Animal Ate Thru Attic Vent Screen

I just knew it would bug me seeing the screening over this gable since it s so low and visible over the garage.

Animal ate thru attic vent screen. Larger animals will even bite and claw through weak spots in the exterior to create an entrance to the attic. Ridge guard is a system for guarding against animal entry at the roof ridge. Here you can see the cover of an attic fan round and a passive vent next to it box like. A word of caution on live trapping squirrels to remove nuisance.

Most animals enter attics through small holes or man made openings such as vents and chimney pipes. Take down the bird feeders that are attracting them to your property. Even larger rodents such as squirrels can fit through surprisingly small gaps. Ridge vents can look nice and according to their manufacturers they help ventilate the attic but when it comes to keeping out wildlife they re one of the easiest ways for them to enter your home.

The masked marauders of the animal world they ll barge down chimneys and into open garages or attic vents. The only attic gable vent i didn t have screened on the outside was the one over the garage. With the advent of ridge vents to protect shingles from over heating in the summer and excess moisture build up in the attic in the winter due to heat loss came the extra issues associated with a large vent opening across the entire ridge of the home. As mentioned all the gable vents have screening on the inside so it s unlikely anything would try to get into the attic anyway.

The louvered vents for dryer exhausts and the openings behind roof fascia are perennial favorites. If wildlife is living inside your attic and coming and going through your roof vents we will not only remove them but also repair the damage and prevent future re entry. I sealed the attic and live trapped for over a year 30 squirrels and released them in a forest preserve 12 mi. The 4 main animals that can easily rip up ridge vents are squirrels like in this case raccoons very easily bats and mice.

The most effective way to keep animals out of your attic is to walk the perimeter of your home and find and eliminate any vulnerable. These animal contortionists can easily fit through any unprotected ventilation holes in your roof eaves. Bar them from entering with hardware cloth. Living in ne chicago i had squirrels invading the attic and destroying garden produce one bite and dropped on the ground.

But squirrels sometimes chew through vent covers. Although many homeowners are not even aware that such holes exist they are essential for attic ventilation so you can t just cover them with wood. As an example take a look at this recent picture of a squirrel problem. Most well designed attic vents have screens prohibiting animal entry into the vent structure and into the attic space.