There are squirrels in my roof

[GeneralElectric]

A family of squirrels has decided to take up residence in my roof and I can hear them chewing. Obviously I need to seal up the hole they got in from but I don't want to seal it with squirrels in there. (Summer is approaching)

How can I flush them out?

[254 stringer]

Put a cat in your roof

[Floyd Eye]

Get in your attic and run them out. This time of year they certainly have young ones.


If you're not a PETA freak, use poison peanuts. Or a pellet rifle.

[MJ5150]

Do you mean in your attic? You can't really get "in" a roof.

-Mike

[Fassa Albrecht]

Errrr, find something that eats squirrels and put it in there?>

[GeneralElectric]

Not the attic. If that was the case I'd just shoot them with a CO2 rifle.
They're technically in my porch roof since the porch extends from the house, and my bedroom overlooks the roof.
They got in because the front gutter got hit by a branch and the nail took out some of the wood. They made the hole a little bigger and moved in.

So the only hole to get in there is about 3 1/2 inches wide. I don't care if they die but if they die in the ceiling they're gonna reek in about a month or two when the weather gets hot.

I hear them clawing at the wood work.

EDIT: FWIW the space is kinda triangular. Its about 7 1/2 wide, 20 feet long, and maybe 2 feet tall at its highest point.

[Floyd Eye]

Put poison peanuts in there.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Your only real solution might be to start ripping out bits of roof.

[GeneralElectric]

Thats not a very good solution Fassa.

The easiest one I can think of is widening the hole a tiny bit and slip in a metal plate with a nugget of burning sulfur on it. Thats how you clear out a nest of bees and I don't doubt that it'd work for squirrels too. I'm just trying to find a solution where I don't burn my house down.

[Fassa Albrecht]

It's certainly a last-ditch solution. You could in the meantime do as you say and use sulfur or even just ordinary smoke (works on bees too). You can even get a special smoker much like beekeepers use.

[tastybasslines]

Originally Posted by 254 stringer

Put a cat in your roof

this +1

[MatticusMania]

Can you stick a piece of dry ice in there and fog them out? I have no idea if that would work, but it sounds fun.

[tastybasslines]

Originally Posted by Fassa Albrecht

It's certainly a last-ditch solution. You could in the meantime do as you say and use sulfur or even just ordinary smoke (works on bees too). You can even get a special smoker much like beekeepers use.

what about like a cockroach fogger, would that work?

[Radical Edward]

Originally Posted by GeneralElectric

A family of squirrels has decided to take up residence in my roof and I can hear them chewing. Obviously I need to seal up the hole they got in from but I don't want to seal it with squirrels in there. (Summer is approaching)

How can I flush them out?

I recently did some research about what I could do to get rid of some squirrels living in the ceiling of the garage here, but apparently it's illegal to remove them without their babies and apparently you need a permit to trap them and relocate them, where I live. Things may be different where you live, though and that's something I'd consider. There may be babies u there, but no one can prove it. Just try to look around up there the best you can to try to save the little buggers, but if you can't find them there's not much else you could do.
Don't poison them as that gives them a very slow and very painful death and any animal that feeds on them will also die a slow and painful death. (Like, cats, dogs, raccoons, etc.) Not to mention, you don't want a dead raccoon stuck in your ceiling, for I fear the stench would be terrible.

[nutdog]

Put a couple of snakes up there.

[sneha1965]

You should have Macaroni Tony come by. He'll make pets out of 'em.

[Fassa Albrecht]

[Skitch it!]

If they didn't damage stuff I'd be happy to live and let live, a place I had outside of London had loads of them, they were excellent to watch doing their thing, magpies used to attempt to take little ornaments from the bedroom windowsill in summer too, I like that.

But they weren't a pest, depends how much of a nuisance they are I suppose.

[Fassa Albrecht]

Wonder what squirrel tastes like?

[MatticusMania]

When GE widens the hole and looks inside the porch roof he will see graffiti on the walls saying "...the people of Waytansea Island will kill you the way they've killed everyone before..." "...now I see my wife working at the Waytansea Hotel, cleaning room and turning into a fat ****ing slob in a pink plastic uniform..." "...She comes home and her hands smell like the latex gloves she has to wear to pick up your used rubbers...her blond hair's gone gray and smells like the **** she uses to scrub out your toilets when she crawls into bed next to me..." "...her **** hang down the front of her like a couple of dead carp. We haven't had sex in three years..."