Happy Monday!

This gonna be a short "How ya doing?" this morning, gotta get moving this morning. Check out our website if you get a chance, there's a lot of interesting and informative stuff trapping, nuisance animals, and attic restoration. See ya!

A dangerous job but someones got to do it!!!

It's 11:00am in the middle of September and I'm on a job site to assist one of my technicians with an exclusion. The customer has had a rat problem for sometime and a raccoon had previously nested in the exterior soffit. Excluding a home for rats can be a tricky project. They can be very resourceful so anything larger than a quarter size hole must be filled or sealed. This includes vents on the roof, A/C chases, ridge vents, soffits, and gable ends. This can prove to be a very difficult task at times. Areas where the soffits meet the shingles can be tough to reach and the architecture on homes have become complicated to say the least. In some homes the gables and vents must be sealed from the inside of the attic with a thick gage metal screen in order to keep nuisance animals out and still allow proper ventilation. This particular job required my technician to replace roughly 40' of soffit including the "J" channel that holds the soffit in place. Although I have a lot of experience doing exclusions before I took the sales position, I have never replace an entire soffit before. I enjoy learning new skills so I opted for assisting my tech on this job so I could check it out. After speaking with the customer I decided to jump right on sealing the gable ends before my tech got going on the soffit. If you've never been in an attic in the middle of the day in Florida then you truly don't understand the meaning of HOT. This attic unfortunately was a extremely tight squeeze and provided very little ventilation. A sealed gable end looks much more appealing when sealed from the interior if possible so I set off into the attic to GIT-R-DONE. After entering the attic I realized how difficult it was going to be to reach one of the gable ends, unfortunately this epiphany came after I was half way in. I'm not usually claustrophobic but with practically no ventilation this attic was scorching, Pinned on my stomach and sweating profusely, I suddenly found myself fearing the worst. They would have to cut the ceiling out to get to me if I passed out and that really never enters your mind until your in this situation. Fortunately I was able to reach the gable end and seal it but I wasted no time getting out of that attic once it was complete. It took me about 15 minutes to regain composure after exiting that oven-like attic. I have been in quite few attics but never felt such heat before and I'm really not excited about doing it again any time soon. By 2 o'clock the soles of my techs tennis shoes were literally separating from the shoe due to the heat of the roof, I mean the glue was actually melting from the heat. It's really easy to get over heated in this situation and you can't drink too much water. I can't imagine a customer trying to do this by themselves but I guess that's why we have job. Hope your weekend rocks!

Wow!!!

It never fails to amaze me at how resource some wildlife can be. I'm mean really, it's mind boggling some of the places they can get in. Yesterday I had a call for a raccoon in the attic of a condominium in Sarasota. The maintenenace guy escorted me back to the building and there it was, 20' of soffit missing from a second story. The closest spot for the raccoon was several feet away from the hole. The had to first spot the hole from the ground which isn't exactly obvious and then climb the stairwell. Once on the second floor it had to climb the railing and then like a some kind of circus trapeze artist, swing itself from the gutter into the hole. A typical adult raccoon stands about 2' when fully erect. Although I haven't this particular one yet the maintenance guy said it was about 30lbs. I just find it crazy what this little animal is capable of. We're setting a ground trap today, I'm excited to see this Mcgvyer like Raccoon. This one should be part of Ringling Brothers Circus for sure! Have a great day!

Wooo Hooooo!!!!

The Weekend's over, time to get things moving! What will this week bring... Bees? Bats? Rats? Raccoons? It's should be interesting! Have a great week!!!

FRIDAY!

Good Morning, I've been neglecting my blogging duties as of late. This week was a out of office kind of week. Hand delivering the September contest and newsletter to the local pest control companies really adds a personal touch I think. You really get a chance to get to know the people in related industries. I had alot of interesting conversations about Bees , Bats, and Raccoons. I also really tried to inform people about our Attic Restoration Division. Unfortunately some still reduce our industry to redneck trappers and that couldn't be further from the truth. Although we do trap wildlife and relocate them, we really strive to educate the public and eliminate the health risks of wildlife invasions. Rather than just "trapping that critter" lets repair the damage they've created and eliminate the potential for spreading disease by sanitizing the area they inhabited. The more will develop rural areas the more contact we're going to have with Wildlife. Well, have a great weekend!

The end of the month wrap up!!

Well, it's the last couple days and time to tie up all those loose ends. I'm finishing up Septembers contest, closing out Augusts referrals, and getting Septembers newsletter ready. It seems the companies been busy with a variety of calls for squirrels, rats, raccoon, and opossum. Well, I better get moving, talk at ya later!

Are you ready?

Don't really feel like doing a extensive blog this morning here Nuisance Wildlife Relocation but it's Monday, I'm rested from the weekend so let's get it on!