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Signs Of Bats In Your Home

Is it one or a bat infestation? If you answer yes to the following questions, there’s a good chance you’re dealing with a bat colony. We the experience to get rid of bats more than any company in Atlanta, Georgia. Here is the signs to look for:

Bat Droppings: Have you identified guano anywhere in your home or office? Bat droppings are shiny (due to undigested insect and mosquito wings) and break apart, unlike hardened mice/rat droppings. Check attics and chimneys for potential entry points to start.
Visible Bats: Have you seen bats flying away from your home or office just after sunset? You should call a pest control company to inspect the home to explore the exclusion process.
Noises At Night: Do you hear scratching, chirping or squeaks sounds coming from your attic or other areas of the home or office?
Foul Odors And Staining: Do you smell ammonia or a musty smell in your space? Bats will damage your insulation, stain your ceiling and leave oily residue grease marks around heavy activity areas.
Damaged Roofs, Walls and Soffits: Bats often enter homes through small openings in the roof, siding and chimney. If you notice holes or damaged eaves, you could be at risk.

Bat Laws And Regulations

Whether you have a bat flying solo in the office or an entire attic infestation, Smart Solutions Wildlife Removal will get them out quickly and humanely. We use ethical practices to handle bats safely for our customers to minimize harmful rabies exposure. We follow state laws put in place by the Georgia Department Of Natural Resources, properly relocated these amazing animals.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regulates bat conservation, so people should not kill them or harass them. Law also forbids bat trapping or sealing of the home during blackout periods, as flightless juvenile bats(pups) can be stranded and die. Fines can be in excess of 20,000 and a year in jail killing and endangered bat species.

Dangers Of Bats In Homes And Businesses

Bats are helpful animals, they play an important role in the ecosystem. They control insect and beetle populations that harm crops and balance the ecosystem. However, when bats move into a building, they can cause serious problems for your residential or commercial property.

Odors and bacteria from bat crystallized urine and feces can contaminate HVAC systems. Exposure to airborne fungus associated with droppings can cause allergies, illnesses infections and lung diseases

Another threat to human health is the carrying of ectoparasites like flea, ticks and mites. Bat bugs (Cimex adjunctus) are ectoparasites found in roosts and on accumulations of guano. We conduct eco-friendly pest control treatments with to kill bat bugs and prevent them from entering the home after the eviction process.

Rabies exposure can be a potential health risk for workers who handle bats. It is a fatal blood borne disease that is spread through cuts and bites. If you have a bat in your house and feel there was exposure, it needs contained and contact us for proper rabies protocol!

Fast - Humane Bat Removal

Our certified wildlife removal experts have the equipment and training to safely remove bats and exclude from your home, allowing them to relocate. Smart Solutions Wildlife Removal offers professional bat removal services to safely handle these federally-protected animals from your residential or commercial space. We understand the urgency and we’ll make sure your family, employees, and the bats themselves remain unharmed during the process.

Bat removal and exclusion should be avoided during black out dates in Georgia starting in May and ending August 15th if flightless young are present. Bat valves should not be hung during this period to prevent juveniles from being stranded. If endangered or threatened species are identified in a structure, a report must be turned in to the Georgia Department of resources prior to removal.

We seal the entire structure and hang one doors or valves to exclude the bats and allow them to disperse on their own back into nature. Our national training standards provide us to take the utmost care to avoid trapping bats or killing them. We’ll also assess any damage and provide you with an estimate for damage repairs, sanitation and parasite extermination.

Our team will thoroughly inspect your home, office, or attic, and pinpoint and seal even the smallest bat entry points. Bats can live 15 years or more and will return each year to fly around the house with attempts of getting back in. Adults teach this location behavior to their pups and we have seen bats come back after 10 years when bat proofing work was removed.

We’ll also remove any guano, replace guano-damaged wood, insulation, or other materials, and sanitize the entire space. At Smart Solutions Wildlife Removal we have many years wildlife removal and construction, you can expect the project to be done right and remain bat free.

Bat Exclusion and Control

Smart Solutions offers full exclusion of the home and the installation of bat valves or tubes to allow bats to disperse back into the environment. Harmful trapping, extermination, harassing and repelling of bats should be avoided to preserve our declining populations. When you are asking your self how to get rid of bats in the attic, a comprehensive exclusion of the home is the best answer.

White Nose Syndrome or WNS is a fungus has killed millions of bats in North America. Handling bats should be avoided and one way doors or valves should be used on the main entry. Bat valves are disposed of after the exclusion process to avoid spreading of WNS.

Removing bats from your home or business should be done by a professional bat exclusion service only. Bats land on flat surfaces and will crawl up and squeeze into gaps as small as 3/8 inch. A thorough sealing of current and potential features of the home need to be done to have long lasting success.

The following features of a structure need to be inspected and sealed if necessary to keep bats from entering:

Ridge Vents

Roof Vents

Gable Vents

Side Exhaust Vents

Chimney Gaps

Roof Returns

Soffit and Fascia Repairs

Brick to Wood Gaps

Siding Gaps or Siding Replacement

Roofline Gaps

Roof Repairs

Bat Attic Cleaning

Bat droppings (or guano) and urine can contaminate your home with fungal spores, viruses and bacteria causing health hazards. Histoplasmosis is a lung disease caused by breathing in fungal spores that come from bat guano. This disease can affect people with low immune systems and senior citizens.

Smart Solutions Wildlife Removal clean up properly with restoration equipment and negative air HEPA units. Plastic air chambers should be built under the attic hatch to prevent spores and dust from entering the living space. Hoses for bat guano removal should not be run through the home to prevent exposure.

After a detailed attic cleaning, we apply an odor removing enzyme and a sanitizer. If the infestation is severe, an odor encapsulate sealant is applied. Sealer with Odor locking technology seals in odors, stains, harmful spores and dust. For more information on this service, check out our attic cleaning and restoration page.

Here is a picture of proper attic cleaning and decontamination for for bats

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FAQ

Q – What is the best way to deal with a bat problem?

A – Hire a licensed professional. There are federal and state guidelines when dealing with removing and keeping out bats. The best process is to exclude them from the structure by bat proofing the home.

Q – Are bat droppings/bat guano toxic?

A – Bat droppings can contain the histoplasma capulatum fungus that can cause a fatal and incurable lung disease.