Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

dc

shammyjack wrote: »

Buy or borrow a Ferret and give it free run of the house for a few weeks, problem solved !

shammy

Moneysaving,
Borrow a neighbours cat, it will sniff them out in minutes.

halia

well mine are geting less, i called someone out in the end and they put down 25!!! poisen baitboxes of tomcat poisen. Definitly thinned them out a bit, getting them back now but i found an online supplier of the poisen and bought a huge boxfull so I can rebait the boxes

MizzyTizzy

I've had a "known" mice problem for several months now
I've tried everything
Those sonic devices
Blocking up all gaps (that I can see)
Laying bait
Peppermint oil

And not too long ago I saw one strolling along in the kitchen
It's very upsetting
What I have found out is that a woman who lives a few doors away from me has an infestation of mice and rats :eek:. And my other neighbors have seen sightings of mice of their houses too, but they have seen signs of them since April last year. I only saw any signs of them entering my house since November. So that means they were probably coming into my home without me evening knowing it

The only last thing for me to try is a cat BUT from reading some of the responses in this thread, it seems that a cat might not be any help other then to give me an extra mouth to feed. My housing association said that they don't send out people to deal with vermin and my council charges £93, which I cannot afford.

My neighbor with the infestation told me that her child got real sick, so did another child who lives across the road from us who also has the mice problem. This has put the fear in me. And now I'm worried that I may too also have rats and not only mice.
So far I've found two dead mices
One behind the bath panel and one under the kitchen cupboards
The bait in the bait box is nearly finished, so they liking that very well
I'm using the Rentokil boxes, where the bait is already inside..

This problem is really getting me down and I'm feeling real depressed

Does any one have any more solutions that I can try?

Lotus-eater

Rats are really hard, I'm still working at getting rid of my problem, even though I'm sure I've wiped them out a couple of times in the past.

Mice are actually quite easy I think. I use an electronic rat/mouse trap, it works brilliantly with mice, though not very well with rats, its killed over 25 mice, but only one rat.
If we have mice in the house, they usually come in one cupboard, with the trap in there, it only takes a few hours for the offending mouse to be caught.
I use this thing. http://www.northerntooluk.com/products.asp?partno=168430E
It might be available cheaper elsewhere.

MizzyTizzy

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Rats are really hard, I'm still working at getting rid of my problem, even though I'm sure I've wiped them out a couple of times in the past.

Mice are actually quite easy I think. I use an electronic rat/mouse trap, it works brilliantly with mice, though not very well with rats, its killed over 25 mice, but only one rat.
If we have mice in the house, they usually come in one cupboard, with the trap in there, it only takes a few hours for the offending mouse to be caught.
I use this thing. http://www.northerntooluk.com/products.asp?partno=168430E
It might be available cheaper elsewhere.

I'll give that a try
I think I know where they are coming from., because everytime I've sighted one it's always gone behind the washing machine or cooker. All the entry holes behide my cooker are closed so they don't go behind there any more BUT they still go behind the washing machine.

I'm sure they were getting in via the airbrick vents in front of the house and at the back where the garden is. We've covered those up with mesh wiring that I purchased from B&Q. So I'm just hoping that the one I sighted last night was in the house before we covered up the air brick vents and he cannot get out and NOT one that found his way in ...I hopefully he'll so die or wonder into one of the traps I plan to put down:)

I just hope so because I cannot stand seeing those furry little things running around in my kitchen as if I gave them permission too

judderman62

MizzyTizzy wrote: »

I'll give that a try
I think I know where they are coming from., because everytime I've sighted one it's always gone behind the washing machine or cooker. All the entry holes behide my cooker are closed so they don't go behind there any more BUT they still go behind the washing machine.

I'm sure they were getting in via the airbrick vents in front of the house and at the back where the garden is. We've covered those up with mesh wiring that I purchased from B&Q. So I'm just hoping that the one I sighted last night was in the house before we covered up the air brick vents and he cannot get out and NOT one that found his way in ...I hopefully he'll so die or wonder into one of the traps I plan to put down:)

I just hope so because I cannot stand seeing those furry little things running around in my kitchen as if I gave them permission too

any nwsh will need to have tiny, tiny holes as mice can squeeze through a hole the diameter of a pencil :eek::eek:

nat_2

After 3 nights with sporadic sleep I can say for sure that I am terribly tired and desperate as a result of our home mice infestation. And paranoid too!

I came here to check whether there is anything new I can learn and to see if there is anyone who managed to get rid of these desease carrying horrible pests.
This is what I learnt in my still ongoing fight with our mice infestation in case someone finds it useful.

1-2 traps will not be successful if there is more than one mouse. Two years ago we had only one mouse and took us ages to catch it. Managed with glue at the end,as it would not go for any of our two types of traps we prepared for it.
Now we have god knows how many beasts, as we killed one three weeks ago, another one last yesterday, while quite few (very) alive ones kept me awake, running through the room while we were trying to sleep. This was our guest room to which we escaped in hope to get some sleep, as our bedroom was noisy previous night from these bloody creatures. I could hear scratching (in the room) and running somewhere near (seems to be the guest room).
5 traps are set and all of them were empty and not activated and i could hear and see the shadows of 2-3 mice running under the light from our electronic (ultrasound and electromagnetic field) £30 mouse/rat reppelent. We boght these two years ago when we had a mouse first and believed that it worked, but it does not seem to be working on these mice.

Bought yesterday steel wire and expanding foam filler in order to fill up all small holes around the radiator pipes, as well as water and gas pipes in hope that will help get rid of mice. Need to trow out empty cardboard boxes from the loft, aparently they can use them for nests and food. Also, wire mash for one remining old style ventilation brick will be needed.

I can not find dropings and am not sure where their nest and entrances to the rooms might be, apart from climbing up/down the pipes. We have wooden flooring and no holes for mice to hide (but plenty for them to use for their ever growing teeth). Haven't seen them jumping out of anywhere, apart from dead 2 and the running floor shadows at the middle of list night.

We use snap-back/neck braking traps. Reluctant to use poison, as colleague told me that their house stank for 3 weeks after pest control visit. Has anyone had better experience?

In my experience glue also worked, but disposal and cleaning afterwards is very difficult (Not very nice on mice, but they made my life a misery)
Combined means approach might be needed since infestation seems very serious. They reproduce extremely fast and if not distroyed quickly, they will become dozens and hundreds soon.

Has anyone had good experience with any pest control company in London? if it is not alowed to post names here , please send pm.

I am getting more and more paranoid and started hearing scratching noises ar work. Also, started having headaches as a result of being awake by these pests.

Next door neighbor had infestation for a while, we thought we will not get it, as we knew of her infestation and had no signs in our house. She got pest control in and 4 weeks later, she says, there are still many mice in her house and believes we got them form their house. Our houses are terraced, we share wall and garden, but I am not sure whether mice came from her area or elsewhere, it does not matter now. Anyway,might wisit other side neighbours and tell them of our infestation in order for them to be alert so does not spread to their house (unles they had it first, too, and we didn't know).

Lotus-eater, did you manage to kill 25 mice with rat/mice zapper during one infestation or is this over the years?

Any advise apreciated.

desperate

nat

Lotus-eater

nat wrote: »

Lotus-eater, did you manage to kill 25 mice with rat/mice zapper during one infestation or is this over the years?

I think I bought the zapper thing about a year and a half ago, so in that time, but I haven't used it all the time. We're in the country so get mice outside all the time, in the garage/shed etc. Caught about 8 in the house, The rest around the chicken food area in the shed.

nat_2

Thank you Lotus-eater.

I am working on "my lot". Hope their days are nearing the end. No success last night, 5 traps intact, mice heard at night.

Lotus-eater

What are you using as bait? I've tried using the chocolate and sweet stuff that is advised, but have found that normal bread works best.