The rats are gone. What they left in the insulation isn’t, and neither is the heat that comes through it.
An attic restoration is two jobs by one licensed crew: the contaminated insulation vacuumed out and bagged, the attic sanitized, the ways in screened shut, then TAP pest control insulation blown back in to R-38. TAP is cellulose treated with borate and registered with the EPA as a pesticide, which is why a pest control company installs it and an insulation company can’t. Most attics we open around here are under-insulated, and the ones with a rodent history are worse than they look. Start with a free attic assessment. A technician goes up, photographs what’s there, reads the depth, and you get a written quote.
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Florida license
TAP is a registered pesticide, so in Florida it goes in under a pest control license, not an insulation contractor’s.
Owner certification
Kevin is Rodent Standards Certified by the National Wildlife Control Operators Association: the clean-out follows the same standard as the trapping.
In Clermont since
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What you’re noticing
Three things send Clermont homeowners up the ladder: a rodent problem that’s over but not cleaned up, a pile of pellets nobody can explain, and an upstairs that never cools. Find yours. Each one ends at the same free assessment.
Rodents
The clean-out job: it comes out, the attic is sanitized, and the ways in get screened before any of it.
Trails through the insulation, a packed nest in a corner
Roof rats nest up high, and the insulation is the bedding. Once there are runs through the bays and a nest against a joist, that material is done: it holds the urine, the scent trail the next rat follows, and whatever died in it. It gets vacuumed out and bagged, never carried through your house loose.
Roof rats are Florida’s most abundant rodent pest and nest above the ground. UF/IFAS ENY-224
Droppings on the joists, a stale smell through the hatch
Don’t sweep or vacuum droppings with a household vacuum: CDC’s rule, because dry cleanup puts what’s in them into the air. The restoration follows the CDC order: ventilate, wet everything with an EPA-registered disinfectant, then remove. Contaminated insulation is bagged for removal.
“Don’t vacuum or sweep rodent urine, droppings, or nesting materials.” CDC, How to Clean Up After Rodents
Drywood termites
The photo at the top of this page is one, from a 1930s attic in Winter Garden. The pile is the sign; the rafter is the colony.
Six-sided pellets, light brown to black, in a neat pile below a pinhole
Drywood termites live inside the wood itself, rafters and trusses included, and push their droppings out through kick-out holes. A pile on the insulation under one spot is the tell. It goes in your report with the photo, and the treatment is its own job on the termite page.
Six-sided fecal pellets and 1–2 mm kick-out holes are the sign. UF/IFAS IG098
Wings on the insulation after a warm evening
Shed wings in April or May mean a swarm found the attic. Subterranean termites need the ground; drywoods don’t. Either way the attic gets inspected before it gets insulated, because TAP goes over a clean, sound attic and never over an active colony.
April and May are swarm peak in Central Florida. Our pest calendar
Insulation
The insulation job: TAP blown in over clean joists to R-38.
You can see the tops of the ceiling joists
If the insulation sits at or below the joists, there are three or four inches up there. ENERGY STAR’s table for our climate zone says add R-38 on top of that. That is the number we blow to, and the assessment gives you the depth reading before anyone quotes anything.
Recommended attic R-values by zone, from the 2021 energy code. ENERGY STAR
The upstairs never cools down and the bill says so
The attic is the ceiling of the whole house. Thin or settled insulation lets the attic’s heat straight through, and the air conditioner runs against it from May to October. Most homes in our area are under-insulated. The assessment tells you whether yours is one.
Attics carry the highest recommended R-value of any part of a house. ENERGY STAR
Not sure which you’re looking at? Add a photo to the form, with a coin for scale, and a real person from our Clermont office calls or texts you back within 15 minutes during business hours.
What we find, what we do
One attic, start to finish: what a technician finds with a flashlight, then the five steps that leave it clean, sealed and insulated to R-38. Press play, or click a part of the attic.
What we find · 1
Roof rats nest in the insulation and run the same routes through it every night. By the time you hear them, the bays hold runs, a nest or two, and bedding soaked in urine. The scent trail is what brings the next one in, so the material has to go, not just the rats.
Litter and dropping sizes: UF/IFAS ENY-224. Clean-up order and the no-sweeping rule: CDC. R-38 for a 3–4 inch attic in our zone: ENERGY STAR. TAP’s registration: EPA Reg. No. 103652-1.
Two ways to start
If they’re still up there, the $125 rodent inspection comes first and the restoration is quoted from what it finds. If they’re gone, or it was never rodents, the attic assessment is free. Either way the person who went up writes the quote.
Hearing them now
Still scratching overhead? Start with the rodent inspection: it covers the attic and crawl space, finds every way in, and sets the trapping. The clean-out and the new insulation are quoted from that visit, so you pay for one trip up the ladder, not two.
Book the inspection →They’re gone, the mess isn’t
A technician goes up with a camera and a depth gauge, photographs what’s there, checks the vents and gaps, and you get a written quote for the clean-out, the screening and the TAP. No sales visit: the person who did the assessment writes the number.
Book my free assessment →Insulation only
No rodent history, just an attic that was never finished or has settled over the decades. The same free assessment gives you the depth reading and a quote to bring it to R-38 with TAP, capped over what’s already clean.
Book my free assessment →Businesses and rentals
Attic clean-outs and insulation on rentals, multi-unit buildings and commercial roofs run through our commercial program: a free site inspection and a written quote per building, scheduled around the people in it.
Commercial pest control →The insulation
TAP stands for Thermal, Acoustical, Pest Control: cellulose insulation made from recycled paper and treated with boric acid, registered with the EPA as a pesticide (Reg. No. 103652-1). That registration is the whole reason a pest control company installs it: in Florida a registered pesticide is applied under a Chapter 482 pest control license. It’s the same borate family as the Bora-Care we use on termite jobs, in a form you can stand on.
Registered
The EPA label lists boric acid at 12.5%, the sites it goes in (attics, wall voids, crawl spaces) and the pests it controls. Borate works slowly, by contact and ingestion, and the material stays where it’s blown. The label is public, and it is linked at the foot of this section.
On the label
Termites, Formosan termites included, cockroaches, silverfish, earwigs, millipedes, centipedes, crickets, sowbugs, booklice and ants. Not carpenter, fire or pharaoh ants: those stay on the home plan, where they already are.
R-38
R-38the target depth
Loose-fill cellulose, blown over clean joists until the depth reads R-38. ENERGY STAR’s table for our climate zone puts it plainly: three or four inches up there now, add R-38. That is the number on the quote and the number on the after photo.
Capped or replaced
A thin layer with no rodent history gets capped: TAP blown straight over it. Insulation with runs, droppings or urine in it comes out first. TAP never goes over a problem, because the problem would still be there.
Not a rodent treatment
Rats and mice aren’t on its label. The rodent half of the job is the trapping, the screening and the stations. It isn’t a termite bond either: Sentricon or a liquid treatment protects the structure; TAP protects the attic it fills.
Safety
The label’s signal word is Caution, the lowest of the three the EPA uses, and the material is dry and stays above your ceiling. Your technician is licensed and wears a respirator for the dust. The rule is the same as every treatment we do: the label is the law.
TAP’s EPA registration and labels · ENERGY STAR recommended R-values · Every product we carry, with its label, is on Products we use.
Why Clermont attics
Downtown Clermont and Winter Garden keep houses from the 1930s to the 1970s with their original attics; the newer neighborhoods got the code minimum of their year. Both sit under the same sun, beside the same citrus, with the same roof rats on the fence line. The attic is where all of it meets.
Heat
R-38what ENERGY STAR says to add over a 3–4 in attic here
Florida sits in the lowest climate zones on ENERGY STAR’s R-value table, and the attic is where the recommendation is highest, because that’s where the heat comes through. Most attics we open in Lake County are under-insulated.
Roof rats
Sep–Marcitrus season, when roof rat damage runs in Florida
Roof rats are Florida’s most abundant rodent and they climb: palms, fences, power lines, then the soffit. UF/IFAS puts their citrus damage from September to March, which is also when attics here get their winter tenants.
Drywood termites
Apr–Mayswarm peak at dusk in Central Florida
Drywood colonies live inside the rafter, not under the slab, and leave six-sided pellets in a pile below a pinhole. An attic assessment that finds them sends you to termite treatment before any insulation goes in.
The attic year in Central Florida
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The tech was on time and did a great job checking the property for rodent entry points. They didn’t try selling us anything we didn’t need.
Weston came to evaluate our situation with rodents in our home after being empty for over 6 months. He answered all our questions to our satisfaction.
Webenex showed up the next day and solved the issue without hesitation.
The folks at Webenex were excellent and so far it appears that we no longer have uninvited guests.
Florida Certified Pest Control Operator
Kevin started in pest control in 2011, brought the trade to Florida in 2013 with his father, Dave, and founded Webenex in Clermont in 2016 with less than $100. He is the company’s Certified Operator in Charge, so the license on this page is his, and so is the attic assessment’s number.
The attic is where his rodent jobs ended and where the next call started: a clean trapping job, a sealed roofline, and insulation nobody wanted to touch. TAP let him finish the job with the same crew and the same license, and bring the attic to R-38 on the way out. The assessment is free because he would rather you knew what was up there than guessed.
Florida state license
JB309802
In the trade
15+ years
Since 2011. In Florida since 2013. Second-generation operator.
Best Pest Control, Central Florida
Gold Medal 2025
Better Business Bureau
A+ rated
Certifications and recognition
“I wouldn’t be where I am today without the help of my team and my community.”
Kevin Sukovich, Meet the Team
Clean, sealed, R-38. One crew, one license.
Book the free attic assessment and a real person from our Clermont office calls or texts you back within 15 minutes during business hours. Still hearing them overhead? Start on the rodent control page. Pellets under a rafter? That’s termite treatment first.
It’s a dry cellulose insulation treated with boric acid, the same borate family as the Bora-Care we use on termite jobs, and it stays above your ceiling once it’s in. The EPA label’s signal word is Caution, the lowest of the three the EPA uses. Your technician is licensed, wears a respirator for the dust while it’s blown, and the hatch is covered before the blower starts. Read the label yourself: it’s linked in the TAP section of this page, and every product we carry is on our products page with its label.
Both happen, and the assessment decides which. A thin, clean layer with no rodent history gets capped: TAP is blown straight over it to R-38. Insulation with runs, nests, droppings or urine in it comes out first, vacuumed into sealed bags through the hatch, and the attic is sanitized before anything new goes in. TAP never goes over a problem, because the problem would still be there.
R-38 is the target we blow to. ENERGY STAR’s table for our climate zone, built on the 2021 energy code, says that an attic with three or four inches of insulation should have R-38 added; an attic with nothing should go higher still. The free assessment reads what you have now, and the after photo shows the depth marker at R-38.
Yes, and that’s the job this page is about. If they’re really gone, book the free attic assessment: a technician photographs what’s up there, checks the vents and gaps, and you get a written quote for the clean-out, the screening and the TAP. If you still hear them, start with the $125 rodent inspection instead; trapping and sealing come before any cleanup, and the restoration is quoted from that visit.
Termites, Formosan termites included, are on its label, and borate is the same chemistry as Bora-Care. What TAP protects is the attic it fills. It isn’t a termite bond and it doesn’t protect the slab or the walls: that’s Sentricon or a liquid treatment on the termite page. If the assessment finds drywood termite pellets in the attic, the treatment comes first and the insulation after.
It’s quoted after the free assessment, from four things: how big the attic is, how much insulation has to come out, how many openings need screening, and how much TAP it takes to reach R-38 from where you are. You get the number in writing from the technician who went up, and nothing is sold on the spot. If rodents are still active, the rodent inspection is $125 and the rest is quoted from it.
The federal credit for insulation, section 25C, ended for work placed in service after December 31, 2025, so a 2026 install gets no federal credit; the IRS’s FAQ on the law says so. Duke Energy Florida pays an attic insulation rebate, but only after its free Home Energy Check and only through a contractor on its approved list, so Duke customers should book the check first and ask us where we stand. We don’t know of an insulation rebate from SECO Energy.
Read your policy; many exclude damage by rodents and vermin, and we won’t guess at yours. What we give you is what an adjuster asks for: dated before and after photos, what was removed, what was screened and what went in, on an itemized quote. Send it with the claim and let the policy answer.
Most attics are a day; the assessment tells you yours. We confirm the time with you by call or text. Clear a path to the hatch and the garage, keep pets out of that hallway, and leave the rest to the crew: the floor below the hatch is covered, the bags go straight out, and the blower runs from the truck.
Yes. For a closing, the WDO inspection is the report lenders and buyers ask for, and it includes the attic. The free attic assessment is the other half: insulation depth, rodent history and what it would take to restore it, in writing, which a buyer can price and a seller can fix before the listing photos.
We’re based on Highway 50 in Clermont and serve Lake County and 10 more, from the Gulf coast to east Orlando; the service areas page has the map. Military families get 10% off, and there’s no contract on any of it.
Where we work
Webenex Services restores attics and blows in TAP insulation across Central Florida and Tampa Bay: Lake, Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Polk, Sumter, Hernando, Pasco, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Manatee counties, from our office in Clermont.
The free attic assessment comes to your address anywhere in those counties, and so does the crew that does the work.
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