How to Remove Pests and Keep Them Out of Your Garage or Facility

If rodents manage to infiltrate your garage or facility, your health and property are at risk. Rodents like mice and rats are infamous for chewing their way through wood, metals, wall insulation, and even electrical wiring to access your space. Worse still, they can carry and transmit diseases such as the plague, making them a worst nightmare for facilities that deal with food. To keep you, your property and your business safe, it’s crucial to know the signs of a rodent infestation and take the proper steps to not only kick rodents out, but keep them outside. Read on to learn how to keep rodents at bay with solutions that work from Action’s experts!

How to Tell if Your Garage or Facility Has Rodents?

Rodents often leave tell-tale signs of their presence when they move into your garage or facility. The presence of tiny barrel-shaped droppings, faint scratching noises, and a strong scent of urine are all indicators that rodents are around. Also check for gnaw marks around cracks, crevices, and gaps throughout the area in question. Wood shavings can also indicate that rodents have gnawed their way inside of your space, along with gaps and holes as small as 1/4-inch (.635 cm) in diameter, which mice can squeeze through. 

How to Get Rid of Rodents & Keep Pests Out of Your Space?

If you’re finding the telltale signs of rodents in your garage or facility, it’s important to act fast and minimize the risk to your health. Hiring professional pest control is an effective way to remove the rodents from your space before they cause serious damage. However, removing a current infestation does not guarantee safety from future attacks.

Once you’ve kicked the unwelcome critters to the curb, you’ll want to rodent-proof your garage or facility to ensure they won’t sneak back inside! To ensure rodents stay out, don’t tempt them with food and nesting materials. Remove food such as dog food and perishable items along with wood scraps, straw, shredded paper and hay. Be sure to cover garbage cans that are inside of your garage or better yet, keep covered garbage cans outside.

While a tidy space is a great way to deter rodents, the shelter of a garage or facility will always entice them to move in. That’s why it’s crucial to block any openings and fortify your space to prevent rodents from entering in the first place. Luckily for facility and homeowners alike, rodents cannot chew through steel wool, and Action supplies a wide range of steel wool products that are specifically targeted to stop pests from weaseling their way into your space.

How to Block Rodents with Weatherseals?

Action offers Xcluder's durable RodentBLOCK weatherseals to block rats, mice, and other pests from sneaking into commercial and residential environments. RodentBLOCK is made of protective EPDM synthetic rubber and fill fabric made from coarse stainless steel and poly fibers, which creates a tough barrier that is virtually impenetrable to rodents. Rodents aren't the only inconveniences these seals protect against, RodentBLOCK also blocks the elements to help keep debris, rainwater, and extreme temperatures from infiltrating your space.

Xcluder is affordable, easy to install, and highly effective at keeping pests out of places they don’t belong. At Action Industries, we carry the standalone Xcluder RodentBLOCK Fill Fabric that can be added to any installation to add a layer of pest-proof protection. 

We also carry weather seals that are pre-installed with the fill fabric, as well as complete X2 kits that include a bottom seal retainer, rodentBLOCK, and a brush seal for additional protection. You can seal the sides of a garage door with the vertical side seal kit for 12’ high doors or keep pests from getting in under a man door with Xcluder's Passage Door Sweeps. Whether for a residential or commercial garage door or passage door, at Action Industries we have the RodentBLOCK products you need to keep your installation pest-free.

If your garage or facility is located in more extreme environments, consider our heavy-duty Storm Shield® threshold, which can provide protection against water, snow, and ice. Moreover, since this threshold is made of flexible vinyl it will not freeze or stick to the bottom door seal. This overall weather-tight seal will help keep the heat in and the furry ones out!

Take Action with Your Garage or Facility!

Once you’ve made sure your garage or facility is pest-proof, take your garage to greater heights by shopping Action's array of garage hardware. Also, learn about our other weather seals with our handy guide! Action Industries has every part for every door, and our vast variety of products are no exception! With no minimum order quantities at checkout and fast shipping, Action ensures that whether you’re renovating your garage or hired to install a commercial door, you can depend on affordable, timely service.