Mice in ceiling

billyhead · 08-07-2016 08:59PM

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 · 08-07-2016 09:05PM

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 · 08-07-2016 09:05PM

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 · 08-07-2016 09:24PM

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

tramoreman77 · 08-07-2016 09:26PM

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

topmanamillion · 08-07-2016 09:31PM

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 · 08-07-2016 09:40PM

[Deleted User] wrote: »

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 · 08-07-2016 09:54PM

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Ghost Train · 08-07-2016 10:05PM

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 · 08-07-2016 10:08PM

if all else fails, call in the army

maudgonner · 08-07-2016 10:13PM

You are all monsters.

SEPT 23 1989 · 08-07-2016 10:17PM

That's the estate built on that old graveyard

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

Ruu · 08-07-2016 10:18PM

Watch a few of these documentaries.

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

timthumbni · 08-07-2016 10:19PM

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.

08-07-2016 10:22PM

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 · 08-07-2016 10:31PM

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 · 09-07-2016 09:42AM

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 · 09-07-2016 10:12AM

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 · 09-07-2016 10:18AM

20 mice? I'd have a breakdown

topmanamillion · 10-07-2016 05:22PM

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.

purplepanda · 10-07-2016 07:43PM

Might be a young bird? Scuttering across the attic floor sounds exactly like a mouse would! :pac:

Thought there was mice in our attic years ago, lifted up the entrance hatch & saw a young thrush, so opened the hatch & downstairs windows & after a while the bird flew out of the house.

Birds can get into attics from their nests on high trees through the guttering roof gaps. :eek:

Stigura · 10-07-2016 08:20PM

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Five mice caught in a single one of my snap traps, simultaneously. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Because I can't put a photo up here. Time to die.

ishotjr2 · 10-07-2016 08:38PM

I tried the traps, caught a few mice did not stop the mice, the attic is huge.
I tried the sonic thing which you plug into the wall, worked some of the time I think.
Got a cat, no more mice. Did not put him in the attic, just hanging around and no more mice.

I do not like cats, I wont touch them, (Toxoplasmosis) but hats off I have no more mice. I would not be without one now, as we have chickens as well which attract all sorts of vermin.

That is my experience, nothing worse then going to bed listening to them.

Mice in ceiling

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