At Twin Home Experts, our Los Angeles Rodent Control company is getting more and more calls with homeowners from Pasadena, Burbank, San Fernando Valley & down to Long Beach, calling in and saying “I’m hearing scratching in my crawl space and bathroom walls at night”. We are used to dealing with many calls describing scratching in the ceiling at night so we’ve put this article for you as a reference on what to do.
Here’s a video our company made Los Angeles residents who had to scratch noises coming from their walls at night.
But we are getting more calls lately on crawl space & bathroom noise activity, here’s a video with us solving a client name Sean where he had been dealing with scratching in the bathroom for 5 years and had 4 rodent companies attempt to solve.
Rodents love the warmth inside a wall cavity, they bring in debris like insulation, cottonwood chips dryer lint, etc, and build a nest to provide a safe place for themselves & their pups.
HOW DO RATS GET IN WALLS?
Rats love to live inside 4 walls of a home or property.
Most rats are born inside houses, often in the attic or walls, so that Is their comfort zone environment. But first, they come from outside and find a way into your house. They use many possible entry points into the house, from unscreened vents on the roof, gaps at the eaves and roof edges, sewer lines & Waste vents on the roof, areas at ground level, such as open A/C chases or gaps under the siding or in the outer walls. They love coming into bath exhaust vents and breed in the attic.
In fact, If they enter at ground level, they usually run up the walls of the home and go into the attic. The rats usually spend most of their time inside in the attic. But more & more were seeing them set up shop, and create nests, inside the walls of homes.
When they’re in the attic, they can easily find their way down the walls of homes as they search out new areas and seek a way to get into the house, especially if they detect food.
Here’s our Tik Tok video showing rat pups that were very active inside a wall.
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Another one, rats nesting under a tub…
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Most rodent companies are not equipped when it comes to opening walls or are against it, their belief is that it’s not needed and trapping and covering all the entry points is all that’s required.
Check out the comments in this video, where a rodent company is disagreeing with our methods, but as you can see in this case there was no other alternative or solution.
If you’re getting any noises inside your crawl space or inside a bathroom wall or any wall on your property, it’s imperative to follow these 9 steps :
1- Build tight sealed critical barrier using a 6 mil poly plastic
2- Place floor protection
3-Place Air scrubber
4- Open wall or materials bag & dispose
5-Disinfecting and sanitizing with electrostatic fogging
6-Investigate and secure with proper exclusion materials
7- Trap and monitor
8- Once secure and all activities have vanished, then reconstruction can begin as the final step.
9 – Maintain the property
WHAT TO LOOK FOR WHEN HIRING A RODENT COMPANY IN LOS ANGELES?
When you’re dealing with scratching in the walls at night, and you’re in need of a rodent company to treat your home, here are some 7 tips to ask before you hire them:
1- Are you fully equipped to open my walls & decontaminate?
2- What is your process?
3 Can you also put my home back together when you’re done?
4- What is your guarantee?
5- can you provide photos OR videos of your work?
6- What kind of enzymes do you use?
7- Do you take care of plumbing repairs?
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO OPEN A WALL AND REMOVE RATS?
This is the most frequent question we get here at the Twin Home Experts.
After performing over 1200 scratching in the walls from rodent jobs, we have done them from as high as $6,800.00 for a tiled plaster concrete wall that was very difficult to a low of $750.00 for a simple small area.
Again, this work is important to follow the steps listed up above.
HOW LONG DOES THE PROCESS TAKE TO OPEN WALLS & REMOVE RATS?
The process is typically 1 to 2 days to set up critical barriers, cut, remove, dispose of & decontaminate.
What’s crucial, is to wait while the wall is open to verify that ALL activity has vanished after securing or repairing. Trapping is also important during this stage.
WHO ARE THE BEST RODENT COMPANIES IN LOS ANGELES TO OPEN WALLS & REMOVE RATS?
1-Rodentstoppers.com
They are a great reference they typically refer to the best companies and always update their list.
Rodent Stoppers | Los Angeles Rodent Control Company
Have an amazing process, all the equipment, and technology to keep a home safe and secure. They have a plumbing license, so in the event, there is a breach in the piping system, they can fix it.
3 – ALL STAR ANIMAL TRAPPING
This company is not only rodent control, but they also handle other wildlife issues, such as skunks, Raccoons, possums, etc. Their site is Allstaranimaltrapping.com
Well, we sure hope you found this post informative, we’re always here to help. As always, thank you for visiting our website.
