Squirrel Removal in Marietta, GA

Squirrels in your Marietta home

Squirrels are the call Marietta homeowners make most, and where they got in usually tracks the age of the house. On the mid-century ranches found all over town, the favorite is the gable vent at the end of the roof — a thin louvered cover that a squirrel can chew through or push aside in an afternoon. On the older homes near the Square, it's wood soffits and fascia boards that have softened over the years. On newer subdivision houses, it's the gap where a lower roof meets a second-story wall, a spot that was never sealed when the house went up.

Once inside, a squirrel isn't just noisy. It chews wiring, tears up insulation for a nest, and keeps working at the roof edge to widen its way in. The fix is the same for a house of any age: get the squirrels out without trapping young inside, then close every opening — not just the one you spotted — with metal they can't chew.

Baby season changes the whole job

Squirrels in this part of Georgia usually have young in spring and again in fall, though the timing drifts from year to year. That matters more than anything else on the job. If you close the hole while a mother has babies in the attic, she doesn't give up — she chews a brand-new way back in, often doing more damage to the roof than the original opening. So the first thing a pro checks is whether there's a nest with young in it, and the plan is built around that answer.

What they chew once they're in

A squirrel's front teeth never stop growing, so it gnaws constantly. In a Marietta attic the usual casualties are electrical wiring, insulation, and the siding and roof edges around the entry. Chewed wiring is the serious one: bare wire in a dry attic is a fire risk you can't see from the living room. That's the main reason not to wait and hope a squirrel moves out on its own — and in a mild Georgia winter, it won't.

Where squirrels get into Marietta houses

Walk around the house and think about when it was built. Ranches: check the gable vents at each end of the roof and the corners where the roof overhang meets the fascia. Older in-town homes: look for soft or loose trim, gaps at the soffit, and the area around old chimneys. Newer homes: look where roof sections step up against a wall and where the garage roof ties into the house. A pro inspects all of it, because a squirrel that loses one entrance simply uses the next one you didn't know about.

Flying squirrels keep a different schedule

If the noise starts after dark and goes on into the night, it may be southern flying squirrels rather than grays. They're small, they live in groups, and they glide between trees, so they're common wherever Marietta has big hardwoods. The removal is basically the same job — the difference is that they fit through smaller openings, so the pro has to look harder for the little gaps a gray squirrel would ignore.

How a pro gets them out for good

Poison isn't the answer; it leaves you with a dead squirrel in the wall. The pro sets a one-way door on the active entrance, and live traps where they make sense — checked every day, which is part of what you're paying for. Once the attic is confirmed empty and no babies are left, every opening is closed with metal flashing and steel mesh, which a squirrel can't chew through. Done properly, that repair should last as long as the house. Ask for the warranty in writing.

Trimming trees helps — sealing is what works

Marietta has a lot of big old trees, and limbs resting on the roof make the trip easy. Cutting them back a few feet is a good idea. But squirrels jump, climb brick and run along utility lines, so trimming by itself won't keep them off a house with an open gable vent. Think of trimming as the extra step and sealing as the actual fix.