Rats are
notorious for creating problems in any person’s
home. Not only do they get inside your food, but
can dig their way through your insulation,
electrical wiring, and furniture, creating a
royal mess in your house.
The sad part about it is that often times rats
will live in your home without you having any
knowledge of them even being there. They find
places in your basement or in your attic where
they set up their little colony and scurry
around the walls of your home looking for food
during the hours when you were sleeping. In less
you have exceptional hearing you would have no
idea that they were even there.
While some may not really like the idea that
rats would be in their home, they are less
bothered by that fact knowing that the rats are
in a location like the attic where they are
unseen. This gives a barrier between you and
these rodents, which almost adds in
acceptability to them being in your home.
But what if they attempted to breach that
barrier? Some wonder if rats will chew their way
through the ceiling and into your home so that
they can gain access to the main part of your
house. It’s time to dispel those fears, because
the answer to that is no.
It is clear that rats have rather sharp teeth.
It’s one of the primary things that they use for
defense and to enable them to be able to get
through materials. Their teeth are extremely
strong, and they spend a good portion of every
day making them as sharp and tough as they can
be. This is done, many times, by chewing on such
things as electrical wiring, pieces of wood, or
other objects that would give some additional
strength to the rat’s teeth.
The important thing to understand about those
materials is that they come with an edge to them
that makes it so that the rat will have
something to begin the gnawing process. A rat
will start on the edge of a board or on the
electrical wiring piece because it is easily
accessible to it. That is not the case with your
ceiling floor.
Here you have an entirely different story. Your
ceiling is still made of a drywall kind of
material that provides an additional shielding
between the attic and the main part of the
house. This is not a material that a rat would
normally chew on, and so you have no concerns
about this little rodent chewing its way into
your home.
The only time you have a concern like this is
when you are in your workplace and the ceiling
is made out of individual tiles that are placed
into the grid above you. These kinds of things a
rat can easily chew through because there is the
greater accessibility to get to an edge. That
may not make you feel particularly comfortable
at work, but unless there is an attic area above
the office then you really have nothing to be
worried about.
Read more:
Rat Control,
Get Rats Out of the
Attic,
Rat
Trapping,
Rats
in the Ceiling,
Rat
Feces.
