Rats and Mice

Cascade’s Professional Solution:
Rodent Service - Cleanout Service

Rodent Control is a 3-step process: Inspection, Exclusion and ongoing periodic service. Omitting one of these three steps will increase the likelihood that you will have rodent re-infestations. Additionally we provide one more service, cleanout, to remediate the contaminated insulation often found in attics and crawlspaces. This filthy mess can carry potential disease pathogens, reduce the energy efficiency of your home's insulation and potentially create a barrier to selling your home in the future. Our combined rodent service and cleanout service protects your home and health - read on to learn more!

Inspection & Initial Treatment

Rodents - both rats and mice - are aggressive, tenacious and secretive, and are often a community-wide problem. Even new homes are susceptible. So, first, you need a qualified and experienced inspector to determine details of infestation. What makes our inspections different than other services out there? Our thorough inspection usually takes a few hours, and identifies both "hot spots" (active areas) as well as "soft spots" - potential areas where the rodents will try to gain access next, once their active areas are sealed off. We diagram and review our findings with the homeowner, as well as set traps. Others may offer a "lower price" inspection - but be careful...in rodent control, cheaper is not better!

Exclusion

Rodent access points that were identified during the inspection are repaired and sealed by our expert technicians. This includes work on the roof (at roof adjoinments & eaves), loose fitting doors, broken foundation vents, burrows in the soil or numerous other locations. Any "soft spot" locations are also addressed, and the traps set by the inspector are carefully checked, emptied and reset as needed.

Protection Plan

Even with the best rodent control for your home, the conditions in your greater neighborhood rarely change. Rodents are territorial and leave pheremone scent trails that can last for 6 months or more. So other rodents are attracted, especially with the defending population now eliminated. Cascade provides protection through ongoing periodic service that reduces the likelihood of rodents re-establishing in your home in the future.

Cleanout Service: Decontamination/Restoration

Rodents can create an astonishing amount of damage and contamination in a short period of time. Droppings, urine and carcasses and other contamination are filthy and could pose a health hazard. You don't want these problems to appear on a home inspection when it comes time to sell your home in the future. Even if you aren't selling your home, removing the contamination reduces the pheremone scent trail left behind as well as offending odors. We remove the rodent droppings and other disgusting filth, and damaged insulation is removed & replaced. In most instances a new vapor barrier is installed, and we apply an organic deodorant and sanitizing solution in the crawlspace or attic.

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Rats and Mice – Serious Threats to our Well Being

Compromised Hygiene

Rodents are unsanitary and spread disease.

$Millions in Damage to Northwest Homes

Damaged insulation, ductwork, electrical wiring and much more…

Formidable Enemies

With sheer survival at stake they can climb, jump, swim, and gnaw their way into your home... then they breed at an incredible rate.