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How To Keep Squirrels Out of Your Home
Squirrels are expert chewers, as are all rodents. Wood is a primary material for them to wear their teeth on. They can chew right through the wood of your house in
order to get inside. If you want to keep squirrels out of your home, first of all you should trap and remove them, but then you should repair the entry points. It's silly
to trap and remove squirrels but to leave the entry points open - vulnerable and exposed. New squirrels will just come in! After the squirrels have been removed from the
building, it's a good idea to seal up the entry points. Steel of some kind, often in the form of steel mesh, or hardware cloth as it is known, is a good choice. Squirrels
can't chew through steel. See the below photos for a couple examples of repairs to areas that squirrels have chewed open.
Here's a hole in a soffit that a squirrel chewed. Notice the flimsy screen in the soffit vent gap. Squirrels love to chew their way into weak areas like this. The flimsy screen is replaced with a steel screen that squirrels can't chew through.
Here's a case in which a squirrel has, for some reason, chewed a very large hole right through the wood. They don't need this much space to gain access
to the eave and the attic, but squirrels do like to chew. They are rodents, after all. In this case, I installed a steel screen across the entire span of the soffit, because this squirrel was really into chewing.
Here's a hole right in the wood, at the seam. Once a squirrel gets its teeth around any bit of wood, it'll chew it's way through.
Here's a dopey little photo of an early repair. I usually use better repair techniques now, but I don't take many photos of the hundreds of squirrel repairs
that I've performed.
For more squirrel trapping information, go back to the Orlando squirrel control page. If you need professional wild animal control for
squirrels in the Orlando Florida area, you can call me directly. I run a nuisance wildlife control company, and serve central Florida.
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