Getting rid of rats/mice (merged threads)

maisy-mai

Hornet wrote:

Any mice experts out there? I heard a noise the other day in the cavity wall and bought some poision from tescos - i put 50g down assuming that would be enough to kill anything. I came down in the morning and it had all gone to my surprise and found some droppings. Do they have large appetites? or are there likely to be serveal if that quantity has been eaten? I havent seen any yet but have just bought a trap so hopefully will catch one for breakfast.

When our rat man came out and the poison was gone under our garden shed he just filled it up again and kept doing this and checking until the level was the same as day before if that makes sense he said it takes a few days after they have eaten it .

I just heard scratching while I was on the loo coming from the soil pipe next to me at first you thing you are imagining things well I did any way !!!!!!and my plants were dug up in the kitchen plus a few droppings in the back of kitchen cupboards to start with .

griff.

I read in a book recently that people in London are never more than 10m from a rat at any one time.

brendab_3

I found out just before christmas i had rats in my loft, i could hear scratching at night. Anyhow i phoned the pest control and upon further investigation i found droppings in the back of one of my kitchen cupboards too.

The pest control put down the Poison in the loft and kitchen cupboard etc. He came back just before new year and said the rats had took the bait and filled it up. I could still hear them, as I still don't know how they are getting in to my loft. The pest control guy said its probably a drain defect!

I go away at new year and come back and open my door to the worst smell ever. I phoned the pest control again. I phones him straight away and he comes out and says that a rat had died (obviously) in my wall and there is no way of getting it out as I don't know where the smell is coming from. He said that the smell would last for about 7 days and the rat would just decompose. Yuk! But now I'm reading on websites that because of this you can get blue bottles or even maggots. I'm totally stressed out, can't sleep at night. :mad:

I have managed to cover the smell just now with loads of plug in etc, and I just bought one of those rat repeller from B&Q for £30 that you plug in.

Has anyone else ever had this problem? Help

jillie1974

we live in a terrace and yesterday we were told by one of our neighbours that he has got rats in his attic, so he called last night with a pest control guy who looked in our attic and sure enough they have been in ours as well:eek:
they have been running through all the attics... we live 3 doors up from him! and are in the neighbors further up as well !!! all our houses have gaps int he comnnecting attic walls! have checked and hopefully havent made it downstairs yet (from what i can see!!)
anyway... because they are rats will the local council come and deal with it or do we all have to sort our own houses?
and if so anyone got any idea of how much it costs?

Cazza

Try calling them, it depends where you live as to what they'll do. We live in a fairly rural area, backing onto farmland so they wouldn't do anything, but the same council did do something for my grandmother who lives in a town 10 miles away. This was all about 10 years ago though....! HTH!

BobProperty

According to http://www.manchester.gov.uk/envhealth/pest/gallery/rats.htm
its free. Which I thought it was because I think they'd been to one of my properties in the past to deal with mice (though I may have paid a small fee back in those days). Rats are more dangerous to health than mice anyway. Sounds like a phone call should get the process started.

jillie1974

Just had call from neighbour...pest control peeps from council are coming round tomorrow to look at the street (our section anyway)
wouldnt mind but we've got 2 cats i thought one of them might have sniffed the rat out!

beefster

"just bought one of those rat repeller from B&Q for £30 that you plug in."

Didnt work for our neighbours who had them in the garden and the house..... mouse in doors and rats in the garden......... dont know what they expect when they put kilos of bird seed out every day!

foreign_correspondent

Hi, just to let you know, we had a serious mouse problem before christmas, forst spotted one in the kitchen, then they kept popping up everywhere, especailly in the evenings when we were watching tv!
They even got onto the worktop and ate away at a loaf of bread! yuk!
They were avoiding the traps, and didnt like the idea of poison and finding dead mice weeks after the event! Also, was concerned that even if we killed them, more would keep invading us from other flats in the block.
Bought a electic mouse repeller, left it plugged in for a week whilst we were away (after cleaning everywhere scrupulously, putting all food in tins in a top cupboard etc) - came back, No mice, No droppings nothing! fab! two weeks later and not a sign!
It is one of the 'whole house' type repellers, which combines ultra sound with a electro magnetic field which they apparently don't like. I was sceptical, but I am very impressed! It cost about £30 but well worth it in my opinion.

Nile

foreign_correspondent wrote:

Hi, just to let you know, we had a serious mouse problem before christmas, forst spotted one in the kitchen, then they kept popping up everywhere, especailly in the evenings when we were watching tv!
They even got onto the worktop and ate away at a loaf of bread! yuk!
They were avoiding the traps, and didnt like the idea of poison and finding dead mice weeks after the event! Also, was concerned that even if we killed them, more would keep invading us from other flats in the block.
Bought a electic mouse repeller, left it plugged in for a week whilst we were away (after cleaning everywhere scrupulously, putting all food in tins in a top cupboard etc) - came back, No mice, No droppings nothing! fab! two weeks later and not a sign!
It is one of the 'whole house' type repellers, which combines ultra sound with a electro magnetic field which they apparently don't like. I was sceptical, but I am very impressed! It cost about £30 but well worth it in my opinion.

Thanks for your post.

To help members with a vermin problem, could you tell us where you bought the repeller (and it's name) from please?

Regards

Nile