The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. But lurking in the warm, moist shadows of the attic, kitchen, basement, crawl spaces, and nooks in your home are rats, mice, and other vermin that can turn a happy Christmas party into a chilling winter nightmare.
During the holiday season, homes may become particularly attractive as sources of food and shelter for pests such as rats seeking warmth and refuge from the cold. As homes across the country stock up and decorate for feasts and festivities, rats use their keen sense of smell to locate crumbs and liquid droplets, tracing them to pantry storage and containers. Rats are expert, nocturnal gatherers, crawling around your home at night while leaving urine to mark their territories and create scent trails for communication and navigation.
There is nothing more unsettling than opening up a jar of cookies or unwrapping a present, only to find that a rat has chewed up gifts or contaminated treats that were meant to be enjoyed by loved ones.
Rats can cause extensive damage to your home by gnawing through wires, electronics such as festive lights, and structural wood in beams, walls, and floors. This damage can compromise your home’s safety, creating risks for a large gathering of family and friends. The sounds and odors of rats are startling and disturbing.
Rats are drawn to moist, water damaged areas and will destroy insulation, furniture, clothing, and paper products to create nests. Rodents can spread diseases to humans through airborne dried feces; contaminated air, food, and materials; and bites or scratches. Rat droppings and urine can give rise to mold and mildew and their bacteria can spread infectious diseases such as salmonella, Leptospirosis, and hantavirus.
Inspection & Rat Extermination
Natural Science Exterminating begins our pest control with a thorough inspection of your home, carefully noting any signs of rats, including their droppings, and areas where they have caused damage. We will identify all entry points that potentially allowed rats to enter your home, which may be small holes that were previously unnoticed or not properly sealed. We will block and seal these entry points to ensure that as we remove rats from your home, new rats will not enter.
We will then place an inconspicuous system to trap or poison the rats. Our exterminators will remove biohazardous waste—rat carcasses, blood, and excrement—while sanitizing and decontaminating all affected areas. During this process, we continue to monitor your home for signs of rats. Any rat traces or scent trails must be removed by our exterminators to prevent remaining odors from attracting new rats.
Rat Damage Repair & Prevention
In addition to removing pests from your home, Natural Science Exterminating’s rodent extermination and decontamination restores the safety, cleanliness, and comfort of your home with our own carpenters to replace wood that has been damaged or affected by dry rot. Furthermore, we are qualified and licensed to replace your insulation with Thermal Acoustical Pest (TAP) insulation, which provides thermal insulation, soundproofing, fire retardation, and pest control, while guarding against mold and mildew, with a lifetime warranty. TAP insulation helps homeowners save thousands of dollars in energy bills by keeping cool air conditioning from escaping your home in hotter months, and warm air from your heater from escaping during the colder holiday season.
TAP insulation is made of cellulose fibers, derived primarily from recycled old newspaper, and infused with a naturally derived borate solution that is toxic and repelling to pests but safe and non-toxic to humans. TAP insulation can only be installed by a licensed Pest Management Professional and it is the only pest control insulation product on the market today with the Energy Star® label. Customers who choose to add this insulation to their homes are eligible for up to a $500 tax credit.
As a leader and trusted Orange County pest exterminator, Natural Science Exterminating advises homeowners on best practices for rat prevention and offers inspections that detect early signs of rat infestations.
Rats are dangerous to human health. Rodent extermination and decontamination preserves the value of your real estate and keeps your family and loved ones safe from the damage and health hazards of rats, mice, and other vermin.
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