Rodent Exclusion or Rodent Proofing

Publication date: February 21st, 2017 SOS Bestioles

Every fall brings often small rodents to enter inside our buildings searching for a warmer, dryer place where yo spend winter. Rodents, mice and rats can enter in very tiny holes, the size of a penny for a single mouse and the size of a quarter for a rat.

All rodents must continually wear their incisors. They gnaw electrical wires that could cause a risk of short circuits and electric fires. Rodents can cause the lost of food when they drill holes in food bags and contaminate the food with their urine, hair, saliva and droppings. They can do the same thing when they run on surfaces. Rodents can gnaw wood, aluminum, plastic, PVC pipe and cable sheathing. Rats need 30 to 50 g of water daily. A thirsty rat can gnaw the water pipes under a dishwasher machine or sink and this can create water leaks and big water damage from the first floor to the basement.

SOS Bestioles Pest Control offers a complete rodent proofing of your residence or your store. Our biologist will inspect first all the perimeter outside of your building and will make a list of what needs to be sealed. All openings found will be blocked using the best exclusion material and products on the market.

The rodent proofing materials we use are :

1. Electric mastic
2. Expandable rubber silicone
3. Copper mesh
4. Concrete tube
5. Phosphated and galvanized  metal screens
6. Metal plates

Rodent exclusion through rodent proofing is the best and the most effective method for permanent rodent control. With the exclusion technique , there is no need to use anticoagulant toxic poison inside nor outside. There are no risk to intoxicate cats, dogs and even wildlife animals. Rodent proofing work will safely protect your house for years.

SOS Bestioles Pest Control is one of the few businesses that offers to do exclusion work as a permanent solution. Several competitors prefer to use cheaper, faster, easier rodent poisons. However, those exterminators do not block holes. This means that mice will continue to enter in the building or house.

Once inside, mice will run and follow the old smelly trails located in wall insulation, in attic, left by previous mice. Mice will continue to produce urine and feces for months and years in the building. Poisons will kill mice inside. Those dead mice will contaminate the interiors and add more germs in the house materials. This can create additional problems such as attracting scavenger bugs or fetid persistant smell.

The desintegration of mice in insulation of a building structure is a complete myth. This is not true and there is no scientific research that supports that. It is in fact a non-legal marketing argument to encourage the sale of poison boxes.No rodenticide  packaging label mentions that the use of rodent poison will turn any rodent into an hygienic dust. In Canada, if it is not written on the label, then it is not the case.

After the building's inpection and the blockage of all entry points, we will finally do the mice control . All mice will be caught by trapping. Catching the mice is fast and usually does not take more than a week to catch all enclosed mice. We do not use anticoagulant toxic poisons, we prefer to use mecanicale traps. We also use multicatch boxes and mice attractants to make the trapping faster and more efficient.

Once the mice infestation is resolved, we offer decontamination service. We do the cleaning and the desinfection of all contaminated surfaces. We will eliminate the urine, feces that could contain virus, bacteria and other pathogens. SOS Bestioles Pest Control does : inspection, exclusion, mice eradication and desinfection. Mice problem will be resolved for good with us. Call us , our biologist will be pleased to answer all of your questions ! Inspection, exclusion could be done in spring or summer time. Do not wait too long before fall.

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