From the rich wood floors to the timeless charm, there’s a lot to love about older homes. However, one of the potential costs of your refined living space is bat infestations. While not every mature home is a shelter for these winged creatures, they are attracted to such structures. Here’s why you might find bats roosting in your old attic, and how you can send them away humanely.

Why Bats Like Older Homes

Bats like living in older homes for, surprisingly, the same reason some humans do—their unique design. To be specific, homes built many years ago have many more entry points than modern ones, which allows bats and other flying animals more of a chance of getting in. In addition to the commonality of chimneys and louvered vents, older homes are more likely to have warped due to age and exposure to the elements—leaving cracks, holes, and gaps in their structural materials. Since bats can fit through holes as small as quarters, this leaves them countless opportunities to find shelter.

How Professionals Drive Them Out

While bats are known to eat an excessive amount of insects, the presence of too many in one household could turn them into another pest control problem. Therefore, if you hear screeching noises or smell waste near your attic, call a wildlife control team that specializes in bat removal.

The most humane technique for eliminating bat infestations is referred to as exclusion. To do this, animal control experts install one-way doors on the entry points to your home, allowing the bats to leave to hunt. When they try to re-enter the same point, the contraption will prevent them from doing so. However, if you’d like to keep the bats near your property for insect removal purposes—just not inside it—you can erect a designated bat house away from your home.

If you need to get rid of a bat infestation in your older home, turn to Batman Enterprises of Mason, OH. They offer 24/7 emergency service, so you can get help whenever you hear a funny noise upstairs. In addition to removing the creatures from your home, they can also perform a bat house installation near your property. For more information on their work, visit the website or call them at (513) 600-3079 today.