Your Rodent Experts for over 35 Years!
Local Rodent Control in the Bay Area
Rodents are frustrating and stubborn pests. Not only can they enter your home through a hole as small as a dime, but once they’re in, they’ll get to work chewing wires, ruining food, and spreading diseases such as Hantavirus and salmonella. Why let them take over your home when a team of experts is only a call away? Here at ATCO Pest Control, we’ve spent over three decades designing comprehensive plans that will eliminate these nasty pests in no time!
We can treat for a number of unwanted animals such as:
Eco-Friendly Rodent Control on Your Schedule
Sick of waiting around for results from DIY rodent control such as store-bought rat poisons and mouse traps? We don’t blame you. Here at ATCO, our team of trained rat and mouse exterminators has a range of treatment options ready to help you eliminate rats and other rodents. We’re proud to be an EcoWise-Certified Provider, and we are committed to using safe, effective products with all of our services. Even better, our convenient scheduling and Saturday hours mean we can deliver treatments promptly, so you won’t be stuck sharing your home with rodents any longer than necessary.
When you team up with us, you’ll get the following:
- A thorough inspection to identify entry points.
- Exclusion work to prevent rodents from entering your home.
- Humane trapping to remove existing mammals.
- Disinfection of affected areas to remove damaged insulation and feces.
- Ongoing monitoring and trapping as needed.
- Dead animal removal if needed for vermin that get stuck in your walls, attic, or crawlspace.
Comprehensive Identification & Rodent Exclusion
As a locally owned pest control company, we understand your rodent woes in the Bay Area—that’s why our rodent control experts seek to solve the problem by identifying entry points and sealing them so these pests can’t enter again. Most companies contract out the exclusion repairs, but at ATCO, we want to make everything as hassle-free as possible, so we train our experts on comprehensive identification, control, and exclusion methods. Even better, we do not use poison with our control methods—we use snap traps.
Our rodent control program includes:
- An interview between you and one of our experts to note where you see or hear rodents.
- A thorough inspection to identify the entry points that need to be sealed and where to best place our snap traps.
- A diagram sheet to show you the results of our inspection, including what needs to be sealed and disinfected.
- The complete sealing of entry points by one of our experts, NOT a subcontractor.
- The placement of snap traps.
- Follow-up visits to check traps, remove the pests, and set new traps if necessary.
Common Signs of Rodents in The Home
Unfortunately, it can be easy to miss signs of rodents until after they’ve done damage to your home. While you can try to keep them away by trimming trees & shrubs and removing bird feeders, rats and mice often enter houses in search of food, shelter, and places to raise their young. They’ll typically set up camp in pantries, storage rooms, and cabinets,
If they’re in your house for a while, you’ll begin to notice these common signs:
- Small, dark, pellet-like droppings.
- A musky odor caused by urine.
- Holes the size of a dime or quarter in walls.
- Gnaw marks or dark streaks on baseboards.
- Odd pet behavior.
Types of Vermin We Protect Your Home Against
When you’re dealing with a raccoon or skunk invasion, the first task that ATCO does is to identify how raccoons or skunks are getting into your house or attic. We can install one-way doors, and once the raccoon or skunk leaves a given space, we can seal it up so they can’t get back in. However, if they have young, we are prohibited by law from doing any remediation—we have to wait until the mother takes the babies and leaves, and at that point, we can get everything sealed. Our other treatment for raccoons is to put out netting in areas where the raccoons are pulling back the grass. If they can’t pull anything back, they become frustrated and move on.
Prevent Wildlife with Pest Control
Often, a wildlife issue is caused by an underlying pest issue. For instance, raccoons will often tear up your lawn in search of grubs and other insects, so treating those pests can deter raccoons from visiting your property. To best prevent wildlife from coming to your yard, schedule a pest control service to treat your lawn and house.
Sometimes the only way you know you have a rodent problem is by a foul smell, indicating there might be a dead animal in your attic, crawlspace, basement, or even in your walls. ATCO offers dead animal removal and remediation services to homeowners, governments, and commercial building owners. This includes everything from rats, mice, and gophers, to raccoons, skunks, possums, squirrels, and birds.
Guaranteed Rodent Treatments You Can Rely On
When you partner with ATCO, you’ll work with expert rodent exterminators who are dedicated to giving you the quality service you deserve. In fact, we’re so sure we can eliminate your pests that we guarantee it! If you see signs of rodents between treatments, give us a call and we’ll be back to get rid of the trespassers—at no additional cost to you!
Need Rodent Trapping Services?
Are rats, mice, or wildlife taking up space in your home or yard? Support your local, Diamond-certified rodent control professionals! We service Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Marin County, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara , Solano County, and Sonoma County. If you need our assistance, check out the list below to see if your town is part of our service area:
