Sealing bottom of boiler house door to stop rodents?

Gloomendoom

Gloomendoom wrote: »

Those things never worked for me.

OP, what bait are you using on the traps? I have just set over a dozen Little Nipper traps in my attic using hazelnuts smeared with Nutella and can guarantee that I will have at least two of the little blighters tomorrow morning. They can't resist it.

I underestimated. I've just been up and collected four ex-mice.

Rodders53

Had the little :censored: eat through the plastic pipes between ceilings and floors, and in both loft spaces. Cause £ks worth of damage. No sign of infestation until a big bunch of leaks within a few days.

I've since: put down garage door thresholds strips by Stormguard and Weatherstop to stop them getting in that way.
Sealed/filled around all pipes and cables through the ceiling of the attached garage (copper wire mesh and/or stainless steel mesh). That's to contain any in the garage if they get in again that way.

Filled any other suspect gaps around the home where they might be getting into the loft.

You'll need to do similar (once you've killed the existing lot).

Pro pest controllers used baits to deal with the infestation... You'll know if they are taking it, but you need to keep supplying them with easy food. I've also used baits and traps since. Hazelnut pieces and peanut butter work for me.

Blocking entry from outside to more of the rodent's family would be wise asap. Exactly what you use depends on the door and threshold that exists. There's a big choice but remember any gap left has to be less than a pencil thickness.

The blighters can have nuts and peanut butter off the traps without setting them off! You need the nut 'wedged in' well to catch them.

This year they are only getting into one attic space... which I've got five traps set and two bait boxes. {The other spaces also have traps/bait but no evidence of anything being taken}. So there's a way in somewhere I have yet to discover (and block).

The joys of country living.

Jackmydad

They say "a pencil thickness" but I've seen a small one go through a crack about 20mm long and tapering from a lot less than a pencil thickness down to nothing. The little bu. . . Ahem I mean, "rodent" just seemed to "flow" through it like something supernatural.
But it is one of the joys of country living!

George_Michael

However effective the traps seem to be, in the OP's case I don't see them being a long term solution.
Traps are fine for getting rid of resident vermin but in the OP's case there is a gap for them to get in and having traps baited with food will simply keep attracting more and more mice from outside (and it could also start attracting rats as well).

justaquestion

Thanks for replies. Well I have put a piece of timber at bottom of boiler house door and used some quick drying cement from Screwfix to build ground level up as much just under the door as well. There was a very big gap at bottom of door.

None of the traps have been tampered with as yet, by the mice. First leak was Monday of last week, that I just put down to a normal leak, then nothing until Friday morning when another leak sprung up. Decided then it was the mice.

As I say its Monday night now, and nothing. Gives a false sense of security that maybe it was just one mouse and he has gone.

I am using these mouse traps

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Intruder-30442-Better-Mousetrap-6-Pack/dp/B00APWMD3A/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_328_tr_t_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RGJJ133534MVFK2HNVB8

I have four in one area where leaks occurred and three in another area.
Can I ask, in the area where the three traps are, there is a lot of loft insulation there, is it better to have the traps under the insulation or is on top of it ok?

Someone is coming soon to patch up the plasterboard on ceiling , or do you think its better to wait a few weeks?

Thanks