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Escape from Rat House

8 replies

ThePiedPiper1 · 17/08/2022 19:43

Just asking to gauge opinions.

We had a plumber round last week to fit new pipes for our utility rooms. Few days later, I'm hearing loud scuffling sounds at night coming from the ceiling of our kitchen extension. DH says it's just birds/squirrels on the roof but I'm not sure. Didn't hear much Monday but wasn't really home. Last night all hell broke loose. DH in bed and I'm downstairs with my newborn DD in my lounge. I can hear the scuffling sounds again from the kitchen and this time from the walls too. So loud. DH not too fussed as they're 'not in the living quarters' and not convinced it's vermin either. I freak out and say I'm leaving tomorrow to go and stay at my mum's who lives in another city. DH reluctantly agrees to take me & DD. He thinks I'm overreacting but 'if I think it's for the best then that's fine.'

I've organised for pest control to come tomorrow so we'll know more then. Told DH he has to wfh or take the day off and I've scarped (I didn't wait for DH and have got the train instead). We're currently doing work on the upstairs so have exposed floorboards + holes in the skirting boards where we've updated the electrics. I'm just so worried about rats coming into our bedroom from these spaces. DD is only 12 weeks old.

AIBU to run away from this rat house and leave my husband to sort?

Current working hypothesis is that they've come in under the decking via the new drains.

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Haveanicecupoftea · 17/08/2022 20:06

Nope! I'd have packed up and left too!!

Carrieonmywaywardsun · 17/08/2022 20:33

YANBU! That sounds horrible OP, I'm so sorry. The experts will work out the best way to get them out, and as it's early days hopefully they won't have settled in or done too much damage. Hopefully they sort it out soon.

Congratulations on your DD!

TotalRhubarb · 17/08/2022 20:36

Very unlikely to be rats if they’re in the ceiling up high. Much more likely to be squirrels or birds. Please don’t let the pest people put down poison indiscriminately, before you know what it is.

Mindfulofmuddle · 17/08/2022 20:45

YANBU We had exactly this. Poor plumbing next to our new kitchen extension meant rats chewed through breeze block, gained access via a cavity wall to our kitchen extension roof and went up the cavity walls into our loft.
It went on and on because it took a long time and a lot of money to figure out how they had gained access from the sewer into out walls.
It was horribly stressful and I do not blame you one bit for moving out. They never got inside the house (other than the loft), but the noise and the thought of them and the upset took years off me.
The fact you know it is the plumbing hopefully means you will be able to block off their access fairly quickly and cheaply. The only way is to stop their entry route - they will just keep coming back otherwise.

dangerrabbit · 17/08/2022 21:56

Ok but why couldn't you sort it out if you are on mat leave? Why did you need to make your husband WFH?

SlurpSlooChortle · 14/09/2022 18:38

@ThePiedPiper1
Well OP - was it rats?

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If you read op she had a young baby. It was more about getting the child away.

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