Pest control baited BC rats and mice in ceiling space. The smell has started but there's no way to remove them.

[Tcateh]

How long will it smell for.
Grim I know.

Until the flies and maggots get them!
It'll take a while.

Have you experienced this?
I feel sorry for them. It's not been fun.
Praying they dry out a bit before anything falls thru. At least with a loft you can remove them.

It is terrible, isn’t it. In my last house my sister helped me to get the place ready to sell it, and I lay in bed at night in an exquisitely styled and beautified room with the stink of a dead rat rotting inside the wall six feet away. Good news is it goes in a few days - they will have used the stuff ordinary people can’t obtain, which acts extra fast. Watch out for the next stage - enormous bloated black blowflies - then after that it will be over. My commiserations! It’s a terrible experience but it will pass.

Huge flies in the house stage. Oh god.

Sorry you had to go through it too. Everything I read is about finding out where they're getting in, it's a modern row of 5 homes.
3 of us have problems. Nothing particularly noticeable outside.

Googling is very depressing. I hope they are intelligent enough not to come back.
I live in the countryside they've got a whole natural world outside to choose from!

Mine came up through a hole in the floor. I’d had a leak in the downstairs loo and the plumber had broken a floorboard getting it up to have a look underneath. It was winter. The first I knew of the problem was an apple lying on the kitchen floor, with gnaw marks that I had never seen before in my life!

Ok I'm going to hunt for any gaps upstairs.
Particularly where they fitted a boiler 6 or so yrs back.
That is in my bedroom 😲😄

They come because there is a supply of water. They stay because there is a supply of food.

We had a bird fall down the chimney (we could hear it cheeping) but we couldn’t get to it. After a few days of a farmyard stench the flies started coming - 🤮. Fat fuckers. They did all head towards the light of the window, which made them easier to deal with - several times a day for 7-10 days I would hoover them all up 🤮🤮

Day 6 of stink. Pest control have been back, all bait was eaten so they've put more down.

Windows are open, scented candle sporadically lit is helping but I'm freezing and have a headache.

😞 Kinda wishing I'd let them live now. But there's been a problem in our row of houses and one lady has a toddler and baby.
Just felt I should take some action.

Sounds like it could be a sewer pipe - happened on my street- they were getting into one terraced house , then moving through the lofts to everyone else’s- including mine

when the sewer pipe was fixed the problem went away

I guess so. Would they be able to get just into the ceiling space between ground and first floor from a sewer pipe?
There's just a tiny porch here with a loo and I've never heard any sound at ground level or up the walls.

But one of my neighbours had a nest in her equivalent downstairs room, behind the pipes.
I guess they'll travel thru any gaps available really.

My upstairs bathroom is the other side of the house, which isn't far as it's 2 up 2 down but I've never heard anything in that area.

Oh loft was checked yesterday, nothing up there.