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Rat control is essential to maintaining a safe and healthy environment in both homes and businesses. Rodents such as rats and mice carry diseases and damage property. They can chew through electrical wiring and contaminate the home with feces and urine.
It is crucial to take proactive measures to prevent infestations and promptly address any signs of rodent activity. Ehrlich Pest Control offers specialized rodent removal services that can help you eliminate rodents and prevent their return. Contact us to schedule your first inspection!
Rodents pose serious health and safety risks. They spread diseases like Hantavirus, Leptospirosis, and choriomeningitis through their droppings and urine. Pests like roof rats and house mice can also damage wiring, baseboards, and insulation. This increases fire hazards and can result in costly repairs.
Without proper rodent inspection and control, infestations can grow quickly. Ehrlich’s pest control for rodents removes these unwanted pests and prevents their return. Call us today for a no-obligation quote to protect your home or business.
Rats and mice have earned a notorious reputation for invading homes and businesses looking for food, water, or shelter. Fortunately, there are proactive measures we can take to keep rodents at bay. Here are a few steps you can take when it comes to keeping rodents off your property:
Seal cracks and gaps: You should seal all entry points of your home’s exterior and interior. Use sealants to repair cracks or pipe entry points on your home’s exterior. Make sure to avoid using cement near pipes to prevent weather-related damage or metal corrosion.
Proper food storage: Rats and mice often sneak into homes searching for food sources. It’s important to keep food tightly sealed, empty your garbage, properly store pet food, and clean up any spilled crumbs.
Declutter: Rodents may live in cluttered areas in your home or yard, so removing any unnecessary items is essential.
Trim vegetation: Keep trees and shrubs trimmed away from your home, as branches can serve as bridges for rodents to access your home from the yard.
Nesting items: It's crucial to get rid of any shredded paper, fabric, insulation, or leaves lying around your property. Rats and mice can use it for nesting materials.
Professional rodent control: Rodents can be a headache when it comes to removal, and it is best to seek professional help. Our technicians are trained experts in rodent treatment services and will inspect your home and establish the best plan to keep your home rodent-free.
While finding rodents in your home or business may not be ideal, it's important to know the signs of a potential infestation to develop an action plan for rodent removal. Here are the top six signs of a rodent infestation:
The difference between the signs of rats and mice is subtle but important — size. Droppings, sebum(grease marks), and holes created by rats are larger. Mice are smaller — gnawing smaller holes in walls and leaving smaller droppings behind.
Rodents are opportunistic creatures that tend to hide in places where they can easily survive, have easy access, and remain unnoticed. The most effective way to get rid of rodents involves a combination of proactive measures, targeted treatments, and seeking help from a professional rodent exterminator. However, there are a few steps you can take when you want to eliminate rodents from your property.
Always wear appropriate protective equipment before beginning an inspection. Inspect only within your comfort level. Cover high and low areas, exterior perimeters, and permitted adjacent areas. Document your findings to determine the extent of the infestation.
Sealing entry points can greatly reduce the need for rodenticides. Mice can fit through openings as small as a dime, while rats can squeeze through as small as a quarter, which they can enlarge by gnawing. You should check for potential entry points such as pipe entry points, foundation vents, doors, soffit vents, and gable vents.
Placing traps or monitoring stations near entry points helps with rodent removal. Non-toxic bait in a monitoring station can confirm activity and keep traps safe from interference. While DIY rodent traps can have some success, professional solutions are likely to work better.
Rats and mice may enter your home searching for food, so it’s essential to eliminate any water or food sources that they can access. Removing any clutter will eliminate hiding spots.
Seeking professional rodent removal is the most effective way to ensure complete control of rodents. Ehrlich technicians have the experience, tools, and knowledge to tackle any rodent problem. Your technician will use secure and tamper-proof rodent stations to monitor rodent activity and place non-toxic bait, rodenticide bait, snap traps, or rodent tracking gel. Our technicians will look for droppings, rub marks, gnawing, insects, and feeding if bait is used.
At Ehrlich, we incorporate an integrated pest management (IPM) approach in our rodent removal services, designed to provide effective and environmentally friendly control and management solutions. Our rodent treatment methods vary and include the following:
An inspection before quoting ensures accurate pricing for rodent removal. Costs depend on infestation size, property type, and needed follow-up treatments. Ehrlich also provides additional pest control options for other wildlife that may harm your property. This includes chipmunks, moles, voles, gophers, and squirrels.
No homeowner wants to deal with a rodent problem on their own. These creatures are notoriously good at hiding, so it almost always takes a trained professional to get rid of a rodent infestation completely.
If you catch sight of a rodent in your home, it’s important to call a professional immediately before the situation worsens. Give us a call at 800-837-5520 to schedule your first inspection.
Electronic rodent repellents are not the best way to get rid of rodents. At first, you may notice a decline, but rodent activity will return once the rats or mice acclimate to the new stimulus.
Rats and mice are different species that look similar. However, rats have larger, heavier bodies, while mice are relatively slender. Aside from their size, mice and rats differ in their nesting location and eating habits. For example, mice are able to obtain enough water through the food they eat and do not need a reliable source of water to survive. Conversely, depending on the species, rats must drink one to two ounces daily.
Rodent exclusion is the best method to get rid of rodents and keep them out. Exclusion involves sealing your home's cracks, gaps, holes, and crevices to keep rodents from infesting your property. Mice are able to fit through spaces as small as ⅜”x ¼”, while rats can move through openings as small as ¾” x ½”.
A combination of measures is the best approach to rodent control: exclusion, regular cleaning, and, if necessary, professional treatment.
Rodent removal timelines vary based on the severity of the infestation. Professional mice removal services can provide noticeable results within days. Complete eradication may take weeks, especially for larger infestations.
Exterminators use a mix of exclusion techniques, traps, and baiting systems. A thorough rodent inspection helps determine the most effective strategy for pest control for rats and mice.
Hiring a mouse or rat exterminator ensures long-term control by addressing the root cause of the infestation. Professionals prevent future problems and reduce health risks associated with rodents.
Mice and rats pose serious health risks to humans because of the diseases they can transmit. Their droppings can contaminate food and the surfaces they walk on. There is even a protein in mouse urine that triggers asthma attacks. Dried urine has bacteria that can last weeks to months on a surface, causing other potential health risks such as Leptospirosis.
To put it simply: safety. Both mice and rats are an extreme health hazard if not controlled. Rodent control is crucial to avoid contracting and spreading serious diseases. Rats and mice can also contaminate food and other materials through the droppings and urine they leave behind. Mice and rats can damage your property’s insulation and gnaw through structural materials to gain access.