Help Squirrels Are Chewing On My Vinyl Siding

Equipped with chisel like teeth for cutting through.

Help squirrels are chewing on my vinyl siding. Playful and cute squirrels are entertaining to watch until their comical antics turn destructive. My husband has allergies to pets cats dogs so that isn t an option. Brush polybutene onto siding railings downspouts and other areas where chewing is found to discourage squirrels from climbing. But they are ruining the house.

Squirrels like to chew on your wood siding because their teeth are constantly growing. Take some of the hottest pepper sauce you can find and with a paintbrush apply it to any area you suspect the squirrel has been chewing on. This can cause damage to the house and leaks and can keep you from sleeping because. My husband put plastic around the garage opening and that helped but they are chewing around the door frame coming into our home.

If you have easy access for a squirrel to get to your wood siding then he will find it to be the perfect place to trim down his teeth. Squirrels are entertaining cute and fun to watch except when they are chewing on the side of your house or causing havoc in other parts of your house. Ryan shows a badly damaged area of a house. The squirrels are chewing literally at our house the wood siding.

Apply squirrel taste repellent. Ghost chili pepper sauce is one of the hottest on the market if you can find it. They need to file their teeth down. If they manage to get inside your walls or attic squirrels can cause extensive damage to your home including chewing into wiring and tearing up insulation for nests.

Squirrels will chew on many items around homes including wood aluminum lead copper plastic vinyl siding sheet rock asphalt and mortar virtually anything that is softer than the hard enamel on their teeth. Squirrels can chew through almost all types of building material if it stands in the way of where they want to go. Whether it 039 s gray squirrels fox squirrels or other tree squirrels gnawing on the siding making them stop can be a challenge. Squirrels are classified as rodents and have well developed jaw muscles and chisel like front teeth that can chew through just about anything.

These front teeth are kept sharp by gnawing on hard objects such as woody plant materials seeds and nuts. Polybutene is extremely sticky and can be messy to apply. Besides prominent incisors squirrels and other rodents have extra strong jaws to help with gnawing.