What Is Making the Sound in Your Walls or Ceilings – Rodent or Wildlife Invasion?
Thumping in Walls or Ceiling Rodent or Wildlife Invasion What Is Making the Sound in Your Walls or Ceilings?
It’s late at night. You are about to sit back with a blanket and a good show, when you hear it the slightest scratching, nibbling, or rustling in your walls, or above your ceiling. You believe at first that it is the house settling, maybe the wind. However, there it is repeatedly–regular, unbroken, and undoubtedly living.
You are sitting in your relaxing evening when all of a sudden it becomes some kind of a guessing game: is it a mouse? A squirrel? And a plan, and perhaps a clawed something even bigger? The fact is that these disturbing sounds may be the evidence of the invasion of a rodent or wildlife, and your house is a part of their evening path. We will come to pieces what all that means, why it occurs, and what you can do to prevent it–before it causes your walls to be their new home.
Decoding the Mystery Sounds
The first step to determining what kind of creature is in your walls would be to listen to the kind of sound you hear. Here is the way you can tell the difference between ordinary criminals:
• Scampering or scratching: normally a mouse or a rat. You may hear this in baseboards, behind cabinets or may be in ceiling voids. Mice are smaller and lighter and can be heard scurrying about quietly and, in a rapid beat, whereas rats are heard to be heavier and slower.
• Thumping or rolling: Squirrels or raccoons are often known when thumping or rolling. Squirrels will roll the nuts or jump while moving and a raccoon would make you think it was a toddler crawling around your attic.
Fluttering-chirping: –probably birds or bats. Birds can become trapped in the vents or eaves and bats will roost in the attic making high pitched squeaks intermingled with gentle rustles.
• Gnawing or chewing: Rodents do not go past it, but make nests and chew everything, wires, insulation and wood. Not only is that constant gnawing annoying but it is a serious fire hazard.
The important thing is to take note of the time and place of hearing the sounds. The rodents are night creatures and thus you will hear them mostly at night. However, the daytime activity of the squirrels is in the morning or towards the end of the afternoon.
Why Are They in Your Walls?
Rats and animals do not just walk around the house and amuse themselves. There are three things that you cannot resist in your home; warmly, sheltered and to eat. When temperatures are low, attics and wall cavities are natural nesting places and this is particularly in case there is insulation, boxes that are stored or pet food.
Some of the reasons why they go to your place:
Entrance: Areas of weakness around the rooflines, chimney stops, vents that are broken off, and loose siding are open doors.
On the outside of the house there are:
on the food sources: Bird feeders, garbage bins or pet dishes
Seasons: The cold seasons force wildlife to look where there is warmth such as attics and crawlspaces.
When inside they begin to build nests, reproduce and chew materials to widen their territory.
Experiments of an Infestation Beyond the Noise.
To make the noises at night not suffice, there are other telltale signs that something unwanted has found its way in:
• Droppings or urine beneath walls, attics or pantries.
• Corner insulation, paper or debris which has been shredded.
• Bitten wires or chewed pieces of furniture.
• Odd sweaty smells of nesting materials.
• Dirty streaks on the wall (mostly because of the fur of rodents rubbing repeatedly as they pass through the routes)
These hints and the repetition of sounds are enough to assure you that you are not dreaming, a pest family might be staying behind your drywall.
The Risk of Not Tackling the Issue.
Other than the extreme inconvenience, such intruders are a real danger to property and health. Rodents can be the source of hantavirus and Salmonella and raccoons may be a reservoir of parasite or rabies. Their nesting patterns tend to ruin insulation effectiveness, hike up your electricity costs and even cause electrical blaze by damaging the wires.
In addition, when some find solace, others do the same. The tiniest hole would become a colony after a few weeks. The greater the time taken to remove, the more difficult it will be.
DIY or Professional Help?
Homeowners are a known to make a DIY repair – installing snap traps or plugging holes of entry prematurely. This is unfortunately self-counterfeiting. When animals remain indoors, they are confined in the walls and panic, smell, and may end up creating harm as they scratch to get out.
By means of professional pest control, it makes certain:
• Detecting the appropriate species.
• Human and environmental safe removal of wildlife, e.g. squirrels or raccoons.
• Washing and de-contamination to eliminate contamination.
• Good sealing and exclusion measures in order to overcome re-entry.
In Speedy Pest Control, we have trained technicians who will help in finding the smallest access points to the house that even the untrained eye cannot detect. As a form of non-invasive investigation by monitoring the origin of the sound and eliminating the issue permanently, we employ thermal imaging and bait-free inspection techniques.
The problem with Speedy Pest Control and how it brings peace again.
When you make your house a playground of rodents or wildlife, it will not only be a matter of silencing the noise but you will have to restore the peace and comfort. Our process includes:
• Detailed inspection: The identification of the points of entry, nests and odor sources.
• Safe removal: Humane trapping or no-kill trapping based on the species.
• Clean up and disinfection: Dropping clean up and sanitization of contaminated surfaces.
Prevention sealing Repairs to vents, eaves and foundation lines.
We also advise you on the changes to lifestyle such as locking garbage outside, trimming trees close to roofs and ensuring that seasonal maintenance is scheduled.
Take Back the Quiet Tonight
The noise which bothered your walls or ceiling is not mere noise, it is also a message. Something has somehow crept in and it is not going to go without assistance. Without paying attention to the initial indications, structural damage and health hazards tend to be caused, and no homeowner is to be left alone.
Speedy Pest Control is a combination of experience, environmental friendliness, and hi-tech detection technology to assist you in regaining your home to rodents and wildlife intruders. So when you are losing sleep because you want to scratch, or tap, or thump, you should not wait until it passes, it will not.
Call Speedy Pest Control and now have a good time without hearing any noise.