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What in the name of Jesus is going on in my attic?

Jimmy Garlic

For the past I have been hearing what sounds like someone walking around and scraping up there.. When I pop my head up there is nothing there. This is starting to get freaky, the wife is afraid to use the bathroom as there is a trap door in there.. Any ideas?

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etar wrote: »

is this not a tad extreme!!!

i've seen enough haunted house/mutant rat films to know this is your ONLY option

Cat Melodeon

We had this just after Christmas. It's either big feckin mice or it's rats. We put the cat up there, she spent two days sleeping on the insulation with rodents throwing parties all round her. We then put the dog up and she chased something for a bit and then cracked the plaster in the livingroom because she's a big lump of a setter. We put up a trap and it disappeared, obviously dragged back to the lair for some rodent S&M games. Finally we got some kickass poison and haven't heard a thing since.
Nuke the fúckers.

dingding

Anne Frank writing her diary

admiralofthefleet

entrance to narnia op

kincsem

All-Ireland hide and seek champion?

milehip1

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

I got the creeps up there, came down fairly lively

Man up ffs! What are you afraid of? the boggerman?

No wonder your wife's scared, if you're not exactly showing signs of confidence!

Xivilai

How do you open this ****ing trapdoor, I need a piss

Reesy

Ok, time to do something.

Diagnore the problem pronto by doing one of the following:
a) Research what rat-poo & mouse-poo looks like, & go up & check for it.
b) Get some rat traps, nail them to big lumps of wood so they can't drag them off, bait with meat (securely wired to the traps) & wait. Check them every day.
c) Get rentokil. They will I think check out the house for free - but charge you big money for a poison programme. Maybe Rentokil's your best option given you're scared to go up there.

If you do have rats they are getting in either a) from broken sewer pipes, b) up a climbing plant or sth into the attic or c) under/thru the walls. Check these thoroughly in reverse order until you find the entry point.

If you've rats you will need to find the entry point (which may well be in your semi-d neighbour's) and block it very thoroughly. Bear in mind that they can chew thru wood, plastic, stone, etc. Any rats nesting inside will die and depending where they die the house may smell awful but this is a good sign...

Deal with it asap before the nest grows. Use rubber gloves up there & also wash thoroughly afterwards. You don't want Weil's disease.

Good luck.

megafan

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

For the past I have been hearing what sounds like someone walking around and scraping up there.. When I pop my head up there is nothing there. This is starting to get freaky, the wife is afraid to use the bathroom as there is a trap door in there.. Any ideas?

Had similar experience a couple of years ago & I'm afraid to say... but.... (it was a rat!)... incredible the noise it made.....

Victor

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

For the past I have been hearing what sounds like someone walking around and scraping up there.

Its the hot water / heating pipes heating up or cooling down and pulling through the ceiling joists.

phill106

Victor wrote: »

Its the hot water / heating pipes heating up or cooling down and pulling through the ceiling joists.

Im going with the baddy from REC, get a crucifix

Surely OP would have used hotwater/heating before, so if that was the noise, he would have heard it before.

fred funk }{

MagicMarker wrote: »

Burk?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9dbAQJIu1o

Thanks man, that was a real blast from the past.

Swampy

Poltergeist.

Watch paranormal activity. Bad sh1t happening in their attic.

Mike 1972

Reesy wrote: »

If you do have rats they are getting in either a) from broken sewer pipes, b) up a climbing plant or sth into the attic or c) under/thru the walls. Check these thoroughly in reverse order until you find the entry point. .

Bolix to that.

If you want to despatch the fukers rightly Gelignite is yer only man :pac:

Capt'n Midnight

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

the wife is afraid to use the bathroom as there is a trap door in there.. Any ideas?

It's ceiling cat.

Jaxxy

If you're too much of a pussy to go back up there then get the professionals in and pay a pretty penny. Whatever you do don't ignore the problem or it WILL multiply, especially if the problem is rats.

Xivilai

Are you a man or a mouse OP

Those rats need to be learned a lesson

landsleaving

JaxxYChicK wrote: »

Whatever you do don't ignore the problem or it WILL multiply, especially if the problem is rats.

Or amoebas. Crafty buggers.

Bruthal

Jimmy Garlic wrote: »

Right I went up. A bit of insulation is missing in one of the corners, not sure if that could be rat related.. I got the creeps up there, came down fairly lively, I didn't see a rat. I plan to tell the wife that is pipes for now, she is more freaked out than I am, she wants us all to sleep with her in the living room tonight.

The rats will be able to ride in the attic in peace now, with no noise from the bedroom below.

Hogzy

It could be the girl from the grudge

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/iZuymXZFC44/0.jpg

TOMP

iitts JOHNNY !

STIG83

We had a rat in our attic a few years back, little git was running up and down the length of the house keeping me awake at night, if you have a rat, dont set poison up there, if it dies in the wall cavity you will pay the price for a few weeks as it decays, smell is awful. We set poison to get the rat in our attic (my dad thought they dont smell as bad when they poisoned, he was wrong!!) but lucky enough it died on the fibre glass so we found it no bother.