rats 10 years ago and now they're back
we're about to hunt them down right
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now so my customers behind me have been
living in this house for many years ten
years ago when they first experienced
rat infestation they were hearing noises
in the attic and so forth so they're
back 10 years later they're hearing them
in some walls and the attic so let's go
inside and i'll show you what's going on
you can see that their house is has a
lot of trees overhanging
it's a uh it's a high-pitched roof the
good thing about it is that
it's got a lot of attic space but you
can see trees like this guys that
overhang on a house is always uh sort of
an issue sometimes when it comes to
roof rats and also there's some citrus
trees as well so that's always a food
source for rats so there's the crawl
space right here so we're going to have
to remove this to access that crawl
space it looks like a pretty big one all
right i'm going to head up to the roof a
little sketchy
got solar panels
so i'm going to have to rock
up that ridge right there and then
there's a vent right over there so i'm
gonna go check on those this roof is
super super slippery because it's on a
on a slant here guys
we're gonna have to kind of make
slowly make our way over
getting onto these solar panels
this electrical here
look at how the pitch is
so here's the first vent
doesn't smell
i gotta head up that way right there
to that abs
whoa
so there's that abs it's going
underneath that solar panel right there
see that
so maybe the solar guys perhaps they did
something and altered the plumbing here
let's let's go check it out there's the
other big vent right there for the
toilet that's that bathroom so we gotta
head that way
it shows you how steep this roof is here
i'm supporting myself with the uh with
the solar panels here
not smelling any signs of sewer rats but
this is a uh this is a high roof so
we still need to do the smoke test
because they're they're behind their the
activities behind that tub in that wall
uh between the tub and the toilet
this roof has a huge pitch
all right so we've got the smoke machine
hose inside the vent here all right now
that the smoke machine is going i'm
going to go underneath the house and see
if we can detect any smoke let's go
all right so it looks like the sewer
flows this way towards the back i
thought it was towards the front there's
the bathroom over there that she's
hearing the noises so we're gonna head
over there there's some rat traps
already
there's one two three rat traps
there's a dead carcass right here
i see some signs right there guys
there's rat droppings right there yeah
look at all this this loose material
right here so
there's the tub right there so these are
all signs right here guys if you see a
lot of loose debris
bringing your nesting along with rat
droppings
all right guys so i'm laying on my back
here and i've got my ferret camera
inside there let me show you what i'm
seeing here see all the the black there
those are rat droppings
now you can see where i've got my ferret
camera where the light is inside there
guys so that's where we're seeing a lot
of the droppings we're going to now have
to insert smoke because we figured out
where the sewer
system is let me show you all right guys
so the sewer line goes back out this way
so what we're going to do is i'm going
to go ahead and cut we took the balloon
inside the sewer
here you can see
our balloon that's where the sewer main
is right there
so
here's a uh a four inch combi right
there that's where we want to introduce
the smoke so now that we've got that
capped off i'm gonna go ahead and
introduce the smoke from underneath here
yeah we'll cut it a little bit yeah cut
it right there dead center nice and
straight
you could see some of our uh residual
smoke coming out of the line but we want
to get a lot more smoke in that line
right now all right so we've got smoke
here guys
all right getting a little bit of a
smoke there at that connection
we're getting smoke up there
so we're getting some smoke right here
coming out of that uh that three inch
there
so we know we have two breeches there at
the four inch vent stack and then also
um
this two inch here to the left
all right we're getting everything
cleaned up
we're gonna sanitize this area here so
we've got uh we've got enrique here
getting everything disposed look at the
uh
yep so we'll get all this sanitized
underneath this tub area where the
active activity is and then we're gonna
do a lot of exclusion work directly
underneath that uh
that tub
alright guys so we found something
really interesting this area is the
runway for sure so they're either coming
from the bottom up which i think they
are but the guys are going to go up into
the attic we're going to shut our lights
off and we're going to see if we can see
their light all the way down here
because i think they're running back and
forth we found a tunnel vision or a
tunnel that leads directly to this pipe
right here so we're going to shut the
lights off and see if we see any light
from the guys up into the attic oh yeah
okay do you see any light yes i do oh
you do yes
do it again guys break
yep got it see it is right there guys
there's a light
there's the light right there
hey jim this is what we found up in the
attic this is that four inch line that
goes up oh look at that into the attic
so they tunneled yep there was a tunnel
system to this area and there's a big
hole right there next to the pipe okay
so i think what we ought to do then
dalton is let's do the exclusion up top
in the attic and we'll set up a trail
cam here okay all right let's do that
now sounds good so here's the bathroom
here's that tub and then where they're
hearing and scratching is right here so
here's that toilet and then that that
pipe goes all the way up like this so
let's head up to the attic
here's the tunnel guys obviously my guys
had to had to disrupt the tunnel but
here's the tunnel that they made and
then the area where they were uh going
through this is their runway right here
so you see all that brown right there
that's that's the area where they were
going down right there look at that
so what we're going to do is we're going
to go ahead and
exclude this right here set some traps
up here but i think there's another
there's another tunnel i believe yeah
look at this right here guys
another one right there
so they've just been migrating here's a
here's an area here for sure
that we're gonna have to look into
there's a tunnel there
man
i was here yesterday guys uh during the
observation
there was a tunnel i picked up two
carcasses they were on this trap here
you can see the blood snap trap really
got this one right here that i picked up
and bagged up yesterday here's another
tunnel
here's one of those uh repellents guys
you can see that this obviously does not
work they they really don't care about
these uh noise repellents
see there's look at the nesting
materials guys that's why they love that
insulation right there we're gonna
expose this right here with all that
clear
so that's where they were coming through
guys so we're gonna go ahead and exclude
that right there
all the way around i'm gonna put uh pure
black foam in there and then net it off
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all right guys we're going to go back
under i'm going to put this trail cam
underneath the crawl space for the night
we're going to set a bunch of traps and
see if we can get any activity in the uh
in the camera in the trap especially
that she's hearing it down below in the
tub area all right guys so we're uh
cleaning the pipe here i'm gonna put
try to put a uh sticky blue trap on top
of that because we know that they're
utilizing this we're gonna get a variety
of traps we've got some almond joy bait
there got some uh granola over here so
we're gonna we're gonna bait this
section up here and then put our
night vision camera trail cam and see
what we can get tonight hopefully we get
quite a bit here we'll see so you can
see here on the pipe here we've got glue
traps we've got a snap trap on that side
we've got two snap traps on this side so
hopefully uh we've got the camera set up
right there
all right so just wanted to give you a
visual all right so i set some traps up
above in the attitude so we can kind of
determine if there's any activity up
there so we've got traps down below with
the trail cam and then traps up above in
the attic all right so we're doing a uh
perimeter check guys
yeah
there's the spot looks like anytime i
hear dalton say hey jim that's a good
sign what do you got look at that
oh
right there good fine dalton the brown
there's some secretion as well right
into the crawl space guys
good fine dalton really good find
all right guys so it looks like we found
the entry point here so they've been
squeezing into the crawl space from
there you could see the brown smear
marks on the top right there so
definitely going to close this up right
here all right guys good find that one
little hole that penetration is allowing
the rats to go into the crawl space up
through that four inch uh sewer vent all
the way up to the attic so uh good find
for dalton awesome awesome so now we're
just going to sit and we're going to
monitor for the next couple of days and
see what we can do to get some rats out
of the house because they're probably up
in the at attic or in that crawl space
so we'll give it a few days with our
trail cam see what we find good day
today though all right guys it's been
about two days i'm gonna go in the crawl
space check the camera check the traps
see if we have any activity if not we're
gonna head up to the attic
nothing
no activity whatsoever guys all right we
gotta head up to the attic now man i was
really hoping to get something in there
so i checked the trail cam no activity
whatsoever so i think they're stuck up
in the attic which is good so let's head
up there and see if we have any activity
on those uh traps and we're gonna set up
the trail cam up there so guys
all of this has been disturbed so the
rats were trying to get back out of
their exit and they were scrounging
around so they completely disturbed all
of this so i've got the camera now set
up at that angle
and then i put a
trap
right here
going into that
that burrow all right so we'll monitor
here for the next few days all right
guys we're back at wendy and jason's
after about 10 days of monitoring great
success no noise at all inside the wall
no activity so awesome awesome we're
going to be closing up a few things
today so it looks like we found a breach
over by the chimney so we're going to
take a look at that right now so that
could be definitely another entry point
we're going to go up to that roof right
now i got a big branch right here we're
going to try to break it wendy and jason
are going to cut all this off right here
which we told them uh it's imperative
that they do all right so here's the
chimney here getting up on the roof here
here's the uh there's the chimney here
guys and see that hole that goes right
into the attic
all right guys we're using our pure
black i'm gonna go ahead and just
inject a bunch of foam back here and
then i'm gonna infuse a bunch of wire
mesh as well
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it's taking in a lot there's a big gap
right there
you can see
some of the uh the smear marks are going
down into that hole so we foamed all
this
put the composite roof with metal screen
below that so they're not getting back
in plus they're going to be removing all
of these trees that are overhanging on
the house here so that's going to be a
huge benefit good find really really
good find right here all right guys
we've done the exclusion work here we're
just doing some final
cleaning right here so we messed that
then used our pure black foam
all right we're going to go and do the
exclusions underneath the uh the bathtub
so we're gonna add some some wire mesh
or double double layer the wire mesh and
then we create a little hole and then we
inject the pure black spray foam inside
that uh that opening so we're gonna
begin to do that now and we also went up
to the roof and performed all the
exclusions up on the vent so those are
all sealed off well guys another
successful rodent control job here uh
truly truly happy with uh with the
results here and so is uh wendy and
jason really good find up on that
chimney underneath and that hole near
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