Mice Pest Control
Guanaba Gold Coast

How to keep mice under control in your home

Mice take a food source, refuge and easy access. They pick dry, warm areas around Guanaba in which they may be no longer disturbed and may build nests.

There are also preventative ways we can do to minimise mice encounter at home especially if the source of infestation is not yet identified. Here are a few to do this before calling the help of experts:

• Food security – be careful not to attract mice with food. Where possible food should be stored in metal or plastic containers. Regularly wash under stoves, refrigerators and cabinets.
• Doors – fit bristle (or brush) strips to the bottom of doors to save you access, especially in older houses wherein the door match may not be snug
• Holes – these are often made in exterior walls for pipes and cables; take a look at that old pipework holes and ensure they’re sealed too
• Air bricks and vents – cover those with best galvanised cable net, mainly if they are damaged
• Eaves – repair damaged roofing and use wire mesh to seal openings
• Vegetation – trim tree limbs once more from the home and where possible dodge plants growing up the sides of your property. Congested vegetation near the dividers will offer mice safe house and potential settling destinations.
• Lawns – keep grass mown fast to reduce refuge and seeds for foods. Ideally, leave a gap among the building foundations and the lawn.

If you’re worried about the thought of mice in your own home, our specialist recommends treatment plans which are tailored to your requirements.

For an current mice infestation, we can provide a fast, guaranteed service to eliminate mice safely from your home or business.

With over a number of years of globally backed knowledge and experience, this enables our specialists to give high-level knowledge and mouse control in the areas they render service for and live, as well.

Detecting Mice Problems

To confirm if you are experiencing mice problems at your Guanaba home or in business, here are indicative signs that there’s an infestation:

• Droppings – their droppings are the same as rats. They leave traces of it and are usually concentrated in one area. Their droppings looked like chocolate sprinkles and are smaller than rats.
• Gnawed items – mice will need to keep their teeth trimmed that is why they are fond of gnawing or chewing on hard materials other than food like wood and plastics. They can also have the capability to split to pieces papers.
• Noise – obviously, you may hear scratching and squeaking within your walls or on your rooftop particularly through the evening which mice are usually dynamic.

Other signs and symptoms that there is a mice infestation:

• Pee and musty, stale odor
• Smear marks – these are usually greasy marks left on areas where they rub their skin accompanied by fur and dirt
• Ripped food packages

Deterring Mice Problems

An initial inspection is the first step in detecting mice infestation around Guanaba. Doing so very well can assist in deterring any mice issues. Though DIY methods can alleviate the problem, these can only provide short-term solutions. Hence, it is ideal to think of long-term ones to completely stop the problem.

Hence, it is wise to consider long-term measures to get the desired effects in managing mice problems.

Setting Traps and Baits

Traps are a powerful defence. This is an effective method as well to capture live rodents which are pestering all over the area. Actually, we just don’t establish traps and baits like what we see in cartoons. There are right ways on how to do this.

For traps, there are actually two kinds: the tacky ones and the spring-loaded. Sticky traps can provide success by entrapping the mouse living though it also has its downside. CDC stated that live trapped mice can urinate out fear and mice urine can spread diseases.

For the spring-loaded trap, a bait is needed to entice rodents, a slice of cheese is an example. After setting the trap and bait, put the trap perpendicular to a wall (like a T). Put these traps where you believe you where the rodents are nestling.

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