Pest control for homes and businesses across metro Atlanta
Max Pest Solutions treats rodents in Dunwoody, Georgia by closing the entry points as well as removing the animals, because a structure that is only trapped will be re-entered. The first step is a free quote and a walk of the property. Request a free quote.
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A wooded acre and a slab-foundation subdivision home need different work. In Dunwoody we quote after walking the property rather than from a price list, so what gets applied follows what the inspection actually finds.
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The same technicians handle a kitchen ant trail and a restaurant health inspection. Commercial work in Dunwoody is scheduled around your trading hours and documented for auditors; residential work is scheduled around your family.
Call Us NowLong-Term Prevention and Follow-Up
Most treatments are one visit plus a check. If anything is still active when we come back to your Dunwoody property, we treat it again - that return visit is part of the job, not a second call-out.
Call Us NowDunwoody housing is largely 1970s and 1980s, and that generation of building is now at the age where the roofline starts letting things in. Soffit panels shrink and pull away from the fascia, gable vents lose their screening, ridge and drip edge detail lifts, and the junction where a lower roof meets a wall opens up. None of it is visible from the ground and all of it is a rodent entry point.
That is why so much of the activity here arrives high rather than low. Roof rats and squirrels enter at roof level, travel the ceiling void, and are heard above the bedroom rather than behind the kitchen units. Mature trees over these subdivisions provide the bridge: a limb within a couple of feet of the roof is a road. Trapping in the loft clears what is there; unless the roofline is closed and the branches cut back, the same route is used again within weeks.
| What | When it comes up here | What you notice first |
|---|---|---|
| House mouse | Year round indoors, heaviest October to February | Droppings along skirting, gnawing at night, a musky smell in cupboards |
| Roof rat | Autumn and winter, entering high | Noise in the ceiling void rather than the floor, greasy smears on rafters |
| Soffit and fascia separation | Year round, worst autumn onward | Noise overhead in the ceiling void |
| Unscreened or failed gable vents | Year round | Droppings in the loft insulation |
| Tree limbs within reach of the roof | Autumn and winter | Scratching in the early morning and at dusk |
Most of our work in Dunwoody is residential, and treatment is scheduled around your family rather than around us. Residential pest control
Commercial work is scheduled around your trading hours and documented after every visit, which is what an inspector or auditor asks for. Commercial pest control
Indoor activity climbs sharply from late September as overnight temperatures drop.
October through February is the heaviest period, when outdoor populations move to shelter.
Spring brings a second wave as young disperse from winter nests.
A structure that has been entered once will be re-entered unless the openings are closed.
That is roof-level entry, which on housing of this age is almost always a soffit gap, a failed gable vent or a limb bridging to the roof.
Trapping clears the animals present. The opening they used is still open, and it will be found again.
Outdoor populations move to shelter as temperatures drop, so an opening tolerated all summer becomes an entrance in autumn.
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FAQ
It means entry at roof level rather than ground level, which on 1970s and 1980s housing usually means a soffit that has pulled away, a gable vent that has lost its screening, or a tree limb close enough to the roof to be used as a bridge. Ground-level treatment will not touch it.
Yes. Squirrels are in scope under Georgia structural pest rules and we handle them alongside mice and rats. We do not do wildlife work such as raccoons, opossums or bats, and if that is what is in your loft we will tell you and point you to a licensed wildlife operator.
Dunwoody sits in DeKalb County, but structural pest control licensing in Georgia is administered at state level by the Georgia Department of Agriculture rather than by the county. County environmental health handles public health reporting locally.
Cutting limbs back from the roof removes the bridge, and it does more for a recurring roof-level problem than trapping does. It works alongside closing the openings rather than instead of it, since a determined animal will still use a wall or a downpipe if the gap is there.
