Come to find out the crazy lady 2 doors down has named them and has taken to hand feeding the bastards whole in shell peanuts, and refuses to repair her dilapidated front porch that houses them too. Spraying chemicals, odor deterrent, dumping used automotive fluids in their holes, spray foam, etc not working. We have a dog and he has taken out a few himself, but not effective enough to stop them (he's literally too dumb and ends up cutting his snout on the metal downspots he traps them in). Toasted a few of them in the serp belt of my vehicles when cold starting on a winter's morning, obvious burrows dug around my garage (hole on one side, comes out 22ft diagonally in the back corner, under the concrete floor), burrows in front of the house in the planting area, blah blah blah. I have been dealing with a chipmunk problem around my suburban property for the past 4-5 years. Do you think this might keep them from digging up into the crawlspace? Short of pouring concrete, I'm thinking of getting a few yards of river stone and covering the floor with 4" of the stone. I'm done messing with these things myself. Since there's no floor, they were able to create a passageway from under my porch right into the crawl space.įirst, I'm gong to call an exterminator. They dug under the foundation wall, and came up inside the crawlspace. They burrowed into my spray foam, there are walnut shells everywhere, and they ripped up my vapor barrier. Yesterday I went under the house and found that they were in there and had trashed the place. I hurt my foot, so I've been unable to go under the house. I started hearing them in the crawl space again, and it sounded like there was a lot of them. I've also put down some poison on occasion, which seems to work for a while.Īfter I blocked their access, everything was fine until March. I managed to block that and poured some concrete to keep them from digging under the blocks I'd put in place. Last Fall I found that they were getting in under some vinyl siding where a pipe was improperly installed. They've even tried to chew through the access door I built. I've religiously tracked down how they've gotten in, and sealed it. Since then, I've occasionally had issues with a few animals getting into the space during the Winter. I went under the floor cleaned it all out, sealed it, rewired, spray foamed, and added a dehumidifier. They were even getting into my basement through a small window accessing the cistern. The prior owner had foam board installed under the floor joists but the squirrels were living in it. The area was full of nuts and squirrel crap. When I moved in, squirrels had the run of the crawl space. I can keep the humidity levels down to under 40%. To alleviate this, I added an under house dehumidifier, put a vapor barrier down on the mud floor, and had spray foam applied to condition the space. It also gets very humid under the house, which doesn't help with the mold smell. Because of this we get a lot of moldy smells coming up through the floor in that room. The 1" tongue and groove flooring sits right on the floor joists. The way the house was built, there is no subfloor. There is no concrete floor in the crawlspace. My back room sits on a poured concrete foundation wall with a mud floor. It's all concrete, and is an extension of the basement. The original house is 30'X30', but there is an extra 10'x30' section that was added. I have an old house that sits on a basement with a partial crawlspace. I have a bad squirrel/chipmunk problem in my crawlspace.
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