Help - mice under the conservatory floor.

[ArDee]

We had mice three/four years ago in the ceiling void over the kitchen. We have the wave shaped roof tiles and they were getting through the holes between the underside of the tiles and the soffit board/wall plate.
When I had a look at the gap they’d eaten through the plastic comb filler. It’s is possible to get a metal comb filler but, I was unable to find a UK stockist and didn’t want to import it.
So I replaced the plastic comb filler with the same and got strips of chicken wire around 100mm long which I folded up and put on top of the teeth of the comb filler to fill in the gaps; the sharp pointed ends of the cut wires pointed outwards. The mice haven’t managed to get through that and it still leaves plenty of space for air to circulate – could work with an air brick.

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

Maybe a long shot but if you know someone with a ferret ,stick the little fella under the floorboards and he will soon see the mice off .

 

[Chromatic]

In my experience a cat is the only way to get rid of them

Not our cat, she's crap at catching them, she doesn't seem to bother trying. Our dog is better, at least she tries, although she's fighting a losing battle though as she is rather too obvious and clumsy in her hunting technique.

 

[buddha]

Not our cat, she's crap at catching them, she doesn't seem to bother trying. Our dog is better, at least she tries, although she's fighting a losing battle though as she is rather too obvious and clumsy in her hunting technique.

My cat brings live ones in to the house, and drops them at my feet
Traps and peanut butter works well ... I caught five a fortnight ago, after the neighbour had some building work done.

 

[slowmotion]

We had a major invasion about four years ago. We started with a humane trap which was entirely useless and moved on to snap traps baited with peanut butter and chocolate. The little buggers would just eat the bait off old-style wooden "Nippy" traps. Rentokil plastic ones were pretty good though. The tally was up to fourteen and still growing when we found mouse poo in the bottom of the toaster. That was it. We reached for the nastiest poison we could find and that fixed it once and for all. No nasty smells either.

 

[GM]

Don't know if it's true or not, but someome once told me that a mouse can get through a hole the size of a pencil...

 

[TVC]

Apparently, a German bloke with a whistle is the best thing to get rid of them, or someone might have been trying to tell me a story.

 

[ufkacbln]

Some good advice here about blocking their way in and I know mice can be a pain but don't poison them. Use a humane trap, you know, the sort that has a little trap door that closes behind them when they enter for the food bait. Just make sure they get released a good distance away in say a field.

Or post them through the letterbox of the driver who SMIDSYed you the other night?

 

[ufkacbln]

But then I'll need a dog to get rid of the cat!!

I know an old woman who swallowed a fly.....

 

[biggs682]

car or ferret , i would go for a ferret

 

[slowmotion]

My nephew has a few ferrets. They are lovely animals and don't mind being handled...but.oh boy, they pong. I think I would prefer parfum de souris morte to a whiff of ferret.

 

[subaqua]

Apparently, a German bloke with a whistle is the best thing to get rid of them, or someone might have been trying to tell me a story.

his name wasn't vernon was it ? and yes thats fairly cryptic

 

[summerdays]

I've used the humane ones with some success, but we were too kind and decided to release them in our garage (I know mad!!!). The main problems with humane traps is that you need to check them very regularly, we once caught a mouse when we hadn't set a trap so weren't checking them and I didn't like to think about his slow death.

I've also had success with the snapping ones too. We used to get them in our kitchen each year and it would get to the point were they almost seemed like a pet. But only one of them seemed to be able to climb onto our worktops and he took absolutely ages to catch - though we got him when he went into a cake box and slung it quickly out the door. I think we must have sealed that hole - possibly near the washing machine outlet as we haven't had them for years.