Absolutely – all day every day is the answer. Since the sewer infrastructure was put in place by the Victorians nearly 150 years ago, it has represented the perfect habitat for the Norwegian or Brown rat (otherwise known as the ‘sewer rat’). Think of all the food you wash off your plate every night or...
So you have rats in the walls? Or you have mice in the house? If you own the house then it’s your problem and your responsibility – nice and straight forward. However if you are a leaseholder or are renting then it’s not quite so clear. The situation for people renting….. In the vast majority...
Trapping rodents is another form of pest control – i.e. trying to keep numbers down rather than stop the problem completely (pest eradication). Unless you remove the environmental factors supporting the rodent population – i.e. food, shelter & warmth – then any rodents trapped will be simply replaced by new individuals and the problem continues...
Baits are known as rodenticides within the industry – they all work on the same principle of trying to get a rodent to consume a lethal dose of a poison by masking that poison within a food material. Rodents aren’t like dogs – they don’t just hungrily wolf down every bit of food you put...
When people hear the word ‘rat’ or ‘mouse’ the next word association is generally ‘trap’ or ‘poison’. Man has been trapping and poisoning rodents for thousands of years ever since he found them eating his food, gnawing his possessions, making his wife scream and spreading disease. Yet trapping and poisoning are actually very short-sighted approaches...
Both rats and mice are members of the rodent family – this means their front teeth constantly grow and they therefore have to ‘gnaw’ (chew on things) to keep them in check. If they didn’t gnaw, their teeth would simply continue to grow until they obstructed the rodents ability to get food into its mouth...
The problem with drainage defects is they are underground and usually beneath your floor. To get to them therefore you would need to excavate down causing considerable disruption and damage to your property as well as incurring very significant cost. However man as ever has thought of an ingenious way of avoiding this and came...
In the vast majority of rat scenario’s we investigate, a drainage defect of some description is the cause of how the rats are entering the building fabric. The concept of drainage – i.e. channelling our excrement away from our dwellings so it doesn’t contaminate our drinking water – is a relatively modern idea. It was...