Are you at your wits end, you're hearing the scratching in the ceiling
and in the walls. You're getting frustrated, you're hiring rodent companies to come
out, they don't know what to do. Well in this video, we're going to give you some
amazing tips that's gonna solve this issue once and for all.
Welcome to our channel my name is Jim Schuelke and I'm super excited to have my
twin brother Dave and a leading rodent expert Robert with All-star Animal
Trapping. So Robert, let's get right into it. First of all why do they hear scratching
in the walls and the ceiling, what's happening? Well that's a great question Jim and
we get that all the time. So the animals that are going to be in your
attic scratching are either gonna be chipmunks, squirrels,
rats, possums, or raccoons. And the reason why they're scratching is they're
getting ready to make a bed. They're nesting in the insulation either to
raise their young or store food and another reason why you'd be hearing the
scratching sound is these rodents have to chew because their teeth will continue
to growth it'll cause them harm if they don't sharpen them and shorten them
down. That's amazing. Yeah, and a lot of the calls that we're getting really is
God, I've had so many rodent companies come by
they're protecting my home, I've cut trees down. I'm
spending thousands of dollars but they just keep getting back in and one of the
things that most rodent companies are missing is the actual infrastructure of your
plumbing system. Absolutely, so we've invested highly in training our staff
and going in and teaming up with Robert literally executing. We're going up to
the roof to the drain system and we're injecting our UV smoke and we're finding
pipes that the rodents can actually chew threw. Yes. ABS pipes. This was one that
we just found the other day. They actually ate through it and one
indicator is if they are in your sewer system or actually sniffing the vent
lines up above and that really gives us a laser focused area inside the home but
this is an amazing way to detect rodents in your ceiling and your
walls. So Robert, what are some things that other than the plumbing system and rolling
that out what would you say are some of the most effective tools that you, I see
that you've got some traps here. Can you kind of go over some of that. Sure. Sure,
absolutely. Well we have a couple different types of traps here. We have a
cage trap it's a humane trap that captures them live in there for
you know certain clients we want to cater to their needs but you know the
best traps to use are just these old-school wooden traps and snap traps. I
mean they've been working for years. they work fantastic but it's important to
keep in mind these traps are not effective if the exclusion work isn't
done first. The whole property has to be sealed up a hundred percent for these
traps to be really effective because essentially when we seal everything off
they have no way to get out to their food supply that they're used to eating.
So by default this is the only food that they have to eat while they're trapped
in the Attic while we're tracking him underneath your house or your attic boom
they go for the traps every single time. Especially going after a lot of rodent
companies when they haven't really been successful in getting to the source and
one of the great benefits with our partnership here is that we've got
almost 90 years of experience here with plumbing as well as like our enzyme
treatments to get rid of the odor because that's also an attractant as
well. Leaving all that urine and defecation. So a full-service rodent company that is
licensed and has all of the credentials to deal with your plumbing that deals
with your indoor air quality, that has all of the right products really is the
only way that you're gonna get a guarantee not to have these rodents
causing that infiltration in your home. Absolutely, and with all of that they you
know the rodents leave behind a lot of urine and
defacation. So oftentimes were opening up those walls to get inside we're
finding the nest, the babies, a lot of defecation. So the way in which we
approach this is securing the property is building our critical barriers with
with plastic. Tight-sealed plastics, air scrubbers. Just to maintain that indoor
air quality especially if we're dealing with rodents that are very close to your
HVAC system. They're nesting underneath that in turn. So all of those urine and
defecation when you kick on your AC it disperses throughout all your vents am i
right? Absolutely, 100%. What would you guys say the two top questions are you
know, what is the best practice to hire the right rodent company? What
would you guys say would be the best? I would say for peace of mind and as a
guarantee and in a true scope of how they're going to achieve you know
because it's one thing Robert to go in and secure the property right but if
that rodent company doesn't have all of the tools as far as the waste system
it sort of kind of leaves that customer hanging, right? Sure absolutely and a lot
of companies don't have a great partnership to work with a company that
has the ability to smoke test. I don't know of anybody except worked with Twin Home
Experts that has that machinery that can do the smoke testing. You guys have solved
countless jobs for us and it's by having that technique that has led to
solving our customers problems, you know. And with that technology if you don't
have a rodent company that has the UV non toxic smoke technology one thing to
consider is hiring a local plumber that's got the right colored cameras. We
use a micro camera as well as a regular sewer camera and that's a really good
way to identify if there's any breaches in the sewer line such as this. If there was
a camera that came down this pipe you'd be able to see this. So a camera is really
something to really consider. And a lot of other questions we get is the cost,
right. We get cost. How much does all of this cost? It sounds expensive. You know
it really depends, there's so many different factors. There's how big the
house is, how much attic space, accessibility in
the attic, accessibility in the crawl space, where the breaches are, how much UV
smoke we have to pump in, how many walls we have to open up, ceilings we have
to open up. All of that factors in so I would say just based on we've done as
low as $500 and we've done it as high as $4,500. Kind of gives you an
idea you know based on the single-story house versus a large two-story house.
Yeah I always say every situation is unique and it's always good to get a
couple estimates you have a professional come out and look over everything.
Get a couple different estimates and compare the two and ask a lot of
questions you know that's what I recommended. Absolutely, yeah. We all are
big believers in at least getting two estimates it's not only gonna save you
money but you're gonna get educated as to who's gonna be the best fit for your
particular situation. Absolutely, all right so if this was
really insightful if you really want to see us in action. The next video really
gives you a play-by-play on how we inject smoke into the sewer system and
what we find is extraordinary.