Why do I hear scratching in my walls? What do I do…. 🥵

Twin Home Experts has become the leader in solving scratching sounds in walls and has solved over 200 scratching sound jobs for homeowners.

We wanted to share some helpful insights on why you’re hearing them and what to do.

Scratching sounds in your walls are not only annoying but most often keep you up at odd hours of the night.

This is just the beginning of a major issue if you don’t get to the bottom of this.

The reason you have scratching sounds in your wall at odd hours of the night is rodents setting up their nesting ground & keeping their teeth filed down so they don’t die.

Rodents have found a safe environment to live in, they have found an entry point to your home and an exit point. This is vital for you to understand, and vital that you locate how they are getting into your home. If you don’t you will have an ongoing battle of destruction that can not only damage your home but cause a health issue especially if your one that has a low immune system. Their urine and poop droppings can leach through drywall and cause a major indoor air quality issue.

Locate exactly how there getting into your home and properly seal off ALL openings.

Then properly trap to bait them out of your walls.

Severe property damage such as attic insulation damage, will need to be replaced.

Electrical wiring chewed through

Water pipes chewed through causing flooding (pex pipe, not copper pipe)

Severe odor issue

Air ductwork compromised

 holes in your drywall by rodent chewing

rats colonizing your home and can lead up to 15,000 rats in one year.

Rats are smart, they have brain neurons like humans. They inspect your home like no other looking at all possible entry points to your home, in which they can program & memorize every possible entry & escape route. Your home was inspected by these smart creatures, felt safe & secure, now living in your home.

The reason why traditional pest control methods don’t work on stopping scratching sounds in your walls is a lack of pinpointing exactly how the rats got into your walls.

Traditional methods are sealing off what you see, and then setting up traps.

You will find that trapping will not be effective because the rats have a food source outside your home. Now, if you pinpoint the entry points, and seal off properly, then traps work amazing!

Conclusion:

Traditional pest control companies/ technicians are missing entry points all

The time. They also are not trained in diagnosing plumbing or lack the proper equipment/ technology to get to the bottom of how rats are getting into your home.

Unless you have pin pointed how they got into your walls, it’s always great practice to open the wall or ceiling where you are hearing the noises. This offers so much insight such as:

nest?

 pups or babies inside your walls? ( we have pulled out 12 pups from a wall)

 how much urine & dropping infestation?

 any entry points?

( pipes chewed through or holes)

These are what you will be looking for and why opening the walls is important, it offers a visual to help you solve this problem.

Once you stop these rats from coming and going, now you’re ready to win the war against these destructive animals. Now, we do have some angry people at us, who want us to be more humane, but sorry, we are not believers of saving these dangerous, dirty, and destructive animals. Concerning trapping by far the best is going to be the old traditional snap trap methods.

We love the victor wood traps and here’s why.

 fast

 powerful

 outperform the rest of the traps on the market

We love using peanut butter & bacon!

You will have to Monitor for several weeks. This means looking at your trap activity. You will hear traps go off at night, you will hear hissing and scrambling at night, these are all good signs that you have won the rat war! This means that you have stopped the entry & exit points of your home.