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and we're in here in a house in
Brantford Ontario and what we're gonna
bout to go show is what we call the
trifecta we've had bats squirrels mice
all in this attic over time these new
homeowners bought it realizes there's
something need to be done about it
so after re-roofing the house and doing
all our prevention outside we've ridded
the house bats mice and squirrels and
now it's time for the remediation what
we're going to do is bring you up here
and show you the extent of damage having
wildlife in your attic and what they can
do to your home in the damage and the
health reasons why we want to make sure
these animals though and we keep them
out what we're gonna do now is we're
gonna go up in the attic and we're
actually gonna show you the damage of
these animals cause okay from chewed
wiring that can cause electrical files
to contaminate it and compacted
insulation which is called causing
insulation issues and health risks and
also some structural damage from
squirrels chewing on those trusses in
the roof line so welcome you to come on
up
okay so to the average homeowner coming
up to the attic you're not gonna see
what we see so you you just see an attic
with some insulation in it what I see is
a poorly insulated attic a
low-performing attic and the reason why
is this insulation that's here that you
see should be a nice pillow insulation
about about 18 inches I should not be
able to see the wooden framing trusses
and bed work here that are on the attic
floor this should be covered in
insulation this is another I guess you
can say indicator that animals have been
in this attic that pillow of insulation
is now compacted from about eighteen
inches all the way down to about six if
that so this attic again is is losing a
sorbets amount of heating and cooling
costs in the winter in the summer who
again
we're gonna be removing this insulation
we're gonna decontaminate this attic
we're gonna properly ventilate this
attic and then re blow this insulation
back into code which is 40 but we're
gonna go up to our fifty for this
particular client and have a nice pillow
of about 1920 inches of insulation
once we now we know that the houses
animal proof this insulation will stay
sound and our customers will be happy
for years to come rodents have been in
this attic for a while you can see the
insulation is not high and fluffy
anymore it's actually been compacted
break down from all the squirrels and
mice and everything trampling all over
it enough that if you see the activity
right here the insulation has been moved
all the way from the edges there's
absolutely no r-value here what air is
now escaping in all these parts of the
home I'm sitting here right now
part of a soffit venting issue here is
it's been ripped and pulled and brought
up in the in the Attic you should be
over here okay now once we come up here
and start looking you actually can start
seeing look at these electrical wires
absolutely chewed and annihilated all
the way down okay this is a potential
for health risks oh thank god these
homeowners called us said hey you know
we have these issues and like we do all
the time we do attic inspections for
this exact reason to inform the
homeowners that we need to fix those the
first stage of what we're going to do is
we're gonna remove all the contaminated
insulation and now if you look here I'm
looking at a bunch of squirrel droppings
bat droppings and mouse droppings all
mixed together from the years of being
here see all that right here all of it
in here all right in fact further in
their attic there's a bigger
concentration so again this is the
trifecta of the Attic we're gonna go
show you some structural damage next and
this is the typical case of why you do
not want wildlife in your home this is
an example what we want to show you what
mice are doing right what we're seeing
here it's what we call a mouse tunnel
this tunnel is created when the mice are
invading the attic and looking for a
nice safe home is they'll burrow
underneath the insulation create tunnels
and trails under their nests so what you
don't know is this is causing thermal
loss of heating and cooling through out
your attic because instead of being a
nice pillow blanket of insulation
there's now it's almost like Swiss
cheese okay so it's allowing air to
escape throughout the house combine that
with the compaction of the squirrels and
all the everything in here the r-value
which is supposed to be codable are 40
we do our 50 we're probably down to
about an hour 10 to our 15 now because
of the damage so this is what we don't
want to see so this is the evidence we
look for when we say to a homeowner hey
you might have a most problem this is
called a most tunnel but right here is
another example we're in a different
location of the Attic to find more
chewed wiring okay this wiring is
exposed wiring again a fire hazard if a
mouse or a squirrels that you raid
through and it's a live wire they could
electrocute themselves and then in
return start a fire so I'm glad we
caught this early this is gonna be safer
for the homeowners now that we've
evicted all the animals it's time to fix
up this house with new wiring new
insulation and get it back up to code
okay so what we're looking at here in
the Attic is if you can notice I'm gonna
highlight it here at the flashlight and
kind of if I pull the flashing away you
can see the actual wood structure of the
truss has it chewed almost half away so
the the supporting beam that this is
supposed to support is no longer straw
ashlee sound and we have a few of these
beams throughout the house that should
and probably will be replaced now left
longer we're gonna have an issue we're
gonna have this roof caving in we're
gonna have possibly floods possibly
somebody getting hurt because as the
weight of the snow builds up here in
Canada this structure this truss is no
longer to support the weight and could
cave in
so like again but I've said before I
can't reiterate it enough that if you
have wildlife in your home get them out
fast don't leave it because then we have
to fix it in and thousands and thousands
of dollars of repairs to bring your
house back into code okay so again Jared
who will assume from Ontario wildlife
removal here in an attic in Brantford
Ontario
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