Most animals have no problems with organic natural smells such as excrement,
ammonia (urine), probably perfume and so on, what they do have problems
coping with are chemical smells that they are not used to. Since you cannot
use flammable fluids, the trick is to find a powerful chemical type door
that drives them out plus one that you can live with as it will leak into
the house.

"Tom The Great" wrote in message
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 13:19:09 -0500, "Bill Stock"
wrote:

I've got some critters in the walls/ceiling. I imagine it's squirrels, as
they're making too much noise for mice. I can here them scratching and
rolling objects around at night. I recently had some surgery, so it will
probably be another week before I can drag my butt up into the attic to
check. But we had a new roof put on about a year ago, so I suspect they're
getting in through the new and improved roof vents. Assuming they are
getting in through the roof vents, I was wondering if I could staple some
heavy metal mesh over the inside of the roof vents to keep them out
temporarily? Would this hold up to a Squirrel attack or are they likely to
push the staples out? I will get the roofing company to fix the vents when
it warms up, but I was hoping this might work for now.


imho:

I saw a show where they used a heavy gauge, tight weeve screen
attached to the inside of a gable vent to prevent animals (mice this
case) from entering a house. I wondered about something, what about
the ones already inside the attic?

I heard a trick to get squirrels out of an attic, get some cologne
uncap it, and leave the bottle upright in the attic. The foreign
smell is suppose to drive away squirrels. Once your attic is squirrel
free, put up the heavy gauge wire mesh.

Not doing the work, so this is all guessing, however you might be
interfering with your attics ventulation. So you might want to get
incontact with the company that did the work a year ago. They might
want to check the vents for damage, and there might be a warranty if
they 'failed'.

tom @ www.Consolidated-Loans.info