rats and rodents getting into your
ceilings and walls well let us show you
how we find what we're gonna do because
of the noise in this area here we're
gonna do is build the sealed containment
remove the toilet open up some walls and
start doing our smoke injection and
running our sewer camera alright because
the homeowner is worried about rats
coming in through the affected area into
the home what we're gonna do is we're
building a zippered or containment
that's completely sealed and this is in
preparation of us opening up the walls
this area here which is upstairs on the
second floor is where our homeowner is
hearing all of the scratching inside the
walls so what we're going to do now is
test the sewer line as well as go up in
the attic space let's go ahead and get
these walls opened up and see if we can
see anything alright folks as you can
see we've got the plumbing exposed
all right so we started here the rat
droppings were going this way and then
we trailed them out around this tub and
then into the ceiling here of the
kitchen you can see right there is some
more rat droppings lower and it
continues towards the south of the
property so we're gonna go ahead and go
downstairs and continue the hunt here as
to how they're getting me alright folks
so part of the protocol to identifying
rat intrusion in your home is that it's
always run a sewer camera down the
existing clean-out here of the home
breaks overall case you have the sewer
line in this case sewer line looks to be
in great condition alright we're gonna
go ahead and get our UV smoke ready to
go
we're gonna go ahead and utilize that
clean out there alright folks so you can
see the smoke coming out and what we're
right there
so our smoke machine is right here
behind the kitchen and then as you go
this is the two inch vent that's right
above the toilet that we removed in the
bathroom so now let's go ahead and go
inside and see if there's any smoke
coming out of the walls or in the
bathroom all right so here we are in the
kitchen there are sealed containment
here
all right folks are in the kitchen
remove the ceiling you can see how much
duplication there is all right so as you
can see we've got even more inside that
ceiling here so it's more concentrated
directly above this area here inside of
our containment folks you won't believe
what
look at this folks so we did another
smoke test and you could see the amount
of smoke coming out of this area right
here and you can see that the rats were
chewing right through this ABS pipe here
right directly underneath the toilet all
right folks you could see that they
evidently started inside and ate their
way through it versus it coming from the
outside in
so they crawled up this sewer line here
and look at the scratch and they almost
made it through this this side over here
but didn't quite make it other than one
little hole here but they were just
dying on this until it finally broke
through over here on this side
unbelievable everything got all the
defecation out the plywood still has a
tendency to leave bacteria such as the
urine and all that so what we love using
this enzymes very high concentrated
enzyme soaks into the substrates or wood
and actually kills the bacteria and gets
rid of that smell so you might want to
consider using enzyme type products to
get rid of that urine smell so basically
it's just a spray bottle this is great
because it's non-toxic but does a great
job with deodorizing everything
all right folks oh look if you already
have your ceilings and walls open up and
there are possible ways for the rodents
to get through you might want to
consider using some foam as well as wire
mesh blend these two together it really
does a great job with protecting or
preventing the rodents from going in
they can't chew through this I think you
sure chew through foam I've seen a lot
where foam is applied by rodent
companies but they just chew right
through it and then get right in so you
have to combine the foam as well as the
mesh we go ahead and show you what that
looks like
all right folks who you could see just
injecting the farm underneath the tub
here okay what we're doing is we're
gonna apply the mesh around the tub just
like that and what that's gonna do is
because the rodents chewed the foam the
structure of the tub we just wanted out
for some support but also give you a
visual as to what really should be
embedded in the foam as this wire mesh
all should look something just like this
alright folks we've also added some wire
right above the drain here this is an
ABS wasted overflow so we still have
access to do any repairs in the future
but down here what we're doing is we're
adding a barrier we don't come up into
this wall and make noise we're trying to
keep everything isolated into one area
that's why we're using this metal mesh
you all right folks so as we're putting
this piping back together
I've got Joan our customer here she's in
the background she'd rather not be on
camera which is completely respectful
but so Joan if you can kind of help the
audience here that's watching this whole
road with you know scratching in your
walls and making all the sounds what are
some of the things that you went through
to deal with actually finally finding
the issue what did you have to go
through I have had dozens of
exterminators here I've had roofers I'm
taught my rules saying that they were
coming from the roof spent thousands of
dollars and finally I found this company
on YouTube I call them they came right
away and they found the problem thank
God thank God
yeah I know you're we're just as happy
as you are because sometimes these are
complicated from your perspective and
having all those other experts come out
to try to identify what's causing the
rats and your ceilings and walls they
didn't have the technology that we had
correct no they did not
so from what you saw today the smoke
testing the sewer camera all of that
really pinpointed precisely exactly
where the where the rats were come nap
know I live alone and all I hear was
scratching so I was scared to death that
you guys say to me oh I'm serious
well thank you so much thank you well
there you have it folks just to kind of
give you some insight on how to get to
the bottom of your rat problem as well
as the enzyme treatment how important
that is to sanitize and get that odor
back to normal as well as that wire mesh
all of those really do a good job with
protecting your property
anyhow folks hopefully this gave you the
inside and had a pinpoint where those
rats are coming in at if you like this
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