Additionally keep your grass mowed and the area around your house free of piles of wood grass clippings or other debris which can provide cover for possums.
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Possums are relentless and determined.
There are several ways to get rid of them and most simply involve making the environment less appealing.
How do i know if a possum is living in my roof.
There are many ways to identify whether a possum is living in your melbourne roof space.
A possum feels quickly at home so if they ever visit you have to be certain they will be coming over over again and you will need some professional help to get the rid of the possum who became part of your family inhabiting the roof wall or garage and cause some significant damage exposing everyone to diseases.
Possums are mostly non aggressive animals.
To get rid of possums eliminate food sources by keeping your garbage contained feeding your pets inside and picking up any fruit that drops from trees or bushes.
The combined strategies of the light the smell should keep the possum out of your roof void into the possum house.
You can repel the possum by placing one or two boxes of mothballs or bags throughout the roof void.
To encourage the possum out of the roof place a light in the roof cavity and keep it switched on for several days and nights this may deter the possum as they like to sleep in the dark.
Possum removal is a vital year round service that we offer to the residents and business owners of melbourne.
Another option is to patch up the hole during the day and set a trap inside the roof to catch the possum so you can then set it free on the outside.
Chicken wire is not suitable as the possum will be determined to get back in and can quite easily pull off the wire with its strong claws.
Here are a few things you should not do to get rid of the possum in the roof.
Block up all the holes you can find.
As possums are nocturnal keep a light in the roof cavity keep it switched on for at least 3 days nights.
If you re not sure whether a possum could use a hole to get in stuff it with crumpled newspaper and check it over the next few nights.
While the possum is out of your roof block up the entry holes that it was using to get in.
If you suspect a possum is in your roof don t delay.
Patch up access holes with haste and use chicken wire.
If the possum has been in the roof for a quite a while it considers your roof space its territory and it will do anything to get in.