Bats Getting Under Siding

Guano and urine are the two most recognizable signs of a bat infestation somewhere in the house.

Bats getting under siding.

Cracks where siding forms a corner or where siding meets your chimney. While they most commonly invade attics a bat colony can easily make their way inside your insulation vents and crawl spaces slowly destroying your walls and foundation. This is why hiring an expert could be your best option. Try applying a sticky bird repellant over.

The smell helps drive away bats and you can place some around or between your shutters. Install an outdoor light close to where the bats are roosting under the eaves. Pulling the siding off enables him to clean the area and reinstall the siding properly. Some of the same products used to repel birds also work on bats.

A small bat can squeeze through a 1 2 inch crack in masonry or between a trim board and a wall. Bats dislike bright lights and will avoid the area if it is illuminated when they return to their roost early in the morning. Chimneys cracks or holes in the siding or soffits louvered vents with loose screening separating flashing and just about any place where materials have shrunk warped or moved apart will invite bats to enter and make themselves at home. Put up some bat houses and then at night when they ve gone out to get breakfast block their usual ways in to sleep under the siding.

Step 5 build a one way exclusion gate out of bird netting to prevent the bats from re entering their roost. Bats often roost in attics basements and behind walls. Bats practically eat their own weight in mosquitos every. Bats can be one of the hardest wildlife pests to get rid of.

Ryan pulls off some siding and shows how bats are getting in and where they are roosting. They get into these spaces through small openings.