Pest Exclusion Services
Pest exclusion services commonly refers to the sealing of cracks, gaps, crevices, holes, and the like that allow pests to enter a home or other structure. Pest exclusion practices can be useful to deter or stop tiny pests like insects, spiders, and other arthropods and it can also apply to the blocking of rodents, bats, birds, and other small animals.
Importantly, pest exclusion services are a critical aspect of Integrated Pest Management (IPM), a practice of pest control that is much more sustainable and reduces reliance on the use of pesticides.
Where old pest control methods relied heavily on pesticide application—some of them historically toxic—pest exclusion as a part of an Integrated Pest Management approach can result in effective results using least toxic products.
The most common application of exclusion is for vertebrate pests—rodents, birds, and the like.
Poisoning or trapping rats or mice, for example, may reduce the immediate number of pests, but if the access points in and around a home aren’t closed, more will come right back in.
Cascade Pest Control has decades of experience providing professional pest exclusion services.
Rodent Exclusion Services
The most common application for exclusion services is rodent exclusion. Rats, mice and other rodents often find their way into garages, attics, and substructure crawlspaces.
Rodents appreciate the shelter homes and other structures provide, they love the warmth of a heated home in winter, and they also love the insulation which they can use for their own nesting.
Once inside, rodents damage insulation, spread filth onto stored items, and they can find their way deeper into the structure where you live.
Rat and mouse exclusion involves inspecting the home to find entry points, which can be anywhere from roof vents, construction gaps, damaged screens, poorly fitting garage doors and much more. Once found, repairs are made to seal these openings.
Rodents could possibly burrow beneath foundations and chew new holes, but they much prefer easy routes into existing structures. Also, by severely slowing them down, time is provided for Cascade’s pest management services—our exterior protection—to nab them long before they can again gain entry and do further damage.
Cascade’s years of exclusion experience
Cascade Pest Control has been providing rodent exclusion services for decades to ‘build out’ rats, mice, birds, bats, and other pests.
