Something Died In My Attic

He came up with nothing.

Something died in my attic.

So if you re experiencing a smell of this nature in your home it s hard to say with certainty the culprit is a mouse without visual confirmation. It is not difficult to tell you have an animal in the home but it can be difficult to identify what sort of animal it is. I hear something in my attic. It may only create a slight odor at first but the real danger comes from the bacteria it contains.

Third the inspection in the attic is the real clincher. The best way to eliminate the smell of a dead animal inside your wall is to find the animal and remove it. I think there is an animals living up there this is a common call we get here at creature control. Unfortunately this smell can be produced by any member of the rodent family mice rats etc that may have found its way into your walls attic or crawlspaces and died.

The man poked proded crawled around my attic in places i feared wasps would get him. I called a pest removal company. I believed it was a dead something and i was not going to go looking for it. I can simply crawl in the attic or under the house and find the deceased critter.

If you know how to identify these you will know your culprit. But if it s died in a wall or under floorboards or something then i need to cut a hole. Whether your attic is being invaded by mice rats raccoons or even squirrels you must beware of the dangers posed by their droppings urine. There might be other clues on your house or at the entry hole such as footprints hair and so on.

If it s inaccessible by a skinny human such as me i sniff out the exact area and cut a hole in the ceiling and remove the animal that way. When an animal like a rat squirrel opossum or raccoon dies in a wall attic or another area of your home the smell can be overwhelming. Last summer i believed an odor coming out of my kitchen was coming down from the ceiling. Be sure to cover holes larger than one half inch 1 25 cm in diameter vents chimneys crawl spaces gaps and cracks.

Animals can get in to your house through holes cracks vents and other openings and the best way to prevent them from getting inside and dying in your home is to cover these entry points. There you will find various evidence most importantly you can identify the feces. This can make a house uninhabitable until the stench has been eliminated. The animal may have died at the very edge of the attic or worse in a cathedral ceiling or some other spot.

If you can t find the offending animal or don t want to cut into your walls you ll have to do what you can to keep the odor contained and cover it up as much as possible it typically takes up to two weeks for the smell to fade but it can take longer for larger animals like raccoons.