Roof rats are the dominant rat species in Florida — they climb power lines, palms, and oak canopies into your attic where they shred insulation, gnaw wiring, and contaminate the space. We never use poison in living spaces (creates dead rats in walls). Inspection, trapping, full structural exclusion, and decontamination.
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Hardware stores sell anti-coagulant poison bait stations as the easy answer to rats. Almost every pest control company also leans on poison because it’s cheap and looks like action. Here’s why we don’t — and why you shouldn’t want a company that does:
Our process: snap traps and electronic kill traps in the active areas, complete structural exclusion (every gap, weep hole, pipe penetration sealed with hardware cloth and metal flashing), and full attic decontamination where droppings and urine are present. Trap checks for 7–14 days, then a final inspection to confirm exclusion held.
Florida Fish & Wildlife certified.
Most calls scheduled within 24 hours.
No poisons in living spaces.
Call our licensed trappers for fast, humane wildlife removal.
Snap traps from the hardware store work for one mouse in a kitchen. They don’t solve a structural rat problem because: you trap inside while rats come from outside; entry points stay unsealed; poison creates dead rats in walls; you miss the food source.
Not sure what you have? These three guides help you identify rat activity before you call. Photos, descriptions, and what to do next.
How to identify rat droppings — size, shape, color, location patterns. With photos.
Track size, toe count, gait pattern, and where to look around your property.
Real reviews from Central Florida homeowners we’ve helped.
Heard scratching above our bedroom for two weeks. Two other companies wanted to spray pesticide and call it done. Central Florida Trapper actually went into the attic, found the roof rat entry, sealed it, and replaced the contaminated insulation.
— Sandra R.
Lake Mary, FL
A raccoon tore through our soffit and was raising kits. They located the babies, reunited them with mom outside, sealed everything, cleaned the attic. Done in three days. Insurance paid most because the paperwork was so thorough.
— Mike D.
Apopka, FL
Same-day for a snake on our pool deck. Turned out to be a non-venomous black racer, but they explained the difference, removed it safely, and didn’t charge us a panic fee. Will absolutely call again.
— Patricia L.
Orlando, FL
Four reasons: dead rats in walls (smell takes weeks), pet and family risk from secondary toxicity, wildlife kills (hawks/owls die from eating poisoned rats), and it doesn’t fix the entry point.
Roof rats are slim, dark, with tail longer than body. Found in attics and palms. Norway rats are bulkier, brown-gray, with shorter thick tail. Found in sewers and at ground level. Roof rats are dominant in Florida.
Active trapping: 7–14 days. Exclusion (sealing every entry point): 1–3 days. Decontamination of insulation: depends on attic size. Total project: typically 2–4 weeks.
Not if exclusion is done right. We use galvanized hardware cloth, copper mesh, metal flashing, and structural foam at every gap. Sealed entries are warrantied — if a seal fails, we come back at no charge.
Call our licensed trappers for fast, humane wildlife removal.
