Any bat experts? This is bat E36 M3 crazy

pheller said:

"The house would pretty much need to be stripped to the studs."

 

Ummm...you mean the room/attic/area where the bats were sleeping? 

 

Not sure an entire house needs gutted for bats congregating in one specific area. Unless it's a single story house and bats have been found all throughout the attic. 

Older historic houses were mostly balloon framed, and lacked wall insulation.  This often means that the stud wall cavities are open to the attic, and often the bats fill the cavities with guano.

It can be a real mess. Especially if there are plaster walls (not drywall).

SV reX said:

pheller said:

"The house would pretty much need to be stripped to the studs."

 

Ummm...you mean the room/attic/area where the bats were sleeping? 

 

Not sure an entire house needs gutted for bats congregating in one specific area. Unless it's a single story house and bats have been found all throughout the attic. 

Older historic houses were mostly balloon framed, and lacked wall insulation.  This often means that the stud wall cavities are open to the attic, and often the bats fill the cavities with guano.

It can be a real mess. Especially if there are plaster walls (not drywall).

Yup, this.  Upstairs has drywall added but the downstairs is all plaster 

SV reX said:

In reply to Steve_Jones :

NJ ain't GA. (I've lived in both places)

Well aware, but according to Georgia law, "intentionally capturing, killing, or harming bats is illegal."  so he needs to do this the professional way, and that might be more expensive than he thought. It's not an easy process, especially since there are babies and those are protected even more so than adults. 

Stampie said:

In reply to z31maniac :

I know it gets worse as we get older but hopefully your crack is less than 1/2".  

Ha!

Also, I just noticed your signature line and let a loud a guffaw.

Unless things changed, moving bats between April 1st and July 31st is even more aggravating, since that is the nesting season.

 

Several years ago I had the same thing happen in my house.  Mine were getting in on the gable end vents.  I scooped up most of them with leather welding gauntlets.  I found out that can not take off vertically, which is a good thing.  I picked them up and put them in a medium sized trash can.  They could not get out.  Putting some torn up newspaper in the can seemed to quite them down and they stopped freaking out.  Leave them in the can, while you do the rest.  Find anywhere they are getting in and cover it with 1/4" hardware cloth(wire mesh).  If you want to keep them around, hang a couple of bat houses on the outside of the house.  I put them in the houses and they crawled right in.  The next morning some of the real small babies were on the ground under the houses so I picked them up and put them back in the houses.  Second day, no more babies on the ground.  Its been 5 or 6 years since then.  Tons of bats in the houses.  Fun watching them fly around at dusk, and the mosquito situation is much better.  Before the bats, you could not go outside after 6:00 or so, now its safe to do so.  Over the next several days after eviction, apparently there were still  a few up in the attic that could not get out.  For the next 3 or 4 days, I would get a couple a night in the house, but inside they are easy to catch.  Stand there with a sweatshirt and when they come at you toss the sweatshirt in front of them.  Sometimes you can pick them out of the airt, sometimes they fall with the sweatshirt and then you can pick them up.  They are cute little buggers.  Mice with teeth and big ears.

In reply to tr8todd :

Thanks!!  Did you ever miss with the sweatshirt and have them fly right into you?  Anything I can put up there that would be a "trap" without harming them?

z31maniac said:

SV reX said:

(Other than dealing up even small cracks- they can fly full speed into a crack less than 1/2")

That picture looks like someone made a (small) effort to try to keep them out, which means the previous owner knew about them (and probably should have disclosed)

Thanks for the nightmare fuel!

If your nightmares require C16 race gas, guess what else can slip through cracks less than an inch wide, is common in South Georgia, and eats bats? 

Note that they are also a protected species here in Georgia if you find they're already on the scene. Or if you would rather have them in your attic than bats - no, you aren't allowed to catch a few and turn them loose in your attic.

MadScientistMatt said:

If your nightmares require C16 race gas, guess what else can slip through cracks less than an inch wide, is common in South Georgia, and eats bats? 

Note that they are also a protected species here in Georgia if you find they're already on the scene. Or if you would rather have them in your attic than bats - no, you aren't allowed to catch a few and turn them loose in your attic.

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This discussion got my attention. These are my eaves. I'll have to find out how to fix this, or who and how much.