Wildlife Damage Services in Tennessee & South Carolina

Wildlife animals can cause major damage to a home. Once wildlife keys in on your home, they can cause exterior damage, to find a way into the attic space. Depending on the animal, the entry point can be as small as a quarter of an inch. However, larger animals can cause wildlife damage that is as big as a grapefruit.

While rodents are more stealthy in how they get into the structure, raccoons and squirrels are more noticeable. Your first visual sign is usually wood that has either been chewed or pulled out. Some of these holes will be tucked away, while others will be left open to water damage.

Next, you will see insulation on the roof or ground. Once the animals get inside the home, that is when the damage can exponentially grow.

Once the wildlife gets inside the home, the first thing they do is damage the insulation. Regardless of the animal, they will urinate and defecate in the attic multiple times of day until they are removed.

The soiled insulation will bring down the R-Value, which is the guideline to how thick your insulation should be. That value is set based on the zone you live in throughout the country. A lower rated R-value can have consequential effects on your home’s ability to regulate its temperature. With damaged insulation, a homeowner can expect a colder house in winter months and a hotter home in summer months.

Depending on which animal has invaded your home, your duct lines can also be damaged. They are the perfect means for small creatures to travel between floors in your home. Outside of insulation damage, duct line damage is one of the more common types of wildlife damage we see.

There are times where animals will naturally die in your home. Unfortunately, dead animals cause almost as much of an issue in your home as living ones.

A wild animal’s corpse can be commonly found in an attic, behind the wall, or under insulation. When that happens, the entire room around where the animal is deceased will have a terrible odor.

Sometimes we can easily find the animals in the attic and remove them. Oher times, when an animal is in a harder to reach spot, more invasive methods may be required. We may have to cut a hole in the wall to get the animal out.

Depending on the amount of time an animal has been in your home, restoration work may be needed. This includes removal of any urine- or feces-soaked materials they have left behind.

In the attic that means removing the old insulation and replacing it with new insulation. In the crawl space that means removing the vapor barrier and replacing it. Once this is done, we then remove and replace the insulation under the house.