Scratching sounds at night causing you grief? Can’t sleep? Hired multiple exterminators? Twin Home Experts is a leading rodent control company in Utah, California, and Arizona. We have listed these steps which can help battle the rat invasion your home is experiencing with rodents scratching in the walls. We wanted to offer some helpful tips to guide you in ending this major issue.
The first thing to understand is rats are smart and just setting up traps hoping this will rid the issue is far from the truth! If you have hired a rodent company and they haven’t stopped the rat infestation after a month or less, then you need to do this right away!
Step 1 – Find the Entry Points
Verify and have the exterminator prove if they have found entry points to your home. They should be able to show you via pictures or videos where the obvious entry point is.
If they can’t, then tell them thanks, but you are moving on to another professional.
You can’t afford to allow more rat breeding in your home and more damages!
Conclusion: locate the entry point is supercritical! If you don’t, this scratching is not going away!
Step 2- Guaranteed Rodent Proofing
Find someone right away like Twin Home Experts that can guarantee to locate the rat entry point to your home or it’s free. Working with an exterminator that can offer this guarantee is super helpful to preserving your hard-earned money.
Step 3 – Make Sure to Open Up Walls to Find the Entry Points
Make sure that once you find that pest control company that they either are willing to open the wall/ ceiling area up if there is no access where the scratching sounds are.
This is super important to identifying more clues to how there are getting in and possible nesting materials that need to be removed and cleaned. You may not want to open your walls or ceilings, but it’s truly a game-changer in stopping this rat infestation, especially if you have major urine odors and rat droppings, these pheromones attract more rats into your home.
Step 4 – Smoke Test to Ensure What’s Been Compromised
Crucial to perform an in-depth smoke test on your entire sewer/vent system! This is super important to perform due to pinpointing a Chewed up pipe where the rats come from the city sewer and chew their way right into the walls or attic of your home. If your plumbing waste system is made of ABS, then you are more vulnerable to having rats chew through this material. Here is a big find we were able to pinpoint for a lady in Lancaster California, the rats made it to the second floor and chewed through the toilet drain pipe between the floors:
Step 5 – Proofing Your Home of Future Invasions
Once you have identified the breach or entry point, now it’s time to set up aggressive traps. This is when you will start killing rats over a 3 week period, depending on the infestation. We highly recommend victor original rat traps and here is how we like to set the traps to catch more rats:
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Then you have to make a decision if you need to install a backflow sewer preventative valve for your home or treat the sewer line with a concentration of ammonia for several weeks before bedtime to keep the rats out.
Conclusion:
The last step is our favorite and is sure satisfying when you either hear major hissing sounds at night with more aggressive patterns of scratching, this means the rats know they are losing the war! Then you will start to hear traps snapping them up!
If you follow these powerful 5 steps you can be assured that your rat scratching at night will go away!
If you need more support, then reach out to the Twins by emailing us here.
