10Jan2025

Don’t Let Rats Ruin Christmas: Inspection, Treatment, Repair, & Prevention

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.

Call Us Today: 1-714-451-2890

E-mail: info@naturalscienceexterminating.com

23Jan2023

Pest Control

Rodent Removal, Decontamination, and Insulation

No stone should be left unturned when removing pests.

To ensure a truly pest-free and pest-proof home, hire a professional who will treat your home beyond the point of removal, also repairing damage and preventing future infestations.

We are proud to share the success of a treatment we completed for a client who called us after another exterminator did not fully get the job done, allowing water damage to occur from a rat nest that soaked an area of the ceiling. In addition to removal, we decontaminated the attic, replaced the insulation, and sealed off all possibilities of rodent re-entry.

The work of the other previous exterminator did not deliver an ultimate solution because simply killing rodents is not enough to prevent them from coming back. Rodent removal should be followed by decontamination and insulation replacement in order to restore the health and safety of your home.

Water damage in homes or buildings are enticing to rodents who love dark and humid crawl spaces, especially in colder areas and months. The presence of moisture allows walls, floors, and ceilings to be more easily penetrable.

Once they are inside, rodents have no respect for your home. Rodents almost always leave excrement in insulation and on surfaces, contaminating the air that circulates your home. They’ll claim the space they take up, emitting feces and urine to mark their territory. The odor from their droppings provides guidance for them to navigate back to the space using their sense of smell..

Rodent contamination is hazardous and dangerous. The Centers For Disease Control and Prevention say that “certain diseases can spread from rodents to people through direct contact with infected rodents (for example, breathing in contaminated air, touching contaminated materials and then touching eyes, nose, or mouth, being bitten or scratched by an infected rodent, or eating food contaminated from an infected rodent).” Leptospirosis and hantavirus are infectious diseases that can spread from their bacteria. Their bodily fluids (blood, oil, feces, saliva, and urine) contain bacteria which can develop into mold and mildew, which can aggravate existing allergies and respiratory issues.

Therefore, rodents and their traces must be removed to prevent them from finding their way back by following their territorial markings. Rodent decontamination also ensures that you, your family, and occupants of the house or building do not come into contact or exposure to the bacteria and illnesses that rodents carry.

The damage that rodents cause to attic insulation has a directly negative impact on the efficacy of the insulation itself, which causes you to suffer from a lower degree of warmth and higher energy costs.

After removing the rodents and the rodent nest, we removed the infected insulation and replaced it with brand new pest control insulation. We sealed off all entries and openings to ensure that no new rodents would enter.

Natural Science Exterminating is qualified and licensed to sell and install specialized pest control insulation, which offers industry leading energy efficiency, fire retardation, and sound proofing. We offer installation for 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.

Give us a call today to book your inspection and appointment.

Call Us Today: 1-714-451-2890

E-mail: info@naturalscienceexterminating.com

24Feb2022

Pest Control Insulation

Professional Rodent Decontamination For Your Attic With Pest Control Insulation

It’s 3am and you can’t sleep because noises are coming from your attic.

Many homeowners have been there, with our imagination running wild through every possibility—even wondering if paranormal activity might be real.

Attic Inspection and Decontamination

If you have discovered droppings or heard noises in your home, you may have rodents. The attic may be a scary place but rodent contamination is truly the stuff of nightmares. Many homeowners haphazardly try to clean up the place by themselves, unwittingly exposing themselves to danger. Rodents can carry Leptospirosis and Hantavirus and their waste can be the source of airborne diseases. Their bodily fluids (blood, oil, feces, saliva, and urine) contain bacteria which can develop into mold and mildew, which are hazardous to the health of you and your loved ones. Such biohazardous material must be properly disposed of.

Rodent removal and decontamination requires more than a simple cleanup and placing a few traps. Rodents know how to hide when they hear humans approaching, and can easily make themselves undetectable to the untrained eye. Without thorough professional investigation, it may be impossible to know where to find and remove them. What’s worse is that they can become aggressive and bite when they feel threatened by human presence, which can leave you or your loved ones injured and infected.

Rodent extermination and attic decontamination require professional training, equipment, and protection. Delaying pest control inspections and treatments can cause more damage as time goes on. Left untreated, the rodents may breed, or the mere presence of them can draw in other rodents to further invade your home.

Rodent Pest Control Insulation

The rodent droppings can also be stuck in the insulation, which is what the air in your home passes through. The air that circulates throughout your home will be infected by the disease and odor of the droppings. This is both unbearable and unsanitary.

Rodents can easily pass through small cracks and spaces within your home, searching for sustenance from your own family’s food supply. Food contamination poses serious health risks.

Prior to decontamination, your home will be thoroughly inspected. Your home will then be prepped for decontamination with proper safety protocols. The attic insulation will be removed and the affected areas will be decontaminated and sanitized before installing fresh new pest control insulation.

We recommend calling the professionals to treat your home with the safest and most effective pest control. Early detection and treatment can save your home from damage and prevent you and your family from becoming infected and ill.

Give us a call today to book your inspection and appointment.

Call Us Today: 1-714-451-2890

E-mail: info@naturalscienceexterminating.com

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