Professional Pest Control Forest Hill

Two things together. A deep roof void gives rats a warm, undisturbed space with a lot of vertical clearance, and an outbuilding, a garage, a domestic room, a storeroom, gives them a second base close to the house with its own eaves and roof line. A rat moving between the two rarely needs to cross open ground where you would spot it, so the whole thing can build up out of sight in both structures.

Yes, and on a Forest Hill property that is usually where part of the problem is coming from. An outbuilding roof is often older, less maintained, and easier for a rat to get into than the main house. We check both roof voids and the gaps around outbuilding eaves, not just the ceiling above the bedrooms, because treating only the part you can hear leaves the other one going.

Yes. We place bait and treatment in the roof void, in cavities and in bait stations rather than on open surfaces people or pets can reach, and we use registered products at the registered rate. We will tell you where we have placed anything and what to expect over the following days, so nothing about it is a surprise once we have finished.

Movement directly overhead in the evening once the house has gone quiet, a scratching sound that follows the same path most nights, and a smell developing in one room that was not there before. Any one of those on its own can mean something small. Two or three together, especially near an outbuilding wall, usually means it has been going on longer than a night or two.

We work out of Randburg and our line is open around the clock from Monday to Friday, so you can call as soon as you notice it rather than waiting for a weekday morning. Roof rats do not get less established the longer you leave them, so we would rather see the roof void early than after the noise has become constant.