Pest Control in San Lorenzo, CA

How do the shared fences in San Lorenzo work as rat routes?

Shared fences between small yards give rats a long, sheltered route along the boundary. The walk follows the fence from the back of each lot to the house, and records any grease marks, worn runs and burrows near a post.

A fence that meets the house at the eave or the gutter gives a roof rat a way up. The technician checks each meeting point and recommends a clearance.

What do the older houses need from the sealing?

Older houses in San Lorenzo often have a crawl space and a garage that shares a wall with the house. The garage joint and the seal under the garage door are the main entries, and the walk checks both.

The eaves and the soffits of older houses are checked for gaps where the wood has moved over the years.

What about the wood on the ground?

Steps, porch posts and planter edges are the wood contacts UC ANR describes. Many small yards have a raised planter with a wood edge, and the walk records the clearance for each one.

Firewood and lumber against the house are recorded and moved away from the wall in the report.

What should a San Lorenzo caller check?

Because San Lorenzo is unincorporated Alameda County, the report carries the county on the paperwork, and the registration check is made for Alameda County. Ask for the licence holder’s name at booking.

Clear the route to the garage and the back gate, and tell the technician about any animal kept in the yard.

The unincorporated paperwork

San Lorenzo is an unincorporated community, so the paperwork for a visit carries the county name and the address rather than a city name. The report is written to that form, and the homeowner receives the county on the document.

The registration check is made for Alameda County, and the licence holder is named on the report for the visit.

Unincorporated communities can have less formal street and property records, so the walk relies on the house and its lot. The report describes the property as it is found, and the homeowner can add the records they hold.

San Lorenzo’s residential streets have many houses of the same size. The walk is set to repeat across the street, and the report notes where a house differs, since that is where a repair or an addition has changed the route.

Garages on the older lots are the usual place where a rat enters, and the report describes the garage joint, the door seal and the top plate in full for each house.

Keeping the garage and the fence in order

In San Lorenzo, the garage and the fence between the lots do most of the work of keeping rats out or letting them in. A garage door that has dropped slightly at one corner leaves a gap that is hard to see from the street and easy to use after dark. The walk checks the door’s bottom edge along its full width, and the report records any corner where the seal has lifted.

The fence between the yards is checked at each post and at the point where it meets the house. A gap at the base of a post, or a board that has come away at the bottom, is the kind of opening a rat travels through without hesitation. The report records each one with its position, and the homeowner can fix the small ones before the next visit.