Pest control...
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Topic: Pest control...
Posted By: minik8e
Subject: Pest control...
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 8:18am
Has anyone ever had to use pest control before, in particular for rats? We have had rats in our ceiling ever since we bought the house, which we thought we had got rid of when we insulated and did the major renovations, but since we had the heatpump in, it's getting colder outside and therefore warmer inside, they have come back with a vengeance. We have bait out and traps, but the bait is getting eaten and they either aren't dying, or there are heaps of them. They're even eating the cheese off the traps without the traps going off  We don't leave any food or food scraps out, the rubbish is taken out to our green bin every night before bed, there's nowhere for them to make nests except in the insulation in the ceiling...
So it looks like we are going to get an exterminator, cos it's not safe, or hygienic, and quite frankly it revolts me. They've only been really bad over the last week, but that's too long for me. Has anyone had to use one before? What do they do to get rid of them? Are we going to have to move us and the girls out while we do it? I just want them gone 
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Posted By: High9
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 8:49am
 sorry I've no idea, but didn't want to read and run!!
If they are using a spray or poison to out them I'd imagine you'd have to be out of the house for it. Just my opinion... ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 9:08am
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I would get a proper pest control person to do it.
I'll ask my bestie as she works for rentokil!  but im pretty sure you will have to be out of the house for a certain amount of time. ------------- |
Posted By: MrsH23
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 9:22am
In the meantime you could try peanut butter on the traps. We have them in our roof too  They're so gross, we usually chuck some bait up there for them (FIL has some possum stuff which works well)------------- Lisa mummy to Ryan http://www.alterna-tickers.com"> 
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 9:57am
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Sheena - yeah we are going to have to get a professional to do it, our traps and bait aren't doing anything to solve the problem and it's pretty much the extent of what we can do.
Peanut butter is going on the shopping list in that case!! I'm willing to try anything until we get the professionals in. It was so bad last night that they woke me up by running across the ceiling (well, whatever they were doing, it was loud). I'm also really paranoid that they're going to get into the girls' cots
nkap - I have no problem if we have to be out of the house for a few days, we have a number of places we can stay, but I just want to be prepared ahead of time (and it means I can plan it around work etc). |
Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 9:58am
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Or bacon rind in the traps as they have to yank it quite hard to try and get it off. Yuck, hope you get rid of them soon!! ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: E&L+1
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 4:26pm
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Also putting 2 or 3 traps all lined up side by side so that if they jump over one they hit the next one. They are really good at flicking bait off traps so try gluing it on.
When we had rats in the ceiling the pest man just threw his bait up into the roof cavity and that was it. Worked though cause we didn't get anymore rats! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 8:37pm
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Ugh, I feel your pain! Whenever we go away, rats move in and it just kills me knowing that we're sharing a house with them!
Do you have an extractor fan in your kitchen? If so, that may be what is attracting them. FIL sent his handyman round to do some landscaping for us recently and he was saying that their extractor had never been cleaned out and all the fat and oil in it was bringing in the rats. (Needless to say, mine is now sparkling!) Otherwise, Rentokil bait is very effective. I got some of the blocks from the supermarket as we couldn't afford to get an exterminator in. DH made a lovely cocktail of poison blocks wrapped in peanut butter, covered in chippie crumbs. Put 2 out behind the oven and they both disappeared entirely overnight! Good luck Minik8e, such a horrible thing!! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 29 April 2010 at 8:49pm
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You need to buy a product called Storm. I can find out for you where you can buy it from (I think Bunnings).
You put it up into your roof space, the rat/mice eat it and they pretty much die within a day or two. It works by drying up their blood.. kills them quick. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3) 
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Posted By: HuntersMama
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 12:31pm
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We had something at our old bach that you plug in and it emits some kind of noise that is at the frequency that rats HATE! It was the only thing that worked for us. Im not sure where it was from, but I could find out for you. ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Motherof7
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 1:16pm
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My partner is a Pest Controller
They will put bait stations around the house and in the ceiling. You won't have to move out at all. (bait stations, kids and animals can't get into them but rats and mice can) And let me guess you bought Talon from the shop.. Rats and Mice love that stuff as its food to them and very really does it kill them. ------------- http://www.baby-gaga.com/"> 
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Posted By: Black_Friday
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 5:53pm
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I second peanut butter or bacon rind for traps (or well cooked corned beef). It's much harder for the rats to get off the trap.
I'm not squeemish about rats and mice, which is lucky cause we have two cats who are brining some in aliver EVERY night for the last two weeks. I'm getting sick of getting up in the wee hours to deal with them and fling them out the cat flap (followed by cat). Better than dealing with mouse pinball played under my bed though! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
 Angel Baby Jan 2010
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Posted By: Hunnybunny
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 7:28pm
| DH says get decent bait (not supermarket stuff) preferrably stuff you can nail down- apparently you can get stuff with holes in it. Often if you get loose stuff and just throw it up there, they won't eat it, they'll pick it up and take it back to their nests to stock up for winter. If its nailed down they have to nibble at it and can't save it for later... |
Posted By: .Mel
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 8:06pm
That might be the stuff that I was talking about. We had to nail it down.. ------------- Mr Mellow (16) Miss Attitude (8) Destructa Kid (3)
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Hunnybunny wrote:Posted By: mylilmosaic
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 8:44pm
We get rat bait for our maize stacks, and we get it from RD1 they are blue blocks, sorry cant remember the name but definately try RD1 
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Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 30 April 2010 at 10:26pm
| The ones we got were blue blocks - it was called PestOff and we got it from Taranaki Farmers (same kind of thing as RD1). Definitely not Talon. DH put more up there last night, we can still hear them running around on the ceiling, which we really don't understand as there is only a small square for them to run on before they hit a joist, plus there's insulation on it....(we have a completely new ceiling, joists and beams included). They're fricking huge things anyway. I also got DH to block off the manhole, and the end of our storage cupboard which runs the length of the house almost, and starts right under the manhole. We haven't had any rats in the actual house since, they're just in the ceiling now. The lady I spoke to at Rentokil said we need to put bait outside as well, and DH has been told he needs to trim the trees to stop them having easy access from the bushes into the house. |