Rats, mice, and squirrels removed and kept out — with real exclusion work, not just bait boxes. Serving Raleigh and Wake County.
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Raleigh's mix of century-old in-town neighborhoods, mid-century ranch subdivisions, and brand-new HOA developments gives rodents an unusual number of ways into a house — and Raleigh Rodent Control Experts has seen all of them. We're a Wake County rodent control company built around one idea: trapping the rats or mice you can see does nothing if the gap they came through is still open. Every job starts with a real inspection of the structure, not a guess.
We handle Norway rats in crawl spaces and porch foundations, roof rats and squirrels working the tree canopy into attics, deer mice slipping through gaps the width of a pencil, and the fall surge of rodents pushing indoors once Piedmont nights turn cold. Our crews inspect the full building envelope — rooflines, soffits, dryer vents, foundation vents, utility penetrations, crawl space access doors — then trap, exclude, and sanitize, in that order.
Whether you're in a 1930s bungalow near Five Points with a dirt crawl space or a two-year-old townhome in Holly Springs with a sealed slab, the fix looks different, and we don't sell the same package to both. Call for a free inspection and we'll tell you exactly what we find, what it will take to fix it, and what it costs before any work starts.
We're a locally owned rodent control company serving Raleigh and Wake County, built by technicians who got tired of watching customers pay for bait refills year after year with the same hole in the soffit still wide open. Our approach leads with exclusion — permanently sealing entry points with hardware cloth, galvanized flashing, and mortar — because trapping alone only ever treats the symptom.
Every technician who comes to your home is trained on the specific building stock of the Piedmont: pier-and-beam crawl spaces under older Raleigh homes, slab construction in newer Wake County subdivisions, and everything in between. We carry the tools to seal both — hand tools for tight, century-old crawl spaces and ladder rigs for two-and-a-half story rooflines in newer developments.
Rodent pressure in the Triangle isn't uniform. In-town Raleigh neighborhoods like Hayes Barton, Oakwood, and Mordecai have mature oak and hickory canopies dropping mast every fall, plus older homes with plenty of settled gaps around foundations and utility lines. Fast-growing HOA suburbs like Cary, Holly Springs, and Apex have newer, tighter construction, but attached garages, HVAC penetrations, and gaps left by production-home framing crews still give rats and mice a way in.
We size the job to the house, not a flat-rate package. That means a straightforward trapping-and-sealing visit for a single point of entry, or a full crawl space and attic sanitation program for a home that's had rodents running through the insulation for a season or two. Either way, you get a written scope before anything starts, and a warranty on the exclusion work itself.
An in-depth look at how we handle each one.
Rats in the crawl space, attic, or yard — trapped, traced to their entry point, and sealed out.
A standard rat removal visit covers trapping the active population and sealing every entry point that inspection turns up on that call. It doesn't automatically include a full attic insulation cleanup, whole-house preventive exclusion, or crawl space vapor barrier repair — those get scoped and quoted as their own service once we know how much contamination or vulnerability the rat problem actually left behind.
A lot of low quotes we hear about skip the inspection entirely, drop a few traps or some bait, and leave without checking for an entry point at all — which is why the same address so often calls around again within a season. We always inspect first, and we won't quote sealing work sight-unseen just to win the job on price.
Most rat problems trend downward within the first couple of scheduled checks, but an especially large or well-established colony sometimes doesn't. When that happens, we add stations, shift placement based on where fresh sign is showing up, and continue the monitoring visits already included in your plan — you're not billed extra just because the population took longer to clear than average.
Mice in the kitchen, pantry, or walls — found, trapped, and locked out through every gap they used to get in.
Every gap we seal during a mouse job is covered under a workmanship warranty for a set period after the visit. If mice find their way back in through a point we already closed, we return and reseal it at no additional charge — the warranty covers our sealing work specifically, not a brand-new opening that develops somewhere else on the home.
A technician starts outside, walking the foundation and utility penetrations before ever stepping inside, then moves through the kitchen, pantry, and any reported problem rooms looking for droppings and gnaw marks. You get a plain-language rundown of what was found on the spot, followed by a written quote for trapping and sealing before any work actually begins.
This service solves the mouse problem you're currently dealing with — trapping what's active and sealing the gaps that let it in. It's not the same as our whole-home rodent-proofing service, which checks and seals the entire building envelope proactively, whether or not there's any current activity, and is better suited to preventing a repeat once this problem's resolved.
The permanent fix: every rat- and mouse-sized gap in your home's envelope, sealed with materials rodents can't chew through.
Scheduling exclusion in late summer, ahead of the fall push, means gaps get sealed before cooling temperatures send rats and mice looking for a way indoors, rather than after. Spring is the second-best window, closing off whatever winter weather or settling opened up before a new season of litters starts testing the perimeter for weak points.
We start with a walk-around at ground level, then move to a ladder for the roofline, soffits, and gable vents, checking the attic and crawl space from inside as we go. Straightforward jobs get sealed the same day; a full-envelope project with extensive roofline or foundation work sometimes gets scheduled as a return visit once materials are confirmed.
We don't disappear the moment the last seal goes in. For larger, multi-point jobs, we can schedule a courtesy follow-up a few weeks out to confirm nothing's shown fresh gnaw marks near a new seal and that materials have held up through any weather in between — a quick check that catches a problem early rather than waiting for the warranty to be invoked.
Rodent-contaminated insulation removed, the attic deep-cleaned and sanitized, and fresh insulation installed.
The sanitizing and re-insulation work is covered by our workmanship warranty for a set period after the job. If odor or contamination resurfaces from an area we treated, we return and address it at no additional cost — the guarantee applies specifically to the cleanup itself, separate from the exclusion warranty covering the entry points that let the animals in originally.
Beyond the physical difficulty of navigating a hot, low-clearance attic, contaminated insulation and droppings need proper bagging and disposal, and deer mouse droppings specifically carry a real hantavirus risk if disturbed and inhaled without protection. We use PPE and HEPA equipment for exactly this reason — it's not a job where a shop vac and an open window are an adequate substitute.
A standard cleanup covers removing contaminated insulation, sanitizing the deck and framing, treating odor, and installing new insulation to restore lost R-value. It doesn't include electrical repair — we flag gnawed wiring for an electrician, not fix it ourselves — or duct sealing, even though ductwork sometimes needs its own attention after a heavy infestation.
Professional-grade trapping — placed where activity actually is, checked on a schedule, and tracked until it's gone.
If activity picks back up within a set window after we've confirmed a trapping program is finished, we come back and resume checks at no additional visit charge, provided no new entry point has opened up in the meantime. The guarantee covers the trapping outcome itself, not a fresh infestation from a gap that wasn't part of the original job.
Starting before the fall surge, in late summer, generally means a smaller, fresher population and a shorter program overall. Starting mid-winter, once a colony has had months to establish and breed indoors, usually means more visits and a longer timeline before activity drops to zero — timing the start earlier in the season works in your favor either way.
A check visit is quick by design — a technician walks directly to each placement, notes any catch or fresh activity, resets or repositions as needed, and logs it all before heading to the next spot. Most residential check-ins take well under twenty minutes unless something in the data suggests a placement needs to move.
Gray squirrels in the attic or roofline — removed with a one-way exclusion door, never trapped indoors and left.
Once a roofline entry point is sealed, that seal is covered under our workmanship warranty. If squirrels reopen or find a way back through a point we closed, we return and fix it at no charge for the length of the warranty — a separate guarantee from the one-way door and monitoring phase, which we don't consider finished until activity has actually stopped.
Mothballs, ultrasonic repellent devices, and predator-scent granules sold for squirrel control mostly underperform in an actual attic, where ventilation dilutes any scent-based deterrent quickly and a squirrel with an established nest tends to tolerate noise or smell it would otherwise avoid outdoors. They also do nothing about the entry point itself, which is the part that actually needs to close for the problem to end.
A straightforward job with no litter present can sometimes go from inspection to final seal in a matter of days. When pups are involved, the one-way door phase alone can take a week or more, since we wait for confirmed activity to stop rather than sealing on a fixed schedule — the timeline follows the animals, not the calendar.
Proactive, whole-home protection — sealed now, checked seasonally, so rodents never get a foothold.
A homeowner walking the exterior with a caulk gun tends to catch the obvious gaps and miss the ones that aren't at eye level — a gable vent screen pulled loose, a sill plate gap under the house, a roofline seam that's only visible from a ladder. Missing even one active gap defeats the purpose of doing the rest.
A typical single-family home takes a couple of hours to inspect and seal completely, longer if the roofline needs ladder work at multiple points or the crawl space has several vulnerable vents. We give you a realistic time estimate once the walk-around inspection is done and we know exactly how many points need attention.
Scheduling in June, July, or August — before the phones start ringing with active infestation calls — usually means next-day or same-week availability. Once the fall surge hits, reactive emergency and infestation calls take scheduling priority over proactive proofing visits, so anyone waiting until October to book a preventive check may wait longer than they'd like.
Discreet, health-code-ready rodent control for restaurants, retail, warehouses, and HOA properties across Wake County.
Stations and sealing work performed under a commercial contract are covered by our workmanship warranty, and accounts on a recurring plan get priority re-service at no extra charge if activity turns up between scheduled visits. We treat a callback between visits as part of the contract, not a separate billable event.
A recurring monitoring plan covers scheduled station checks, servicing, and documentation at the agreed frequency. It doesn't automatically include exclusion sealing if an inspection finds a structural gap, or emergency after-hours response outside your plan's terms — both get quoted as add-ons so your recurring cost stays predictable and separate from one-time project work.
A technician checks in with whoever's on-site, services exterior stations first, then moves to any interior monitoring points in kitchen or storage areas without disrupting customers or staff. Every station gets logged before the technician leaves, and any activity or concern is flagged to a manager directly rather than left for the next scheduled report.
A strong, sour smell with no visible cause — usually a carcass in a wall void or crawl space, located and removed.
If treated odor returns within a set window after a carcass removal visit, we come back and re-treat the area at no additional charge — that usually means a second carcass or contaminated material nearby that the first visit didn't reach. The guarantee covers the treatment we performed, not an unrelated new odor source that develops later.
Running fans or an ozone machine can mask a dead rodent smell temporarily or push it into rooms it wasn't reaching before, without ever removing the source. Some ozone treatments also aren't safe to run in an occupied home at the concentration needed to compete with decomposition odor — locating and removing the carcass is still the only real fix.
Most odor calls get a same-day or next-day appointment, since a strong, worsening smell in warm weather rarely improves on its own and tends to get harder to trace the longer it sits. We prioritize calls where the smell is spreading through vents or affecting more than one room over a milder, more contained complaint.
A thorough attic-to-crawl-space inspection with a written report — the fact-finding step before any treatment plan.
An inspection is a snapshot of conditions on that day, and we stand behind it — if clear signs of rodent activity show up within a short window of a clean report, we return to re-check at no charge before assuming it's a brand-new, unrelated problem. It's a rare outcome, but we don't leave you to sort it out alone.
A trained eye reads gnaw marks, rub marks, and droppings by age and pattern, not just presence, and we use tools like moisture meters and a borescope to check spaces a flashlight and a ladder can't reach — inside a wall void, behind a vapor barrier seam, deep under low-clearance framing a homeowner would have to crawl to see at all.
Before we leave, we walk the property with you and point out anything we found in person — a gap, a stain, a gnaw mark — rather than only summarizing it later in the written report. You can ask questions on the spot and see exactly what we're describing, so nothing in the follow-up report comes as a surprise.
Crawl space rats and mice — trapped, excluded, and any vapor barrier or insulation damage repaired.
Sealed vents, sill plate gaps, and any vapor barrier sections we repair are covered under a workmanship warranty. If a sealed point fails or a repaired barrier section tears again along the same seam, we return and fix it at no charge for the warranty period, separate from any encapsulation work performed by another contractor afterward.
Beyond the tight, low-clearance space itself, homeowners without the right gear often end up disturbing more of the vapor barrier than they meant to, missing a sill plate gap that's out of easy eyesight, or unknowingly working near older wiring in homes that have never been fully updated. A rushed patch job can also trap moisture against framing that would otherwise have dried out on its own.
Late summer, before fall rains raise ground moisture and before rodents start looking for shelter, is the easiest time to get into a crawl space and assess it thoroughly. Checking again in early spring catches whatever winter moisture or settling may have opened up before a new breeding season starts testing the perimeter.
Active infestation right now? Same-day emergency response for urgent rat, mouse, or squirrel situations.
Any entry point temporarily secured during an emergency visit is covered by our workmanship warranty once permanent sealing is completed during the required follow-up. If a temporary fix fails before that follow-up visit happens, call us back and we'll address it at no additional charge — we don't consider a temporary seal the end of the job.
The emergency dispatch is priced separately for just the containment work performed that day — trapping, temporary sealing, flagging wiring concerns. If you move forward with the full follow-up inspection and permanent exclusion afterward, we credit that emergency fee toward the larger project cost rather than billing it twice as two unrelated charges.
Once the immediate situation is handled, we'll usually recommend a seasonal rodent-proofing check as a follow-up, especially if the emergency was triggered by nearby construction or land clearing that displaced a population toward your home. It's a smaller, planned visit aimed at catching the next vulnerable gap before it turns into another same-day call.
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Cost depends on the extent of the problem and whether exclusion work is needed alongside trapping — a single sealed gap costs far less than a full attic cleanup and re-insulation. We inspect first and give you a straightforward, written price before any work starts, so there's never a surprise bill.
Yes. Same-day inspections are usually available across Wake County, and active infestations or emergency situations — an animal loose inside, chewed wiring, a commercial kitchen sighting — get priority scheduling. Call (689) 358-3644 and we'll give you a realistic window.
Not usually. Trapping clears the rodents that are already inside, but if the entry point they used stays open, new rodents will typically find it within weeks or months. We pair trapping with exclusion — permanently sealing the gaps — because that combination is what actually stops a problem from coming back.
Yes. We use enclosed, tamper-resistant bait stations for any outdoor or accessible placement, and place indoor traps in areas pets and children can't reach. We walk through every placement location with you before we leave so you know exactly where everything is.
New construction isn't automatically rodent-proof. Production-built homes across fast-growing Wake County towns like Holly Springs, Apex, and Rolesville commonly have small unsealed gaps around HVAC lines, plumbing stacks, and dryer vents left over from construction — more than enough room for a mouse, and sometimes a rat.
Mice are active mostly at night and leave small, dime-sized entry gaps and light droppings. Rats are also mostly nocturnal but larger, with bigger droppings and gnaw marks, and either burrow at ground level (Norway rats) or climb rooflines (roof rats). Squirrels are active during the day, sound heavier moving around, and leave larger gnaw marks and bigger entry holes, often near a damaged soffit or fascia board.
Yes — a large share of our work is on pier-and-beam crawl space homes across Raleigh's older neighborhoods and similar housing in Garner, Wendell, Fuquay-Varina, and Zebulon. We carry the low-profile tools needed for tight, decades-old crawl spaces and understand the specific vulnerabilities of that construction type.
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