Inglewood neighborhoods we cover
- Morningside Park
- Fairview Heights
- Century Heights
- Inglewood Knolls
- Lockhaven
- Hollypark Knolls
- North Inglewood
- Downtown Inglewood
Inglewood homes and how rodents find a way in
Attics opened for sound insulation
Many homes near the flight path have had attic insulation and new windows installed under the airport-funded program. Any time an attic is opened, vents, eaves and roof penetrations can be disturbed, and a vent screen that wasn't put back tight leaves a way in for roof rats.
Apartments on the boulevards
Courtyard and two-story apartment buildings line streets like Manchester Boulevard, Prairie Avenue and La Brea Avenue. Rodents move between units through shared walls, pipe chases and carports, and one trash enclosure can feed a whole building, so the building as a whole matters, not just one unit.
Around Edward Vincent Jr. Park
Homes near the park border a large stretch of lawn and old trees around the Centinela springs. Big parks give roof rats shelter, and from trees along the park edge they travel along fences and power lines into nearby yards, garages and attics.
1950s tract homes in Inglewood Knolls
The Knolls went up as a single tract in 1953 and 1954, so many houses share a layout and age the same way. Garage door seals wear out, attic vents loosen and the holes where cable and gas lines enter the house widen over the years into gaps a mouse can use.
Age matters here: vent screens, eaves and foundations open up over the decades, and those small gaps are how mice and rats get in.
