How do you determine how rats are getting into your home, garage, shed etc? Look for some of these common indicators and entry points. For more information regarding rodent control please visit PestPatrolPDX.com
Great video. This is the key: sealing the entries! I live in a studio apartment. Trapped 3 mice in a week and noticed they were always around the stove. Pulled it back and saw huge holes I patched with steel wool. Keeping my fingers crossed now.
Yes sealing up entry points is the most important make-it or break-it step. It also makes trapping about 100X easier because it controls the access to outside food sources. If you have access into a crawlspace under the apartment you might consider setting some traps to make sure you eliminate those mice so they don't chew back through somewhere else. - Gabe
Update: caught 4 mice total in exactly one week. Left traps for 2 months without a new catch. Steel wool was the key. I won the war! Very satisfying to eradicate vermin and fortify your home.
@@Joopsmann You can buy a thicker grade very cheaply from walmart or amazon. they can’t chew through it because it cuts their noses. it’s also very malleable so you cant break it and twist it to fit crevices.
The incisors of rodents are continually growing. To prevent them from growing into their lower jaw they must often chew on something that will wear them. This wear also makes them very sharp.
Start by buying a new house? If you have a wi-fi camera like wyse or similar, just place it around suspect locations and work them first. If you have a friend that is a machinist, ask him for the turning scrap as they produce a lot of it and just stuff it into anything you can. You can use that sealant foam to solidify the mass.
Thoroghness is key, and when you find a spot follow the path it took to the next points, block those holes too with steel or copper pot scrubbers use steel wool if its big but not big enough.and place traps facing the wall at every hole, both sides of it. Where theres poop theres critters. Its alot like detective work, follow the clues
Thanks! We live right next to water mice and rats have been a big struggle for as long as i can remember i want them to stay out of our house permanently
Professional exclusion work is the best solution for long term rodent prevention - then preventative trapping/baiting on the exterior of the home is helpful as well. - Gabe with Pest Patrol
Burows = they keep making a tunnel under my 20 x 20 cement slab then somehow get into the wall to come up the kitchen sink pipe hole = my kitchen sink is close to the middle so their tunnel is about 10 foot long = My Problem Is first how to block the entrance they just keep re-digging even taking 5 foot of still wool out ????? Second finding their path inside the floor = i can't find the hole at the end of the tunnel that's letting them into the house ???? Under my house stops at the edge of the cement slab ???? They can't be going through the middle of the solid cement ???? No signs of where the exit end into the house of that tunnel is ????
got a roll of stainless steel wool on line and went around me entire house, tucked up under shingles, filled in foundation holes with cement, get on the ground and see what they see, steel wool is very sharp, dont pull on it, i know, where gloves, can be cut with sissors, get new ones at dollar store, good luck
How deep does a hole have to be for mice to get through? I don't know any terns about walls. But there's a hole in a wall in my room. If I stick a pencil in there, it cannot go very far. Not because of the width/height but because there is something hard there. I don't know if it's sheetrock, concrete, fiberglass, or what. I can't see it. I want to know if anything can get through that.
Hey Robin, a mouse needs a very small space (the size of a dime) to fit through. The most important aspect will be making sure that the exterior of the building is sealed up. Usually mice are coming from a crawlspace under the home. Sealing up an interior wall might be helpful in the short term but could make the problem worse down the road. - Gabe
Hey Robert, thanks for the comment. I would disagree - in our extensive experience 1/4" mesh properly installed is far small enough to exclude mice. 1/2" begins to be borderline too big for mice (but will exclude rats well). And anything larger is fairly useless for rodent exclusion. Thanks again for your comment, and if you have a product that works better than 1/4" please let me know so I can check it out!
Nice examples very easy to see and hear would love to see actual fixes for your examples. What's the best way to fix those vent screens or burrow holes near the foundation or any of your other great examples of rodent intrusions? some of your viewers might be far away from Portland. Some may resort to DIY from remote sites when trades and service professionals are reluctant to make the long trek out into the boonies..
We generally recommend sealing holes with 1/4 inch steel mesh. You can buy this at most local hardware stores. if the hole is in an awkward place like around a pipe we recommend sealing most of the hole with steel mesh and then filling gaps with a steel wool/spray foam combo.
Yet another exterminator is trying to tell me that the mice infestation in my UPSTAIRS master bathroom , far corner upper level & no signs of nests in bathroom- is coming in from garage, through all those rooms, stairs, hallway w no trapping and no droppings?! Come on man! Ugh I need help. I moved out! I can’t stay there!
@@pestpatrol6499 I have and I was poops in my master bathroom. I just moved in six months ago so it’s not like there’s a lot of clutter. No one found any nest yet we have trapped 10 mice. The exterminators that tell me they must be coming from the garage is full of bullshit. There’s no way that we can catch So many mice in one area without any evidence of mice on the long journey up to the top level of my home in the very corner. I need someone else to figure it out
