10/18/2026
I was worried there was something lurking in our home, making my kids or us sick. Two inspectors - nothing. My best inspector came up from San Diego and raised a question about our vaulted ceilings.
When we bought the home over 10 years ago, it was a run-down rental home. We fixed everything but the ceilings, since they looked fine. Turns out before we moved in, those ceilings were filled with rats. Even though we did not have any active rodent issues, all this stuff just sat in our ceiling.
Rat urine and droppings bring dangerous bacterial toxins - toxins that are actually MORE DANGEROUS than mold toxins. If it were not for my inspector, I would have never even thought to open up those ceilings and never found the rat droppings from 10+ years ago.
THIS IS HOW EASY IT IS TO MISS EXPOSURE TO THESE TOXINS.
AT LEAST 30% OF ALL HOMES HAVE ONE OR MORE OF THESE TOXINS.
IF YOUR KIDS ARE CONGESTED, GETTING SICK ALL THE TIME, OR HAVING ODD BEHAVIORAL OR LEARNING CHALLENGES - MAKE SURE THE INDOOR AIR OF YOUR HOME IS NOT CONTAMINATED.
Dr. K