What do you do when you have several raccoons living in your attic and ruined duct work?
Jack, a technician for Barnes Wildlife Control, was able to answer that question for a woman living in a condo in Centerville. Earlier this week, he received a call saying she was hearing noises in the attic, and he was able to check it out that same afternoon. The first thing to do was inspect the outside of the building. Torn netting and fur around the attic ventt let Jack know that the noises were indeed raccoons.
Further inspection revealed that unfortunately the Ohio raccoons had been there a while and gotten quite cozy. They did substantial damage to the ducts and turned them into a latrine, leaving piles of racoon feces and urine stains. This meant the lady of the Centerville, Ohio house was breathing contaminated air on top of everything else.
Jack set up a trap outside the entrance point and caught all three males (it is not uncommon for a group of male raccoons (Boars) to share a common den site. Now it was just a question of cleaning up the feces and other messes, and replacing the ducts and insulation. I asked Jack if he was able to fully restore all the damage.
“We fix everything.”
He used a large industrial vacuum to clean up the mess and the ruined ducts and insulation. The next and most important step was to sanitize the area. Raccoon feces can carry dangerous roundworm called Baylisascaris procyonis. Cleaning up and sanitizing raccoon feces is dangerous and difficult to perform without professional protective gear. After sanitizing, Jack was able to replace all the damaged ducts and insulation–good as new.
He also provided a new, sturdier cover for the roof ventilator so the raccoons would not return again. The occupant lived in a complex of retirement condos, and they all had the same thin, flimsy netting around their roof fans, intended to keep out insects. Jack sold every single one of them a new cover so no one would have to worry about raccoon infestations in their cozy Centerville condos. That’s preventative care, folks.
Remove, clean, repair, and protect. These are the services Barnes Wildlife Control can provide.
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