1) Weep Screed
This is located at the exterior base of your wood-frame stucco home. It is a metal strip with small round holes that runs around the entire perimeter of your home where the stem wall of your home meets the stucco. The purpose is to allow any moisture to weep out of your exterior walls. The opening that needs to be sealed is gapping between the weep screed and the stem wall of your home, not the weep holes. The openings can vary in size anywhere between 1/8 inch and 3 inches in width. We recommend using an elastic-based silicone that will have some movement when your home is settling from being new or due to the change in weather.
3) Breather Screens
Breather screens are air ventilation for your attic. Builders will put larger screens in bird block that are too large and a smaller screen is needed to stop infestation.
4) T-Pipes
Located on your rooftop is ventilation for your exhaust fans located in your bathrooms and laundry rooms. This again is an area where rodents, bees, or bugs can enter your home.
5) Exterior Openings
These areas are very common entry points: AC lines, exterior light fixtures, water spigots, exterior thresholds of doors, wood trim of doors, and utility boxes or mechanical rooms.
6) Garage
It is a very important area that needs to be sealed where the stem wall of your garage meets the sheetrock. This will stop bugs from entering the walls of your home. Your garage doors are very large, which allows bugs to enter constantly.
7) Exterior Doors
Areas to look for: Sliding Glass Doors-Most sliding glass doors are open at the bottom track. This is a highway for insects to enter your home. French Doors- Common open areas are the sides of your doors, where the door sweep meets the threshold and where the two doors come together.
8) Interior Exhaust Fans
This area is basically a hole in your ceiling where the motor sits for your fan. The cover should be removed and screened to prevent anything from entering your home. If bugs are living in your walls, this is one way they will enter your home.
9) Interior Registers
When you remove the interior registers for heating and cooling, normally there is a gap between the metal air duct and the sheetrock; this should be sealed. If bugs are living inside your walls, this is one way they will enter your home.
10) Interior Pipes
Under your sinks should be sealed. Scorpions especially are attracted to moisture; if they are in your walls, they will use this area to enter your home.
11) Screen Window and Doors Weep Holes
If the rain and wind is blowing the right way any window or door is going leak. Weep holes are added so water can get out. We screen the weep holes so the water can get out but the bugs can't get in.
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