Pest control con?

I had mice and the sonic things worked. They’re about £25 a pop but well worth it. Just don’t use glue traps, they’re especially cruel.

Posted over 3 years ago by mollusk

No, not using glue. Thing is they are quite cute little things, but the diseases they spread aren’t and being rather pregnant I’m a bit paranoid about them giving me some terrible illness.

I may give the sonic repellant a try. I think I have been rather fleeced by the pest control people! It’s some sort of mouse karma!

Posted over 3 years ago by Flange1971

Only two things will keep mice away. Sonic deterrents, cats and terminators. Oh, that’s three things, and I’m not sure Arnie’s available at the moment anyway.

You can also get humane traps that the mouse runs in to and can’t get out of, so you can let them go in the big outdoors (or your neighbours house if you’re especially cunning)

Posted over 3 years ago by Morals

Buy a traditional mousetrap. They’re about 60p from hardware shops and chocolate or peanut butter works well as bait.

When I was in rented accomodation, there were a fair amount of mice. They had a tendency to breed. My record was killing eight in a single evening – two in the same trap! They were ickle baby mice as well.

Posted over 3 years ago by andy005

Buy a traditional mousetrap. They’re about 60p from hardware shops and chocolate or peanut butter works well as bait.

When I was in rented accomodation, there were a fair amount of mice. They had a tendency to breed. My record was killing eight in a single evening – two in the same trap! They were ickle baby mice as well.

Posted over 3 years ago by andy005

Cats should be useful at catching mice – except some cats seem to catch mice outside and then bring them in and play with their little dead or semi-dead bodies in the flat – slightly defeats the purpose! I had mice in one house, man came round and put poison wherever there was a gap in the floorboards – and I removed a dead mouse from behind fridge 2 weeks later – the rest either moved out or died elsewhere. So certainly effective. No idea how much it cost, I was renting at that stage and so it was covered by the landlord (you can add that to your rent v buy queries Flange!).

Posted over 3 years ago by Fi

Yes, the ‘Little Nipper’ mousetraps are your solution. They’re a bit of a bastard to set but they do the job. Like andy005, you’ll be surprised at just how many you catch (so buy half a dozen traps) but once they’re gone, they’re gone. Until you can plug the gaps anyway.

We had mice in a rented flat in Fulham. We kept complaining to the landlord, a man who went under the unlikely name of James Dean but who had a comedy, John Major-type voice. He disputed that we could possibly have mice, saying they were a thing of the past in London. Then one day I happened to be removing the duvet from my bed while the landlord was there. I was still complaining about the rodent problem, he was still in full mouse-denying mode, when we both looked down to see a mouse actually in my bed. “Look! There!” A mouse! In my bed!”

He bent down to examine the little critter.

“Oh, that’s just a field mouse,” he said, as if that was perfectly acceptable and that he hadn’t in any way lost the argument.

Posted over 3 years ago by BraveNewMalden

Go to homebase and buy the £7 a go rentokil poison things. Also make sure you thoroughly check all external walls to see if there are any holes. Either fill em with external wall filler or temporarily plug em with wire wool. If you’re in a terrace where the eaves are shared check your floors, radiator pipe holes etc too.

I moved into a place and found mountains of mouse poo under the kitchen units. The previous tenant had drilled a hole in the exterior back wall for the cables to power her pond lighting. She’d had mice coming through the hole and pissing, shitting and eating all over the place for months and months. Rank.

yuck

Posted over 3 years ago by unknown

Well I’ve heard nothing more of them since Pest Man put the poison down and no more mouse poop either. The upside of this whole escapade is that Mr Flange1971 has suddenly become a clean freak – he mopped the floor with Detol yesterday! I’ve been trying to get him to mop the floor since we married! It’s brilliant! He’s putting away after himself and everything!

The pest man’s advice was to wait until you’ve got rid of the mouse problem and then block the holes – otherwise they die in your house and you have dead mice everywhere. Apparently they go outside to find a drink and then die elsewhere. Once you know they’ve stopped coming in you block up your holes.

I had my sister’s cats living with me for 3 years and never saw one mouse. I had next door’s cat coming into my garden crapping everywhere so I got a sonic cat repellent. Now I have mice. Ahhhh…it’s cat karma!!! Ahhh….

Posted over 3 years ago by Flange1971

I’m suprised how many people are fans of deadly force when it comes to removing mice from their homes. I thought more people would go for humane ways of dealing with mice. Evil bastards the lot of you.

Posted over 3 years ago by Morals

Effective methods such as?

And if you mention those rubbish tilting traps then I shall be cross.

Posted over 3 years ago by unknown

Not that I’m being awkward, I’d have tried a humane method if I knew one that worked…

Posted over 3 years ago by unknown

Get some of those ultra-sonic devices you plug into the wall. I’ve got some, we’ve not been bothered by meeces since – they just bugger off, they don’t like the sound. Probably not good if you’ve got hamsters etc.

Available in Robert Dyas – I can dig up a link to the product if you like.

Posted over 3 years ago by iSleepDiagonal

Mousetraps (you can get humane ones) and poison are the answer. Or a cat.

Chocolate and peanut butter are the best baits.

As an interesting aside, I had the misfortune to spend my first summer back from Uni working at a grain merchants. Part of the job was to stand on any mice that we saw. Mmmmmm crunchy.

We also used to catch them accidentally when hoovering up grain with a massive industrial hoover. They’d go through the hoover just fine and rattle around the storage bin at the bottom until we plucked them up and gave them an almost instant death with a game of “mouse baseball”, which involved one person wearing a glove, and the other weilding a very light but very large grain shovel. They were flat when we picked them up from the far side of the barn. Interesting …

We used to joust on bicycles with large brushes as lances. More fun …

Posted over 3 years ago by purpaboo

I had mice recently, and after being told 45 call out fees above, I looked for a company that didn’t charge, and would conduct a free quote. I went to a company called Express Exterminations. I was a bit worried at first, as you hear so many horror stories about dodgy plumbers, builders and obviously pest controllers, exterminators, what ever they want to be called!!! Anyway, these guys came out for free, put poisons down and told me to call them if I found any deadmice. Not to touch the mouse, but to call them and get them to do it. OH YEAH, here we go, I thought, a charge for everytime they come out. Shockingly however, there was no extra charge, they came and got a couple that had died, then came back a week later and cleared the rest of them. This was all for just 180 quid! They quoted to do proofing, but I could not afford it at the time.

I guess, where I am really going with this, is that not all tradesman are bad. Check on the phone for upfront pricing, and let them know what you think the problem is.

As per Flange1971 at the top of the page, I don’t really like the thought of the mice been poisoned, if you do not get rid of the ones in your house, then they will keep having babies.

Ultrasounds don’t work. Well, It did orignally (before I called the above lot), but after a couple of days the mice were as bold as brass. Can they get used to it, and therefore it doesn’ bother them? Any ideas?

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Posted 4 months ago by battercy

I had meese problems in my hoos too. I spread these little blue poisonous cakes around the cupboards where the dogs couldnt get to them and lo and behold, no more meeses. Apparently after nibbling on the poison cakes they scramble off to find water and the water somehow reacts with the poison and blows up their intestines. The problem with normal poisons is that after eating it they crawl into a hole and die and you have the stink of dead meeses aroond the hoos. The thirsty blue cakes are definitley the way to go, no meeses and nae smells…and of course the added bonus of exploding rodents

ein kliene mouse met klompen on

Posted 4 months ago by akabushi

Not so hot on the getting rid of, but once you have, you need to make certain that they can’t get in again. I heard somewhere that they can get in through a hole no wider than a pencil, so you need to be meticulous about it. I was advised that cement is no good unless you keep checking it until it is dry – they can just scrape it out while it’s wet. The less humane way to solve it is to mix glass shards into the cement.

Posted 3 months ago by CravenMaven