Service area · Duntroon
Pest Control in Duntroon
On the brow of the escarpment above Collingwood, where the wooded slope ends and the farmland begins. Properties here get the wildlife and the field rodents at once.
Two problems, arriving from opposite directions, at the same building. Duntroon sits on the escarpment brow in Clearview Township, right on the line where the wooded slope stops and the open farmland starts, so almost every property here has one of each — bush behind, fields in front. That combination is genuinely unusual and it doubles the inspection.
Two habitats, one building
Most places we work have a dominant pressure. Wasaga Beach has sand and seasonal occupancy. Ravenna has open ground. Duntroon has both sides at once: mature bush, rock and the Bruce Trail corridor on the escarpment side, and worked cropland on the other. Raccoons, squirrels and bats come off the slope; field mice arrive from the fields when they are cut.
That means an inspection here is looking for two different sets of entries on the same building — roofline and upper structure for the wildlife, ground level and service penetrations for the rodents — and a job that only addresses one of them solves half the problem.
Exposure, and what the wind does to a roofline
The brow takes weather the town below never sees. Wind lifts and works loose exactly the parts of a roof edge that let wildlife in — soffit returns, ridge and vent caps, and the flashing at roof-wall junctions. On this ridge we find more storm-opened entries than anywhere else in the service area, and they open a great deal faster than owners expect them to.
- Soffit returns at the gable ends, which lift first and are invisible from the ground.
- Ridge and vent caps, where a single lifted fastener becomes an opening over one winter.
- Flashing at a roof-wall junction, especially where an addition meets the original roof.
- The gap behind an eavestrough that has pulled away from soft fascia.
Wildlife removal and rodent control in Duntroon
Book the roofline inspection after a hard winter rather than before one. What the wind opened in February is what something moves into in April, and finding it in April is a repair; finding it in July is a repair plus an occupied attic. See wildlife removal and mice and rats.
Booking work in Duntroon
Tell us what you have actually seen and where, and roughly when it started. That is usually enough to say whether you are looking at something we should be at this afternoon, something that wants a booking, or something where the honest answer is to wait — bat exclusion in July being the clearest example of the last one.