Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Getting rid of mice in the house
Anyone had any good experiences with any particular firms that claim to rid your property of mice?
Have been finding droppings here and there and have had the odd sighting too.
Many thanks.
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Permalink Reply by Emma on
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You can contact the council and they will come and do it. I didn't have a mice problem but a cockroach one and they did the trick at eliminating them. I found the service to be reliable and reasonable in price. I think they use quite good products as they use the same services on their own council properties....
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Permalink Reply by JulieB on
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There have been a few discussions on here about mice, at least one started by me. So try a search, I had lots of replies and recommendations.
We've lived here for nearly 11 years and had mice 2 or 3 times. The council are good, and not too expensive, but they only put down poison so you need to try to block up all the tiny holes (a mouse can get through a hole the width of a pencil) with wire wool.
The last time we had them it was horrible, we went away for a week and in this time they seemed to take over the house. I saw one in my bedroom and found droppings in the children's rooms. I completely freaked out, we did get the council in but I started seeing them again about a month later. We were already thinking of adopting a cat so this just gave us the push. Cats seem to be the only long term solution that really works.
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Permalink Reply by Mr Wodjacallim on
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Hugh - don't call in pest control. Here are a few tips:
Make sure there is zilch food around, regular vacing and sweeping
Block all the holes round radiators etc with wire wool. A hole means anything you can stick your little finger in, so that includes pencil size holes.
Watch where they come from and you will see they go round the edge of the room
If you must use traps, put them on a blind corner - where the mouse is to the right of a wall then turns left or visa versa. Sticky traps worked better than ones with food, mice are very suspicious and look at youtube to see how smart they can be...
a month of this and they will move next door.
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One reason not to use poison is dead mice stink and if they are under a floorboard, you cannot find them. So I don't favour poisoning.
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Sticky traps are very effective however you are then left with a terrified shreiking live mouse stuck to the trap and no way of liberating it; I was told that to put it out of its misery I would have to kill it and that a quick drowning was out of the question as this was illegal.
I second bunging up every little hole with wire wool, and borrowing a cat.
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Permalink Reply by ThaiDi on
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Why is drowning the mouse illegal? That would seem the obvious way to kill it quickly. I agree that glue traps are horrible. I successfully caught one in a humane trap and transported it 7km to work with me to release in the park outside my office. Hopefully
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THE ANSWER! all you need is a SPOON and a MOUSER(cat) to visit occasionally
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Permalink Reply by KP on
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I found the council completely useless. They will will lay some poison down and just tell you what others have said on here. You might as well do it yourself and save the money!
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I agree with some of the posts here. Especially re removing all food sources. Also check the outside of your house. Many older metal air vents are damaged or have accessible gaps. I glue a fine wire mesh over them. Beware of using over the counter poison as it is rubbish and can even encourage rodents to come back for more. I once purchase online poison that was advertised as the one used by professionals. not true, the mice loved it! Only professionals can get their hands on the real deadly stuff. Note; when looking for gaps in the skirting boards, a sign of access is a grey smear, rather like pencil marks that have smeared around the gap. The pro's put a special poison around these which adheres to the skin and is absorbed, but you can just block the hole. I did once use pro's in a larger property and they did a good job for about £250
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