How can I get rid of a dead animal smell

[4390evans]

Just when I thought I was getting a break we se another today, there was a massive one today in the kitchen :/

[Nicos]

Really sorry to hear your update.

[roitelet]

Sorry to hear that. If the Council put poison down it takes time to work. Your method of traps is the quickest solution.

You should ring the council again and make a real nuisance of yourself until they DO something about the source of the problem.

[4390evans]

I am going to ring them every week, and find out what my councilor is doing about it.

[Bigmallly]

Landlord's duty to repair your home

Your landlord is responsible for most repairs to your home.

It's your landlord's responsibility to fix holes in the wall or floor which allow rats or mice to enter your home.

If pests and vermin cause damage to your home, it's your landlord's responsibility to:

fix doors, skirting boards, pipes, brickwork when rats or mice have chewed through them
urgently fix any damage to electrical wiring
Find out more about a landlord's responsibility for repairs.

Report the problem to your landlord

Report the problem to your landlord as soon as possible. Do this in writing.

Find out how to report repairs in private homes.

Read more about how to report repairs in council and housing association homes.

Complain to environmental health

Some pests can spread diseases and can make health conditions worse. Examples include asthma, eczema and other allergies.

Contact your local council if there are pests and vermin in your home that could cause a health hazard. Your council's environmental health department is usually responsible for dealing with health hazards in rented homes

Private or housing association tenants
Contact your local council's environmental health department and explain what the problem is.

An environmental health officer may visit your property to check if the situation is so serious that it could:

damage your health
affect your neighbours' homes as well as your own
be a hazard – this is a risk to your health and safety in the home
An environmental health officer can identify the cause of the pest and vermin problem in your home and work out who is responsible for dealing with it. The council can take action to help fix the problem.

Find out how to ask the council for help with repairs

Council tenants
You can ask the council's environmental health department to visit because of pest and vermin problems in a council home. The environmental health officer's assessment is evidence of the problem. You can use it to try to persuade your landlord to take action. Environmental health can't force the council to take action.

If the council won't take action to sort out the problem, you can complain using the council's complaints procedure.

If that doesn't bring results, you can complain to the Local Government Ombudsman. This service is free.

Another remedy is to take the council to court. Get advice from a housing adviser. Use Shelter's directory to find an adviser in your area.

Compensation claims

Find out if it's worth taking legal action to claim compensation from your landlord.

Dealing with pests and vermin from outside your home

Problems with rats and mice can be caused by conditions in your neighbourhood such as rubbish in gardens or on the street.

You can ask your neighbours to deal with the issue. If your neighbours rent their home, you can complain to their landlord.

Complain to the council's environmental health department if your neighbours or their landlord don't fix the problem. They can serve a notice ordering your neighbours to deal with the problem. If they don't comply, the council can arrange for any necessary work to be done and charge your neighbours or their landlord for it.

[roitelet]

There you are! No holds barred, just go for it. For the sake of your own health and that of the kiddies you can't let the situation go on.

[4390evans]

Landlord's duty to repair your home

Your landlord is responsible for most repairs to your home.

It's your landlord's responsibility to fix holes in the wall or floor which allow rats or mice to enter your home.

If pests and vermin cause damage to your home, it's your landlord's responsibility to:

fix doors, skirting boards, pipes, brickwork when rats or mice have chewed through them
urgently fix any damage to electrical wiring
Find out more about a landlord's responsibility for repairs.

Report the problem to your landlord

Report the problem to your landlord as soon as possible. Do this in writing.

Find out how to report repairs in private homes.

Read more about how to report repairs in council and housing association homes.

Complain to environmental health

Some pests can spread diseases and can make health conditions worse. Examples include asthma, eczema and other allergies.

Contact your local council if there are pests and vermin in your home that could cause a health hazard. Your council's environmental health department is usually responsible for dealing with health hazards in rented homes

Private or housing association tenants
Contact your local council's environmental health department and explain what the problem is.

An environmental health officer may visit your property to check if the situation is so serious that it could:

damage your health
affect your neighbours' homes as well as your own
be a hazard – this is a risk to your health and safety in the home
An environmental health officer can identify the cause of the pest and vermin problem in your home and work out who is responsible for dealing with it. The council can take action to help fix the problem.

Find out how to ask the council for help with repairs

Council tenants
You can ask the council's environmental health department to visit because of pest and vermin problems in a council home. The environmental health officer's assessment is evidence of the problem. You can use it to try to persuade your landlord to take action. Environmental health can't force the council to take action.

If the council won't take action to sort out the problem, you can complain using the council's complaints procedure.

If that doesn't bring results, you can complain to the Local Government Ombudsman. This service is free.

Another remedy is to take the council to court. Get advice from a housing adviser. Use Shelter's directory to find an adviser in your area.

Compensation claims

Find out if it's worth taking legal action to claim compensation from your landlord.

Dealing with pests and vermin from outside your home

Problems with rats and mice can be caused by conditions in your neighbourhood such as rubbish in gardens or on the street.

You can ask your neighbours to deal with the issue. If your neighbours rent their home, you can complain to their landlord.

Complain to the council's environmental health department if your neighbours or their landlord don't fix the problem. They can serve a notice ordering your neighbours to deal with the problem. If they don't comply, the council can arrange for any necessary work to be done and charge your neighbours or their landlord for it.

Thanks for that bigmally I never once thought of contacting the onbudsman, I am going to do this on my next day off as we got another one last night and we have a mouse. Hahaha I gotta laugh because I feel like Im cracking up with these pests. I dont even know what they could be coming into the house for as there is no food for them...

[roitelet]

They are just looking and are opportunists! They will chew anything!!! Rats love soap!!!!

[Bigmallly]

Here's the link if of any use:

Pests and vermin in rented homes - Shelter England

[Kitchen Gardener]

Try the local council, environmental health have a duty of care to help you get rid of vermin. They will charge though. Stop feeding birds and putting cooked food in compost bins (if indeed you do so).

[Bigmallly]

environmental health have a duty of care to help you get rid of vermin. They will charge though.

They may charge for mice but shouldn't charge for rats.

[roitelet]

Any updates on your unwelcome visitors?

[4390evans]

Any updates on your unwelcome visitors?

I caught another baby 3 days ago but since then nothing. The private rat man that next door has got out to put poison down came out yesterday to check the bait trays and he says there was nothing left of the poison. He has put more down and will be back out in 5 days. The councillor up the road from me pulled my bf yesterday and asked if the environmental health had been out, he explained that he had been out but couldn't do anything but put poison down which we refused as we don't want the smell of dead dying rats under the floorboards but we do have traps.. The councillor said the owner of the building is going to be in bug trouble as he is making the street unhygienic and hazardous with all the waste dumped in his garden..

I'll see how it goes as I've been told nothing like this off the council or environmental protection.

Next door has created a lot of disturbance over that last day or so doing some building work so I am expecting some rats over the weekend, but I am keeping my fingers crossed

[veggiechicken]

If the council have offered to put poison down and you have refused to let them, there probably isn't anything else they can do to help you.

I saw this the other day and thought of you Watch How Easily A Rat Can Wriggle Up Your Toilet | IFLScience
Not just the coming up in the toilet bit but, also, how they can squeeze through tiny holes.

[Bigmallly]

Sorry Ev's but I'd rather have dead ones under the floorboards than live ones breeding like..............erm rats.