Had a mouse problem for nearly a year. HELP

Hope you got rid of them OP

At this point just give them names and keep them as pets.

Easier and cheaper.

Didn’t look at the date. Why don’t you remove it?

Get a cat!

You have to find out where they are getting in and you can’t leave any food or water source available for them. They can get into the tiniest spots. You need a wildlife expert in. They fined the entrance and exit spots where they’re getting in. Good luck. Find

We had mice in our old house. I put down flour across all the doorways - in the mornings you could see their footprints and figure out where they were moving.

Then used humane traps - the square plastic tube see-saw type ones - with peanut butter in them that would catch the mouse alive. The first couple of times I took it to the bottom of the garden and threw the mouse over the wall, but apparently they know how to get back to their home from about a mile away. Next time I caught one I took the trap for a drive and let it out in a graveyard a few miles away. A few more trips and they were all gone

We had a rat that kept returning and had to resort to the cameras down drains etc- it was using a disused drain and then up the heating pipes down through a hole at side of boiler - so they blocked it off - not nice, we heard it scrabbling around a wall one night and day later our kitchen filled with blue flys- but never had the issue again

I can’t believe you are recommending glue traps. Unbelievable.
I had mice for months. The only thing that worked was being absolutely scrupulous about putting food in seal proof containers and washing surfaces down every night. They’ll leave if there is no food

Don't get a cat. My car is an excellent mouser but the only times we've ever had mice in the house is when she's brought live ones in to play with and lost them when she's got bored.

Clear up your food, every single crumb, and they'll move on. That even worked for us outdoors and we keep chickens.

Buy a couple of cheap drums of rat & mouse poison pellets, the blue ones that are sold in mini markets like Nisa. Go round all your rooms, find every hole & pour pellets down every one & the block with wire wool. Go around the outside of your house & look for missing pointing, holes where tv aerials, Sky cables, pipes or dryer vents go in, check for broken air bricks, fill all holes with cement, check under door & window frames & do the same. Then get rid of any long grass, outdoor rubbish, clear around sheds, put poison in sheds & garage if you have one. Go through your kitchen cupboards & put all food in tins, jars, or plastic containers, clear the crumb tray every time you use the toaster, hoover every day so that there are no crumbs around & empty the hoover in the outside bin, empty your kitchen bin every day, keep your tumble dryer door shut. The pest man failed to get rid of my mice, but I got rid of them this way within a week.

My daughter had mice for at least 3 months in her kitchen of her tiny rented thatched cottage. She saw them everyday. They would just sit up on the work surface and look at her. The landlord employed a pest controller who put poison down and kept coming back to put more each week. This went on probably nearly 6 weeks and she could just hear them eating all the poison behind the microwave. She suggested to the chap they may be resistant to the poison. He argued that they couldn't be. My daughter researched online the different poisons and discovered there had been research and found in some areas resistance to this specific poison had been found. She found they were doing this research at Reading Uni and caught 2 mice in traps and sent off their tales to be analysed. They came back resistant to that poison. Her landlord employed another pest controller and they explained about the poison they were resistant too and a different poison was used which finally eradicated them .
I think anyone can set themselves up as a pest controller but not necessarily keep up to date with the current most effective poisons. She had too many mice for traps . She was catching them everyday in her two traps but there must have been hundreds of the blighters and she could hear them in the walls all the time.
They do tend to come in homes more in the cold weather so it should be better now

I'm betting the block is managed owned by the local authority. A flat I unfortunately owned had them come in through the brick airvents and were destroying everything

Yep you need a mouser. I live in flat connected through pipes and other stuff in a tenement.
mice ate carpets and and wires

got a cat. No more problem even though he brings them in they always die in the end.

my sis had mice under her floors. They caused electric failure eating the wires

I will say that my SIL who had the same issue, ended up having to move as the mice were around the estate so most - if not all the homes had a mouse problem.

Even if you deal with the in your house, the block will still have access and entry points for them to come back in and like you said, there's only so much you can do. If the landlord or council wont deal with the issue properly, your fighting a loosing battle unfortunately.

My SIL used all the traps you could find, blocked all the holes she could find, covered all food and entry points she could find and still would find mice daily as the whole block was infested.

@SoSickAndTiredOfTheCuntingMice problem is you're in a flat. You put poison down so they take it back the nest but you've probably got them running around the building so you need to block entry points. Find every single pipe coming in and out and block- washing machine, boiler, immersion heater, check under the bath and sink. Check all the skirting boards and under kitchen counters.

This 100%

London mice don't give a shit about peppermint oil. I've tried this at my parents home and often found the peppermint balls shoo'd to the side or simply shredded up. But the mice continued to reap havoc

Borrow a mouser. I did. Rural house in norfolk - little buggers found a way in and found them in the walls and poop in my cupboards. Locked all food in Tupperware and watched everything like a hawk - they could get in my kitchen drawer etc
borrowered a friends mouser for 4 weeks - fed her salmon and looked after her - 16 mice the first day and then they steadily went down (the kill rate) after 2 weeks we were clear and kept her for another week or so, when her owners went away she would come for a holiday - never saw them again

I think you need poison, and loads of it. Traps alone won’t get them all. Try a different pest company. I had mice for a few months and tried all sorts, in the end called a company who set up cardboard bait boxes all over the house, under kitchen cupboards & under furniture next to walls, and within a week or two all the mice were dead.

Read the OP she HAS called in the professionals

Don't bother with peppermint and stuff. London mice don't give a shit and still invade.

Have a look at the pipes coming into your kitchen and bathroom from downstairs and upstairs. Block those with wirewool. If you have an immersion heater check those pipes as well. I had mine in a third floor flat and they were running up the pipe ways.

Hi OP, I had the same thing with mice and multiple pest control companies wanting to charge me essentially for poison. I then heard this guy (link below) on the radio and booked him at the end of my tether. No mice since. Chap came down from Glasgow, found every entry point and filled them. Not cheap think it was £350 ish but I'd already paid around that on several occasions for other companies not to fix the problem.
https://humanewildlifesolutions.co.uk/

Good luck, I know how awful and demoralising it is when you feel stuck with mice.

Mice apparently hate the smell of peppermint.

I was going to suggest peppermint. You can buy capsules of peppermint oil from Holland and Barratt. Squirt some around where you think they might be getting in, and dab some/put cottonwool balls soaked in it in the corners of every room. Repeat every so often.