Marble's housing stock shapes exactly where rodents get in. Full basements are standard here, a near-universal response to the region's genuinely harsh winters. Combined with the area's climate — a humid continental climate with warm, humid summers and some of the coldest, snowiest winters of any major U.S. metro — 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.