Eliminate Pests From an Attic

Learn how to eliminate wasps, bees, and other flying insects and pests from an unfinished attic space. Find out how using a professional exterminator can cut down on your bug problem.

LESLIE: Sandra in North Carolina needs some help in the attic. Tell us about your problem.

SANDRA: How can I keep pests out of my attic without finishing it?

TOM: Without finishing it. You mean without like turning it into a finished remodeled room?

SANDRA: Correct. Because there’s like 800-and-something square – over 800-and-something square feet …

TOM: Well, who’s been visiting you up there, Sandra?

SANDRA: All kinds of pests: wasps; beetles, I guess, or some kind of flying, hard bug.

TOM: Oh, insects?

SANDRA: Yes.

TOM: OK. Well, you can have an exterminator treat for those sorts of things but, frankly, unless they’re getting down into the house I wouldn’t worry about the occasional mud wasp nest or something of that nature. I thought maybe you were talking about animals getting in there.

SANDRA: Oh, no. No, no animals.

TOM: Yeah. Well, that’s pretty common. You’re never going to make a house tight enough to keep them out. If they really bother you, you can have them treated professionally, but I wouldn’t worry too terribly much about it.

SANDRA: OK. Alright. Well, I really appreciate that.

TOM: You’re welcome, Sandra. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.