While it is impractical to cover the roof in anti bird spikes placing these on the ridge of the roof can help to stop pest birds from landing on your roof and causing problems.
Sounds like someone running on my roof.
Squirrel is on the roof chewing on wooden trim like in the photo to the left.
As i sit here in bed trying to get some sleep i cannot.
Its not all in one area.
It s not at the same time eachday.
Had that problem recently.
Anonymous october 30 2015 at 8 51 pm.
At first i thought it was the house settling on like this.
Squirrel is on the roof because it is actually entering and living in your attic.
No i didn t live in an apartment but instead a two story house.
Here are the concerns.
Squirrel on a roof is making noises running around and rolling nuts.
Hey just so you know i have footsteps on my roof at least 12 hours a day and sometimes at night it s called dem squirrels and if you want i can record it tomorrow morning lol.
I should also mention racoons birds and other animals make the same sound.
It literally sounds like someone punching sheetrock.
Trust me i saw the builders building the roof and there were no kind of animals up there.
Most of the noises seem to be coming from the top of the walls.
Trust me it sounds loud like a freaking human walking.
You can imagine my fear as a lay there in bed as a child hearing what sounded like footsteps.
The ones that sound like someone is walking just above you.
We ve been hearing this for a year and recently saw a rat on our patio.
It s quite scary reply delete.
My cat can hear it.
Very heavy sounding footsteps like someone wearing big boots.
Additionally raccoons are primarily nocturnal so the noises occur at night.
How did you guys get to remove the racoons.
Mine is the noises that come from the roof at night.
It is nearly every night that i hear what sounds like animals running on the ceiling.
A cat or a raccoon will never sound like a human running with the someone is running across my room and portal jumping.
They might be from squirrels under the roof inside your house and attic.
Go back to the main how to get rid of wild animals page for more information about animal on the roof and what types of noises or sounds they make.
I used to hear them a lot as a child.
I hear sounds like someone is running on my roof after dark usually at midnight.
It comes from all around the room.
I also just heard a bird.
Anonymous january 24 2017 at 3 23 am.
Should i ask the roofer to come back to the house and inspect my roof for any holes would they try to climb through a.
We have snap trapped 3 rats.
Right now it is 8 degrees f outside.
Our situation ended up being raccoons in the attic.
Raccoons are the largest of these animals so the sound is often heavy more like thumping or walking than the light scurrying of a rat.
The sounds give jun 21 2016 so basically i heard footsteps on my roof last night.