Getting an animal out of your house is the easy half of the job. The hard half — the half that decides whether you're making this call again next fall — is making sure nothing replaces it. Wildlife reads southeastern Pennsylvania's housing stock like a directory of open doors: gable vents, soffit returns, fascia gaps, flashing pulls, foundation penetrations, garage-door corners. Montgomery Wildlife closes the directory. We inspect the entire structure top to bottom, seal every current and potential entry with materials animals can't defeat, and finish the work so cleanly it disappears into the house. Our family's finished-carpentry background is why the repairs look built-in; our written 10-year guarantee is why you can stop thinking about it.
"They found openings we never would have, and every repair matches the trim. Haven't heard a single scratch since."
— Placeholder review, Blue Bell (pending real GBP review)
Before & After
Raccoon-Torn Soffit, Rebuilt and Reinforced
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Soffit Torn Open
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Rebuilt & Color-Matched
How We Work
The Montgomery Exclusion Process
1. Top-to-bottom inspection. Animal-proofing a house starts with thinking like the animal, and animals don't skip anything. Neither do we. Working from ladders and with inspection cameras for the voids we can't reach, we examine ridge and gable vents, every soffit and fascia run, chimney flashing and crowns, plumbing and utility penetrations, foundation gaps, window wells, garage-door seals, deck and porch skirting, and crawlspace vents and hatches — every place a paw, beak, or set of teeth could make a door.
2. A written scope you approve first. Each vulnerability is photographed and itemized into a written scope of work with a firm price. You see exactly what we found, what we propose for each point, and what it costs — and nothing starts until you've signed off. Mid-job surprises aren't part of our process.
3. Seal, screen, and rebuild. Every opening gets a material matched to the threat and the structure: heavy-gauge hardware cloth where airflow matters, chew-proof metal where rodents test the perimeter, exterior-grade sealants rated for decades. And where chewing or rot has destroyed the substrate, we don't cap the damage — we cut it out and rebuild the section so it's stronger than the day the house was framed.
4. Finished like carpentry, because it is. Our crews trained on finish work before they ever set a trap. Repairs are fitted, painted, and color-matched so the seal either complements the house or stays completely invisible from the ground. Neighbors shouldn't be able to tell you had a wildlife problem. With our work, they can't.
Before & After
Squirrel-Chewed Entry, Cut Out and Replaced
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Gnawed Entry Point
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Sealed & Painted to Match
The Montgomery Difference
Two Questions That Expose a Weak Warranty
Plenty of companies will tell you their work is guaranteed. Before you hire any of them — including us — ask these two questions and listen carefully.
How long, and is it in writing? The industry norm runs from a verbal assurance to maybe a year on paper. Montgomery Wildlife puts ten years in writing on our exclusion work. That number isn't bravado; it's just what becomes possible when seal-ups are built by carpenters instead of caulked by trappers.
What does it actually cover? This is where most warranties quietly collapse. Many outfits guarantee only the specific points they sealed — so when an animal chews in twelve inches to the left, you're paying for a brand-new job. On our comprehensive exclusions, the guarantee follows the structure, not a list of patched holes. If wildlife breaks into a home we've fully sealed, we come back and we fix it, at no cost to you. The warranty covers the home, not just the hole.
Buying or Selling
Pre-Sale & Pre-Purchase Wildlife Inspections
A standard home inspection is not a wildlife inspection. Inspectors check what's visible and reachable — they don't lift insulation hunting for rodent runs, pull soffit panels, or read the staining around a gable vent. Which is how bat colonies, raccoon latrines, and chewed wiring keep surfacing weeks after closing, as the new owner's expensive problem.
We inspect the parts of the house that hide animal history. Attics and crawlspaces get checked for droppings, urine staining, nesting debris, and compromised insulation; the exterior gets the same full review we'd do before any exclusion — roofline, soffits, chimneys, vents, foundation. Everything is photographed and compiled into a written report built for a real-estate file. And in this region's housing stock, that report earns its fee: a 1920s Main Line stone colonial or a Bucks County farmhouse can hold decades of undisclosed wildlife history above its ceilings, and a twin shares its roofline with whatever the neighbors have been ignoring.
Sellers use the report to fix issues on their own schedule — or disclose with confidence. Buyers use it to negotiate repairs and credits, or to walk away from a money pit while it's still someone else's. If the inspection turns up contamination, our Attic & Crawlspace Cleaning team handles the remediation and documents it for the transaction.
Before & After
Bat Entry at a Rotted Roof Return, Restored
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Rotted Return, Bat Staining
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Rebuilt, Sealed & Painted
What Customers Say
Wildlife Exclusion Reviews
"After the third squirrel in four years we stopped patching holes and had them seal the entire house. They found openings we never would have — including one behind the chimney flashing — and every repair matches the trim. Haven't heard a single scratch since."
Placeholder review
Blue Bell · pending real GBP review
"We had the full exclusion done before listing our house, and the buyer's inspector specifically commented on how tight the roofline was. It paid for itself at the negotiating table."
Placeholder review
Media · pending real GBP review
Common Questions
Wildlife Exclusion FAQ
There's no honest flat rate — price tracks the size of the structure, how many entry points we find, and how much rebuilding the damage requires. What we can promise: the inspection is free, the quote is itemized in writing, and the number you approve is the number you pay.
Every point we seal is warrantied in writing for ten years — if an animal defeats our work, we return and make it right at no charge. On comprehensive whole-home exclusions, that protection extends across the structure rather than stopping at a list of repaired spots.
That's the part we're proudest of. Materials are color-matched and repairs are finish-carpentered to the existing lines of the house, so the work either blends in or can't be seen from the ground at all. Kyle, one of our bat customers, put it best: he was "impressed at how aesthetically pleasing the work was."
We offer both. If a raccoon tore one soffit, we can fix one soffit. But if you've had more than one intrusion, back onto woods or a creek, or own the kind of older home this region specializes in, a targeted patch usually just redirects the next animal to the next weak point. Full exclusion ends the cycle — once.
Smaller jobs — a deck skirt, a shed perimeter, a single roofline section — typically wrap in one to three days. A comprehensive seal on a whole home, especially for bats or flying squirrels, can run one to two weeks because the eviction itself has to be sequenced correctly. Weather and species behavior set the pace; we'll give you a realistic timeline in the scope.
No — the roof is one chapter. Depending on the property we also install heavy stainless chimney caps, screen foundation and crawlspace vents, fit garage-door seals, and trench buried mesh barriers around decks, porches, and sheds so nothing digs underneath. The scope covers wherever your property is actually vulnerable.
The sealing itself, yes. What changes with the calendar is the removal side: bat evictions, for example, are off-limits during the summer maternity season under Pennsylvania rules. When timing restricts the eviction, we complete the preliminary sealing in advance so the job executes the moment the window opens.
Yes — it's one of the smartest line items in a transaction. You get a photo-documented written report covering the attic, crawlspace, and full exterior, formatted for disclosure, due diligence, or repair negotiation. Details are in the section above.
Case Studies
Recent Exclusion Jobs
Raccoon Through the Soffit — Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia County
A raccoon peeled open a soffit return on a stone twin in Chestnut Hill and moved into the attic like she owned it. We trapped her humanely, confirmed no kits were on site, then rebuilt the destroyed soffit run with new framing and vented panel — and reinforced the matching return on the other end of the roofline, because raccoons remember architecture. The repair was painted to the home's existing trim and carries the 10-year written guarantee.
Bats in the Rotted Fascia — Perkasie, Bucks County
Outside Perkasie, a farmhouse's north-facing fascia had quietly rotted soft, and a bat colony had turned three sections of it into doors. We sealed the sound portions of the roofline first, mounted one-way devices over the active gaps, and once the colony had evicted itself, cut out every compromised board and rebuilt the runs in composite trim that will never rot again. Sealed, painted, guaranteed for ten years in writing.
Squirrels at the Roof Edge — Drexel Hill, Delaware County
Squirrels had chewed through the deteriorated shingle edge of a Drexel Hill split-level and were commuting in and out above the bedrooms. After trapping out the residents, we stripped the damaged section, replaced the chewed plywood decking, shingled it back to match the existing roof, and metal-flashed the vulnerable edge so teeth can't restart the project. The whole roofline was then preventively sealed under the same 10-year warranty.
Flying Squirrels in the Gable Vent — Malvern, Chester County
The owners of a Malvern colonial kept hearing what sounded like marbles rolling across the ceiling at 2 AM — the signature of flying squirrels, which work the night shift. Inspection traced the colony to an unscreened gable vent. We sealed the rest of the structure's openings first so the colony couldn't simply relocate, evicted the squirrels with a one-way setup, then screened the vent in heavy-gauge mesh fitted behind the louvers where it can't be seen from the yard. The nights went quiet and stayed that way.
