Although many homeowners are not even aware that such holes exist they are essential for attic ventilation so you can t just cover them with wood.
Animal ate thru attic vent screen.
Most animals enter attics through small holes or man made openings such as vents and chimney pipes.
Take down the bird feeders that are attracting them to your property.
The masked marauders of the animal world they ll barge down chimneys and into open garages or attic vents.
Bar them from entering with hardware cloth.
A word of caution on live trapping squirrels to remove nuisance.
As agile climbers opossums can easily make their way into an attic through slits and holes in the eaves and vents.
Ridge vents can look nice and according to their manufacturers they help ventilate the attic but when it comes to keeping out wildlife they re one of the easiest ways for them to enter your home.
Thanks to its repulsive smell and the size of its droppings the opossum is responsible for some of the stinkiest infestations of any north american animal short of a skunk.
Here you can see the cover of an attic fan round and a passive vent next to it box like.
With the advent of ridge vents to protect shingles from over heating in the summer and excess moisture build up in the attic in the winter due to heat loss came the extra issues associated with a large vent opening across the entire ridge of the home.
The most effective way to keep animals out of your attic is to walk the perimeter of your home and find and eliminate any vulnerable.
The louvered vents for dryer exhausts and the openings behind roof fascia are perennial favorites.
Ridge guard is a system for guarding against animal entry at the roof ridge.
The 4 main animals that can easily rip up ridge vents are squirrels like in this case raccoons very easily bats and mice.
We install heavy gauge wire screening over top of roof vents covers that will keep animals out and won t prevent air flow.
I just knew it would bug me seeing the screening over this gable since it s so low and visible over the garage.
I sealed the attic and live trapped for over a year 30 squirrels and released them in a forest preserve 12 mi.
These animal contortionists can easily fit through any unprotected ventilation holes in your roof eaves.
Even larger rodents such as squirrels can fit through surprisingly small gaps.
The only attic gable vent i didn t have screened on the outside was the one over the garage.
If wildlife is living inside your attic and coming and going through your roof vents we will not only remove them but also repair the damage and prevent future re entry.
Living in ne chicago i had squirrels invading the attic and destroying garden produce one bite and dropped on the ground.
Most well designed attic vents have screens prohibiting animal entry into the vent structure and into the attic space.
As mentioned all the gable vents have screening on the inside so it s unlikely anything would try to get into the attic anyway.
