Something's living under your house. Here's how it got in — and how to close the door on it for good.
Scratching under the floors at night. Droppings near the foundation. Insulation pulled down or shredded. If any of that sounds familiar, the odds are high that the way in is the most obvious one: your crawl space door — rotted at the bottom, warped off its frame, or gapped just enough. Animals don't need much. A mouse fits through a gap the width of a dime; a snake needs less.
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Animals take the easiest opening. The easiest opening is usually the door.
Foundation vents have screens. Walls are solid. But a plywood door that's rotted at the soil line, or warped so it won't sit flush, offers a ground-level gap — protected, dark, and leading to exactly the shelter animals want: dry, warm, and undisturbed. Mice, rats, snakes, opossums, raccoons, and stray cats all read the same invitation. Once one gets established, the smell alone invites the next.
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Wire mesh and spray foam are speed bumps, not walls.
The usual fixes — stuffing steel wool, screwing scrap wood over the gap, foaming the edges — fail for the same reason the door failed: the panel keeps rotting and warping, so new gaps keep opening. Rodents chew foam. Raccoons pull loose patches. As long as the door itself is wood near soil, you're re-fighting this every season.
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Close the opening with something that can't rot open again.
A solid 3/4-inch PVC door, built to your opening's exact measurements, mounted on a rebuilt pressure-treated frame, sealed at the edges, with a solid lock — no rot line for anything to work at, no warp gap to squeeze through, no next season's opening. It's how we build every door, and it's warrantied for 15 years.
One honest note: if animals are already under there, closing the door comes after they're out — sealing something inside your crawl space is worse than leaving it open. A pest or wildlife company handles removal; we handle making sure the way in stops existing. We work alongside pest companies across the metro constantly, in whichever order the job needs.