If your family thinks squirrels and chipmunks are cute and fun to have around, I suggest you follow the boogers to see the destruction they have done around your place.
One example here: My clothes dryer was taking way too long to dry a load of clothes. It is a fairly new dryer so I suspected poor venting, not equipment failure. After checking inside and finding no blockage, I went to the outside discharge. This is a 4 louvered vent that opens when air pressure is applied from the dryer, and closes with gravity when not drying. The location is under the flooring of a raised deck, which has a floor joist fairly close to the vent.
The chipmunk had chewed through one of the louvers and packed the vent pipe with a fist-sized clump of cedar bark and other trash to make a nest with. The air pressure from the dryer had packed this debris against the three remaining vent louvers, which almost completely stopped hot air flow from the dryer.
This year I am up to 18 chipmunks, (3 today), that have failed their swimming test.
One example here: My clothes dryer was taking way too long to dry a load of clothes. It is a fairly new dryer so I suspected poor venting, not equipment failure. After checking inside and finding no blockage, I went to the outside discharge. This is a 4 louvered vent that opens when air pressure is applied from the dryer, and closes with gravity when not drying. The location is under the flooring of a raised deck, which has a floor joist fairly close to the vent.
The chipmunk had chewed through one of the louvers and packed the vent pipe with a fist-sized clump of cedar bark and other trash to make a nest with. The air pressure from the dryer had packed this debris against the three remaining vent louvers, which almost completely stopped hot air flow from the dryer.
This year I am up to 18 chipmunks, (3 today), that have failed their swimming test.
