ᐅ Mice in the newly built house – flooring installer coming tomorrow
Created on: 20 Dec 2020 17:28
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Bertram100
Dear forum community,
I recently moved into my new build. Due to delivery delays of the flooring, the screed is still exposed for now. Unfortunately, the house was already occupied by mice before I moved in. They run freely over the screed and investigate the moving boxes nearby. Then they disappear back into the cable ducts, which are open by a few centimeters (inches). The plaster ends about 3-4 cm (1-1.5 inches) above the top edge of the screed, so you can see the vertical pipes. It’s a paradise for mice, but quite annoying for me.
So far, they haven’t fallen into any traps and are ignoring the poison. There aren’t many mice, but I’d prefer them out of the house.
Tomorrow, the floor installer is coming to lay parquet flooring (layered parquet in long click planks). Then it will be oiled and left to dry, and after that, the baseboards will be installed.
My question is: Should I put some mouse poison inside the cable ducts and close everything off with the baseboards, hoping the mice family will die? Or should I leave some spots open, hoping the mice will come out on their own and eventually get caught in a trap somewhere in the room?
I’m also considering getting a cat. Any good advice is welcome!
I recently moved into my new build. Due to delivery delays of the flooring, the screed is still exposed for now. Unfortunately, the house was already occupied by mice before I moved in. They run freely over the screed and investigate the moving boxes nearby. Then they disappear back into the cable ducts, which are open by a few centimeters (inches). The plaster ends about 3-4 cm (1-1.5 inches) above the top edge of the screed, so you can see the vertical pipes. It’s a paradise for mice, but quite annoying for me.
So far, they haven’t fallen into any traps and are ignoring the poison. There aren’t many mice, but I’d prefer them out of the house.
Tomorrow, the floor installer is coming to lay parquet flooring (layered parquet in long click planks). Then it will be oiled and left to dry, and after that, the baseboards will be installed.
My question is: Should I put some mouse poison inside the cable ducts and close everything off with the baseboards, hoping the mice family will die? Or should I leave some spots open, hoping the mice will come out on their own and eventually get caught in a trap somewhere in the room?
I’m also considering getting a cat. Any good advice is welcome!
Steven schrieb:
Hello Bertram
Use Hanuta. The wafer can be removed, just the chocolate. Mice love Hanuta.
StevenSorry for being off-topic, but maybe Hanuta is sold in pet food stores 🙂
hampshire schrieb:
Chocolate causes animals to die, so there’s no need for live traps then.At least with marzipan inside, they apparently tolerate bitter chocolate quite well, at least when it comes to mice in metal garages. They can smell it through the packaging – I found their droppings near the torn packaging, but no carcasses anywhere on the entire site.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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knalltüte22 Dec 2020 15:09@11ant The mice shouldn’t die on the chocolate but rather from the metal bar that breaks their neck as soon as they try to take the chocolate bait from the trigger of the trap 😉
That usually worked for me in an older house. The tip about using chocolate (contrary to popular belief, mice actually prefer it over cheese) was well received, but even better were ready-made plastic traps with built-in bait compartments. You could secure the traps firmly! (Sometimes the mice weren’t killed immediately if they were hit awkwardly by the bar and then dragged the trap away). The bait substance was nearly invisible but sticky and apparently irresistible for mice.
By the way, I also dealt with rats (which I unfortunately had once because a subtenant left food out openly) using sticky poison foam from an aerosol can.
You definitely don’t want them to die inside your house. It smells terrible (happened to me once).
That usually worked for me in an older house. The tip about using chocolate (contrary to popular belief, mice actually prefer it over cheese) was well received, but even better were ready-made plastic traps with built-in bait compartments. You could secure the traps firmly! (Sometimes the mice weren’t killed immediately if they were hit awkwardly by the bar and then dragged the trap away). The bait substance was nearly invisible but sticky and apparently irresistible for mice.
By the way, I also dealt with rats (which I unfortunately had once because a subtenant left food out openly) using sticky poison foam from an aerosol can.
You definitely don’t want them to die inside your house. It smells terrible (happened to me once).
We used to live in an old, large natural stone house.
There, mice had settled everywhere—from the basement through unoccupied apartments, within the masonry and floorboards, all the way up to the roof.
By the middle of this year, we stopped counting after reaching 300 dead mice in one year.
The record was 9 dead mice in a single day.
We used chocolate, carefully shaped between our fingers into soft balls, and then pressed it firmly into the recess of the spring-loaded snap traps.
The mouse would definitely trigger the trap while trying to gnaw it out.
It didn’t matter if the chocolate came from old Easter or Christmas hollow figures or from chocolate bars.
The plastic traps with permanent bait hardly worked for us.
We have no idea if the mice noticed that a mouse had already died on the bait before.
There, mice had settled everywhere—from the basement through unoccupied apartments, within the masonry and floorboards, all the way up to the roof.
By the middle of this year, we stopped counting after reaching 300 dead mice in one year.
The record was 9 dead mice in a single day.
We used chocolate, carefully shaped between our fingers into soft balls, and then pressed it firmly into the recess of the spring-loaded snap traps.
The mouse would definitely trigger the trap while trying to gnaw it out.
It didn’t matter if the chocolate came from old Easter or Christmas hollow figures or from chocolate bars.
The plastic traps with permanent bait hardly worked for us.
We have no idea if the mice noticed that a mouse had already died on the bait before.
K
knalltüte22 Dec 2020 16:00permanent dog. Nice typo 😉