Gophers and Foundations

If anyone tells you that gophers cannot get under a home, pool or other structure, they are incorrect.

Yesterday was just another example of how destructive gophers can be on homes.

The gophers have been digging throughout this property for many years, making themselves at home, damaging the walls and foundation of this home.

As you can see, the gophers also take advantage of the curbing in the lawn.  These become "highways" for the gophers.  Anything that is on top of the ground, serves as a ceiling for their tunnels.  Once the gophers are able to locate these tunnels, the gophers will quickly find the water, and plumbing lines, then enter into the home, and den under the bathtubs, or inside the walls.

Since most builders never place concrete under the tubs, the gophers easily den there, and after many years, the backfill from the tunnels will cause the walls to swell, and the high urine content in the soil with stain the walls and create a stung odor in the room.

In this case, the gophers were tunneling in so many locations throughout this property, that they entered into the basement. This photo to the right is not a ramp.  There are stairs underneath all that dirt!  The gophers have filled this area up more than once, from what the owner stated, and from what we observed, we believe it!

In this photo, you can clearly see the gap between the concrete and the wall.  This happens often in construction, additions, damages, settling, etc.  The gophers take advantage of those small cracks and chip away at the voids, creating large passages.

Once the gophers are able to get into the walls, the gophers will begin to start to have their babies, and if not removed, then generations will be created.

One thing many are not aware of is that the gestation period of a gopher is only 13 days.  From birth to maturity - 17 days!  Female to males 9:1 ratio!  If one pregnant female enters your property and you do nothing, are you aware that you can have 216 in only 2 months?  This is called Geometric Progression!

For generations, we have been trapping, killing and successfully keeping noes gophers from entering properties. Trapping IS the ONLY real method to eliminating gophers from any property.

If you've used water, gas, flammables, sound, gum, poisons, baits, toxins, you name it; the most you are doing is moving them from one location to another.  When what-ever-it-is you put into the ground dissipates, the gopher will return and bring all of her brood with her.  This is why we stress that you MUST kill ALL pregnant females first, then dormant, then the males, to wipe out the entire generation.  We go one step further by making sure the gophers don't return, which is one of our trade secrets.

Well, I've got to head out and kill the gophers!  Have a great day and thanks for stopping by!