Mice Control
Eastern Suburbs

How to keep mice under control in your home

Because they can thrive in wide-range of various conditions. They are quite sneaky and difficult to control. Mostly, homeowners seek help from pest specialists to help deal with mice problems at home.

In fact, there are preventative ways to keep mice from destroying or invading your homes. Here are a few measures you can do while considering as well the assistance of pest specialists:

• Food protection – be cautious not to attract mice with meals. Meals have to be stored in plastic or steel containers. Regularly wash under stoves, refrigerators and cabinets.
• Doors – fit bristle (or brush) strips to the base of doors to save you access, particularly in older houses wherein the door match may not be snug
• Holes – these are often made in outside walls for pipes and cables; take a look at that old pipework holes and guarantee they’re sealed too
• Air bricks and vents – cover those with fine galvanised wire mesh particularly if they are damaged
• Eaves – repair damaged roofing and use twine mesh to seal gaps
• Vegetation – trim tree branches lower back from the home and wherein viable keep away from plants growing up the sides of your private home. Overgrown plants close to the walls will provide mice shelter and capacity to do nesting sites.
• Lawns – keep grass mown fast to reduce refuge and seeds for foods. Ideally, depart a gap among the building foundations and the lawn.

If you are worried about the thought of mice in your home, our specialists recommend treatment plans which are tailored to your requirements.

If you think there is a mice Infestation, don’t hesitate to contact us.

With the expertise established throughout the years, this enables our technicians to provide expert advice and mouse control from the areas they not only service but in which they also live.

Detecting Mice Problems

To confirm if you are experiencing mice problems at home or in business, here are indicative signs that there is 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.
• Chewed up packed items or stuff – this is apparent as you may find some stocking up pieces of things like newspapers or even the surfaces of your furniture.
• 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.

Other signs that there’s a mice infestation:

• Pee and musty, stale odor
• Smear marks
• Ripped food packages

Deterring Mice Problems

A site inspection is a first phase in distinguishing mice infestation. Doing this can help to identify the species and come up with the perfect treatment plan. Though DIY methods can help, this doesn’t guarantee 100 per cent eradication. In fact, it can only give short-term solutions. That is why it is still best to employ longterm solutions provided by professionals.

In fact, there are viable choices on how we can stop mice infestation but the easiest method is to seal entry points and keeping the environment clean.

Setting Traps and Baits

Traps are a solid defense. This is applicable to mice which are dwelling comfortably inside the property. Of course, we simply don’t set traps and baits like what we see in cartoons. In fact, there is a proper way to do this.

For present mice infestation, we can provide quick, guaranteed support to get rid of mice safely from your home or business.

For the spring-loaded trap, a lure is needed to lure rodents, a piece of cheese is a good 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.

Eastern Suburbs Pest Control

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