Can i electrofy my metal to eliminate bats ? (life, live, areas)

[oldseahorse]

Bats have found there way under my corrugated roofing , between the sheet metal and the wood sheathing. There is a one inch air space for airflow to minimize condensation under the metal roofing . They crawl thru at the eaves and the space is only as big as the height and width of a single corrugation. I've tried bat houses nearby to draw them out , to no avail. If I seal up the air spaces around the perimeter of the roof, I will eliminate my airflow. My roof is very well grounded with a single UL Listed braided lightning protection cable going to ground at opposing corners of my house. I am thinking of running a heavy insulated wire from a 50 amp breaker in my house, up onto the sheet metal near to where the bats roost. I'm thinking that when I flip the breaker , the current will short to the lightning protection cable and electrocute anything touching the sheet metal between the source and the grounds. I am obviously not an electrical engineer , does this make any sense ?

[oregonwoodsmoke]

I don't know why you don't want bats around eating the mosquitoes, but if you don't want them in the roof, wait for them to all fly out for the night and close the open areas up with window screen.

If they are big bats, you can close the openings off with hardware cloth.

[oldseahorse]

Thanks for the reply. But .....have lots of bats here. It's virtually impossible to seal off the access to the areas where they get in. What I need is an answer to my electrical question. Thanks

[Rabflmom]

Originally Posted by oldseahorse

Thanks for the reply. But .....have lots of bats here. It's virtually impossible to seal off the access to the areas where they get in. What I need is an answer to my electrical question. Thanks

My husband actually went to a Bat school when he worked for a big tech company that got bats in the corporate headquarters main hallway. You cannot do anything to harm or kill them because they are federally protected.. I think zapping with electricity might be against the law.
Basically what you have to do is put up a barrier that will keep them out, but will also have a way for the ones already there to get out.

I suggest contacting your state wildlife division for advice.

[I'm A Gypsy]

When I was a kid I lived in a house for a year that had a strange bat problem. I got a cat, and he started hunting them. after he killed a couple they got the point and stopped showing up around our house.

Confused tho. Why is this on the Americas forum?