Residential Rodent Control in Marion
Most of our Marion work is residential. The city has a lot of older single-family homes with stone foundations, full basements, and vented crawl spaces, and those are the houses where mice and rats get in. Families call us most often in fall and winter when the scratching starts, and they usually want the problem fixed without a lot of disruption. We work around your schedule, keep the traps out of reach of kids and pets, and explain what we are doing before we start. If you need rodent control in Marion, Ohio for a house rather than a business, this is what the job looks like.
We inspect the attic, crawl space, basement, kitchen, garage, and exterior perimeter in one visit. In Marion's older homes, that means checking the stone foundation, sill plate, vent stacks, and roofline for gaps. You get photos of every entry point we find, so you can see exactly where the rodents are getting in.
We set Victor and JT Eaton snap traps along the runways we find, plus glue boards where they make sense. Traps are checked on a fixed schedule, usually every three to five days. We remove dead rodents and nesting material as part of the job, not as an extra charge.
After the trapping phase, we seal the entry points with copper mesh, steel wool, hardware cloth, and exclusion sealant. On Marion homes with stone foundations, this is hand work, not spray foam. Sealing is what keeps the same house from being reinfested next winter.
When rodents have nested in the attic or crawl space, we remove the contaminated insulation and nesting material, treat the area, and bag the waste for disposal. This is common in older Marion homes near Downtown and East Marion where the attic has been open to rodents for years.
- Traps and bait stations placed out of reach of kids and pets, with locations documented.
- Written service report with photos of entry points and trap placements for your records.
- Exclusion work included so you are not paying for the same trapping job every winter.