You get your peace of mind back. No more scratching sounds keeping you awake at night. No more wondering if those droppings in your attic are spreading disease to your family.
When we finish your rodent control in Key Vista, FL, you’ll have a completely identifyed home that rats simply can’t enter. Your attic gets professionally cleaned and sanitized. The entry points get permanently identifyed with steel materials that last.
Most importantly, you get a guarantee that backs up our work. If rodents return, we return too—at no extra cost to you.
Around The Clock Pest Service has been protecting Key Vista, FL families from rodent infestations for years. We’re not some national chain that sends different technicians every time—you work directly with the owner on every service call.
Our state certifications and over 100 five-star Google reviews speak to our expertise. But what really sets us apart is our 24/7 availability. When you call with a rodent emergency in Key Vista, you get a real person who can provide quotes over the phone and schedule same-day service.
We understand how quickly roof rats breed in Florida’s warm climate. That’s why we respond fast and fix the problem permanently the first time.
First, we inspect your entire attic and exterior to identify the exact rodent species and locate every entry point. Most Key Vista homes have roof rats, which behave differently than other rodents and require specific treatment approaches.
Next, we set professional-grade traps in strategic locations based on the evidence we find. While those traps work, we begin identifying every entry point with steel materials—not the mesh or foam that rats can chew through.
Then we monitor and remove trapped rodents until your home is completely clear. This usually takes 1-2 weeks depending on the infestation size.
Finally, we sanitize and deodorize affected areas to eliminate health risks and odors. You get a clean, identifyed home that rodents can’t re-enter.
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Your rodent control service in Key Vista, FL includes complete attic inspection, species identification, professional trapping, and permanent exclusion work. We identify roof vents, soffit gaps, utility entry points, and any opening larger than a quarter-inch.
Key Vista’s proximity to natural areas means roof rats often move from trees directly onto roofs, making thorough exclusion work critical. We trim back vegetation access points and install barriers that prevent future climbing access.
You also get complete sanitization of affected areas. Rodent droppings in Florida’s humid climate can harbor dangerous bacteria. Our decontamination process eliminates health risks and removes the pheromone trails that attract new rodents to your home.
Roof rats are much more common in Key Vista than mice. You’ll hear heavier scratching sounds, usually at night, coming from your attic or walls. Roof rat droppings are about half an inch long and spindle-shaped, while mouse droppings are smaller and more pellet-like.
Roof rats are excellent climbers and typically enter through roof areas—vents, soffit gaps, or where tree branches touch your roofline. If you’re hearing sounds above the ceiling level, you almost certainly have roof rats, not mice.
The key difference is behavior: roof rats travel along walls and beams, leaving grease marks from their fur. They’re also much more destructive, chewing through electrical wires and causing significant property damage that mice typically don’t create.
Key Vista’s warm climate and abundant vegetation create perfect conditions for roof rats year-round. They’re attracted to easily accessible food sources like pet food, birdseed, and fallen fruit from citrus trees common in the area.
Your attic provides the ideal nesting environment—warm, dry, and undisturbed. Roof rats prefer high places and will use tree branches, utility lines, or any vegetation touching your roofline as highways to access your roof.
Once inside, they’re drawn to materials for nesting like insulation, stored papers, or fabric. They also need water sources, so leaky pipes or poor attic ventilation that creates condensation makes your home even more attractive to these rodents.
Extremely quickly. Roof rats breed every three months, with each litter producing 6-8 babies. In Florida’s year-round warm weather, they can reproduce continuously without seasonal breaks.
A pair of roof rats can become a colony of 50+ rodents in less than six months. Once you hear scratching sounds, you likely already have multiple rats, not just one or two.
This is why immediate professional intervention is critical in Key Vista. Every week you wait allows the population to grow exponentially. What starts as a $500 rodent control job can become thousands in damage repair if you let the infestation establish and spread throughout your attic space.
Store-bought solutions rarely work for established roof rat infestations. These rats are extremely intelligent and become trap-shy quickly. They’ll avoid areas where they detect danger, making random trap placement ineffective.
Professional rodent control requires identifying travel patterns, preferred feeding areas, and nesting locations. We place traps strategically based on evidence, not guesswork. More importantly, trapping alone doesn’t solve the problem—you must identify entry points or new rats will simply replace the ones you catch.
DIY exclusion work typically fails because homeowners don’t identify all entry points or use materials rats can chew through. Professional exclusion uses steel materials and addresses structural vulnerabilities that aren’t obvious to untrained eyes.
Roof rats cause extensive and expensive damage. They chew through electrical wiring, creating fire hazards—rodent-damaged wiring causes about 20% of house fires. They’ll gnaw through plumbing lines, potentially causing water damage and flooding.
In your attic, they destroy insulation by shredding it for nesting material and contaminating it with urine and droppings. They’ll chew through air conditioning ductwork, compromising your HVAC system’s efficiency and spreading contaminated air throughout your home.
The longer an infestation continues, the more expensive repairs become. Complete attic restoration, rewiring, replumbing, and ductwork replacement can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Professional rodent control that addresses the problem quickly prevents this escalating damage.
Most rodent control projects in Key Vista take 1-3 weeks from start to finish. The timeline depends on infestation size and how many entry points need identifying. We typically see trapping activity within 24-48 hours of installation.
The exclusion work—identifying entry points—usually takes 1-2 days depending on your home’s construction and how many access points rats have created. We work systematically around your entire roofline and foundation to ensure complete identifying.
Sanitization and decontamination happen after we’re confident all rodents are removed. We don’t want to clean areas that might get re-contaminated. Once your home is completely rodent-free and identifyed, the cleanup process takes about half a day to complete properly.
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