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Mice or Birds in Ground Floor Ceiling-How?!!

  • 18-04-2013 7:02pm
    #1
    burly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭


    Hi all, sitting in my sitting room on the ground floor of my 2 storey semi-D, listening to something running back and forth in the floor joists above me.

    First of all how can I tell if its a bird or mouse?

    And secondly, how the hell can something get into the ceiling void, between two floor joists?!! Just cant figure that out.

    Any ideas?


Comments

  • #2
    sealgaire
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    wild goat?


  • #3
    burly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭burly


    sealgaire wrote: »
    wild goat?

    Bingo!


  • #4
    RustyNut
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    Most likley a mouse. Got in through the bottom of a stud wall and made its way up to the ceiling, where it will set up home and start breeding. So unless you get on top of them you will have a nice extended family of cute little mice sharing your home. Wait till ya hear them at night you would think the little fcukers are wearing clogs. I know this from personal experiance.


  • #5
    burly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 314 ✭✭burly


    RustyNut wrote: »
    Most likley a mouse. Got in through the bottom of a stud wall and made its way up to the ceiling, where it will set up home and start breeding. So unless you get on top of them you will have a nice extended family of cute little mice sharing your home. Wait till ya hear them at night you would think the little fcukers are wearing clogs. I know this from personal experiance.

    Walls are solid block though, still cant figure out how anything got in there.

    I thought I heard flapping so might be a bird, but cant be sure.


  • #6
    sky6
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭sky6


    No bother for Mice or Rats to climb Walls especially if its dashed or anything with a little grip. Would come in over the top of the eaves. When I moved in to our house I used to see them run up and down the Soffit and stopping to have a look around when they were over the vent grid.
    Try using a Ultrasound Sonic alarm. you can get them in Dunnes. Plugged it in and they were gone in Days.

    Another time in my old house I heard a noise coming from my Wall hung Boiler press. I really thought it was a Rat it was making such a racket.
    I opened the Door with trepidation and a Blackbird flew over my Shoulder.
    I don't which of us were more frightened. Had a bit of a job catching him and letting him out in the Garden.
    After searching for where he got in I discovered a Knot had fallen out of the Timber Soffit Board.


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