Suburban Raccoons

The cost to remove raccoons from your attic can be minimized if you act immediately as soon as you find that they have invaded your attic. If you ignore the problem and do nothing until it becomes too big a problem. Raccoon Removal Cost and the cleanup is going to cost thousands of dollars. You may even have to replace all of the insulation in your attic. This is due to the urine and feces that they leave behind. Not to mention damage from rain or snow getting in through the entrance to their den in your attic.

Consumers will try a variety of solutions to get rid of the raccoons, prior to calling in the experts to remove raccoons.  There are many different solutions and none of them work at all.

Here is a shortlist:

• Playing loud music in the attic
• Placing mothballs in the attic
• Trapping the raccoons with a humane animal trap
• Poisoning the raccoons, risking danger to pets, and also rotting raccoon bodies in the attic
• Chasing them
• And a host of things.

None of these solutions work and if you spend time trying them, the raccoons are just going about their business, making a mess of your attic and ignoring your attempts. There will be more feces in your attic, there may even be babies born in the attic and they will do more damage to the insulation which in the end is going to cost you more in heating costs as well as cleanup costs.

Raccoon Removal Cost

The Correct Way to get rid of Raccoons and the Raccoon Removal Costs

Hire an animal removal company that places wire mesh over all potential entrances to your attic. The main entrance should have a one-way trap door in place so that the raccoon can get out of your attic, but not back in. We actually saw this solution just this week on our street and it works perfectly. The raccoons were only in the attic for a couple of days and then they were prevented from getting in again by this one trap door.

The company placed this trap door at the entrance, screw nailed heavy gauge wire mesh to the roof at this location, and three other locations where they might be able to enter. In a few weeks, they will come back and remove the trap door and place a permanent wire covering over this entrance so that they can never get in again.

The cost for this solution, which is permanent, was $450 plus tax and well worth the money. If this homeowner had waited, they would have had to remove all of the insulation and add new insulation to the entire attic costing thousands of dollars. $450 is a deal in this case and a permanent solution!

Services Provided

These companies provide a great service and the charges are based on the number of openings that raccoons might use to get into your home. While they are there, you may as well arrange to have an spots where birds or squirrels could also gain entrance. Might as well get the job done right, while they are there. Cover all vents including air vents that vent air from the attic, vents from the bathrooms, and from the fan over the stove. You do not want birds building nests in these places. Our cost for all of these, about six in all was $600!

Does Insurance Cover Part of the Raccoon Removal Cost

It really depends on the insurance company you deal with and whether they will cover damage caused by raccoons. In our case, there was a specific clause that precludes any damage from animals, including raccoon damage. So in our case, we had to pay 100% of the cleanup cost and also the cost of the animal removal company.

In case you thinking of doing this work yourself, make sure that you use heavy gauge wire mesh as a barrier to the entrance to the den. Also, use waterproof silicone around all of the screw nails to prevent any water from leaking into your attic through or around the holes you make with the screw nails. The last thing you want is more damage, especially from water leaking into your home.

Act quickly to minimize the damage and the cost. You can arrange all of the repairs and the prevention for under $700 in most cases. It is well worth the money and much better than spending thousands.

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