How To Get Raccoons Off Your Roof

These masked bandits can make a mess of your trash cans dig up gardens and cause general mischief at night.

How to get raccoons off your roof.

Step 1 use a tree trimmer or saw to trim trees around your home or any building where raccoons are a problem. If you re being visited by raccoons on a regular basis you might be wondering if there are ways to get rid of them without causing them harm. If so you certainly aren t alone. We ve seen customers remove their downspouts and cut down trees and raccoons still found their way up.

Sure they re cute as babies but once baby raccoons grow up to be adults they can quickly become a headache for homeowners. Once you ve located the access point the next step is to make your home inhospitable. Keep your roof in good repair. Once a raccoon creates or enlarges a hole in the rooftop it becomes an easy pathway to the attic.

To prevent raccoons from climbing into or giving birth in your attic you need to take measures that will make your home or shed unappealing to the next raccoon that walks by. Females are known to destroy soffits fascia boards shingles vents and insulation to establish denning sites. Along with sealing any holes in the roof that were allowing the raccoons on to the attic it is also important that you check the tiles on the roof haven t been damaged or loosened by the animals. This spot is known as a latrine site.

Typically raccoons get in through the eaves of the roof or in openings at the foundation level. Luckily a raccoon s commitment to a latrine site isn t very strong so it s usually pretty easy to get them to choose a different one. The raccoons trapped inside evidently made new small holes in my roof and even in the wood leading up to the eaves where it meets the brick in their desperation to get out for food and water although none of their holes were big enough for them to get out from. If raccoons were getting on to the roof from the surrounding trees make sure that the branches are trimmed back so it isn t possible to jump on to.

Stopping raccoons from accessing your roof can be next to impossible because there are so many different ways to get on it. Raccoons are actually very clean animals and will go to the bathroom in the same spot away from where they eat and sleep. Raccoons on roofs can cause significant damage to your property.