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Wild animals such as mice, rats, raccoons, skunks, opossums, squirrels, and birds are common nuisances in both urban and rural areas. Once these animals enter your property, they can cause significant damage by chewing through essential materials like wires, insulation, and wood, which often leads to expensive repairs. Beyond property damage, these animals can also pose serious health risks, as they are known carriers of diseases like Leptospirosis, Hantavirus, and Rabies. These diseases can spread through contact with animal droppings, urine, or saliva, and can be harmful to both humans and pets. Additionally, if wild animals feel threatened, they may become aggressive, making it crucial to keep your distance and seek professional help.
When you encounter wildlife on your property, it’s essential to act quickly and contact professionals for safe and humane removal. Our specialized team not only focuses on removing the animals but also takes steps to prevent future invasions. We conduct a thorough inspection of your property to identify all potential entry points, such as cracks, gaps, and holes in the structure. Whether it’s the siding, soffits, or vents, our team uses durable materials to seal off these entryways to ensure long-term protection.
After the wildlife is safely removed, we apply our proven exclusion techniques to safeguard your home from future invasions. By addressing all vulnerabilities and creating a secure barrier, we help you maintain the integrity of your property while ensuring the safety of your family and pets. Our comprehensive approach ensures that your home remains wildlife-free, preventing future damage and health risks for years to come.
Chimneys, cracks, or holes in the siding, soffits, and louvered vents with loose screening are all common entry points for wildlife. These areas, along with separating flashing and any place where materials have shrunk or warped, make your home more vulnerable to wildlife intrusions. Animals like squirrels, raccoons, and birds can easily exploit these gaps to gain access and make themselves at home. Implementing proper exclusion methods is essential to prevent wildlife from using these points of entry to invade your home.
Other likely access points for wildlife are where utility lines enter walls, and around openings for air conditioning, drain pipes, and vents. These small gaps can often go unnoticed, but they present an open invitation for animals to enter. Proper exclusion involves sealing these areas with durable, wildlife-proof materials, ensuring that these weak spots are fully secured. By addressing these common vulnerabilities, you can effectively prevent wildlife from gaining access to your home and avoid costly repairs or infestations in the future.
Exclusion is not only important for keeping wildlife out but also helps maintain the overall integrity of your home by reducing air leaks and potential water damage.
The foundation and conjoining areas of a dwelling are prime targets for rodent entry, particularly for mice, who are notorious for their climbing abilities and keen sense of smell. Mice can detect indoor air escaping from the smallest breaches and can squeeze through openings as small as a dime. These foundation gaps, cracks, and other vulnerabilities often become entry points for rodents looking to find shelter, food, and warmth. Addressing these areas with proper exclusion techniques is critical to keeping your home rodent-free.
Implementing exclusion methods around the foundation involves sealing all cracks, gaps, and potential entry points with durable materials that rodents cannot chew through. This process not only prevents rodents from entering but also reduces the likelihood of other pests gaining access to your home. Ensuring these entry points are sealed also helps improve your home’s energy efficiency by preventing air leaks.
By focusing on the foundation and surrounding areas, you can significantly reduce the chances of rodent infestations. Combining exclusion with regular inspections and preventative maintenance can ensure that your home remains secure from pests and rodents for the long term.
Our weatherproof and powder-coated Ridge Guard system provides a durable solution to protect your attic from unwanted pests. It is installed securely along the ridge vent of your roof, effectively locking down the vent to prevent entry by bats, squirrels, mice, rats, and even carpenter bees. Despite its strong exclusion capabilities, the Ridge Guard system still allows for necessary air flow, ensuring proper ventilation in your attic while safeguarding it from wildlife.
By using high-quality materials, the Ridge Guard system offers long-term protection that withstands weathering and environmental exposure. The powder coating ensures the system remains rust-resistant and durable over time. This type of exclusion is ideal for preventing pests from burrowing into vulnerable areas of your roof, which could lead to structural damage or infestations inside your home.
Implementing this exclusion method ensures that your attic remains both pest-free and well-ventilated, providing peace of mind while maintaining the integrity of your home’s roofing system. This professional-grade solution is both functional and aesthetically pleasing, offering long-lasting protection without compromising the appearance or functionality of your roof.
Gaps in chimney flashing, as well as cracks and voids in brick mortar, create easy entry points for various pests to infiltrate your attic. These small openings can allow rodents, birds, and insects to gain access to your home, leading to potential infestations and damage. Since chimneys are often high-traffic areas for heat and airflow, they are prime spots for pests to seek shelter. Ensuring that all cracks and gaps are sealed with proper exclusion techniques is crucial in preventing these unwanted visitors.
In addition to chimneys, other vents that exhaust indoor air—such as dryer vents and bathroom exhausts—are also vulnerable. Wildlife and pests can easily squeeze through small voids around these areas, gaining access to your attic and walls. Our exclusion services are designed to address these common points of entry by using durable materials that seal off gaps without restricting ventilation. This keeps pests out while maintaining the functionality of your home’s vent systems. Proper exclusion around these areas not only prevents infestations but also protects your home from potential structural damage and energy inefficiency caused by unsealed openings.
Openings around air conditioning lines, drain pipes, and electrical conduit lines create vulnerabilities for pests and wildlife to infiltrate your home. These small gaps are often overlooked but provide an easy access point for rodents, insects, and even larger wildlife. Proper sealing and exclusion methods are crucial to prevent these pests from entering and causing damage to your home’s interior. Without addressing these openings, pests can exploit them as entryways, leading to infestations and potential structural damage.
To counteract this, we offer specialized exclusion services that focus on sealing around all utility lines. Using durable, weather-resistant materials, we ensure that every opening is properly sealed, making it impossible for pests to gain access. This not only protects your home from wildlife but also improves energy efficiency by reducing drafts and air leaks. By addressing these small but significant entry points, you can prevent future infestations and enjoy the peace of mind that your home is fully secure. Our exclusion work is designed to blend seamlessly with your home’s exterior, ensuring an attractive and functional solution to pest control.
We understand how stressful a pest problem can be for you and your family. Our rigorous and environmentally responsible approach to Pest Management includes the application of proprietary insecticide formulations that use only ingredients considered “GRAS,” or Generally Regarded As Safe by the FDA.
These formulations are based on well-controlled clinical studies that show high insecticidal activity and repellency that rivals synthetic pesticides while greatly exceeding them in safety. Our products and methods are safe for children, pets, and pollinators. In addition, our vast construction experience enables us to provide the most effective and property value accretive seal-up and exclusion system installations around. We are available 7 days a week to quickly set up a free home inspection and provide a detailed estimate to completely resolve your pest invasion.
We strive to be in constant communication with our customers until the job is complete. For a pest control service estimate or question, please contact us by filling out the form below, or give us a call anytime at (518) 650-8000. We look forward to hearing from you!
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Mean Green Pest Services, Inc. is an environmentally conscious, forward-thinking, and family-oriented pest control company that currently services Saratoga County, the Capital Region of New York, and surrounding counties.