If you've had
animals living in your attic,
then you've got everything
they've left behind in your
attic. This includes nesting
material and debris that they've
brought in, food they've
hoarded, and most of all, the
excrement, urine, hair, and body
oils that they leave behind.
Most wild animals are not clean.
Raccoons will not only tear up
your ducts and rip off your
insulation paper, but they'll
often leave big mounds of
droppings.
Rodents such as rats and
squirrels can produce up to 40
droppings a day, and scatter the
pellets all throughout your
attic. And all of these animals
of course urinate as well.
AAA Pest Protection will
remove the animals from your
attic and seal off all of the
entry points, then clean the
attic. We will remove all of the
debris and the heavily soiled
insulation, removing all of the
large droppings by hand and
vacuuming up the small
droppings, and by spraying the
attic with a special
enzyme-based biological cleaner
that makes use of non-pathogenic
bacteria and enzymes to break
down and digest any and all
organic and biological waste,
and disintegrate it and render
it inert. This eliminates the
biohazard in your attic,
destroys the smell, and
eliminates the odors that can
attract new animals to your
home.AAA Pest Protection views
cleanup a very important part of
the wildlife control process -
both for prevention and your
health.
Vacuum the Droppings: When and
where possible, we vacuum up the
droppings that the animals have
left behind. This usually
applies to the smaller
droppings, such as those left
behind by rats, squirrels, bats,
and birds. These smaller animals
have high metabolisms, and they
produce dozens of droppings each
day. Given the high numbers or
rats or bats that can live in an
attic, these droppings can
really accumulate. We then
vacuum up the large quantities
of droppings. If the small
droppings are within loose-fill
(blown-in) insulation, then they
cannot be vacuumed. In this
case, the insulation should be
replaced, or the cleaner will
destroy and disintegrate the
remaining droppings.
Removal of Animal Waste: If
you've had a large animal in the
attic, most commonly a raccoon
or an opossum, then the large
droppings should be removed by
hand. Animal waste on this scale
really causes an odor problem.
It's also a health risk -
raccoon droppings are known to
sometimes contain raccoon
roundworm, the eggs of which
humans can breath in and become
infected by. Many diseases are
transmitted via animal waste,
such as Campylobacter
infections, leptospira
infections, and salmonella
infections.
Attic Fogging: The animals that
live in your attic run through
the insulation, often tunneling
under it, they run on the wooden
beams, the pipes, the wires,
everything. They often leave
behind their droppings and urine
everywhere, not to mention the
greases and oils from their fur.
Most animals actually scent mark
their territory - your attic.
Rats are notorious for leaving
behind urine and pheromone scent
to communicate with other rats.
AAA pest Protections BioShield
fogging destroys all of these
biological agents. We not only
eliminate the biohazard
associated with wild animal
feces and urine, but we destroy
the odor that serves as a
chemical signal to other
animals.The BioShield agent is
not harmful to people or pets,
nor does it cause any damage to
any part of the attic -
insulation, wooden beams, wires,
and so on are safe, and cleaned.
This spraying is an
important part of a total attic
restoration solution.
