Why Savannah homes get rodents
Older housing stock with crawlspaces, mature tree canopy over rooflines, marsh edges, and a port corridor — rats and mice have every advantage here. Roof rats travel the live oaks straight onto rooflines in the older neighborhoods; Norway rats work the ground near the industrial corridor; mice exploit whatever gap the last plumber left. None of it means your house is dirty — it means your house has a gap.
That’s why our answer is construction first: find the gap, seal the gap, then deal with the current tenants.
Exclusion vs. the bait-station treadmill
Poison-only plans kill some of what’s inside and leave the door open — new rodents move in, and you’re paying monthly forever. Exclusion ends the problem at the structure: sealed vents, screened penetrations, fitted door sweeps, hardware cloth at the crawlspace. It costs more once and less over three years, and we’ll show you that math in writing either way.
What the process looks like
Inspection and entry map, written plan and price, exclusion work, trap placement, then follow-up visits until the traps stay quiet. Most residential jobs resolve in two to four weeks. If the activity points to a bigger structural issue — a failing crawlspace door, a rotted sill — we’ll tell you that too, because sealing over rot is sealing nothing.