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This may be a bit of an obvious answer, but why not get a cat? That's what my mum's friend did. And you'll find cats make most rewarding pets :)

Good luck!

Hi there, 

I think the best thing to do is to call a pest control company. We had mice a few years back and we got a company straight out. The guy came out and coated traps and also their entrance/exit hole with a special kind of gel. When the mice come into contact with the main points (traps, etc), the gel gets mixed in with their fur and when they groom themselves they become dehydrated. Instinctively, they go outside [the home] and try to rehydrate themselves and that's where they die. We had this done and within 10 days (you have to give it some time), they were gone. We then covered up their entrance hole with steel wool and the problem was solved. 

We tried traps and poisons, but nothing worked. It cost us £80 for this gel and the problem was sorted. I would definitely recommend doing that. I'm just sorry that I can't remember the name of the company or what this gel is called. 

Hope that helps. 

Jake. 

Glue rat traps worked for us. Or you can buy a rat glue called Debello  and spread it on a piece of card board and cereal box. Leave it in a path where the mouse usually is seen. It always worked for us.

Thanks very much for your help, i will try it tomorrow have used it in the past, will do it again. ty.

The first and obvious thing is to make sure there is no exposed food anywhere when you go to bed at night.  If they can't eat, they will go elsewhere.

We are just going to take an annual contract with Rentakil ... the mice are in the walls .. they haven't reached the kitchen 

We are having the same problem. It's partic bad if you live in a terraced house like I do, because there are shared basements, drain pipes etc. So even if you manage to completely seal your house front and back, mice can still come in via your neighbours.

Talk to your neighbours, and ideally you all get the pest control people in at the same time. Some firms give discounts for neighbours, like this one which I'm using and can recommend ( they are local, too, ie in Tooting):

Beaver House Services Limited

0208- 3553443

Good Luck!

Getting a cat is the best way ever to get rid of mice. They pack up and leave!

Well said, Aly F. My cat would think she'd died and gone to heaven if we ever got mice in my house!

Hi. Buy some steel wool from a DIY shop, put some gloves on and systematically and meticulously go round every part of your flat/house and stuff as much wire wool as you can into every hole/gap around the skirtin, pipes and floor/ under units etc inthe kitchen and bathroom silicone any gaps around floor.
There's no way in. This will solve your problem 100%.
All the best.
Tony

Last year when I had a problem I bought a plug- in device from Homebase for about £25.00 it's ultrasonic and it seems to have worked.  No more mice and as a bonus no visible spiders!  Just one gadget in a three storey house.

My hubbie runs his own pest control company  - METROKILL, and can do evening and weekend callouts if neccessary. He is advertised on streetlife. Reasonable rates. Give him a call on 07971 296 770. His name is Fred.

We had one mouse that wandered in one day, don't know how, then a few weeks later they could be heard squeaking so there were more. We tried the horrible gluey stuff that the cunning mice neatly avoided despite the delicious cheese bait... finally our builder got some stuff that dehydrates the mouse and chucked that under the kitchen counters, since then nary a sound, nary a squeak or furry object scurrying around the skirting boards.

Good luck getting rid of those pests.

I never had mice in my home but then I adopted a cat that brings them in alive and then loses them. A nightmare.

Hi

Anyone else has tried the ultrasonic device?

Thhanks

We have got the ultrasonic devices plugged in, but have had no luck with them!

i found the ultrasonic devices better than anything else - well, at least the mice didn't come out and dance the fandango on the kitchen floor when the ultrasonic devices were plugged in.  i did find buying rat/mice poison in bulk online infinitely better than buying it in 200g boxes from the supermarket, so i recommend buying 1 kg drums.  its just hard to get enough poison in the mouse's stomach at the same time, because they just don't eat that much - in fact, i got convinced that mine, otherwise the healthiest mice in the district (given they'd devoured a large bag of organic coconut, a large bag of linseed and some lentils as well as Cranks wholemeal) were happy snacking on blue barley.

even cats and dogs don't work, i always remember seeing my terrier napping by a cupboard in which many many mice were having a huge noisy domestic when a nearby invading cat, which had enjoyed a secret sleep upstairs, strolled past the terrier on the way out, dog and cat ignored each other completely - and both ignored the mice who couldn't be more obvious. 

consoling thought - there are 3 main household pets, rats, mice and cockroaches - and you are liable to have only one of these at the time.  i think that mice would be my preference from the 3. 

I once used hot chill's to plug the hole where the mice came in...I swear I heard one howl.

But I have a cat who is a mouser - caught one on the first day she came to my house from the rescue centre -  and depending on where you are I could bring her over for a few hours to see what she could find and her smell might help send the mouse away.  She's always keen to find more. Send a private message if you are interested.  

I've used the Plug in devices and it seems they have stopped working. We are only mouse free for a short while then they come back. We were away over Christmas and they must have known and they had a big ol party, in bottom cupboards and eating everything they could. I spent hours clearing out and cleaning up as soon as we came in. Put bait down and they don't eat that and the bait boxes with the poison don't work either. I've hidden all food but still hear them scurrying around at night. The house next to us is vacant, maybe that could be a problem as well

Hi there in the past I have tried mouse traps and rat poison. However I feel that there is no substitue for walking round your house and spotting holes and filling them with tight screwed up paper or filler or strips of wood round edges. I also still use poison (no kids or animals to worry about) for belt and braces treatment.

Funny story once using a trap.... Snap! 2.00am. The noise wakes me. I'm bolt upright before I know it. Accustoming my eyes to the dark the penny drops! I've caught a mouse! Hmmm well... kind of. It was caught by its tail and it is dragging this trap around my bedroom. What do I do now? I don't have any implement to hand but can't contemplate that anyway. Inspiration hits! I get out of bed - the side futherest from the mouse. Run into the bathroom. Get the large rather heavy plant pot. Run back and VERY bravely drop it so it surrounds the mouse. Return to bed thinking I'll deal with that in the morning! Then...what can I hear? Only the mouse running from one side to the next clanging into the sides of the plant pot. Head under pillow and I survived to tell the tale.

No more traps for me!

We had this problem a couple of years ago at our last house in Balham. At first (being a vegetarian and animal lover) I turned a blind eye but when I found droppings on the kitchen table and mouse piss smells on my children's toys my hippy-dippy sensibilities hit the ground like a lead balloon. Traps didn't work (cheese, chocolate, peanut butter). Poison from Homebase/B&Q didn't work. Hate the idea of glue traps. We got a local company in to lay poison and it fixed the problem. Been looking in my records but can't find the name now! Wasn't nice to think that there was probably a mouse-graveyard underneath the floorboards though!

At least the graveyard is someone else's problem now, although I imagine you've probably inherited another one at the new house.

I didn't want to kill the mice, in fact we caught one and drove half way across town to release it! But findng droppings on the high chair made me shudder. Having Dettol'd every surface in the house, we bought traps. My mice didn't care for cheese, chocolate, peanut butter or fudge. I saw one skittle over the top of the trap. The sonic plug ins seem to do the trick for us. We have two, which might be why they've stayed away. Not the little plug ins, these are big, about £30 each, but have worked so far (touch wood). We did use a good bloke when we had a squirrel in our float, but I can't find his details now.

Sorry to go off topic slightly, but Kate B: do the ultrasonic plugins really keep spiders at bay?!  Not sure if it's the change in weather but my place was like a scene from arachnophobia last night. 

It hadn't occurred to me before, but since having the sonic things, I don't remember seeing a spider. No idea if it's coincidence.

I had mice and last week bought a Rentokil tunnel type humane trap and baited it with Nutella - nothing happened. SBought sonic device also and again - no response.

Then got 2 tradtional spring traps and baited with Nutella. Caught one mouse in a few hours then saw another one jump over the trap when it was reset in the same place. I moved it to another point on their run and next night caught another one.

No sign/sight/sound pf mice since then.

I wish moths were as easy to get rid of as the mice appear to have been!

KInd regards/good luck - Alan