Rodent service
Rodent Control Services in Salt Lake City, UT
Rodent control that ends with a closed house rather than a service contract. Mice or rats, basement or attic, the job has the same four parts, and skipping any one of them is why so many rodent problems come back.
Mice and rats are the same job at different sizes
People usually call about one or the other: scratching in the basement ceiling at night, droppings in a kitchen drawer, something chewed in the garage. Which animal it is changes the details - a mouse gets through a smaller gap and a rat does more damage once it is in - but it does not change what fixes it.
In this valley it is more often mice, and two kinds of them. House mice live with people year-round. Deer mice live outside, in fields, scrub oak and the vegetation around buildings, and move indoors when it gets cold - which is why the calls here follow the weather.
The four parts, and why none of them is optional
Find. The free phone estimate comes first. Where the source is not obvious from the call, the Entry Point Diagnostic follows: a technician works the basement, the window wells, the attic, the garage and the outside of the house, so the entry points are written down rather than guessed at.
Seal. Every opening larger than a quarter of an inch is closed in galvanized steel, sheet metal, hardware cloth or mortar. That is rodent proofing, and it is the part that decides whether you are calling again next winter.
Trap. What is already inside is taken out with traps and the Rat Vac system, not poison, so nothing dies inside a wall or a basement ceiling where it cannot be reached. Trapping runs over several days rather than one visit.
Clean. Droppings, nesting material and contaminated insulation come out, and the space is sanitized and deodorized with TwinZyme. With deer mice in the picture, this is done with containment and protective equipment, not a broom.
Why Salt Lake houses need it done this way
Most houses in the valley have a basement, and a basement puts the whole perimeter of the house at ground level: window wells, basement windows, the rim joist sitting on the foundation, and every pipe and wire that passes through it. That is where most of the openings are, and it is where a quick look from the driveway never goes.
The benches, the canyon mouths and the open ground on the west side keep a population right against the edge of the neighborhoods, and the river and the canals carry rats into the middle of them. When the nights drop, all of it heads for the nearest heated building.
What you do not get
You do not get a monthly contract, a ring of bait stations around the house, or a technician who checks a box from the driveway. Bait and quarterly visits manage a population; they never close the building, which is why they never end.
What you get is a repair, finished once and backed by a 100% money-back guarantee.
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- Free Phone Estimate, written price before work starts
- No poison, trapping and the Rat Vac system
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The rest of the work
Mice Control
Most of the work in this valley. Mice move into basements and garages when the weather turns, through gaps the width of a pencil. We close the openings and remove what is inside, rather than refilling bait every month.
Read more →Rat Control
The rat in this valley is mostly the Norway rat: a burrower that lives low, along the Jordan River, the canals and the drain lines, and comes in from underneath. We find the way in before anything else.
Read more →Free Rodent Phone Estimate
It starts with a call. Tell us what you are hearing, where in the house and when, and we tell you what it usually means and what the work would involve.
Read more →Rodent Proofing
Closing the house before the cold pushes everything outside to try it. Every gap is sealed in material a rodent cannot chew, and a sealed gap does not need renewing.
Read more →Vehicle Rodent Removal
Rats and mice nest in engine compartments, chew wiring and leave droppings and odor behind. A four-step process to clean it up, treat the vulnerable parts and discourage the next one.
Read more →We handle rodent control across the Salt Lake Valley, see every area we serve, or start from rodent control in Salt Lake City.
FAQ
Rodent Control: common questions
Is this different from mice control or rat control?
Those are parts of it. Rodent control is the whole job - finding the entry points, sealing them, removing what is inside and cleaning up after - for mice and rats alike. Most homes need all four parts, and the estimate tells you which.
How do I know if it is mice or rats?
Droppings are the quickest tell. Mouse droppings are small, roughly the size of a grain of rice; rat droppings are noticeably larger. In this valley it is mice more often than not. You do not need to be sure before you call.
Why not just put out bait?
Bait kills rodents somewhere you cannot reach, usually inside a wall or a basement ceiling, and in a house shut up for the winter the smell stays with you. It also leaves the way in open, so the next one arrives on the same route.
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