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thank you
hello this is Brent with zpo Labs pest
elimination we're out here doing a
rodent exclusion in El Dorado Hills
so another pest control company came out
and did a rodent inspection for them and
they missed a bunch of spots this was
one of the spots they missed if you take
a look right here there's a gap on this
Ridge line right here going straight
into the attic if you look down here
there's Road and droppings now rats like
to leave these Trails of Road and
droppings that tell other rodents how to
access the attic it's a safe pathway
that they travel every day they're very
neophobic so they like to travel the
same Pathways every single day and by
leaving that pheromone Trail they know
exactly the safe way to travel they like
to run in lines so they've been running
this line all the way down the ridge the
roof line here straight up to this Ridge
line
so here we are we've completed our
workout here we used metal hardware
cloth this is quarter inch galvanized
metal screen now you want to make sure
that when you seal this up that you
don't leave any gaps in your metal
screen they call it the rule of thumb if
your thumb can fit through any one of
these holes then a roof rat is going to
be able to squeeze in but here at Zippo
Labs we like to take it one step further
we have a product called Pure Black if
you take a look at this right here this
is designed to seal out wildlife
pure black so what we're going to do is
we're going to backfill this product
into that hole and it's gonna not only
is it going to uh insulate the attic and
this Gap in the Attic but in addition
it's not going to create that little
Breezeway that the rodents are going to
know that they're still an access point
here
they can feel the temperature drop in
this Gap so here we're going to go down
this side as well we're going to clean
this up as soon as we're all done with
this
and now normally you like to use rubber
gloves to clean this up I don't want to
get my my work gloves dirty but we're
just going to Pat this in
fill that in real nice
take away that breezeway
and there you have it that is
permanently sealed there is no roof rat
that's going to get through that the
best part about this product too is it's
paintable so if you don't like the way
that looks first of all you can't see it
from the ground but if you don't like
the way that looks that is primable and
paintable