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Is it bad to leave our crawl space open?

Asked by raum (13208points) August 13th, 2021 from iPhone

So one of the vents to our crawl space was broken. And we had some concerns about rats.

Called Vector Control and they came out and gave us a clean bill of health. No sign of any rats. Just lots of cat paw prints (in the dirt).

The vector control person made a comment that we probably didn’t have any rats because all of the cats were hanging out under our house. (We see them on our security cam. It’s practically a cat club.)

So my question is this…if the cats are keeping the rats away, can we just leave the crawl space open for the cats to chill on hot days?

The door from the crawl space to our garage is pretty tight. And worse comes to worse, we can shove some iron wool in the cracks of the door (to keep the rats from coming into garage from crawl space) since we never really need to open it.

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