Rat control that ends with a sealed attic

Almost always roof rats: slim, agile climbers that travel power lines, fences and tree limbs and nest overhead in attics, palms and ivy. Norway rats, the burrowers, turn up less often here, mainly around ground-level food sources and older commercial corridors.

Roof rats are nocturnal and commute: they leave the attic after dusk to feed, often in your neighbors' fruit trees, and return before light. The scratching and rolling sounds overhead at night are the real census; daytime quiet means nothing.

Because California's AB 1788 restricts the strongest rodenticides, and because a poisoned rat dying in a wall void becomes a weeks-long odor problem you cannot reach. Trapping kills where you can retrieve, and exclusion ends the problem instead of managing it forever.

Most attics go quiet over one to three weeks: trapping knocks the resident animals down across the first visits, and sealing during the same period stops replacements. The job is done when monitored traps stay empty after the final seal, not when the first rat is caught.

Yes. Droppings, urine-soaked insulation and nest material are a health and odor issue and also a scent beacon for the next rats. Cleanup and deodorizing is its own scoped service at attic cleanup and sanitation.