Mice in ceiling

tramoreman77

I've been hearing a mouse I hope it's a mouse running and scratching on the ceiling while I'm down stairs ,up in the bedroom I heard him running again,how can I catch him or them obviously if he dies he will smell out the place any advice .hes in the floor boards so how or where do I leave traps

FrJGHackett

Set the gaff alight. Should get him.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Move out, there's probably an entire family. They're the worst

Sam Kade

If you hear scratching it must be a rat.

If you can hear vague scratching, prob a mouse.

If you can hear the thud thud thud as its foot hits plasterboard, prob a rat.

Very different, don't think a mouse would stink out the place for long. Even rats can be okay, guess it's probably to do with the air circulation, sometimes they can be vile.

Poison is okay, think some of them based on the idea that the mouse or rat gets thirsty and leaves to look for water. Or heard that before.

tramoreman77

Sam Kade wrote: »

If you hear scratching it must be a rat.

What do I do

Guy:Incognito

Shotgun. Or better still, 5 shotguns.

selastich2

running and scratching? Gremlins

kneemos

Sam Kade wrote: »

If you hear scratching it must be a rat.

If you hear a voice revealing what you did that summer in Majorca, it's a rat.

tramoreman77

Seriously I have kids in the house ,no jokes please

B.A._Baracus

Put the traps in the attic and you'll be sorted. Mice / rats get everywhere and they love that dark environment like your attic.

Set a few traps and give them a few days.

buried

Its DJ Usain Bolt on the ones and twos

beertons

Send a pussy up there. If it doesn't eat them, they'll get heart failure from the stench.

The_Valeyard

It's not a mouse,

ITS MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Outlaw Pete

Buy a sexy mouse from the pet shop and put her on the sofa watching TV. Then when he pops down to chat her up, nab the fcuker.

Seriously though: they hate ammonia and so put a few drops on rags and push them down into any gaps like radiator pipes etc. That will send them back out the way they came in.

Sam Kade

tramoreman77 wrote: »

What do I do

They are coming in from outside, obviously so if you put poison down in short lengths of 4" pipe in a few locations. Rats run near walls or near cover so that would be the best place to put the bait. Only put down a few blocks because if you put down too much the will just store it. Also don't replace the bait until the first batch is gone. Put a few traps under the floor boards with peanut butter as bait that will get rid of the ones inside.

ted1

Get a few traps, bait them with peanut butter and place them in the attic along the beams.
Go out side and walk around the property looking to see how they are getting in .
If it's a pebble dash house you may see loose pebbles or paint on the ground . Look for drain pipes etc that there getting up. Get a sheet of ply and cover your water tank as they need water and that could be there source.

A pest control company will charge about 140 euro for enough visits till there gone.

In the past I've used : http://www.completepestcontrol.ie/?fullweb=1
And would recommend them. If you are renting , then get your landlord to sort the issue.

failinis

Set some traps (get large ones incase it is a rat not a mouse).
Use bait like peanut butter and they stay and lick/nibble instead of grabbing cheese and running.
If that fails consider laying some poisoned food but that does mean possible stench of rotting rat/mouse.
I would recommend a terrier dog but not for an attic.

hairyslug

Get a raven or a big mental bird up there, once it's got the mouse, send a cat up for the bird, you'll need a dog for the cat then, do you reckon you could fit an elephant up there

tramoreman77

Sam Kade wrote: »

If you hear scratching it must be a rat.

ted1 wrote: »

Get a few traps, bait them with peanut butter and place them in the attic along the beams.
Go out side and walk around the property looking to see how they are getting in .
If it's a pebble dash house you may see loose pebbles or paint on the ground . Look for drain pipes etc that there getting up. Get a sheet of ply and cover your water tank as they need water and that could be there source.

A pest control company will charge about 140 euro for enough visits till there gone.

In the past I've used : http://www.completepestcontrol.ie/?fullweb=1
And would recommend them. If you are renting , then get your landlord to sort the issue.

Yes out the back there's pebbles on the end of the path just put side the patio everytime or every morning the pebbles are scattered but I looked and can't see how the hell they could get in that small area ,thanks

topmanamillion

Set some traps for a start. Even if it/they are in the floorboards there's a strong chance they are venturing out in search of supplies. Obviously be safe and follow the instructions on the trap. If you have children or pets lock the room doors where the traps are.

You may be lucky and it's just one mouse/rat and the trap catches him.

Have a look around up stairs and in the attic and look for holes or ways in and seal them with caulk or filler.
If your setting poison it's probably best to not do this as you want them to escape when they start searching for water after taking poison. Also be mindful of poisoned vermin falling into your water tank and contaminating your water. Close/seal your water tank if exposed.

If it's exclusively traps your using work away.

It's also worth looking around upstairs and in the attic for any sources of food and removing them. My mother's house had a similar problem and when I investigated the attic I found a bag of grass seed that they'd been feasting on.
I removed it and the mice went too.

selastich2

delete faceboook
lawyer up
hit the gym

buried

Nemesis......

The mice will come out around pipes,through holes in drywall etc,set traps around the place with melted chocolate on them
Dont buy any prebaited traps or stuff like that (dont work) get the bog standard wooden ones,if you are hearing them in the ceilings
place traps near obvious entry points like in the hotpress etc under sinks

I caught a heap of them this year coming out from under the fridge,most with the same trap (its a myth that once a trap has
caught a mouse no other mouse will go near it)

Melt the chocolate into the bait reciever,make him have to work for it

Happy hunting

RayM

Humane traps are another option. Depending on how old your kids are, they might enjoy catching them, setting them free, etc.

Allyall

Get a cat or a ferret.

stimpson

RayM wrote: »

Humane traps are another option. Depending on how old your kids are, they might enjoy catching them, setting them free, etc.

Yeah. A shite option. We tried them years ago. 3 days in we said fcuk it and got real traps. 24 hours later no more mice.

Get the real traps. Use peanut butter. Place along walls. Expanding foam when you figure out how the fcukers are getting in.

Capt'n Midnight

Get some lizards to eat the mice.


But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?


No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.


But aren't the snakes even worse?


Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.


But then we're stuck with gorillas!


No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

alexonhisown

I know how u feel, i panicked when i first realised we had mice. Are you sure its a mouse, if its just the attic, could birds be getting in? we have mice every year from oct to april, we never get them during the summer. We had a pest control company out and they couldnt find where they were getting in, and told us not to use poison because if they die under floor boards, they will smell awful, so i have become an expert in catching them, We use traps with peanut butter in, put under kitchen cupboards, with trap open facing wall, they run along the skirtings and into trap, also put traps in attic, hot press and utility room, mice wont make it into house if u place traps in places where they are likely to enter house from inside wall cavity

tramoreman77

alexonhisown wrote: »

I know how u feel, i panicked when i first realised we had mice. Are you sure its a mouse, if its just the attic, could birds be getting in? we have mice every year from oct to april, we never get them during the summer. We had a pest control company out and they couldnt find where they were getting in, and told us not to use poison because if they die under floor boards, they will smell awful, so i have become an expert in catching them, We use traps with peanut butter in, put under kitchen cupboards, with trap open facing wall, they run along the skirtings and into trap, also put traps in attic, hot press and utility room, mice wont make it into house if u place traps in places where they are likely to enter house from inside wall cavity

Thanks

stimpson

stimpson wrote: »

Get the real traps. Use peanut butter. Place along walls. Expanding foam when you figure out how the fcukers are getting in.

If they are rats and they've established a run, they may gnaw through foam, them feckers will even get through concrete, have heard of people mixing in glass and tacks to deter them.

billyhead

alexonhisown wrote: »

I know how u feel, i panicked when i first realised we had mice. Are you sure its a mouse, if its just the attic, could birds be getting in? we have mice every year from oct to april, we never get them during the summer. We had a pest control company out and they couldnt find where they were getting in, and told us not to use poison because if they die under floor boards, they will smell awful, so i have become an expert in catching them, We use traps with peanut butter in, put under kitchen cupboards, with trap open facing wall, they run along the skirtings and into trap, also put traps in attic, hot press and utility room, mice wont make it into house if u place traps in places where they are likely to enter house from inside wall cavity

It might be birds. I had a scratching noise coming from the attic at the same time every morning around 6am. I went up to the attic every time I heard it ith a torch and could not see what was causing it but I have a bird nest on the roof externally and I think its the birds that are making the noise

diomed

Get about three wooden mouse traps. Melt milk chocolate on a spoon over the steam of a kettle, and scrape it into the small round bait hole on the mousetrap. The chocolate hardens and the mice must make an effort to get it. You may have a number of mice. I once caught 55 mice in my elderly parents house. The sister in law stayed there and heard the mice in the attic at night. Keep checking the traps, remove the mice, and set them again.

Or dynamite.

maxwell smart

Someone said it earlier, get a pest control company, Orkin (I think) is one that my neighbor used.

They did 2 or 3 visits in total and got rid of the rats. You need to figure out where they are coming in from and I think the pest control companies use some sort of UV power that the mice / rats walk in and leave a trail. Then you find out where they are coming from and block up the place

tramoreman77

Thanks all,I can just hear one moment setting traps tomorrow and blocking water tank

tramoreman77

Can anyone tell me can I use plastic bags around the water tank tonight till tomorrow or what will completely cover it

topmanamillion

tramoreman77 wrote: »

Can anyone tell me can I use plastic bags around the water tank tonight till tomorrow or what will completely cover it

Plastic bags would be useless..

A piece of ply wood/metal what ever you can get with a rock/brick holding it down would be ideal.
All depends on the shape of the tank of course.

ted1

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If they are rats and they've established a run, they may gnaw through foam, them feckers will even get through concrete, have heard of people mixing in glass and tacks to deter them.

Yep expanding foam is like popcorn to them. You need to add steel wool into the mix as try can't gnaw through it

FizzleSticks

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Ghost Train

Sam Kade wrote: »

If you hear scratching it must be a rat.

The frequency of the scratching would tell you if rat or mouse, 1-3 per second for rat, 4-5 for mouse

selastich2

if all else fails, call in the army

maudgonner

You are all monsters.

SEPT 23 1989

That's the estate built on that old graveyard

The developer said they moved the bodies but they only removed the old headstones

Ruu

Watch a few of these documentaries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb8jTvSwJbw

timthumbni

Put a few mouse traps down with peanut butter or snickers. If you get one then you know it's mice. Birds are also possible. Starlings get in to my attic all the time and they make an awful racket. The birds will die after a few days of starvation/thirst and you would see them if you went up.

Snickers or peanut butter is like crack cocaine to mice. I caught so many in my store with the same trap endlessly that I felt sorry for them and now just let them live there.

tramoreman77

tramoreman77 wrote: »

Seriously I have kids in the house ,no jokes please

My dog used to chase people on a bike a lot. It got so bad, I finally had to take his bike away.

maudgonner

Oooh jokes! Lovely.

What do you call a mouse with no balls? Optical.

What is a mouse's favorite game? Hide and squeak!

What are crisp, like milk and go 'eek, eek, eek' when you eat them? Mice Krispies!

What is small, furry and brilliant at sword fights? A mouseketeer!

What do you get if you try to cross a mouse with a skunk? Dirty looks from the mouse!

riclad

Use A mouse trap with cheese in it,
theres glue traps too i think .
I used rat poison .or maybe borrow a cat off a friend .
Put trap near the attic ,in a hallway.

Sad Professor

We had a major mouse infestation a few years ago. They were in the kitchen, in the attic, in the walls. We set traps for the ones in the kitchen – I think we caught about 20. We eventually had to use poison on the ones in the attic before they spread any further. If they are rats poison probably isn't advisable due to the risk of smells.

We're pretty sure they were coming in from the vacant house next door. We got a cat to discourage any more coming in.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

20 mice? I'd have a breakdown

topmanamillion

riclad wrote: »

Use A mouse trap with cheese in it,
theres glue traps too i think .
I used rat poison .or maybe borrow a cat off a friend .
Put trap near the attic ,in a hallway.

Don't bother with a cat.
They'll just look at you and possibility piss and **** in your house.
A cat would need to be settled in the house and a little hungry before he'd start hunting mice. Borrowing one off your mate for an hour or two just won't work.