How To Keep Possums Off Your Roof

These possum removal tips can help you keep possums off your property and away from your garden and trees in your yards.

How to keep possums off your roof.

Click here to hire us in your town and check prices updated for year 2020. A packet of stainless steel nails they won t rust and 4 longish cable ties. Ensure your trash is covered properly and inaccessible and any pet food is inside or where possums cannot access it. If they are getting into your roof sleeping on top of your roof under solar panels or in open gable areas give us a call and we can give you a quote to block off the areas.

Get a live holding trap from a big box home improvement store or from an online retailer. They are excellent climbers with their opposable thumbs. Live holding traps capture possums without hurting or killing them. The females often seek out a safe place to live once they have young and a possum on the roof is often a possum that is seeking to live in your attic.

Possums will only be on your roof regularly for three reasons they are living in your roof they are living on your roof or they are using your roof to get from a to b. Cut back trees that are growing near you home so possums don t have easy access to your roof. So here s an easy way i devised to keep possums off your roof if they re getting onto it via a cable like your power line. Even if possums pose no real physical danger to you or your family it can tear up your residence and office and cause an overall nuisance that could disturb the quality your life.

If you have possums in your crawlspaces such as your roof or under your house you may need to physically remove them. All you need is some 9x32mm pipe insulation foam. Cut off about a 375mm piece of insulation to use.