Bats in house
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08/12/12 12:53 PM
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So i was hopeing for a little advice i have a bat job going and i have excluded the bats out of the roof systems. but since i started the job we have been finding bat droppings in the master bedroom on a desk i have searched the room high and low in the cracks of the logs sealed where the logs meet the drywall and we have sealed the room off from the rest of the house during this process is there anything like bird netting or something i can hang and hope the bat gets caught in the netting or do you guys have any other advice it would be much appreciated. Thanks guys
Joe Herrman Paramount Wildlife Management Glenwood Springs (970)309-0865 paramountwm@yahoo.com
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Re: Bats in house
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08/12/12 01:54 PM
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there are some urine stain streaks on the window as for the logs they have been sealed up where the dry wall meets the log by me and the droppings are fresh every morning they are soft the whole nine yards so this one has me beating my head against a wall
Joe Herrman Paramount Wildlife Management Glenwood Springs (970)309-0865 paramountwm@yahoo.com
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Re: Bats in house
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08/13/12 03:27 AM
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I'll agree with Mike and Eric on this. Would relate a story that I just dealt with too of similar nature.
One cabin we just worked on was slated for a fall exclusion after the maternity colony is fully ready. There are maids for these folks and they clean up without generally making mention I'm finding of any guano or whatever, in and out get the job done sort of deal and I won't begrudge them for that. The property management company calls me saying they've been trying to catch a rat for the last few weeks and can't seem to, would I give them advice next time in the area. I get there and look and it is bat guano and as Mike stated it is falling from the 1 by 4 trim board that spans between the tongue and groove peaked ceiling. You could see guano along the edge where it was spaced and sure enough it was falling on the couch and carpet. Problem solved by sealing this board and the client getting proper exclusion next month.
While I'm there literally working on this little seal up, I get a call from the same town and the homeowner relates that his property management company said they saw some guano on the carpet, a few droppings nothing crazy.
So they explain to the out of state owner, they've got a guy who handles bat issues. This guy is sent and when the owner and his wife arrive in town the first night they meet the guy finishing up. He tells them hes dealt with hundreds of bats jobs and everything is all set. He explains that he noticed the trim board had some guano coming down, so he removed the entire length of it and when he did guano and bats fell into the living area (very very very nice home, that though used seasonally, is immaculate and new). He removed those bats and apparently cleaned up the visible guano and then he shot foam into this space.
Next he went outside and found all the places he could that he felt bats were coming in through and sealed them again with foam.
That night the owners were awakened by more than 10 bats within their home flying loose. The next night 4, the night after that 5 and so on till a local friend whose son hired us last year gives her the phone number.
So we go over and within a few minutes in the home I can hear bats within the wall upstairs, I go outside on the roof and can hear bats within the exterior wall voids. After explaining to him about the maternity season and about proper bat exclusion he is more than willing to have me step in and correct this if possible.
I spend about 20 minutes cutting two or three cans worth of great stuff out of the hole, another couple of hours searching around the rest of the multi peaked roof and in the end leaving them to it for now telling them to call me if they have another bat inside the home in the following days.
The next night they watch more than 200 bats fly out of the hole I cut and haven't had a bat inside the home since as they are now free to leave.
I realize this post is lengthy but I wanted to point out, many people seem to be doing exterior exclusion when they can't see what is inside during the maternity season. Knowing every part of the country is different and pups are born at different times to different species, depending on where you are, I'd just add this to the mix.
Be sure you know whether or not they have non volant (non flying) pups. If you can't tell I've not had a customer yet refuse to wait it out, if the inside of their home was sealed and access was limited.
That wasn't directed at you nighthunter, just a general statement.
I would throw one more thing your way though just in case you haven't checked. In the last few weeks many of my inspections clearly showed warped screens on windows on the second or third story and people having the windows open. With urine on the windows and night roosting in close proximity, this is absolutely how many of my clients ended up with interior bats.
As Mike said, guano is so light its ridiculous, so it could very well be blowing out a very small hole or crevice that a bat can't get through, but the bats may be on top of. I feel bats teach me something new about a structure every single time I take a new job. I try to repay them by teaching the homeowner or property manager the best I can about good exclusion and the timing of said exclusion.
Good luck with it, would like to know your update when you figure out what is going on. I find bat work very enjoyable but extremely tedious and time consuming due to the nature of the cracks and crevices you have to find and seal.
Justin
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Re: Bats in house
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08/14/12 12:07 PM
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As The Batguy Ron Scheller says, "There are a hundred ways to do a bat job wrong; only one way to do it right."
Last edited by Dave Schmidt; 08/14/12 12:08 PM.
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Re: Bats in house
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08/15/12 11:10 AM
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Ok ao here's the update on this ordeal, the night before last the home owner called me said he sees the bat hanging over the desk that it has been crapping on for the last 3 weeks and asks if I can come out and take of it and I said I was on my way. So when I get there the home owner meets in the driveway with a grin from ear to ear and I ask him if the bat is still there and he says no so I am thinking great the bat has giving me the slip again but I was wrong the home owner decided while I was on my way out there to go and get his high powers silenced pellet gun and just shoot it. He missed it 5 times before finally cone ting with it and just had me remove the dead bat from the room and also patch the 4 pellet holes in the dry wall ceiling. Thanks everyone for your advice
Joe Herrman Paramount Wildlife Management Glenwood Springs (970)309-0865 paramountwm@yahoo.com
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