{"id":19,"date":"2026-08-06T09:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/2026\/08\/06\/the-six-gaps-that-let-rodents-into-almost-every-home-we-visit\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T09:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T09:46:08","slug":"the-six-gaps-that-let-rodents-into-almost-every-home-we-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/2026\/08\/06\/the-six-gaps-that-let-rodents-into-almost-every-home-we-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"The six gaps that let rodents into almost every home we visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Weep holes, dryer vents, roofline junctions and three more. A weekend with mesh and sealant closes most of them.<\/p>\n<p>A house mouse fits through a gap the width of a pencil; a young rat needs about the size of a thumb. In practice that means the six places we check first are the same in almost every property: weep holes in brickwork, unscreened dryer and extractor vents, the junction where the roofline meets the fascia, gaps around incoming service pipes, garage door seals, and the void behind a poorly fitted airbrick.<\/p>\n<p>Stainless wire wool packed into a gap and sealed over holds far better than expanding foam on its own, which rodents chew straight through. Exclusion is the only permanent fix \u2014 baiting without sealing just creates a vacancy for the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weep holes, dryer vents, roofline junctions and three more. A weekend with mesh and sealant closes most of them. A&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockwpthemes.com\/demo\/bwt-pest-control-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}