Our Work
Patched vs. Protected
Trapping removes the animals in your home today. Exclusion is what keeps every future one out — finding and sealing every gap, vent, and entry point with materials built to hold. It's the difference between managing a problem forever and solving it once.
Every rat, squirrel, and raccoon in your house got in through a physical opening. A rat needs a gap about the size of a quarter. A squirrel will widen a soft spot at the roofline. A raccoon will tear through a weak vent screen like it isn't there. As long as those openings exist, removal is temporary.
Exclusion is a full-perimeter audit and repair — foundation vents, crawlspace doors, gaps where pipes and wires enter, garage door seals, rooflines, eave gaps, and attic vents. We seal each one with exclusion-grade materials: fastened metal mesh, sealed penetrations, and reinforced screens. Not spray foam, not steel wool stuffed in a hole — rodents go through both.
This is why we don't sell bait-box subscriptions. A monthly bait program treats the symptom forever and leaves the doors open. Exclusion closes the doors. It costs more than one month of a bait plan and less than a year of one — and then it's done.
Roofline to crawlspace, we map every current and potential entry point — including the ones that aren't active yet but will be.
If animals are currently inside, we trap and remove before sealing. Locking wildlife inside your walls is the cardinal sin of this trade.
Every opening closed with exclusion-grade materials — fastened metal mesh, reinforced screens, sealed gaps. Built to stay closed.
Exclusion is finding and permanently sealing every opening rodents and wildlife use to enter a structure — foundation vents, crawlspace access, pipe and wire penetrations, rooflines, eave gaps, and attic vents. It's done with materials animals can't chew or tear through, like fastened metal mesh, rather than temporary patches like spray foam.
Rats gnaw through spray foam easily, and loose steel wool falls out or rusts away. We regularly get called to homes where a DIY foam patch bought a few weeks of quiet before the rats reopened it. Exclusion-grade repairs use fastened metal mesh and sealed materials that physically stop teeth and claws.
If animals are currently active inside, yes — sealing them in is worse than the original problem. Rodents trapped inside walls chew harder to escape and die where you can't reach them. Our protocol clears the population first, confirms activity has stopped, and only then closes everything up.
The materials are chosen to hold up long-term — metal mesh and secured repairs, not patches that weather away. Homes do change over time: new gaps can open from settling, weather damage, or renovations, which is what our optional recurring inspections are for. But a properly sealed entry point stays sealed.
Free inspection, clear diagnosis, written plan. No pressure, no obligation.
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