I had pest control over this morning as I heard horrible scratching noises near my bedroom window for several days, then the noise started moving to other parts of the room. Mostly in the small hours. I found two droppings on saturday night (google showed me it's rat droppings) in my bedroom 
I thought if it's a rat or mouse it was under the floorboards, but it was now obviously getting inside.
Saturday at 8.30pm, heard loud noises from my hall. I went out and actually saw a rat run and hide really, really quick across about 4 feet of hall and under the bathroom door.
Those things can squeeze through tiny spaces. Didn't know what the hell to do, stood there, heart beating fast, didn't dare open the bathroom door. What can I say, I'm a wimp. 
I picked up a stick, (as if I was ever going to use it or catch the rodent). When I did finally go in the bathroom, I could tell where it escaped, a tiny gap above the floor at the front corner of the bath. In 26 years here never seen one in my flat. Pest control reckoned the building works I've had done here recently disturbed them from underground, and he said none of my vents on the outside are big enough to let them in or out.
He's laid several sachets of poison in 3 places where he thinks it/they are getting in and out; bathroom, and two gaps in the hall going under the floorboards. He said it takes 3 days to kill them. He comes back next week and the week after to check. £90 treatment. Rentokil were going to charge nearer to £300. So I hope this treatment works.
This is a pic I took of some of the sachets. According to this page, I think it's second generation anticoagulant, the most lethal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodenticide
I thought if it's a rat or mouse it was under the floorboards, but it was now obviously getting inside.Saturday at 8.30pm, heard loud noises from my hall. I went out and actually saw a rat run and hide really, really quick across about 4 feet of hall and under the bathroom door.
Those things can squeeze through tiny spaces. Didn't know what the hell to do, stood there, heart beating fast, didn't dare open the bathroom door. What can I say, I'm a wimp. I picked up a stick, (as if I was ever going to use it or catch the rodent). When I did finally go in the bathroom, I could tell where it escaped, a tiny gap above the floor at the front corner of the bath. In 26 years here never seen one in my flat. Pest control reckoned the building works I've had done here recently disturbed them from underground, and he said none of my vents on the outside are big enough to let them in or out.
He's laid several sachets of poison in 3 places where he thinks it/they are getting in and out; bathroom, and two gaps in the hall going under the floorboards. He said it takes 3 days to kill them. He comes back next week and the week after to check. £90 treatment. Rentokil were going to charge nearer to £300. So I hope this treatment works.
This is a pic I took of some of the sachets. According to this page, I think it's second generation anticoagulant, the most lethal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodenticide
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