Pest Droppings In Attic
Sometimes I wonder how these large animals can get
through such small holes in our homes and into our attics and
crawlspace's. A few years ago, I was working on a home that had water
damage to the siding that needed to be fixed. The homeowner of course
didn't want anymore water damage and this required repairing roof, the
original cause for the siding damage.
When I bid the job, I had no idea what I was about to run into. The
first day on the job, went smoothly as I repaired some damage fascia
board, but the next day I was in for a surprise, as I removed the
damaged siding, I found what looked like dog poop in the
attic.
I was looking around in the attic and trying to figure out how a dog
could of got up there. I know that I shouldn't have, but I walked around
the home inspecting it for a large hole, any holes, something that a
small dog could have wiggled his way into. I got my latter off of the
truck and then went on the roof, trying to find a place where a dog
could have got into the attic.
I couldn't find any holes and after wasting about an hour, I decided it
was time to get back to work and since the homeowner wasn't there, I
couldn't show him my new findings or ask him any questions. I cleaned up
the mess and repaired the water damaged siding, but in the back of my
head I kept thinking about how in the heck a dog got up in the attic.
To make a short story even shorter, when the homeowner arrived home that
day, I showed him my findings and he informed me that he didn't have a
dog. He did however inform me that he has been hearing something walking
around in his attic for about a year now. He had a pretty good idea that
they were raccoons.
I told him, that I had inspected his home and only found one small hole
on top of his roof underneath the roof eave, but there's no way that a
small raccoon could fit through that hole. He told me that you would be
surprised, what these animals were capable of squeezing into and out of.
Well that's about it, the mystery was solved, I repaired the small hole
in the attic and have never heard from the homeowner again. Hopefully
that meant I did my job well and not that he was embarrassed about the
poop in the attic.