Belleville's housing stock shapes exactly where rodents get in. Older brick and wood-frame homes built during the region's auto-manufacturing boom, most with basements to handle harsh winters. Combined with the area's climate — a four-season climate typical of the Great Lakes region, with real winter cold and consistent summer humidity — rodents seeking shelter from weather extremes make a beeline for any accessible gap.
Exclusion is the core of effective rodent control: finding and sealing every gap a mouse or rat could use to get inside, since traps alone just remove the current population without stopping the next one. We pair exterior sealing with interior trapping or bait stations, then follow up to confirm the problem is resolved.