12 Horrible Moments People Realised They’d Made Terrible Mistakes

6.

“Had bats in my attic.”

“The space was too small for people to climb in to and I couldn’t seal the crack from the outside until the bats left. I stupidly listened to my mother in law who said mothballs will chase them out and tossed handfuls of them into the attic space. 

Within minutes the smell was so strong you couldn’t go on the second floor of my house and that was when I realised how bad I fucked up. There was no way to get the mothballs back out of the attic. Two weeks of the second floor being unusable later and the bats having not budged an inch, I had no choice except to remove the entire ceiling of the master bedroom and the insulation to get the mothballs back. 

That of course opened up the entire bedroom for the bats to have access to so we had to move out of the room until winter when the bats finally left to migrate to their winter nest. Once they left I had to fully disinfect the bedroom and replace one entire wall they had shit on and part of the floor along with the ceiling I removed and all the insulation.

I did not have a company remove them because at the time the species of bat was protected in my state due to a fungus that had been killing them in large numbers so it was illegal to remove them from their nests. Hence my attempt to get them to leave on their own by making the nest unpleasant. Had I done nothing, they could have coexisted with us for the rest of the season and I would have only had to replace the small section of ceiling and insulation in the one area they were originally clustered.”

–DeaddyRuxpin