you're about to walk into a rat war zone
and we're going to war right now
this poor couple
behind these doors oj and sheila have
been going through so much with rat
infestation they've narrowed it down to
the kitchen they're caught eight rats
actually they caught more rats than the
current pest control company so let's go
ahead and walk inside let's meet them
and see what's going on hey
twins
thank you guys for coming
thanks for having us appreciate it yes
we need yeah you guys need to see what's
going on this is
sure we can't live like this
so how long has this been going on for
three or four months now over a month
close to two months now so you had to
put this
and this this is usually so you've
isolated them into this
area here because no one was doing
anything for me and i'm like and look we
can't go into our rooms from here wow so
and since they kept on pooping and
peeing in our on our couches and the
dining table that's why i turned
everything over
they've just taken over your home okay
because otherwise i'm like babe we're
gonna i didn't want to eat on this thing
it was
the the rabbit so did they get over oh
no oh they got over this
so i added this and and also a third one
right here that's what i was going to
ask you because you and i have been
texting back and forth there's a new
hole that's a new hole we just found out
you're kidding me so they keep on making
goals okay and then look at all the
so you guys haven't used your kitchen
then not since we saw them dancing on
the stove
they're literally dancing on the stove
like i mean they don't do macarena but
like they were there and just you know
i'm like oh and we had i saw the the
our frying pan was there and they were
on there
so you've isolated it to the kitchen
right now then
these sections yes in this section has
anybody done
uh a crawl i'm assuming the pest control
they have and they tried to steal
everything they can find in the crawl
but the guy said that this section of
the house is inaccessible to the other
crawl space entrances oh interesting
okay so i don't know where we'll verify
that for sure yeah okay
i don't know if that's a big enough
corner
oh yeah
yep
yeah that's actually them chewing
oh that's
so that's the new hole actually yep
for us that wasn't there before yeah
that's they're chewing on that for sure
okay let me show you another one
um which part of the kitchen from the
crawl space where they can't get in so
they can't get in
the pest control they could not get
underneath this kitchen at all right
okay
so behind the let's go here on top also
oh yeah
yep
but behind also
but there's a lot of uh insulation
that's been
brought over there just yeah
all right so when you're when you're
dealing with rat infestation and they're
coming up behind your uh your oven here
they love going in through here this
area right here
so a lot of times what you could do is
just
take the front
and just bring it
up
and then you could see oh yeah look at
the look at the nasty material here look
at that that's all toilet paper right
there that they brought in look at that
look at that look at that so sheila and
oj have obviously said there's no way
they're gonna keep this oven any longer
so we're going to go ahead and discard
it they've definitely
contained into this kitchen here and
they've um
so what we've done now is we're going to
go ahead and open that there we're going
to take the ferret camera inspect
underneath this entire cabinet as well
i'm reminding what makes this job a
little bit difficult is that we don't
have access
according to the other pest control
company underneath this kitchen here so
this makes this uh war
a little bit more challenging but uh
there's obviously options here so let me
get the ferret camera we'll start
inspecting here uh underneath the toe
kick in the cabinet all right so we're
gonna go ahead and use the ferret camera
inspection tool here this allows us to
uh record and get a good visual so let's
see what's in here
so it looks like there is a
something going on massive hole right
there behind oj and sheila's bottom of
the cabinet let me get a little bit
closer here
yep that looks like a hole there let's
come over here now getting a really good
360 inspection here
there's some gnawing right there for
sure definitely some nine for sure
tyler's bringing in a lot of debris in
there yeah yeah nesting debris so there
you go
we go go to the right right
yeah look at that hole right there
there's a big hole big hole i need
something right there look at that right
there yep there it is right there right
there folks okay okay so as you can see
we've opened up the entire bottom of
this cabinet here so we're gonna use our
ferret camera see if we can see anything
there oh look at that
look at that hole
so they're chewing right through there
look at that
right there right there boom look at
that the 9 marks at the top here
right chewing right through that wood
look at that so we got to find where
that hole is leading to
what we need to do dave is go underneath
this section of the house yep okay so
we're going to go ahead and use the
original crawl space to the home a lot
more room
there's all the plumbing
there's a hole
right over there
okay so dave's tapping over there
i gotta head that direction right there
i can smell rat urine and feces
i don't know what the pest control
company was talking about there's a
kitchen right there
when you go to war
you gotta explore everything
i'm looking
a lot of rat urine
there's some marks right there guys
all right you guys so you see the brown
secretion i think they're coming in from
this direction right here i'm gonna go
ahead and close this up here so we can
get this all excluded and isolated from
the kitchen
got that pipe penetration there
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okay guys so there's a lot of activity
behind this uh washing machine that i'm
gonna get behind here you can see
right here on the hoses the secretion
there's definitely a suspect area right
here you know we just finished a call in
arizona where they were coming right
through the washing machine drain so
it's a possibility as well let's go back
under my brother jim here let's go check
with my brother jim underneath the house
hey jim how are we doing oh we're doing
good i'm just getting the rest of this
exclusion done
all right guys
dave was up there he thinks this is the
laundry room waste pipe right here so i
pulled this insulation out and this
reeks like urine rat urine really really
bad there's something going on i believe
in this laundry you can see in there hey
dave yeah
we gotta open up that wa that wall
behind the washing machine it smells so
bad like rat urine
i mean bad
it's been a long day right now the rats
are winning the war here we go this is
where i was crawling you guys this is
where the inside where i was pulling the
insulation out this is why we're opening
this up because um this corner here plus
the pipe is a huge suspect area look at
this here they're chewing the
let me grab it
let me get over here
oh the water purifier
stand look at that
look back here
all right that's right you're in right
there
that yellow
stain is there but it does smell
underrated
all right guys we had to leave this
cardboard box up here we're gonna seal
off the other side here
all right we're getting the war zone
prepared for this evening so if you want
to hire oj to come by and throw
cardboard up and seal off your doorways
just call them at
uh 1-800-333-5555 tomorrow so we'll be
back tomorrow morning
all right guys day two we're gonna focus
on our uv non-toxic smoke so as a quick
update i got a text message early this
morning from oj saying jim interesting
activity exactly and i said that's a
good thing so you know when i went
underneath that crawl space guys and i
did some exclusion work i think that
could have had some benefit to it but um
gonna be very interesting what we find
in that kitchen wall and laundry area so
uh let's get to work all right we're
smoking but we need a we need to get
smoke coming out of this vent here so
what we're gonna do is just start taping
this off
okay now we should be getting smoke out
of here come on where are you where are
you well there might be a break down in
that wall where the smoke's not going to
be able to get to here so let's go
downstairs and see if we're getting
smoke
coming out from underneath the crawl
space all right guys we're not getting
smoke out of that crawl space so what
we're going to do is we're going to go
ahead and just inject the smoke here
and then we'll see if it's coming out of
the crawl space where the kitchen is so
let's uh let's head back down all right
guys so we're starting to see smoke come
out of this crawl space here look at
that it's starting to come out really
good now
look over here jim is it going into the
kitchen yeah yeah it's uh coming up into
the kitchen cabinet so right here o.j
you can see the
see the amount of smoke coming through
okay what does that mean once you have a
branch you have a break in your sewer
system
oh no inside the wall you can see we're
getting smoke underneath this kitchen
cabinet
yep right here that wall yeah
we're getting closer to the break here
guys
massive breach in this line
hopefully we're gonna win this war
you want to open up the stucco right
here because we've determined that the
breech is right here we can't access it
to it because he's got a bunch of
granite and stuff so it's going to be
easier to open up the stucco to see
what's going on so we want to get oj's
permission to make sure we're okay to
open this up here i mean really doesn't
have a choice but we just want to be
respectful let them know what the next
step here is so let's see what he said
we got permission to open this up so
stay tuned i'm hoping that there's
something big here let's open it up
so see the 90 here
see how the pipes off oh snap these
threads
what happens over time they rust out
they get weak because of the pressure
they snap check it out guys look at this
completely this whole pipe is completely
severed
so
there it is right there such a huge huge
find we gotta now secure this place
sanitize this place we're gonna monitor
so we can get to the bottom of this once
and for all
well no a rat came out of the wall and
bit me no
and ran no when it did yes big teeth
came in
no
the big one the big one bit me that was
right up the wall
no
but look at the rat teeth
look it are you going to be okay
probably you do you want some
antibiotics i'm just kidding you guys
i'm just joking you're horrible
so we're gonna go ahead and continue
opening up the stucco and get this drain
line completely sealed properly we're
gonna put an abs uh drain so we've got
our master plumber raul here but i'm
gonna go ahead and mark this out for him
all right so it looks like we found a
nest
right inside here guys look at that look
at that
they're dragging all of that plastic and
you can see that they've been chewing
on the plastic
so we're gonna go ahead and
maybe open this up a little bit to see
if there is anything in there yeah what
do you think yeah okay well we're going
to open up the entire bottom cabinet and
then open them yeah you can see they did
an exclusion there yeah
can we get the ferret camera up there
yeah let's try that
oh yeah bunch of debris up there yep
look at that
look inside there
yeah i hear some more debris in there
too touching the camera
okay well nothing's in there
we found a piece of board here guys the
thompson's gonna remove and that'll give
us hopefully access to
that cabinet
this is why it's really important to
open up materials
you can expose
contamination just like this
what they were doing guys is that a
whole
hole right there
and they were nesting underneath this
cabinet
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all right guys so this is what they were
doing you can see the secretion marks
here so they're coming over here coming
down to get some nesting material right
here look at the chew marks in here
and then down into the cabinet area look
at this hole right in here is where they
were getting into the cabinet area
right through here
looks like we won the war uh jimmy dave
yeah yeah tons of flies here just right
in the entry point it's uh the smell is
really valid inside that i don't know so
we're here
somewhere in this area
we tried to clear it out
but some look the flies you see the
flies flying oh yeah
oh my gosh
nice let's uh you guys want to try to be
behind the bookshelf
yeah this area right here especially
here right here right here
hold on
oh my gosh
oh
that's a big one
oh what
the hell is
look at the flies look at the flies okay
wow it looks like a hamster at this
point we have a bag
here look at the little flies
[Music]
i think that's the one who ate the
poison oh yeah that's right yeah
see take it outside
oh my gosh
that is a big one
anyone hungry for dinner that's a big
sewer right there
that's what's great about our services
once we find them entering into the
sewer system and there's a breach
we can immediately address the situation
because we have the plumbing uh
expertise and the knowledge and
obviously the licensing to do so so um
that's a a great
competitive advantage over you know your
typical pest control company because
we've got staff like raul who's a master
plumber gets in there knows how to uh
plumb everything back in wow this was a
big day today guys that smoke machine
really came through for us
i'm i'm
utterly pleased with today's results for
sure we got raul right now focusing on
the repair right now so we're david and
i are going to head back to the office
and uh we're going to resume tomorrow
we're going to do the final cleanup and
we're going to bring the war zone to a
final end tomorrow all right guys this
is day three we arrived gotta be honest
with you customer wasn't too happy he
woke up yesterday one of those ring
cameras in the laundry room went off and
there was a rat
running around the laundry room area so
he's a bit concerned that we haven't
found the entry points but
it's actually a good sign and uh you
know any time you do exclusion work
anytime you start pinpointing doesn't
mean that you're going to stop the rats
instantly they're still infesting
they're hiding right now let me show you
guys in the laundry room where there's
some smear marks yeah so i think we've
we've definitely we're we're closing in
on them so we've isolated got the
kitchen they're not seeing them in the
kitchen anymore right so we've got a
cool little plan today
that uh we're gonna do a secondary smoke
test and we're going to show you why but
let's take your laundry room first to
show you where they were coming in all
right so the ring camera was catching
the rat right in this area here
this is what we found
some of the insulation on the floor here
so there was definitely some activity
there now uh one thing to note that
we've got this dryer vent here that's
that hasn't been excluded yet um and
right here you could see
all of the
smear marks right there we're gonna
focus on this pipe all the way down you
can see that there's no p-trap here also
too you could see where there's a runway
here see the brown secretion there that
goes all the way up look at the laundry
there the top
but here's my theory guys so my theory
is this come outside i'll show you
this is a uh
a secondary crawl space to this new
add-on here it was a garage conversion
but literally there's this much space
we've tried to crawl under here and
there's just there's just no space here
but there's a lot of abs piping here so
again they're notorious for chewing
through this but because we have no
space and we can't crawl
we're going to get creative and we're
going to use our sewer camera we're
going to run our camera all the way past
this where all of the plumbing
infrastructure is tied in way over there
and we're gonna run some smoke to see if
by chance there is any other openings
underneath this crawl space so we're
waiting for the team to show up to bring
the equipment so we can conduct this
test
so the war
is still on yeah so my thoughts guys i
think they're coming up through that uh
laundry line i don't know if you saw our
other video in arizona where they were
coming up through the drain pipe they
actually chewed through that discharge
hose so i think this could be a another
version of one of those all right guys
so we've set up our camera here we
dished it in about 20 feet so now we're
going to do is inject our smoke and see
if we can see any possible breeches
underneath this isolated crawl space
here again we don't have access to this
from the main house this is all we have
so let's uh just confirm and verify that
there is no other breeches
all right we're inserting the uh
the smoke here
inside the drain below the laundry all
right guys so we're in the back house
here
you can see we're getting smoke coming
out of the sink here
the far back
so this is the back house here this is
the back area we're we're putting smoke
the crawl space is right over there so
we're pumping water into this fixture
here all right dave's getting the trap
set up
getting it baited
replace it underneath the new structure
here just as a process of elimination
make sure that there's nothing that's uh
alive underneath there over here and
check with thompson how we're doing here
how we doing thompson i'm good i'm
putting the barrier
[Music]
amazing how much you have to do in a
home to
prevent these rats from invading
i want to check behind the uh inside
this washing machine or dryer here oh
yeah you can see some droppings in there
oh yeah
so uh i don't see any wires or uh yes no
no see any nasty materials but you could
see that they've been they definitely
been walking and urinating and
defecating in here there's droppings so
we'll have to sanitize this dave so
we're going to go
we're going to wait for this weekend
here i instructed oj to please give me a
text if he has anything we've narrowed
it down to this laundry room that open
pipe there so uh hopefully we'll see
some activity we'll know that they're
coming in through the drains all right
guys we're back here at ojs it's been
about six to seven days huge success in
the main house no rats in the living
room in the kitchen
when we did that smoke test in the back
garage bathroom however the day after
the rats started coming in to that guest
house so in today's episode we're going
to go ahead and really focus on this
back garage and get to the bottom of it
because they're coming from the top or
they could be coming in through the
sinks so we're going to do some smoke
test we're going to check the vents for
this new place got the crew here and
we're ready to get started hopefully
bring this job to a final close today so
here's the bathroom where the rat was
showed
and the rat was coming in from this
direction here
you can see uh oj placed some traps back
here no activity
but
you can see right there they've chewed
through the uh right there that drywall
they've chewed through that so we're
gonna focus here guys i don't know i
don't see the venting for this lab or
this shower
nor this toilet here i don't see it up
on the roof so we're gonna go ahead and
explore that option all right so we're
up here
so there's the old vent right there i'm
looking at
see the insulation back there they've
pulled the insulation out and i can see
that the uh there's some brown smear
marks right here so i'm gonna get there
i'm gonna get a little closer over there
guys
see the uh the brown uh secretion there
they're chewing on here
may have to open up this wall right here
and see if there's any vents i don't
know if they've tied into this vent but
we've got to figure this out all right
so we're going to go ahead and take that
p-trap off right there introduce smoke
through this section here now that we
have a an incision in that wall over
there i'm hoping that we can get some
smoke that comes up uh up on the top
here and that'll tell me that they
didn't terminate the vent all the way
out to the roof so we got smoke
all right so john is getting that
secured now we're gonna go back up and
see uh we can find anything here so guys
if this was vented properly we should be
able to go outside and see smoke coming
out of the out of the room so let's go
check that out now
i'm not seeing anything on this side i'm
gonna head over to the other side not
getting any smoke up here yet
oh wait here we are
yep we're getting smoke here guys
we're getting smoke right here we're
getting smoke coming out of the outlets
what do we got john right up over here
oh yeah see look at this guys right out
of the outlets too
smoke just burrowing out of that
yeah we're getting massive amounts of
smoke here guys we're coming getting
close to it right now that's what i love
about ratting guys is really coming
close to uh to the solution to the end
here so thompson's gonna open up that
wall we're gonna see what we can find
here but it looks like the guy only bent
it up maybe 12 18 inches if that from
the santee so we're about to uh reveal
that right now all right guys you can
see here terminating right there inside
that wall
so we're going to go ahead and cut it
and then just put a screen and we'll get
a vent cap for them and
that'll solve that issue right there it
technically should go all the way up to
the roof but um really surprised they
haven't smelled any sewer odors but
that's just unbelievable how somebody
would uh leave a vet pipe like that wide
open all right so we're gonna go ahead
and inspect underneath the uh crawl
space here if you recall remember david
set some traps underneath there
one of our traps here
set off
oh look at our expansion foam here oh
there's a dead rat right there
look at that all right let me go ahead
and grab it
oh it's still alive it's alive
still alive guys
look at that thing oh crap what was it
doing there
it's been almost dead i guess basically
yeah it's it's gone we hit it pretty
hard with the you could tell
we could tell we hit it pretty hard with
the uh with the snap trap so it's
trying to get away here
nice catch
look at how long that tail is
gratitude tooty tooty tooty this is
awesome awesome awesome awesome
so we're gonna go ahead and uh
reactivate rebate those uh traps just as
a preventative measure i don't think
there's gonna be any other issues but um
that was good that was good as you can
see sheila and oj now are putting their
living room back together which is an
awesome sign
they got their dining room table back
together this is awesome to see
and they got a new oven
brand new no rats inside how does that
feel oj to not have rats
underneath where we're cooking
yeah that kind of feels amazing so nice
to be in this kitchen without all the
cardboard blocking all the entrances and
so refreshing to see all of their
furniture back so how are you guys
feeling overall i mean the main house
when you originally called the out the
main house was obviously infested what
does it feel like today what eight days
later because this was massive to your
business as well right everything about
our life was disrupted um
it's like there is we're completely
exhausted
but then there's this relief
it's within that exhaustion yeah so we
almost can't go yay
because we're like
done
it's done is it really done yeah it
seems like it's done yeah
you know it's so it's almost unreal that
it's done
well guys another huge success super
super happy that we were able to
accomplish uh this entire rat
infestation for o.j and sheila they were
an absolute amazing to work with they
completely allowed us into their home
and did what we needed to do to get to
the bottom of it and uh super happy
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