As temperatures drop as winter season approaches, critters such as rodents start seeking warmth from your home.

The temperature is dropping! No one likes to be cold, when it’s frosty outside we turn on the heat and light the fire place and enjoy the comfort of our warm houses. We aren’t the only ones who want to enjoy our houses in this cold weather, many animals do too. Raccoons store up fat for the winter, but remain active the whole season and don’t actually hibernate. Mice also remain active, foraging for food during the cold temperatures. They typically den in enclosed areas, experts at making homes at unlikely spots in our warm houses. Squirrels also do not hibernate, but do sleep a lot, and are a lot less active and love to spend the winter in the warm insulated walls or attic of a home, creating huge messes and damage. Most Ohio birds are not migratory, and they also stick it out through the ice and snow. Many times, though they find shelter by entering houses in the city and the country through unprotected vents, gaps in the structure, un properly sealed roofs and windows, and even open chimneys that are damaged, or without a proper cap. Did you know if a chimney has some sort of cover or screening, it has to follow regulations, and may not be directly flat on the chimney? Most people don’t realize this, does your chimney need repair, Do birds, squirrels or Raccoons get on your roof? Do you have proper legal cap on your chimney?

Dayton Ohio Rodent Pest Control Services

Call Barnes and fix your chimney problem, and keep critters out of your house. If animals are entering your house this winter, by removing them and fixing the problem you can also save more by reducing heating and cooling bills. If you have been ignoring the occasional mouse in your house, or squirrel in the attic now is the time to permanently remove them. Gaps large enough to let a mouse in, or the smallest holes chewed by a squirrel let in cold air from the outside and let your efforts to keep warm air in escape. Sealing off a house for rodents, or fixing a hole made by a squirrel or a bird, not only excludes any further animals from ever entering, but also makes your house tight and more energy efficient. Sealing up your house will keep the warmth in and the cold and animals out. Furthermore, if an animal is allowed to escape the cold by spending the holidays in your attic, they can and will damage your insulation and lower the R value of it. If you have a rodent problem call Barnes and check your homeowner’s insurance policies as most companies cover mice problems. keep warm this winter and keep animals out.

Squirrel Chewed Hole to enter attic