Do you hear an animal scratching under your bathtub?
More than likely you have rats!
At Twin Home Experts, we have solved many issues with 🐀 rats under your bathtubs, hot tubs & soaking tubs.
The initial sign of rats under bathtubs are the noises and scratching sounds late at night. Once this occurs for a while, the next sign is the odor. Then, depending on your tub, you may begin to see signs of chewing, making a hole right through the materials.
Can Rats Live Under a Bathtub?
Absolutely. They LOVE living under bathtubs.
This is a great nesting place for them to give birth and begin to colonize. They can live a very long time underneath a tub, especially if they have their food source & water source right outside your home.
HOW DO RATS GET UNDER BATHTUBS?
Rats have the ability to get under your bathroom tub in many ways.
If your home is on a crawl space, and there are entry points from the exterior, such as open vents, and small holes the size of a quarter, they enter in and crawl right up under your tub.
If you are on a concrete slab, they can burrow through from the outside and find their way directly under your tub.
One of the most frequent ways they enter under bathtubs is through the drain system. Sewer rats are known to come from the city sewer and find their way through your plumbing system and eventually making their new home under your tub.
We also have seen them come in through attic spaces down walls and under tubs.
There are many ways rats can intrude inside bathrooms, but what can you do to get rid of them??
HOW DO YOU GET RID OF RATS UNDER MY TUB AND BATHROOM?
The MOST effective way is to find their entry & exit points.
Once rats have scoped your property, they immediately began to create their pathways. Once these have been established, they will follow that path forever until a new colony of rats creates their runways. This is where an infestation begins.
Unfortunately, we frequently get calls after other rat control professionals are not able to solve the issues. This is usually because all they do is place poison OR set traps. These methods alone DO NOT WORK.
One must find that golden nugget where the rats are actually coming into your home in order to truly fix the issue permanently.
10 Steps to Getting Rid of Rats Under Your Bathtub:
- A thorough investigation of the exterior portion of the home.
- Use an in-wall and ceiling camera to identify droppings, grease marks, and nesting materials.
- UV Rodent smoke test to entire Drain & Vent system.
- Sewer camera inspection and location devices
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- Infrared camera detection
- A rat detection dog is a great way to locate nesting sites and live rats
- A large inspection mirror is imperative as it allows you to inspect hard-to-see places.
- Gassing rats to stop the activity and remove the odor at the same time using our rat smoke odor removal puck.
- Twins Rat Trap is another way to bait and decolonize once entry points have been detected and excluded.
- Monitoring cameras to verify activity and trapping
Having all the resources in order to resolve the rat activity is crucial when detecting & removing rats under your tub.
CASE STUDY :
Most people wait too long before getting to the bottom of the rat infestation beneath their bathtub. Here’s a job where the client waited too long and the rats created a river under the tub by chewing on the drain pipe.
WHO TO HIRE WHEN YOU HAVE RATS UNDER YOUR TUB?
A typical pest control company will likely not be able to thoroughly solve your rat issue under your tub.
Here are a few questions to ask before you hire a pest control company to get rid of the rats under your bathtub:
- Are you going to open walls or ceilings if necessary?
- Do you have the proper equipment to detect & remove the rats?
- Do you perform sanitizing?
- Do you guarantee that you will solve my problem?
- Do you perform All the repairs such as the drain pipes, patching & painting?
- How Long will it take you to resolve my issue?
- Do you use monitoring cameras?
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO REMOVE RATS UNDER A TUB?
This is the most frequent question we get. Every situation is entirely different. The price depends on many factors:
- how they’re getting in
- how much damage they caused
- how much droppings and urine
- nesting material clean-up to do
- does the tub have to be removed all dictate the price?
You can expect to pay a high of $10,000 to a low of $1200 depending on the level of infestation & activity.
This is why it’s imperative to act fast once you see or hear signs as this will determine your cost.
