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Mouse under my bed

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  • #332
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 13,601 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    benny79 wrote: »
    How can you find where they're coming in if it's under the kitchen presses! We first had rats out of the blue one summer about 3 years ago.. Caught 3 (shivers) in the big rat trap (bigger version then a mouse one) one got away as there was a trunk of hair left in the trap never to be seen again.. (shivers again) all was grand for a couple of months then start getting mice really bad at the start to date have caught 25 in the last 2 years.. but of late its 1 every couple of months..

    Its my mams house and she lives on her own and is elderly enough.

    I have got a camera looked down where the pipes come up etc seen some disturbance got a kango dug a hole out filled with glass and cement mix outside obviously.. still catching the odd one.. so there is a gap between the floor boards and the wall (kitchen is an extension) so put steel wool down where I could and covered with expanding foam last night, but isn't easy as its under the kitchen presses and as you can imagine awkward & hard to reach!! now I cant get steel wool in every where as its to hard to reach but got it in where the pipes come up.. and fill the remaining gaps with just the foam... I suppose time will tell.. but Im running out of idea's..

    Cant pull the kitchen up as its only in 5 years and would cost to much.. The extension is there years and we never had this problem.. Any help much appreciated....


    If you have a severe, persistent problem with mice and rats, well that suggests potentially major structural issues with the house. If I were you I'd get a surveyor in to do an assessment. There may be major work that needs doing.

    Here's a good link:
    http://pestcontrolcanada.com/how-to-get-rid-of-rodents/


  • #333
    benny79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,219 ✭✭✭benny79


    JupiterKid wrote: »
    If you have a severe, persistent problem with mice and rats, well that suggests potentially major structural issues with the house. If I were you I'd get a surveyor in to do an assessment. There may be major work that needs doing.

    Here's a good link:
    http://pestcontrolcanada.com/how-to-get-rid-of-rodents/

    The rats were a couple of years ago, I think it was a case of my mam leaving the back door open! as there was a lot of work been done in the neighbouring houses... Our house is built years (Drimnagh) so its very unlikely there's structural damage...


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