Is Pest Control In The Northwest All About Crawl Space Restoration?

By Author: Bill Sanders
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Having rodents in your home can be much more dangerous than you might think. They are not just a nuisance, rodents can be very dangerous to your health, and the condition of your home. Mostly in the winter months, rodents like to enter your home in search of food and other resources. If you happen to have a crawl space in your home, this is good news for the rodents and bad news for you. More often than not, rodent prefer to hangout and make a home in your crawl space. This is the perfect environment for them. They burrow in your insulation and live there.
Rodent do not go outside to a designated area to urinate, rather they do so as they walk. If you have a rodent infestation in your crawl space you will likely find feces droppings as well as insulation contaminated and drenched in urine. This is really gross, but what does it have to do with you? Most people do not even go in their crawl space, why should you care and be willing to spend money on having this issue fixed if you rarely enter this space at all?
First of all, regardless of whether or not you go inside of your crawl space or not, you are still going ...
... to be coming into contact with the things in here. At least twenty percent of the air that you breathe in your home comes from the crawl space. When there is an issue such as this in your crawl space, you and your family are breathing in particles in the air that are contaminated with rodent urine and feces. This is not just disgusting but also extremely dangerous. Rodents can transmit many diseases, some being fatal.
Another reason it is so dangerous to have a rodent infestation in your home and your crawl space is because of the rodents themselves. They tend to gather things from inside your home to build a nest. They can often times chew through wires and other electrical hazards. Sometimes, they can even start a fire.
It is clear the many reasons why you should take care of a rodent infestation right away. If the infestation becomes severe enough, they will reproduce more and more until there is no more room for the entire population of them and they will go from your crawl space into your home.
If you ever even see a rat or a mouse in or around your home, call a professional pest control technician right away. They will go in your crawl space so that you do not have to. Make sure that the company you call specializes in crawl space restoration work. A crawl space restoration removes the biohazard that is taking place under your home in the event of a rodent infestation.
A restoration includes taking out and replacing the vapor barrier, removing and replacing the insulation, removing the feces, carcass removal, decontaminating the space and disposing of the hazardous waste properly. They will also make sure that all of the entry points where the rodents got in the first time are sealed to prevent another infestation. Also, they can replace any cracked or broken screens leading a rodent right into the crawl space.
The cost of having work like this done depends on how large or small your crawl space is. The smaller the crawl space, the less square footage there will be of work to be done and the cost will be smaller. There might be a need for a sump pump to be placed in your crawl space if it is susceptible to having standing water inside. This would make a crawl space even more inhabitable for a rodent, as they would not even need to leave for water.