Homeless with the kids for Xmas because of bloody mice!

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FoxEye said:
Notice how they don't say that plates and cutlery should be immediately destroyed? :p
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Notice how physiological considerations aren't the only ones? As was alluded earlier, psychological factors unashamedly play a part too. I don't care what some (not all, it has to be said) think. Personally I'd never be able to eat using those things again, and I'm not alone.

Never mind the fact that my Mrs wouldn't use them for the kids if they were the last items on Earth, regardless of how washed and sterile they were. Protection of your young is a very primitive, and often irrational, instinct. Randomly jibing about this (inconsequentially) small factor of the overall situation isn't really helpful. :p It might not APPLY to you, but surely you can't find it that incomprehensible that others may feel that way?

New plates and cutlery cost all of £25. Given that the REAL damage is a looking to cost a massively higher figure than that, I don't think it's proportional to be devoting two pages to the discussion of that little issue, do you? That's all I was saying. :)

I really should be in bed. :\ LOL

EDIT: Just to finish up (hopefully) this little side-debacle, I'll end with this... I'm 100% happy to post to you all cutlery, crockery, pots, pans and kitchen equipment. There's a LOT, and some good stuff too. We really, really don't want it. Since you're so nonplussed, and confused at our baulking, you can have it, for free! Email in Trust.
 
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LOL, that's mighty generous of you. I'll send you an email.

What (expensive) items are you expecting to have to replace, Rainmaker?
 
FoxEye said:
What (expensive) items are you expecting to have to replace, Rainmaker?
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Realistically at a minimum we're looking at, damage wise, two double beds, a single bed, mattresses, bedding and covers etc, shoes, coats, most clothes, school uniform, towels, a ton of books and assorted nick-nacks that have been chewed to death, coffee tables and a desk (again chewed to ****) and yes - kitchen equipment. The (leather :mad:) three piece suite is also no longer a three piece, but more a million piece suite.

Overall we're looking at easily a couple of grand, plus the cost of temporary accommodation, plus moving expenses we wouldn't have otherwise incurred. Hence trying to claim off our own house insurance to no avail (rodent damage exclusion clause in the small print). The landlord, or rather the agent, will definitely be hearing from our solicitor in due course.
 
Allow me to resolve the issue OCUK style for you.

"You should have located the females before they gave birth and performed a "Falcon Punch" abortion, before following up with a left-right combo to the ovaries preventing further impregnation. Your next course of action should then have been to hunt down the Alpha Male mouse, and assert you dominance by having sex with it "AKA. smashing it's back-pasty", then nuking the suvivors of the colony from orbit. However, it should never have come to this as you should have noticed and filled those innocuous looking gaps in woodwork etc. But this is besides the point, as you should have had more "monehz" in the first place and had a better house. And a Bugatti Veyron."
 
so are you taking these guys to court or what? if you not then theres zero point in your posts here as your digging your own hole.... whilst the mouse issue isnt YOUR fault its certainly the fault of the landlord who clearly cant maintain a property to save his life and should be taken to court pretty quickly.

and whilst your at it get that desposit back and go find a new rental - furnished if needs be.

any half decent solicitor would jump at the chance with this....

i feel your making this harder then it needs to be?
 
Some people in this thread make me laugh. There seems to be 4 types of people posting.

1 ) People who sympathise with the OP and can understand what it must be like to be in his shoes.

2 ) People offering advice which is actually helpful.

3 ) People creating arguments over such small things that given the enormity of the situation is just frankly irrelevant. Its like saying people on the titanic should have stuffed knifes and forks in their pockets as they were salvageable.

4 ) The other people are Captain Hindsights


As for the OP get some legal advice right away if you haven't already.
 
Thanks guys. As I said earlier in the thread, we have done everything we can so far including:

Bringing in Environmental Health
Chasing the agency (who otherwise don't seem keen to stay in touch)
Contacting the Housing Department and asking for (1) legal advice and (2) housing forms
Approaching a solicitor who work on a no win no fee basis to chase the landlord for damages

So given this has all happened so quickly, there's not much else we could have done, or can do - at least until a new working week starts. :)

EDIT: Oh, and LOL @ Captain Hindsight. :D
 
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I wish you and your family all the best, and hope you can get this all sorted out :) That's a terrible situation to be in :(
 
Gerard said:
Cats are useless, we have 3 of them and they bring mice in, play with them and let them go. :mad:
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I'll loan you my cat. He'll bring a mouse in (still kicking), hunts me out to show it off, then promptly decapitates it and crunches the head down, leaving me to clear up the little headless body.
 
I'm sorry but that is BS. Get some disinfectant and clean your stuff. I think that is a ridiculous statement that you cannot bring anything. If the risk was that bad you would already be infected surely?
 
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