Ocean View's housing stock shapes exactly where rodents get in. A mix of beach cottages, newer coastal construction, and farmhouses on the flat Delmarva farmland, many built on crawl spaces given the high water table. Combined with the area's climate — a coastal climate milder in winter than northern Delaware, with hot, humid beach-town summers — 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.