The most effective way to keep animals out of your attic is to walk the perimeter of your home and find and eliminate any vulnerable.
Animal ate thru attic vent screen.
The masked marauders of the animal world they ll barge down chimneys and into open garages or attic vents.
Take down the bird feeders that are attracting them to your property.
Thanks to its repulsive smell and the size of its droppings the opossum is responsible for some of the stinkiest infestations of any north american animal short of a skunk.
Most animals enter attics through small holes or man made openings such as vents and chimney pipes.
As an example take a look at this recent picture of a squirrel problem.
These animal contortionists can easily fit through any unprotected ventilation holes in your roof eaves.
Most well designed attic vents have screens prohibiting animal entry into the vent structure and into the attic space.
But squirrels sometimes chew through vent covers.
Bar them from entering with hardware cloth.
We install heavy gauge wire screening over top of roof vents covers that will keep animals out and won t prevent air flow.
Although many homeowners are not even aware that such holes exist they are essential for attic ventilation so you can t just cover them with wood.
Ridge guard is a system for guarding against animal entry at the roof ridge.
The louvered vents for dryer exhausts and the openings behind roof fascia are perennial favorites.
Ridge vents can look nice and according to their manufacturers they help ventilate the attic but when it comes to keeping out wildlife they re one of the easiest ways for them to enter your home.
Larger animals will even bite and claw through weak spots in the exterior to create an entrance to the attic.
Here you can see the cover of an attic fan round and a passive vent next to it box like.
The only attic gable vent i didn t have screened on the outside was the one over the garage.
As agile climbers opossums can easily make their way into an attic through slits and holes in the eaves and vents.
With the advent of ridge vents to protect shingles from over heating in the summer and excess moisture build up in the attic in the winter due to heat loss came the extra issues associated with a large vent opening across the entire ridge of the home.
Even larger rodents such as squirrels can fit through surprisingly small gaps.
A word of caution on live trapping squirrels to remove nuisance.
Living in ne chicago i had squirrels invading the attic and destroying garden produce one bite and dropped on the ground.
If wildlife is living inside your attic and coming and going through your roof vents we will not only remove them but also repair the damage and prevent future re entry.
I just knew it would bug me seeing the screening over this gable since it s so low and visible over the garage.
