Keeping rodents out of your home requires working with an exterminator to get rid of any existing rodents and rodent-proofing to prevent future infestations. Even if you’ve never had a mouse or rat problem, talk to an exterminator about rodent proofing to avoid infestations.

What is Rodent Proofing?
The rodent-proofing process involves making your home less appealing to rodents like mice and rats, decreasing the likelihood that they will move in. Once rodents have made their way into your house, they have the potential to spread disease to you, your family, and your pets. Additionally, they can cause extensive and expensive damage to your property.
Rodent proofing can keep you from ever having an infestation, saving you from dealing with potential health risks and damages and having to go through the extermination process. Rodent proofing can prevent another invasion of mice and rats in a home or building that has previously been infested with rodents after the extermination process is completed.
Why Rodent Proofing is Important
Rodents Wreck Property
Rats and mice adore chewing. They must chew on something every day for their teeth not to outgrow their bodies. When rodents invade your home, they will chew on almost anything in their path, including walls and furniture, wires, and boxes. They’ll go through the pantry, gnaw on doors, and bite through wires, potentially causing fires behind the walls and in the attic.
Rodents Breed Uncontrollably
It is much simpler to get rid of a single rodent, such as a mouse or rat, than it is to get rid of a dozen or more of them. The unfortunate reality is that rodents continue to reproduce at all times of the year, and just two rats can give birth to hundreds of offspring throughout their lifetime.
If you suspect that a rat infestation has taken up residence in your home and that the rats are hiding behind the walls or in another obscure location, you must locate the rats as soon as possible. If you don’t take action, they might keep reproducing and eventually take over your home one month at a time.
Rodents Cause Hvac Contamination
When the temperature outside is particularly hot or cold, homeowners are more likely to turn on their air conditioning and heating systems. A rodent infestation can quickly contaminate your house if your furnace uses ductwork to circulate heated air.
Rodents enjoy crawling through your air ducts and leaving urine and droppings behind; as your treated air blows through the ducts, it picks up particles of these contaminants. Rodent proofing will assist you in keeping rats and mice out of your home, allowing you to breathe cleaner, healthier air.
Professional Pest Control in Your Home
Rodents spread diseases, destroy property, and reproduce at an alarming rate, multiplying by the dozens in a year. Facility Pest Control can completely eradicate them if they’ve taken over your home. Though you may try do-it-yourself methods, you will discover that they rarely work and only waste your time and money. We’ll get rid of the pests and keep your home safe in the future.