Mice! I really need them gone.

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The flat below me has had a major renovation and the resident mice have decided that it is all a bit to much and have moved upstairs to my flat where i assume they find it less noisy.

I have put down poison which they seem to love as I seem to need to have to fill up the little plastic container quite frequently.

I have tried to figure out where there hole(s) are and have sealed a few, particularly around radiator pipes etc.

I have been looking at something like this:http://www.primrose.co.uk/advanced-rat-and-mouse-repeller-whole-house-p-36.html And wondered if anyone had any experience of this type of device.

I know that the easiest thing would be to get a cat but this is not viable at the present time.

Any thoughts and suggestions wanted urgently.:(
 
Traps. Humane if you prefer, but make sure you release them FAR away from your house. Poison probably will work eventually, but they'll die in the walls, ceilings and under the floor and you'll be smelling them for months. It's not pleasant.
 
I've always used and had great success with traps loaded with peanut butter.

When we had mice in my old place I could set the trap in a kitchen cupboard, go to bed and within 2 minutes you could hear it go off! Once we even caught 2 mice in the same trap!

Recently had to clear a family of mice from my parent's garage and we set up 2 traps within 3 inches of each other and we'd always have a mouse in each trap by the morning..they're really not the most intelligent of creatures!
 
Honestly forget all these traps they are a waste of money sure they work but they always come back nothing beats a Cat they catch them and they are a great deterrent. I had a huge mouse problem got myself a cat and she caught over 20+ and never have i seen a mouse again.
 
Zerolimitz said:
Honestly forget all these traps they are a waste of money sure they work but they always come back nothing beats a Cat they catch them and they are a great deterrent. I had a huge mouse problem got myself a cat and she caught over 20+ and never have i seen a mouse again.
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We've never had the mice return after taking them out with traps. We had a cat in our old place and he was completely useless..there was a mouse running loose in the living room one night and Ollie just led there on the sofa completely uninterested :)
 
I had a mouse loose about my house a while back. From reading, people have limited success with the electronic devices.

My suggestion is to clean the house top to bottom, ensuring any food is in sealed containers and no crumbs on the floors and surfaces. Get loads of mousetraps (B&Q cheap traps are fine), use peanut butter as a bait and dot them around the house. Check the traps regularly.

Temporarily fill any gaps in the wall/skirting/radiators etc with scrunched up aluminium foil. Apparently the mice don't like squeezing past any gaps next to foil due to the sharp bits.

Give it a few days to see if the mice have buggered off then start to seal all potential points of entry for the mice. Remember that mice can squeeze through the smallest of gaps so be very meticulous.

Good luck!!
 
Mice stay where food is. If you remove the food, you remove the mice.

Have a clear up, and get put all food out of reach (they can jump rather high). Bird seed, the lot
 
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