Okay.....
Recently moved into a victorian built terrace.
Everything lovely, except....
About a week after moving in, started no notice scratching noises, upstairs one night. Sounded like a mouse or something behind the wardrobe.
Cue DH wrestling the double wardrobe out, naked, at 11.30pm! :o
Nothing.
Then began to notice scratching under the floorboards, usually early evening, sometime sin the day. Sounds like something actually gnawing the underside of the floorboards.
(Bare floorboards so can hear quite clearly)
Kids tend to drop bits of food when they are eating obviously and some of this drops between the floorboards.
Pull up a floorboard, there is no sign of rice, crumbs, food bits etc.
Also, no sign of any droppings.
Last night (4pm) I pushed a bit of bread through a wide gap where I could easily spy on it with a torch, then forgot about it until 9pm, checked and bread was gone.
Other night, LOUD scratching is coming from inside bolier cupboard.
Open door, something has been chewing the bottom of the verticle wood slat that supports the shelves in there and there is a triangular hole going through the wall into the bathroom which is next door right by the bottom of said wood slat.
Off comes the side of the bath - the hole comes out under the bath at the foot end.
At the tap end, the pipe for the waste bath water goes out through the wall to the outside and there is a small hole around the pipe but it must be at odd angles as you cant see daylight. This pipe has been surrounded by expanding foam at some point.
DH blocks hole up to outside and also from bathroom to boiler cupboard.
All morning, LOUD frantic scratching at blocked hole to outside. It sounds bigger than a mouse to me. I used to keep rats in teens/early twenties.
Under the bath and in the boiler cupboard there are no droppings, no greasy marks or runs, no foorprints in the dust/sediment, absolutely no concrete evidence of what it is.
Landlord is coming out tomorrow to look at oven so I will mention then - I don't want to mention today as I think he will probably come rushing round straight away and I am in a bit of a mess as I have been searching for hard evidence all morning. :o
Why can I find no droppings?
I know what I am looking for but can't find it - only hear it.
Any experience?
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Mice or a rat do you think? Anyone with experience of either? Probably more the latter.
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LadyOfTheFlowers · 01/12/2010 12:45
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