Homeless with the kids for Xmas because of bloody mice!
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You mean like placing traps and poison, and calling out the council's pest control. Oh, wait...
If you read the thread, you'll see that all this (and more) was done, but there were mice moving in faster than they could be killed due to the substantial defects in the property's structure.
Yes. Because after a metal object has been cleaned and sterilised, there are no contaminants left to be worried about...
It's purely in your head after that.
Good luck with that. Personally I'll happily cling to my psychological misgivings. Blame evolution for providing me with a sense of preservation. Irrational fears aren't all that irrational when looked at from that perspective. I don't care if it gets boil washed, autoclaved, and then sterilised with gamma radiation. I'm still not eating off/with it. Period.
Good luck with that. Personally I'll happily cling to my psychological misgivings. Blame evolution for providing me with a sense of preservation. Irrational fears aren't all that irrational when looked at from that perspective. I don't care if it gets boil washed, autoclaved, and then sterilised with gamma radiation. I'm still not eating off/with it. Period.
If I smelted them down in an industrial furnace, and made new cutlery from the molten metal, would that be OK?
Or would that mouse pee still bother you? I can just imagine you having dinner guests
*guests tuck into their meals*
"so yeah, the mice were everywhere, they crapped all over the cutlery and the dishes, luckily we managed to salvage them though"
*guests suddenly lose their appetites*
*guests tuck into their meals*
"so yeah, the mice were everywhere, they crapped all over the cutlery and the dishes, luckily we managed to salvage them though"
*guests suddenly lose their appetites*
you need to go through and assess on a case by case basis.
Bedding can be replaced relatively cheaply, so thats something id be binning and not trying to rescue.
If the mattress is gone, then bin it, but see if you can save the bed under it for example.
Nobody is suggesting that everything is fine with just a good wash, but equally dont take their advice literally that everything has to be binned.
If I smelted them down in an industrial furnace, and made new cutlery from the molten metal, would that be OK?
Why don't you swap your crockery and cutlery with him?
The council already tried that mate, not quite to that extreme but they definitely went to town on it... the boxes and exposed baits are matted with rodent hair, but there isn't so much as a nibble missing from them. ;\
Rentokill made the analogy of dry porridge made with only hot water, to a Sunday roast. Which would you pick? The house is allowing such free access to and from outside that the mice are enjoying fine dining in the garden and the farmer's field, and coming home just to sleep, breed and wreck havoc. The poison isn't even really attracting them aside from, as I said above, the Eradibait which they seem to have confused with wood.
The pest guy says that for every 10 I kill, 20 more are moving in. He spent an hour surveying every nook, cranny and hole inside and out, and said he can clearly see that they are still 'pouring' into the house from outside. Bleurgh.
In that case get yourself a fondue fork and go huntin!
To be fair, you said rentokill done that. But only now, and it was first reported in September.
Unless i missed a post
I'd probably just ignore the non existent disease risk and take the stuff with me. Unless there is some new bacteria that no one knows about that can withstand bleach, hydrogen peroxide, sodium hydroxide and gamma irradiation.
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I don't so much have a set of cutlery as I have an assortment of un-matched knives, forks, and spoons, that have been acquired over the years.
For all I know, some of them might have been covered in mouse pee before I got them
What I do know, is that after a good wash and disinfection routine, I'd use any +metal+ knife, fork or spoon you could find. As long as it isn't made of lead And so would you, if I didn't tell you where it had been. And it wouldn't hurt you. But you still might stop using it after I told you. Like I said, it's an emotional reaction rather than a logical one.
So you would irradiate everything? I wonder if the cost would be more or less just buying afresh . . . .
So you would irradiate everything? I wonder if the cost would be more or less just buying afresh . . . .
Obviously if it's cheap tat like toys and books it's not worth bothering with, but I wouldn't throw away thousands of pounds of electronics that I never even touch like the tv when wiping it with a cloth will sterilise it.
I don't so much have a set of cutlery as I have an assortment of un-matched knives, forks, and spoons, that have been acquired over the years.
For all I know, some of them might have been covered in mouse pee before I got them
And so would you, if I didn't tell you where it had been. And it wouldn't hurt you. But you still might stop using it after I told you. Like I said, it's an emotional reaction rather than a logical one.
Either way, he's best doing what the experts advise and getting the problem remedied without him having to resort to sterilising all his stuff. He'll have enough on his hands looking after his family after the upheaval.
This is after all, what insurance is for.
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