Home › Winter Haven › Roof Rat Control Winter Haven & the Chain of Lakes Hearing scratching in the ceiling after dark, or finding gnaw marks and droppings in a Winter Haven attic? In a city wrapped around the Chain of Lakes and shaded by mature oaks and citrus, the culprit is almost always the … Read more
If you live in one of Lakeland’s historic tile-roof neighborhoods — Cleveland Heights, the Lake Hollingsworth shoreline, Lake Morton, or the Dixieland historic blocks — you’re in the part of Polk County where roof rat (Rattus rattus) pressure runs heaviest. These neighborhoods combine three things roof rats need: 1920s–1960s Spanish/Mediterranean barrel-tile roofing, decades-old live oak … Read more