Dead Animal Removal Ivanhoe East, Yarra Side Homes

Ivanhoe East is mostly larger homes on generous, often sloping blocks: solid interwar brick houses, some arts and crafts and Spanish Mission styles, and a good share of post-war and mid-century modern designs.

The slope is the key detail. Many houses have a deep subfloor or undercroft on the low side and almost no clearance on the high side, which gives rats and possums plenty of dry, sheltered space to move through.

Mid-century homes with flat or skillion roofs have very shallow ceiling voids. When a possum dies in one, there is often no way to crawl to it, so access has to be planned from outside.

The older interwar houses have tiled hip roofs with wide eaves, and gaps along the eaves lining are a common way in for possums coming down out of the gum trees.