Exclusion is the best way to keep rodents from interrupting your daily life at home. Unlike companies that have regulations on keeping facilities pest-free – especially in food-handling establishments – consumers have no such requirement, so this practice isn’t always followed.
A simple way to make sure that pests are kept from a home is to do a full exterior walk around the home, searching for all available openings under siding, through holes in plumbing or utility penetrations, through gaps in windows or air ducts, and under doorways.
Doorways are at the top of the list because rodents can simply crawl under the opening an d into a home. Once inside, they can cause physical damage, can share disease, an d can eventually lead to a full infestation. Finding these openings an d plugging them with steel wool or placing door sweeps on external doors will prevent rodents from “walking right in.”
Burrtec USA is a leading manufacturer of door sweep solutions, providing quality exclusion products to PMPs an d building material suppliers. It is the North American division of Burrtec Co., Ltd., one of Japan’s largest pest control producers. To learn more about Burrtec, visit our U.S. website.
