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[Taxi_Driver]

I've had a builder in twice in the last two weeks.....and he's coming again tomorrow...why? to stop those evil creatures (i hate them) getting in to my extension, where the kitchen and bathroom is.

I live in a terrace house......but the problem started with next door....a single mum on her own with kids....not looking after her property....she had holes in her eves on her single storey extension....which is built against my single storey extension....pitch roof above them....so they found a way in her side and found they could get into my loft from her loft.....

So the builder (paid by me, coz i thought i was onto a no go asking for money from nextdoor) blocked up all the holes in her eves and also blocked up any holes in my loft leading to her loft.

Problem solved you may think!! Apparently not!

One rat or possibly more ....must have been my side when the builder blocked up my side of the loft....coz since then i've heard scratching in my loft and an inspection of his work by me yesterday in the loft.....cement has been chewed  and a hole has appeared by the backdoor on an internal brick wall  (its got down the cavity to do this)

And this must be one clever rat.....coz the rat poison i'd left in the loft hasnt been touched.....

Its also blooming destructive......chewing thro' brick walls to get out   

So the builder is going to block up the hole its made in the brick wall tomorrow....in the meantime the internal door to the kitchen (from the backdoor/bathroom) i close at night or when im out.....and a rat trap laced with part of a mars bar sits by the back door....

Its seems to me rats.....once used to be able get somewhere.....will chew thro anything to get there if they want to 

I dont care how much this costs me.......i will get rid off them......tho it doesnt help i suggested to next door several times she stops putting food out for the birds.....but she still does.......bird food after dark is rat food!!!

[CaptainZok]

Borrow a ferret.
Apparently rats won't go anywhere they smell ferret.
Surprisingly we're a rodent free zone.

[Vamps]

We had what we think must have been a rat in the garage one night, as thinks got knocked of shelves that a mouse would not have done, the thing managed to escape by going under the garage up and over door but not before eating most of the brush type of draft excluder on the bottom of the door....

[Lazydocker]

Where did the poison come from? I'd suggest a trip to a local Farm/Equestrian Store and have a chat... See if you can get something a bit stronger and non-commercial as they may take that

Or, and probably cheaper than the builder, just get a pest control expert in

[PhilRich]

TD, I know this is going to sound daft but the Mars bar may not work! However, a couple of red berries from a nearby bush or tree just might, as apparently rats are attracted to the colour!!   At my last house I was driven up the wall by rats after my granddaughters rabbits bedding & we tried all the usual including Mars, toffies, bacon (cooked & raw!) then an old guy with an allotment gave me the tip about the berries & de-corpsing the rat trap was a regular thing for a week until they either got the message or ran out of volunteers!

[Plomien]

also try peanut butter on the trap rather than a mars bar

[PhilRich]

also try peanut butter on the trap rather than a mars bar

I can just hear the voiceover now..... This is not just any peanut butter & red berry, this is M&S peanu....... you get the idea!

[Taxi_Driver]

Where did the poison come from? I'd suggest a trip to a local Farm/Equestrian Store and have a chat... See if you can get something a bit stronger and non-commercial as they may take that

Or, and probably cheaper than the builder, just get a pest control expert in

Answer to first highlight....Someone i spoke to about the problem.....had a similar problem and was buying rat poison that farmers use,,,,ie blocks of poison bought from Countrywide.....it turned out his rat was just moving the blocks of poison and not eating them.....his rat got killed when it chewed thro a live mains cable!

2nd highlight......they will possibly want to fumigate.....and i would need to move out while they did this.....this happened with a house across the road from me.....council will send out 'rat catchers' at £50 a pop, but they only put down poison.....possibly stronger than i have.....but no good if the rat wont eat it......

Makes sense to me.....builder blocking all the holes......eventually either the rat/s carnt get in/out....end of problem...hopefully 

[Taxi_Driver]

TD, I know this is going to sound daft but the Mars bar may not work! However, a couple of red berries from a nearby bush or tree just might, as apparently rats are attracted to the colour!!   At my last house I was driven up the wall by rats after my granddaughters rabbits bedding & we tried all the usual including Mars, toffies, bacon (cooked & raw!) then an old guy with an allotment gave me the tip about the berries & de-corpsing the rat trap was a regular thing for a week until they either got the message or ran out of volunteers!

Thankyou for the tip  i was told they go for mars bars 

[PhilRich]

TD, I know this is going to sound daft but the Mars bar may not work! However, a couple of red berries from a nearby bush or tree just might, as apparently rats are attracted to the colour!!   At my last house I was driven up the wall by rats after my granddaughters rabbits bedding & we tried all the usual including Mars, toffies, bacon (cooked & raw!) then an old guy with an allotment gave me the tip about the berries & de-corpsing the rat trap was a regular thing for a week until they either got the message or ran out of volunteers!

Thankyou for the tip  i was told they go for mars bars 





Well maybe yours have a sweet tooth teeth!

[Richie London]

you need to mix the cement with crushed glass. rips there feet to bits and they eventually bleed to death. used to do it in the shops and my mum house when she had them last yr.

[Webby the Bear]

buy a few guns and invite all your friends round for a piss up and a night shooting rats. something different! 

[Taxi_Driver]

you need to mix the cement with crushed glass. rips there feet to bits and they eventually bleed to death. used to do it in the shops and my mum house when she had them last yr.

better go and smash a few car windows tonight then   

thanks for the tip richie 

[Taxi_Driver]

buy a few guns and invite all your friends round for a piss up and a night shooting rats. something different! 

funny you should say that......a friend of mine has offered me his 12 bore shotgun  .....he's into guns and bows and arrows.....all legal.....he has licenses for them all.....says he often kills vermin with his guns 

[Webby the Bear]

buy a few guns and invite all your friends round for a piss up and a night shooting rats. something different! 

funny you should say that......a friend of mine has offered me his 12 bore shotgun  .....he's into guns and bows and arrows.....all legal.....he has licenses for them all.....says he often kills vermin with his guns 

too right 

my mrs being from texas told me all sorts of stories about her old man with a bow and arrow. thats how he had a f*ckin great deer head in his front room 

no offence but i think ritchies idea is a bit, erm, unnecesarily cruel. put them out cleanly and as humanely as poss in my book.