Dead rats in the walls of your home can present a host of problems. The most immediate and intrusive is the smell of a dead rat. Rats can die naturally in your walls or with the help of poison, but in both cases, a dead rat will almost immediately begin to decay and release noxious gases and odors that fill your home.
Discovering the Problem
If you notice a strong, overwhelming smell of rot or decay coming from appliances, floorboards, the attic or the walls of your home and cannot pinpoint the exact source, you may have a dead rat that needs removal. In the Orlando area, rats are particularly susceptible to death in tight places due to humidity and heat in the summer months. This means you should pay especially close attention between May and September to remove them before the issue becomes a health problem.
Locating a Dead Rat
Finding a dead rat in your walls is very hard. With air ducts and a great deal of moving air in your home commonly you will smell a dead rat dozens or even hundreds of feet from where they died. Dead rats can get stuck between wall studs, above pipes, or near electrical wires that can represent a danger when cutting. That’s why it is so important to call an expert in dead rat removal in Orlando – someone who can easily locate and remove the rat before it causes more problems.
Rat removal requires careful attention to the habits of rats. Most of the time, rats can climb anywhere they need in your home. However, there are some situations, such as when the interior of your wall is slickened sheetrock. That sheetrock is nearly impossible for a rat to climb, so they will fall to the bottom and slowly die.
Most of the time, a rat will give plenty of warning that they are dying by scratching at the floorboards or the wall in an attempt to get out. If you hear this scratching call Advanced Animal Trappers to have a trained expert come out and see to your rat removal. It is both easier and safer to remove a rat before they die.
Choosing the Right Expert for Your Orlando Rat Removal
When a rat dies in your home, the smell, the contamination and the sheer knowledge that a dead animal is in your wall can be overwhelming. That’s why it is so important that you call the trained removal experts of Advanced Animal Trappers.
With years of experience and thousands of rats trapped and removed, we can quickly located, extricate, and remove rats from the walls of your home – dead or alive. As a resident of Orlando, you may find yourself inundated with a number of wild animals – from opossums to raccoons to snakes and of course rats. For any of your wildlife trapping needs, call us today.
