Your home runs the risks of structural damage and food contamination if mice or rats are present there. By eating your food they can cause food material loss and by chewing wood and wiring they can cause money loss and dangers like fire. Besides these losses mice can also cause health loss by spreading highly contagious diseases and allergies. The damage Is not just limited to human but also your pets that you love so much. Call BPPP, the best mice exterminator Markham to get rid of them before the loss becomes insurmountable.
What damages rats and mice can cause?
Crucial damages are in store if you have rats and mice at homes, offices, apartments and any kind of building. The damages will be caused by gnawing, defection and nest building.
Structural and material damage
- Mice collect material for nest building and to achieve that they will chew through anything that come in their way including wood, paper, books, cloths etc.
- To make snug nest they will gnaw and burrow into car seats, and furniture upholstery. The will also use the soft materials to build nests elsewhere. In the process they will ruin your sofa.
- They will chew your wiring and insulation and that could lead to fire and leakage of gas etc. They will also render home appliances useless by fusing circuits.
- Mice show no respect or importance to items like paintings that are valuable, heirlooms that cannot be replaced and documents that cannot be reproduced. They will chew and cut through any material that they come across to achieve their objective. The y will invade your closet, attic, basement and garage and destroy every item that has wood, insulation, wiring and other chewable components.
Food contamination and material wastage
- They will tear open food packets and feed on them while spilling most of the content on the floor. They will urinate on them, leave droppings or saliva to contaminate food material. Food material contaminated by mice can be dangerous for consumption.
- When it comes to food material rodents have no misgivings on choice and will eat everything that meet their eyes and sense. They also have particular liking to pet foods.
- When they come across food materials wrapped in paper or cardboard then it severs them double purpose. They use the food for eating and the wrapping for building nests.
- When in cupboard or pantry they will also contaminate the food with their droppings and urine besides eating food items.
- If mice eat only 5 grams a day it will waste 10 times more of the material by contaminating and destroying. The leaves its droppings in to the package it has nibbled and in the process also leave several packets opened and contaminated making them unfit for human consumption.
- Mice and rats will chew wooden items and plastic containers even if they don’t contain food material and shred napkins, paper towers and stored papers to make nest building material
- In the attempt to breach your home they will cut holes in the walls and woodwork and cause structural damage. They will also dig up crops and destroy yields even before harvest and will burrow in to lands to make nests and store food.
Wholesale destruction of material and peace is in the offing if you let mice live in your home for prolonged time. Your best chances of removing rats and mice from home effectively lies with BBPP, the most effective Mice Exterminator Markham who has been rendering highly professional mice removal services for communities around here.