Bats in our attic

[22go]

Just discovered we have bats in our attic. Last night we counted 48 leaving at dusk. We have called a few companies but wanted to know if anyone has had any experience with bat removal. I understand that removal is very costly! Thanks

 

[geekette]

ugh, not bats, but for raccoons, it was Per Raccoon. trapped outside. I was lucky they hadn't bred yet.

Depending on where you live, might put up bat houses and offer them to your neighbors, too. if they have proper bat houses, maybe they stick around to eat mosquitoes but get out of your house.

I had a bat house but never got a bachelor to move in. A friend of mine has a massive bat house, like 4 foot square!

good luck on their moving out and your not having to pay a lot. For me, 2 raccoons was about 500 bucks. their trap,they came twice daily to check it, released into the nearby nature preserve. I can't imagine you would pay by the bat, unless they had to get in the attic and pluck them out one by one.

 

[WinniWoman]

My friend had them in her attic many years ago and had to get a company to come in. From what I recall they had to wait for the bats to leave at dusk and then come in and seal up all possible entrances to the attic and house so they could not come back in. I cannot remember what else they did- maybe sprayed a repellent also.. They are a protected species so they could not kill them. It was so spooky seeing them all come out at night- like a scene from a horror movie. Especially since she had a very old home (from the 1800's). LOL!

Good luck with it and definitely get a professional company. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. I am sure they make their way into your main living area here and there. My friend first started noticing a bat coming into her house once in a while until one evening sitting outside she and her husband noticed tons of them flying out from her attic.

 

[jme]

Just discovered we have bats in our attic. Last night we counted 48 leaving at dusk. We have called a few companies but wanted to know if anyone has had any experience with bat removal. I understand that removal is very costly! Thanks

"Stay Away"....absolutely works, bats gone in 24 hours..... Proved itself 3 times for us.
We had bats underneath an outside shutter alongside a window.
This product advertises that it's for rodents...a bat is a mammal, and in my mind, a rodent-like animal. Why not try it? Bought it at Lowe's.

I placed one bag behind the shutter and the next morning they were all gone....must have been 30-40 bats.
Same thing the following year....more bats, same result with Stay Away---gone the next morning.
Finally last year when we again discovered the bats had returned, there were so many bats that we couldn't count them----
probably 80-ish....disgusting.
Same result, all gone by next morning, and we took down the shutters on the two windows. (They usually only inhabit underneath one shutter.)

They usually inhabit something on a north side of the house, if a shutter, etc.
a neighbor paid some company $2000 to rid them of bats. We paid $20, and it worked for 3 years. We have had no more bats since we removed the shutters.

My Lowe's box was a light gray box, with two little bags inside.....they may come differently now.

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[islandog]

My friend had them in her attic many years ago and had to get a company to come in. From what I recall they had to wait for the bats to leave at dusk and then come in and seal up all possible entrances to the attic and house so they could not come back in. I cannot remember what else they did- maybe sprayed a repellent also.. They are a protected species so they could not kill them. It was so spooky seeing them all come out at night- like a scene from a horror movie. Especially since she had a very old home (from the 1800's). LOL!

Good luck with it and definitely get a professional company. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night. I am sure they make their way into your main living area here and there. My friend first started noticing a bat coming into her house once in a while until one evening sitting outside she and her husband noticed tons of them flying out from her attic.

This happened to u

 

[geekette]

...We have had no more baths since we removed the shutters.

sometimes typos are funny...

Meanwhile, wonderful recommendation! I can already see one bag tossed under my deck, another in the front planter... thank you So Much for this!!!

 

[geist1223]

Another thing to remember if you have Bats in your attic. Depending on how long the Bats were in the attic once you get them permanently out you might need a major clean up in the attic. Possibly removal of any insulation and putting in new insulation.

 

[WinniWoman]

This happened to u

HUH? We had a bat or two occassionally get into our house but never an entire flock (or whatever they are called) in our attic.

 

[WinniWoman]

...We have had no more baths since we removed the shutters.

sometimes typos are funny...

Meanwhile, wonderful recommendation! I can already see one bag tossed under my deck, another in the front planter... thank you So Much for this!!!

Yes- we had a bat once that liked to hide behind an upper shutter on the north side of the house.

 

[Talent312]

At least you don't have bats in your belfry.
... Someone had to say it.
.

 

[islandog]

We built and moved to a new house about 10 years ago and left this one empty, coming back on some weekends to mow, cleanup etc. In the spring we started noticing a nasty smell in the house and looked everywhere for that "cat pee". It was really intense and I kept saying it smelled stronger upstairs near ceiling. Late one evening while grilling out on deck I noticed a bat flying around the peak of the roof, then another and another and hundreds poured out of the peak. We got a ladder and found a small hole in the peak of the roof, maybe like a squirrel had made. My husband nailed a board over it and we watched early the next morning and saw the parade of bats flying back then they left. He unscrewed several sheets of the tin roof and there was bat poop (guano) everywhere. We had to replace all the tin and insulation. Then scrub with lysol, used hepa vacuums, etc and major cleaning. It was awful but insurance helped. Lots of articles on this and need to check local laws as bars are protected.

 

[Brett]

Just discovered we have bats in our attic. Last night we counted 48 leaving at dusk. We have called a few companies but wanted to know if anyone has had any experience with bat removal. I understand that removal is very costly! Thanks

I thought squirrels in the attic were bad .... wouldn't want bats

 

[jme]

...We have had no more baths since we removed the shutters.

sometimes typos are funny...

Meanwhile, wonderful recommendation! I can already see one bag tossed under my deck, another in the front planter... thank you So Much for this!!!

It's true, we haven't needed to take baths since those shutters were removed. Come on over anytime.....
probably the real reason the bats haven't returned......HaHa

(uhhh, seriously, thanks for the heads up)

 

[jme]

I thought squirrels in the attic were bad .... wouldn't want bats

Funny observation by my wife, but for 2-3 weeks after putting out the Stay Away for the bats, she noticed that the usual
few squirrels that played in our back yard (it's partially wooded), were also gone.....never saw a one, which was highly atypical.
A month later they were back in force.
The stuff must really annoy small animals----- to me it smells like a spruce tree---a very natural and pleasant fragrance.
Frankly I was shocked that it worked.

 

[Big Matt]

My mom had flying squirrels in he attic. It took quite an effort to remove them. Hire a professional.

 

[#1 Cowboys Fan]

Lots of articles on this and need to check local laws as bars are protected.

Another interesting typo!!

Where else would we go to get a BEER??

 

[easyrider]

Bats are kind of dangerous in that they are a known carrier of rabbis. There really isn't a cure for rabbis once symptoms develop. I had a bat land on me years ago and I was told to call our health department. Turns out I had to get the rabbis shots. As it turns out you can get rabbis from bat droppings and urine and not just contact. In Washington, 20% of all bats tested have rabbis.

Bill

 

[Karen G]

Bats are kind of dangerous in that they are a known carrier of rabbis. There really isn't a cure for rabbis once symptoms develop. I had a bat land on me years ago and I was told to call our health department. Turns out I had to get the rabbis shots. As it turns out you can get rabbis from bat droppings and urine and not just contact. In Washington, 20% of all bats tested have rabbis.

Bill

This thread is turning out to be a treasure trove of funny typos.

Bill, I know you meant "rabies" and not the Jewish leaders "rabbis" but it's just amusing.

 

[geekette]

This thread is turning out to be a treasure trove of funny typos.

Bill, I know you meant "rabies" and not the Jewish leaders "rabbis" but it's just amusing.

Yes, having a friend that decided to be a rabbi a bit later in life, there really was not a cure once 'the calling' took hold....

I had a visual of her riding a big bat down to temple....

 

[Sea Six]

We had bats in our house. They came down the chimney into the wood burning stove and then got into the living room thru the air vent in the stove door. I closed the air vent, shut the flue, no more bats. I had to clean out a few dead ones when I opened the stove later on.

 

[clifffaith]

Have to tell Mom's bat story -- still freaks her out 65 years later. As a young married couple my parents lived in an apartment at the back of my grandparent's house. House had been built in the 1890s, and in the 1930s the servants quarters were partitioned off to make two apartments. Dad had night classes at Case Western Reserve, so Mom was home alone when a bat flew across the apartment. She climbed into bed and pulled covers over her head. Dad comes home and searches high and low -- no bat. They go to bed and a bit later hear a clicking sound under the bed. Bat is on a bed leg, right where it could have shimmied up under the covers on Mom's side. We loved hearing that story as kids in SoCal where we've never seen a bat.

 

[bbodb1]

Another thing to remember if you have Bats in your attic. Depending on how long the Bats were in the attic once you get them permanently out you might need a major clean up in the attic. Possibly removal of any insulation and putting in new insulation.

Irv!

 

[geekette]

Irv!

I don't understand?

 

[Talent312]

The University of Florida has built 3 bat houses, intentionally.
Apparently, it's become something of a tourist attraction.
At dusk, people come out to watch the bats fill the sky. - Trip Advisor

 

[jme]

Bats are kind of dangerous in that they are a known carrier of rabbis. There really isn't a cure for rabbis once symptoms develop.
Turns out I had to get the rabbis shots. In Washington, 20% of all bats tested have rabbis.
Bill

To contribute my part to today's typo discussions, it seems like those rabbis could at least call Uber.
And, no need for a cure, they can't help it.
And still yet, that's a ton of Jewish bats in Washington............Who knew?