Mice problem

I was an owner in a development and the management agent were happy to deal directly with tenants over certain issues - rodents being one of them.

Depends on the management company I suppose but for these types of issues we found it was nearly always easier to deal with the people actually living there.

If you're not squeamish about cleaning up after, a bit of peanut butter on an old fashioned mouse trap is very efficient in getting rid of them.

I costs about 150 euro to get in pest control. They will have it sorted in a couple of days to week where you will be at it forever. Talk to your LL or Management company. The sonic youkes are useless save your money and get pest control.

It's the landlord/management company's problem. Get on to them.

In my experience, for mice, traps are the only way to go. Poison results in them dying in places where you are aware of the smell and then have to go hunting to find their remains.

Put down traps and count the bodies ... the only way to be sure. I leave baited traps in discrete places around the house, all year. The bait being taken is an early warning system that they have returned.

We recently lived in a terraced house and it was like a train of mice at night there were so many in the walls. We were renting and had to get pest control ourselves (it was in the lease). Tbh it was a total waste of time and money unless everyone else also got it in the row of terraces. The mice were running from house to house. Mouse traps never worked either for us unfortunately.

we were leaving anyway but I was so glad when we did as on our last night I could hear them next to where I slept! 🥺

Always used to use a piece of rasher in a trap tied on with string so they had to tug at it. Also placed the trap in a "tunnel" like betwen 2 boxes or against a wall in such a way that they had to walk onto it. Once caught 8 mice, every morning there was another mouse in the trap. Once I found out how they were getting in (a gas pipe in the garage going in through a wall to underneath the kitchen floor had a small gap that I sealed) we never had any more.

I think you have just been lucky that they have died somewhere else. What is the right poison that prevents the smell of decay? I used poison for mice once and then had to search through the hot press the for source of a smell, before finding two mice bodies. I vowed to never use it again after that.

One of the other risks with poison, is secondary poisoning when other animals or birds may eat a dead mouse or rat. Poisons circulating in the general environment, is never a good thing.

That's downright cruel. I love little furry things!

I use chocolate,

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and finds the domestic water tank in your attic, falls in and well...............

A nice thought to have when you washing the teeth in the morning

Same here, but you'd be surprised how many houses don't and the occupants don't even know.

My point is the warfarin based poisons aren't a good idea.

Peppermint oil works

If you're not catching mice check that your traps are sensitive enough. We had a mouse infestation over Christmas and we had precautionary traps set but they had caught nothing. Husband figured out that traps were not sensitive enough when the peanut butter and butter were disappearing off them but no mice caught. We got The Big Cheese plastic traps an caught 10 mice in 2 days. We haven't caught a single one since and all droppings and scratchings have stopped. We found the traps with butter were more effective than the peanut butter traps.

Is it worth while putting out some traps around the place....I have heard some noise in floorboards only....or is it a case of me needing to rip them up?

I was considering getting a professional....but got a quote of 350+ euros...so might try traps myself first...

If you hear any noise... put out traps. Mice will find their way to sources of food and heat eventually. As said previously, I leave sample traps in secluded locations all the time, if the bait is taken, I know they are back and then the full arsenal of traps is deployed.

So!

Why you telling me, so do I. Jeesh.