Aaaargh unwelcome house guests

[Jax]

Apologies if this is not the right place.

I have been hearing noises in my floorboards over the weekend and today they have een horrendous. It sounds like elephants in the floor boards. I gonna call the coucil tommorrow and see if they can come out and do something. Anyway of getting rid of them? Also since the noises my gerbils have been hiding and becming jumpy could this be linked?

[Two_Sheds]

Meeces....?

[Jeanied]

Rats? Glis Glis? What kind of noises?

[allotmentlady]

its the people under the stairs whooooooooooohoooooooooo! they will come to get you later when u sleep lol x

[bubblewrap]

How big are the holes in your skirting board.
Rodents? You dont want these!!
http://gianthamster.com/wp-content/u...2009/05/c6.jpg

[seasprout]

Illegal immigrants..?

Seriously though if its rats, then they must be geiing in either through broken drains or perhaps you have a broken air brick down low somewhere, time for a rootle about i'm afraid.

[rainbowbrite]

my sister in law had the same problem and it was mices, council came out and put some traps down but never caught anything but did scare them away and no noices since

[Nicos]

Hmm..we have something munching inside our cavity wall..tis either rats/mice or stone martins....they really sound like they are munching on beams and not nuts

[Eco-Chic]

Nicos,

If they're munching on the beams it could be deathwatch beetle or termites, especially if you've got any wood rot. It needs investigation sooner rather than later.

[Jax]

I dunno really its not like squeeking or anything its more thuds and scuttling around. I think they may also be in the attic. uuuurgh its proper creepy. Specially as I cant sleep at the moment so I can hear them all through the night. There are only tiny gaps around my skirting boards so they are not from there. hmmm I have been wandering how they got in as you dont really see any rats or mice doing a mission impossible stance up the side of houses. Im also thinking rats as we have a big abandoned bit of land next door and there was a dead rat there.



now how mission impossible mouse scenarios running through my head!!!!

[Jeanied]

What's your location, Jax ?- I'm wondering Glis glis still, but you may be out of the area. If you think it is mice you need to borrow a cat - I have one that is particularly fond of a bit of mouse of an evening! So has Ginger Ninger!

[Jax]

im in south lincolnshire hope that helps

[SarzWix]

What is "Glis glis"?!

[Jeanied]

Edible dormouse! Pest in some houses, treasured rare wildlife in some others. Not so much in Lincs - more in Herts and Bucks.

[Seamus]

hi jax, we had same prob last winter,it was rats, we cud hear them at nite in the attic, we had just moved into our new house and there were a couple of small places for them 2 get in, my advice wud b to leave access for them and lay poison in the attic, that way no small people or pets can come in contact wit it,poison raises their body temp and they will go out the holes that they used to come in, when they eat the poison you will hear alot of noise for a couple of nites before the silence returns, im not a big fan of using poison buti cannot stand rats, or the thought of them running around the house, ugghhhh !!!!!!!!!!!, ps when the noise stops seal their entry points. best of luck ....