How Exterminators Block up Mice And Rat Entryways

If you hire someone to get rid of the rodents in your dwelling, be sure he also checks for and blocks mice and rat entry points. While rodents mostly dwell outdoors, by nature, they are also drawn to human dwellings, warm winter houses with a ready supply of food.

Rats and especially mice are dexterous critters that can squeeze into tiny cracks and holes. Rats and mice enter homes beneath doors, through open windows, by crawling along pipes that pierce walls, by way of thin chewable material such as walls, and via burrowing through subterranean passageways.

Because rodents have teeth that can chew through flimsy wall material such as cardboard, wallboard, plaster, and thin wood, their entry points must be clogged with steel wool, metal, or concrete. Examine the following original photos from A # 1 Pest Control to see how pest exterminators use concrete to block rodent entry points.


Boarding up a pipe hole






Notice the picture to the left. Plumbing pipes come in the dwelling through the wall and are completely enclosed by concrete. The concrete is packed around the pipe and stops up the hole that the pipe exits from. This protection totally blocks this former rodent access point. If a homeowner had enclosed the pipe with plaster, it might block rodent entrance for a while, but eventually they would gnaw though the dried plaster and open the entrance point once again. The concrete, on the other hand, will stand up against any attempt by the rodents to chew through it with their sharp teeth.



Outside rat burrow that has been filled with cement





Notice that the big hole in the grass has been filled up with concrete. That was once a rat entrance hole that an industrious rodent dug through the earth and extended underground until it got to pipes or other types of entryway into the dwelling. If A # 1 Pest Control - Harrisburg had not blocked up that hole, rats would have continued coursing into the nearby house through their improvised tunnel.


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