garage, and in the areas where pet food is stored.
Rats access your attic in search of a warm, quiet, safe place to nest and reproduce. Once a rat has taken up residency inside your attic the problem can quickly get out of hand. A female rat can have 6-12 babies per litter and have up to 7 litters a year. A baby rat reaches sexual maturity at just 2-3 months. This means that in the span of a year, one pair of rats can produce up to 15,000 descendants.
Rats are omnivores and will feed on almost anything available to them. Pet food can be a huge draw for rodents of all types so it is important to keep it in tightly sealed containers. They typically leave their nests at night in search of food, feeding on plants, nuts, seeds, berries, vegetables, meats, and fruits.
A rat’s teeth continue to grow throughout their lifetime, so rats will gnaw on anything around them to grind their teeth down. This is why rats will chew through wires in your attic, behind your refrigerator, washer and dryer, or inside your walls. They will also chew through your duct work in your attic in search of heat in the winter or cool air in the summer. This increases the chance of spreading airborne diseases through your house and also increases your monthly heating and cooling bill depending on the size of the hole they have chewed.
If you’re hearing rodent activity inside your walls or attic, it’s important to call and schedule an inspection. Our trained inspectors will be able to determine if or how bad the infestation is and the best rat removal approach. Don’t be afraid, we haven’t adopted the one-sized-fits-all mentality plaguing other companies in the rodent removal industry. Rapid Rodent Removal utilizes experience and a personalized approach to reestablish rat control in your home and property. Call Now to schedule a free inspection.
Mice Exterminator
Exterminators understanding species of rat or rodents behavior can prevent an infestation in your house
Removing mice infestations can sometimes be as easy as setting a mouse trap; but a larger mice infestation can be a complicated issue. Mice especially can be very tricky to catch, they are very fast and very smart, they are known to avoid traps and jump over Glue Boards. Most people don’t even realize they have mice or a mice infestation until things get bad. The most obvious signs of a mouse problem are their droppings. Some other signs of a mice infestation, you may notice chewed up food packages or pieces of your wall along the floor from the mice having drilled through them. You may hear scratching in your walls or attic at night.Our Mice Exterminator has the knowledge of How to Get Rid of Mice.
We are not only rat exterminators who do rat control and rat removal
How Rapid Rodent Removals Mice Exterminators Work
Wondering if you need an expert to handle your mouse problem? With our Mouse Exclusion Service you will receive a long-term solution. Our team of mice exterminators provides the most successful mouse control services in the Minneapolis area. Our goal as pest experts is not only to solve your mice problem—but to keep them from coming back. Your service will include:
Inspect your home to identify the source of infestation.Identify possible barriers that will prevent the success of control.
Create a detailed mouse control and prevention plan, tailored to your goals and your home’s needs.
Place tamper-proof, locked bait stations that require a special key to open. The bait cannot be shaken out, providing safety to your family and pets.
Seal your foundation with contractor-grade materials, to prevent additional mice from entering.
Is a Mice Exterminator Worth It?
While mice themselves are generally harmless, they are known carriers of a variety of pests and diseases that in some cases may be harmful to you, your family or pets. Mice can contaminate food and food preparation areas by coming into contact with them or leaving droppings.
Although not as common, their droppings can also cause asthma, especially in individuals that are sensitive. In rare cases, a bite from a mouse can result in rat-bite fever, a potentially deadly disease if not treated. Equally important, mice, especially mice entering your home from outside, are known carriers of fleas who carry a wide variety of parasites and diseases. Regardless of their mostly harmless presence, you may not want to share your home with them. So yes, it’s worth having our mice exterminators visit your home.
Get and expert inspection for Mice, house mouse, and mose removal and other rodents in your house
The most successful and permanent solution for mouse control in your Minneapolis home is to prevent them from entering in the first place! By eliminating all openings through which they can enter a structure, you will have a long-term solution.
Doing it yourself can be costly and time-consuming — our experts spend an average of 4 hours on each seal-up and use a variety of contractor-grade materials. Unless you are experienced in-home repair, this could easily take a day of your time plus the dollars spent on necessary items.
We also do mice control mice extermination and mice removal service
Here are the steps we take to make sure you have a long-term solution to your mouse problem. (Read how our experts remove mice from your home for good.)
We conduct a thorough inspection to find where the mice are getting in and how best to eliminate the current population.
Seal up any possible entry point on the exterior of your home ¼ of an inch or larger as part of our Stage 2.
Use high-quality commercial-grade products including flashing, concrete, copper mesh and elastic sealant, which moves and shifts with the structure.
Rat or mice Exterminator Cost
Factors That Affect Rat Extermination Pricing
Many factors go into determining the price of rat extermination, which is why pest control companies usually perform an inspection before providing a cost estimate. Here are a few factors that may impact the price of rodent control, in regards to roof rats.
Professional rat extermination tends to cost between $300-500 for trapping, However, extermination prices could be as high as $1,500 or more depending on the size of your rat infestation, and the scope of work needed to be done to repair your home and warranty our work.
We offer full-service treatments to get rid of your rodent issue, which typically include getting rid of the rats or mice, some clean-up services, and sealing any entry holes around your home.
Location of the Infestation
If an infestation is in an out-of-the-way or difficult-to-reach place, it will be harder to treat. While it’s hard to say exactly how much extermination will cost based on the location, know that infestations in an outdoor space or in occupied interior rooms of the house like a kitchen or bathroom will be on the lower end of the pricing spectrum. Alternatively, infestations under foundations, in ceilings, under floorboards, or in heating ducts are likely to be on the higher end.
Severity of the Infestation
The number of rats you’re dealing with also factors into the price to get rid of them. Larger infestations will take more time and money to remove. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to determine the extent of a rat problem until an exterminator has actually set the traps. The most severe infestations will likely cost over $1,000 to remove.
Some experts recommend placing at least three traps in your home for every rodent. If you’re dealing with a large infestation, your home could quickly become overrun with traps, which you would have to check and empty frequently. If you don’t want to have traps all over your home, or you’re worried about your children or pets getting into traps, consider hiring a professional rat exterminator.
Custom Rodent Removal Plan
When Rapid Rodent Removal sends a Wildlife Expert out to your home, he doesn't come with a one-size-fits-all plan to offer you. Our Experts will conduct a thorough Home Inspection of your attics, crawl spaces, and exterior of your house in order to assess the problem and find possible solutions. We will take into account all presenting evidence found in and around your home and factor in your reports of sounds, smells, sightings, etc., in order to formulate a Custom Rodent Removal Plan that includes:
Resolving the Wildlife Problem
Sanitizing and Deodorizing Your Home
Repairing any damage to wires, ducts, interior walls, insulation, etc.
Preventing future issues by sealing up any possible entry points on the exterior of your home
Providing Customer Education throughout the entire process to empower you to maintain rodent control on your property
Here's a look into the mind of our experts and a sneak peek at what you will see when they arrive at your door:
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