We found the snap traps were by far the best way of dealing with the little blighters. We bought some bait from B&Q which was obviously designed to be attractive to them and baited the traps with it. You will need to block up all holes, and as purplerallim says, they can squeeze through holes the circumference of a pencil, so a nightmare to do but necessary. They got into our kitchen via the attached garage so we had to remove all the kickboards and fill in every hole we could find including around the holes made for pipes and electric wires, and any holes drilled in the cupboards, and holes around the radiator pipes. Oh and get lots of bleach to clean up where they’ve been!! Good luck.
What has worked for me is leaving one hole. They're going to get in anyway so I would rather know where. I leave a very small dish of the blue grains near the hole so I know if I've had a visit and top it up. This is necessary only a couple of times a year.
I had a call from a neighbour once to ask me to catch a mouse: " What are your 4 cats doing about it?" " sitting on the sofa beside me watching it" Cats are useless
I had a call from a neighbour once to ask me to catch a mouse: " What are your 4 cats doing about it?" " sitting on the sofa beside me watching it" Cats are useless
My Mum has a similar problem at the moment.Her cat is bringing live mice into the house!!!!
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I had a call from a neighbour once to ask me to catch a mouse: " What are your 4 cats doing about it?" " sitting on the sofa beside me watching it" Cats are useless
My Mum has a similar problem at the moment.Her cat is bringing live mice into the house!!!!
As I say, useless. I hate, loathe and despise them with every fibre of my being. ( unless they live indoors permanently )
There are floorboards up here and there on the ground floor and there are plenty of holes for plumbing and electrics, so I guess it's pretty much open house at the moment. There's nothing downstairs but floorboards and freshly plastered walls, so they've made it upstairs into one of the bedrooms that is my temporary kitchen. The contents of my kitchen cupboards (and everything else from downstairs) are packed in lots of big boxes, so they're probably well hidden away and munching through pasta and other stuff that's boxed-up. Kitchen fitter arrives in the morning and in 2ish weeks time I should have a kitchen again and then be able to start unpacking the boxes - which I'll do cautiously
Thanks for all your advice and suggestions
Billericay - Essex
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I agree on the uselessness of cats. I had a mouse problem in a flat once, borrowed a friend’s cat for the night, damn thing just sat there looking miserable, a mouse even ran in front of it. Then it scratched my bedroom door all night so had to let it in and it curled up on the end of the bed 🙄
Any building work will disturb them, they are there in the walls and under the floorboards anyway, you just don’t know it!
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Traps would be my choice. Poison is easy and effective but despite thinking that the went outside to die, I had experience of finding corpses in very strange places - and they weren't nice. At least mouse traps have 'just dead' corpses!
I'd second traps as well. They get in through the slightest gap if there's a chance. You need to keep using them too as there'll be several. It's very difficult when you have building work being done though. At our last house, they found a way in, between the existing building and the extension that had been added, when we were opening the back up to redo all the kitchen and hallway. They ran along the cavity walls of the bedroom and into the cupboard with all the electrics. Bl**dy nightmare to get rid of them and kept us awake half the night scrabbling along the cavity walls.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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You will need to block up all holes, and as purplerallim says, they can squeeze through holes the circumference of a pencil, so a nightmare to do but necessary.
They got into our kitchen via the attached garage so we had to remove all the kickboards and fill in every hole we could find including around the holes made for pipes and electric wires, and any holes drilled in the cupboards, and holes around the radiator pipes. Oh and get lots of bleach to clean up where they’ve been!!
Good luck.
" What are your 4 cats doing about it?"
" sitting on the sofa beside me watching it"
Cats are useless
There's nothing downstairs but floorboards and freshly plastered walls, so they've made it upstairs into one of the bedrooms that is my temporary kitchen.
The contents of my kitchen cupboards (and everything else from downstairs) are packed in lots of big boxes, so they're probably well hidden away and munching through pasta and other stuff that's boxed-up.
Kitchen fitter arrives in the morning and in 2ish weeks time I should have a kitchen again and then be able to start unpacking the boxes - which I'll do cautiously
Thanks for all your advice and suggestions
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Any building work will disturb them, they are there in the walls and under the floorboards anyway, you just don’t know it!
It's very difficult when you have building work being done though. At our last house, they found a way in, between the existing building and the extension that had been added, when we were opening the back up to redo all the kitchen and hallway. They ran along the cavity walls of the bedroom and into the cupboard with all the electrics. Bl**dy nightmare to get rid of them and kept us awake half the night scrabbling along the cavity walls.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...