Is your house built on a slab or is it on a raised foundation? I had a lot of trouble with snakes hiding under my house.
I get a ton of big, black rat snakes under my house. I wouldn’t mind them so much except:
1) Snake urates STINK! Problem is - snake repellent stinks more.
2) We had one climb up through the walls and get into the attic. Took me, like, three hours of hunting and poking up there before I finally caught the thing making all that noise in the insulation.
I don’t kill ‘em, though. I catch them and carry them off into the woods, across the stream.
Copperheads I would kill on sight in my yard. I have a 2 year old and five year old. Not going to risk their safety!
These guys were in front of our garage which is slab and two story - the rest of the house is on a graded, sloping to a creek - hmmm - crawl space...
We have a creek next to the house and a stream way back of the house but this is the first time in 6 years we’ve had copper heads...