The short answer is you should not attempt to clean up your attic if you had a serious infestation or if you even had only one or two animals living up there for a long time because there will be a lot of dried feces in the air as well as the fresh stuff lying around and to be honest the risk you take from bacterial infection if you're not properly equipped and trained is just not worth it, at best if you breathe in some of the dust and it contains fecal matter then you'll probably get a lung infection which besides being extremely painful will take some time and a lot of money to cure. You really have to know what species of Long Beach animal made the mess to assess the risk levels. Most professionals do not call this service a clean up, they call it a “roof restoration”.



If you decide to do it yourself you can buy and hire the equipment you need to do it. First thing you need to do is buy a full body biohazard suit, once you have that you need to buy a HEPA filter mask so you can breathe in the attic without risk. You also need an industrial vacuum cleaner to start with which you can hire from most industrial equipment hire centers, just make a few phone calls. Now you're ready to go up in the attic and start the process.

Once you are up in the attic or roof space you can start vacuuming up all the droppings you see, if the place is a little dark you can wear a wide beamed headlamp to help you see, you vacuum up every thing you can and then the final process of removing the actual visible feces is to go around and pick up anything that was too large for the vacuum cleaner. Once you've done all that, and please, make sure you do a thorough job, you can start inspecting your insulation not only for damage and hidden from sight feces but you can also find the California animals nests.

Now you have done a thorough inspection, found all the nests and uncovered even more California animal feces you go back with the vacuum cleaner and repeat your first stage process, you'll also have to probably remove the nests by hand as well as removing a lot of soiled and damaged insulation, after you've done this another inspection is required to make sure nothing has been missed, also most Long Beach professionals at this time inspect the wiring for damage that needs to be repaired as well.

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