Professional Mouse Control in Blackheath

Why Mice Do So Well in Period Conversions

Mice keep several nesting sites going at once and feed in small amounts at many points, which suits a period building perfectly. Original boards shrink and leave gaps, service pipes were threaded through joists long before anybody thought about sealing them, and a house split into three or four flats has three or four kitchens feeding one population.

That is why the pattern here is so often a kitchen that goes quiet for a fortnight and then does not. Clearing the mice using one flat leaves the rest of the network intact, and the network is the thing that has to be reached.

• Under fitted kitchen units, where the kickboard void is frequently open to the subfloor behind.
• Where waste pipes pass through a floor - under sinks, behind washing machines.
• Along the gaps in original floorboards, particularly near a chimney breast.
• Boxed pipework and cupboards on a shared landing.

Signs You May Need Mouse Control in Blackheath

The full list is on the Mouse Control Greenwich page.

• Small dark droppings inside cupboards and drawers. Rice-grain sized, and spread around rather than gathered in one run.
• Gnawed food packaging. A neat hole in the corner of a cereal box, a bag of pasta, a dog food sack or anything in a low cupboard.
• Light, quick noise, high up or behind something. Mice move faster and lighter than rats and are often heard behind a kitchen unit, above a ceiling or inside a stud wall.

How We Deal With Mice in Blackheath

We map the runs between floors and between flats rather than treating the cupboard the droppings are in, and place control in enough locations to reach a population that is using the whole building.