How to get bats out of your attic

Why bats hide in your attic:
Bats usually don’t hide in your attic but if they do, here are a few reasons why they may be in your attic:

  • They need to shelter from danger and predators.

  • Pregnant female bats need a place to give birth.

  • They may want a safe and warm place to stay during the winter.

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Signs of Bats in the Attic:

  • Noise

  • Guano (bat droppings)

  • Brown stains

  • Flying in and out at dusk or dawn

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Conventional removal methods

  • Mothballs
  • Ultrasonic sound machines
  • Ammonia
  • Bright lights or strobe lights
  • Sealing off the attic
  • Bat Traps

Effective Step-By-Step removal methods

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  • 1: Inspection

    1: Examine inside the attic to understand which bat species is present and their settlement size.

    2: Watch the outside of the house at sunset, to see where they are flying out from.
    You need to figure out how the bats are getting in and out of the structure, where they are living, what species they are, and what damage they have caused. Bats will fly out at sunset and fly back at sunrise. However, the bats wont all come out at once, they will make a few trips in and out every night. They mostly perch in tight, hot territories in the structure. This implies they regularly perch in storage rooms. Be that as it may, they are not out in the open. The bats will normally slither down dividers and wedge into holes behind wood pillars, belt sheets, and so on. They can leave a many droppings (guano) all over your loft. The specific types of bat are significant in playing out the avoidance appropriately, due to various sizes, practices, and above all else birthing seasons.

  • 2- Close the Entry Holes

    When you have recognized the essential passage/leave spots, LEAVE THEM OPEN and close any other openings. Typically gaps and holes are very little, about a half-inch or so, and extremely barely noticeable. To expel the bats, you need to channel them out at their typical entrance and exit. But since they can enter using many other non-essentials, you need to close potential gaps in advance. The goal is to bar the  bats from locating a substitute route in. Never seal an essential entrance / exit spot before a exclusion project. If you hire a  trained professional, they can spot an entry and exit spots pretty easily. 

  • 3- Bat Exclusion:

    Set the bat exclusion channels or mesh on the openings, that you left open to ensure that the bats can get out, but not back in. Introduce single direction exclusion gadgets on the entrances and exits. Contingent upon the design, this might be prohibition netting, screening, pipes, or cones. Each building is unique, and the bats identify with the engineering in quite certain situation choosing the correct device(s) for the job is necessary.

  • 4: Clean the Attic, Seal the hole:

    When you are certain all the bats are out, remove the exclusion tools and seal up the last entrance / exit. From here, you'll most likely need to clean the loft of bat guano. An assortment of materials functions admirably, from plastic or metal screening, caulk, to thick polyurethane, depending upon the situation. The genuine test is fastidious work, and not missing a single entrance / exit. Likewise, access can be hard. This will be a difficult task to accomplish, but the results will be great.