Turn up the feet of the ladder so the ladder s spurs can hold the ladder firmly on the ground.
How to keep bats out of attic vent.
Set a ladder near an attic vent.
You can hang the bat house high up on a tree where the bats are most likely to fly inside of it.
The crew found bats living up inside the louvers of an attic vent.
How to remove bats from attic to get them out identify their entry and exit points making sure not to seal them while the bats are inside.
Russ cuts a piece of hardware cloth roughly the size of the circular vent allowing for a hole at the bottom to accommodate an excluder.
Removing the current ridge vent.
Use hardware cloth to to seal off the ridge louver and attic vents as well as the chimney inlets.
Filling in any gaps openings at the ends of the vent.
Bats will hibernate in the winter if the temperature stays at around 35 to 40 f.
Take a look at this video to see how its done.
The best defense against bats is to block entry into your attic.
Killing them is both inhumane and will create an unlivable environment due to the smell of a colony of decaying bats.
Screening the opening underneath.
Screening is effective although sometimes a total exclusion is needed.
Video ridge vent reinforcement.
Bat proofing squirrel proofing too ridge vents is accomplished by.
Re installing the ridge vent with glue and screws.
As you can t be sure exactly how they re getting in you need to plug all the possible entrances.
Keep looking to make sure that there are not more.
Stand with your toes touching the base of the ladder.
Sealing off the attic may work if you can pinpoint the exact place s the bats are coming and going but if you don t do it right the tenacious creatures will weasel their way back in or find a new point of entry.
Prevent bats and other animals from taking up roost in your attic.
Keep bats out of the attic by screening over gable windows.