Pawtucket's housing stock shapes exactly where rodents get in. Older wood-frame multi-family housing, much of it a century old, makes up a large share of the housing stock in this dense urban corridor. Combined with the area's climate — a classic Southern New England climate — cold, snowy winters and warm, humid 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.