Bloody hell, we DO have rats under the floor - experience anyone?

[LadyOfTheFlowers]

I have set traps under the floor again as activity has picked up.... loud squeaking, saw what I thought was a mouse scurry behind the fridge but in hindsight think it was probo a baby rat, they have tried to break into the cupboard in the lounge via a broken floorboard.

Have caught 3 in the traps over the last 10 days but only babies.

As I sit here now at the dining table I can hear one building a bloody nest with a carrier bag that's under the boards.

I put poison down but I can't get it down there quick enough - it's quite expensive and as long as I keep putting it down there, they keep eating it, then crawl into the walls and other places I can't get them to die. They stink to high heaven. Like roadkill in the summer mixed with dirty nappies.
Live in a terraced run so think I am probably feeding hundreds with the poison.

Worried about them chewing stuff they shouldn't and having a fire more than anything else. :(

try pest control lotf - try yell.com for local companies.i was only charged £40 for wasps nest.

We have the same problem, i have discovered as someone else has said, that the blue waxy blocks work the best, from a farm suppliers. They dehydrate the rat who legs it outside to find water, and die as soon as they drink it.
(They do like chocolate, we caught a couple that way in traps.)

Last year we stupidly used the slightly cheaper red blocks, they died under the floor... Its taken 5 months for the stench to go - disgusting!!

But do talk to the neighbours, they may have a problem too, in which case you might sort yours' out, only for theirs to move in.

So I need blue wax blocks - thanks for that.

I am pretty sure they have no water supply under my floor so hopefully they will sod off for that and die somewhere else.
I also know they can only go a couple of days without water anyway, so that should sort them out pretty quickly. :)

Our friends had them in thier farm house, they even ate the leather on the arm of settee, thanks to a thoughtful person leaving a choccie bar out one night. OMG the smell was horrific when they died off, i still heave at the thought!

they managed to contain them to one part of the house somehow, and it was trial and error of every poison under the sun until they killed them off!

definatly get together with your neighbours and maybe now is the time to sort a divide between your lofts?

Is this it?

I am reading this thread in terror - we have an ongoing mouse problem (we put traps out when really bad).............. but this just sounds horrible!! Just a complete nightmare. Sorry I can't help. Sounds as if you might have to poison them to get rid of the lot. Problem is, they breed so quickly so you will need to eradicate them as quickly as possible. Presumably?

Thay are wise to my traps now and the adults won't go in them anyway, though they have helped as since Thursday i had not heard anything else, but there was a bit of scratching 10 mins ago in the dining room. They ar certainly not gone - I know I won't get them all with traps- but the 4 I have got have made a difference to the amount of noise and damage they are causing.

Roll on Friday!! :)

I don't think the blocks in the link are as strong as the ones i used. The bumph says you need a few doses to kill the buggers, and its low risk for pets...

However, if you live in town that might be a good option, you don't want famished strays munching on them, after they've died (hopefully outside), and dropping dead too!

Good luck, i know what it's like! Rats are the only animal i can be ruthless about, when they get going they can sound the size of dogs.. mind you, our Welsh farm rats usually are.

Jelly, did you get them from a store where you are? Was it a chain or an independent one? Hoping we might have a branch of wherever it was here so I can get what you used?

Trap just popped off and have caught no.5. Boys think it's great!

I have been given some Neosorexa Gold in the meantime.

Sorry..I got them from a farm suppliers (CCF) which are a chain in my county i'm afraid.. So unless you're in Ceredigion or north Pembrokeshire its tricky..
If only i could remember the make..I used it all last year, so don't even have the tub.

All quiet so far here, but you have reminded me to somehow block up the usual ways in, in preparation.. one must batten down the hatches..

Congrats. on capture of no. 5, by the way!

Hi just wondering if anyone got rats under floorboards end if tether trying to find how there getting in think it's from bathroom extension in drains but no pipe damaged