Pest invasions in your home can interfere with your ability to relax and potentially pose health risks for your family. Doing something as simple as installing home insulation can prevent bugs such as rats, cockroaches, and insects from entering your home in the first place, helping you avoid widespread infestations. If you want to learn more about this method of pest control, here are some of the ways home insulation helps ward off unwanted critters. 

How Insulation Keeps Pests Out of Your Home

1. Blocking Their Path

Pests can be sneaky, entering homes through the tiniest cracks, crevices, and holes around the exterior of your house. Since it’s so tightly packed, foam insulation helps block the paths that rodents and insects use to enter your indoor space, keeping them outside where they belong.

2. Creating Dry & Cool Areas

Insulation also helps you control the temperature and humidity levels of your attic and crawlspaces, making them less appealing to insects, spiders, and rodents. For instance, since cockroaches are attracted to water and warmth, insulating your attic could keep the area cooler and drier during the summer months, preventing these bugs from nesting in your home.

3. Acting as a Pesticide

Certain varieties of insulation are also designed to act as pesticides to kill insects and rodents. They can be made from borate that’s poisonous to self-cleaning insects such as termites, cockroaches, centipedes, ants, booklice, crickets, and sow bugs. If these pests travel through insulated areas, they will ingest a fatal dose of the insulation material and prevent an infestation.

If you’re interested in installing insulation in your home to prevent pest infestations while improving your energy-efficiency and indoor climate, turn to Priority 1 Construction Service in Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky, and Eastern Indiana. In addition to helping with insulation installation, they also provide asbestos removal, fire proofing, and mold abatement to make your home a safer, more comfortable place. Learn more about how they can help by visiting their website or call (513) 922-0203 to schedule an installation.