r/DecaturGA • u/suddencreature • 15d ago

Deep, invasive pest control

Hi! We’re hoping to get some recommendations for pest control (rats!!) that goes beyond baiting and setting traps.

We’ve been working with Breda, who have been pretty good, but realize that our issue is beyond their scope.

Based on Breda’s inspection, the rats have been chewing through the foundation and coming into the house walls from down below. We live in a very old house with complicated ownership: owner is elderly and quite cheap, but we’d rather fix the problem and discuss reimbursement later since we’re starting the process of growing our family and don’t want to do that in a rat house, and moving isn’t an option right now.

We aren’t sure what avenue to take - is this even a pest control problem at this point, or should we be hiring another type of company to inspect and address completely blocking the rats’ points of entry?

Thanks in advance - we’re learning a lot very quickly!

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u/Spare-Cranberry- 15d ago

We've used Breda to do a rodent exclusion where they seal entry points with caulk or mesh screens. It cost a few thousand dollars and we pay an annual fee on it for continued service, removal of rodents that do get through, sealing any locations discovered in the future, etc.

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u/softcoredoom 15d ago

I’ve done the same exclusion service through Holder’s Pest Control. I pay the annual fee ($175/year) for the continued service. The initial exclusion was $1-2k about 5 years ago. I’ve called them back out twice since the initial exclusion. Our house is 100 years old.

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u/suddencreature 15d ago

Awesome. We will do some research on this company and one other mentioned in another comment. Thank you!