Squirrels Eating Roof Shingles

Excluding squirrels from your home is the most practical protection against infestation but combining exclusion.

Squirrels eating roof shingles.

They have chew their way through the wood siding. They will chew on everything from lead roof flanges attic vents to wood shutters and siding. Squirrels eat away at siding in an effort to get inside your home to build nests. The squirrel loves to climb on houses and by doing this will cause you a lot of damage.

You want to do whatever you can to prevent them from chewing on your house and definitely do not want to allow them to get inside. They can eat away at your siding and trim board as well as your roof s shingles leaving you susceptible to moisture damage. Squirrels teeth grow constantly throughout their lives and the only way to keep them trimmed is by chewing on wood and other materials including your home. Inspect along the edges where.

Squirrels chew through and eat away roof shingles to get through to the underlayment and decking. Use a ladder and flashlight to inspect the roof along soffits eaves ridges and valleys. Squirrels eating my roof and flashing posted by vol fan in the bayou on 2 15 12 at 9 53 am. If they manage to get inside your walls or attic squirrels can cause extensive damage to your home including chewing into wiring and tearing up insulation for nests.

In some houses electric cables pass through the roof. I mean a major one. Inspect your roof and walls for holes where a squirrel may gain entry. It s likely that the squirrels use the top of your roof as a pathway to travel from one tree to another.

After moving into an attic the pests gnaw on electrical wiring and damage insulation or lead pipes. Squirrels love climbing on houses and can cause damage to the outside of your home by chewing on everything from lead roof flanges and attic vents to wood shutters and siding. Squirrels will leap from tree branches that are closest to your roof land on the roof and then run across it in order to leap into a tree that is close to some other portion of your house. Squirrels like to chew on your wood siding because their teeth are constantly growing.

I have a squirrel problem. From lead sheathing to polyethylene there isn t much that stops them. Damaged shingles leave your home vulnerable to moisture and water damage where severed roofing tiles become ways for water leaks inside the home. They need to file their teeth down.

Squirrels in soffits or on the roof are a problem that can quickly turn destructive.