Squirrel Removal Bergenfield NJ: Getting Squirrels & Raccoons Out for Good

Why Bergenfield blocks are squirrel country

Bergenfield is a busy, built-up borough, but drive down almost any residential street and you'll see the reason squirrels do so well here: rows of mature street trees and backyard trees whose branches reach over roofs, power lines and garages. Squirrels use those branches and wires like highways from house to house. Parks like Cooper's Pond give them even more cover.

Most of Bergenfield's homes are single-family houses on fairly close lots — lots of Cape Cods, Colonials and split-levels, many built in the middle of the last century, plus detached garages and sheds out back. Close houses mean a squirrel that's pushed out of one roof often tries the neighbor's next. That's why we look at the whole house, not just the hole you've noticed.

Bergenfield sits between Teaneck, Dumont, New Milford, Englewood and Tenafly, and we work in all of them. We come from Garfield, about 10 miles away — usually a 20 to 30 minute drive — and same-day visits are often available.

Scratching in the bedroom wall? It may be the knee-wall attic

Many Bergenfield Capes have finished second floors with short knee walls under the slope of the roof. Behind those walls are narrow attic spaces running the length of the house. Squirrels love them — they're dark, warm and close to the roof edge where the squirrels chewed in.

That's why homeowners tell us the noise sounds like it's inside the bedroom wall or right above the closet. Signs it's a squirrel in a knee-wall space:

• Scratching or rolling sounds in the early morning and late afternoon
• Noise along the low part of a sloped ceiling
• A chewed hole at the roof edge or soffit right outside that room

These spaces are tight, so they're also where insulation gets torn up and where a dead animal is hardest to find by smell alone. We inspect them through the access panels when the house has them. See squirrel in my house if one has already made it into the living space.