Bat Removal in Apex, NC

The town named for a high point

Apex takes its name from its spot as the highest point on the old Chatham Railroad. The town was incorporated in 1873, and its nickname, the Peak City, comes from the same idea. The Apex Union Depot, built in 1867, still anchors downtown, which became a historic district in 1994.

Then Apex took off. The population stayed modest for about a century, then quadrupled in the 1990s to more than 20,000 as Research Triangle Park pulled people south and west. By the 2020 census, Apex had 58,780 residents and ranked as the 17th-largest municipality in the state.

Mostly newer houses, with one catch

That growth shapes almost every bat job here. The typical Apex house was built since the 1990s: two stories, multiple gables, an attached garage, vinyl or fiber-cement siding, and a roof with more intersections than it strictly needs. These are solid houses. They just tend to have a few construction details bats like:

• Soffit returns left partially open at the gable corners
• Dormers where trim and siding don’t fully close against the roof
• Ridge vents and gable vents with gaps at the ends
• Roof-to-wall seams above the garage

The catch is repetition. Builders here put up whole neighborhoods from a handful of plans. If bats found a gap in one house’s soffit return, the same gap may be sitting on the house next door. We’ll mention it when we see it.

Downtown and along the older streets near the depot, the story is the traditional one: aging wood trim, attic louvers, chimneys, and additions. Those houses usually have several small openings instead of one.

Normal bats versus a roost

Apex has plenty of places for bats to feed: Apex Community Park and its lake, Salem Pond Park, the Beaver Creek Trail, and the American Tobacco Trail running along the east side of town. Bats around those spots at dusk are normal.

A roost looks different. You’ll hear chirping or scratching above an upstairs ceiling around sunset, find droppings collecting on a porch or driveway below one corner of the roof, or see bats crawl out of the same gap night after night.

How we fix it in Apex

We inspect every side of the house, including the high gables you can’t see well from the yard. Openings the bats aren’t using get sealed first. One-way exits go on the active ones, so the colony leaves at dusk and can’t return. After the house is clear, we close the last gaps and the work carries a warranty.

In North Carolina, bat evictions are off-limits from May 1 through July 31 while pups can’t fly, and paid evictions require a licensed Wildlife Control Agent. We schedule every Apex job around those rules.

Read more about exclusion and bat-proofing, or if droppings have piled up in the attic, see guano removal and attic cleanup. For a bat loose inside, go to bat in the house tonight. HOA boards can see help for HOAs and property managers; downtown business owners, bats in a commercial building; and congregations in older buildings, older churches and historic buildings.

Apex is one of the towns we cover from Raleigh. See the full list on our page for bat removal in North Carolina’s Triangle.