As a pest controller myself, it’s good to see another pest controller using traditional methods : break back traps and finding the reason there are rats. Also good to see that no poison is being used
Sadly we are in a minority it seems! But time will tell. Hopefully rodenticide will be taken off the market, then, the likes of us good pest controllers will be in a fantastic position 😊
i'm not a pest controller and neither are the cowboys who use the poisons. All they are controlling is where they put it and how much they are charging, on the off chance they get lucky with the placement they are just changing a live infestation into a dead infestation, i can only imagine it leaving a wake of rotting corpses in wall cavities or like in that loft.
At 5 minutes you can see that the homeowner trimmed because they called in the pros 😅 I do the same thing before someone is set to come over to my place. Run around the yard trimming and desperately trying to tidy up before the appointment 😅. Not shaming, just happy I’m not the only one
They detest coffee grinds. We get them free from the local coffee shops. Spread around the farm out buildings, no more rats. Works with possums as well. And Blackbirds, also called Grackles.
I’m throwing away all our pro products and buying a load of coffee then! 😉 Ps. At best the strange smell will bring on a state called neophobia in the rats. This will only last for a while. PPS. Most ‘old wives tales’ like this one are born out of incorrect assumptions being put together with incorrect facts. For example; have you ever thought that a neighbour has put down a load of poison around the same time as you decided to throw coffee around?
We moved house about 3 years ago. Beautiful property, backing onto farmers fields. Nice large back garden with a small shed. Just after we moved in we spotted a large (about a foot long) rat in our cranberry tree. We later discovered a large network of tunnels going under the fence into the farmers field. (although there's actually a ditch between our back fence and the crop itself. Then we saw several rats gong under the shed (the floor was sitting on 4x4s and there was also a hole in the wooden floor, obviously created by the rats chewing their way in). So we were getting more and more concerned about our rat problem. We needn't have worried, we have two cats and two Pomeranians that seem to have taken care of the problem for us. Our tom cat stays out all night seems to be our most powerful little warrior. Sometimes we'd find about a dozen dead rats in our garden in the morning. During the day we even saw him catching a rat as our female cat just sat watching him. We have also seen her despatch the odd rat during the day but she's nothing like as efficient as our tom. He'll drag them out of the tunnels then despatch them pretty quick with a bite to the back of the neck. As for the dogs, they make a lot of noise and frighten the rats away, but I've never seen them actually catch a rat. It's been over two years now since I've seen a rat on our property. We also dug a trench below the fence and filled it with concreate, so that probably helps. We also laid a concreate base for the shed and moved it to a completely different part of the garden and repaired it's flooring. The neighbours on one side are grateful that, they too, seem to have no more problems with rats which they put down to our cats. Meanwhile, the neighbour on the other side doesn't like cats and would shoo our cats off her property if they ever dared go over there (so they don't any more). This neighbour still has a problem with rats in her garden and they petrify her.
It sounds like a lovely theory, but I’m not sure it’s all down to the cat. One pregnant female rat (with enough food and shelter) can become 200 rats in twelve months. If you extrapolate that over a few years you can imagine the numbers. So unless you have a cat killing 200 rats a year…..see what I mean? It’s more likely that someone nearby has used poison. I guess it could be your cat. But even if it were a team of cats it would be impressive. And you would be finding dead rats everyday. Great results though and keep up the good work. 👍🏼
@@PestInterceptorsBut to be clear, we've never had rats inside this house. And the infestation we had in our yard was not connected with the sewers. These rats live in the countryside in burrows they make in the ground. To wipe them out entirely we'd have to cleans the entire British countryside. There are millions of them. We'll never eradicate them all, but with so much freedom, they're free to go elsewhere. It's not a matter of wiping out their entire population, it's just a matter of making our property unattractive to them. If their burrows are being invaded on a regular basis, they'll abandon it and move on.
@@PestInterceptors It would be extremely rare for a cat kill a fully grown rat. You may see a cat carryong one but it doesnt mean hes killed it. Probably poisened,
@@PestInterceptors Cholecalciferol was one D3 formulation developed for Brushtail possums (NZ) that also got rats. Cannot comment how % effective it was, it was a paste & used it with the possum bait inside a paste ball. It got enough of the rats to enable some lure/paste to attract the possums.& they got the cyanide pill. But it was expensive. And dogs, and pigs would take it if oportunity happened, like in their reach or dropped out of teh bait bags stapled up high. I think cats did too. Was 25 years ago, dementia.... For PR for farmers without pets we used it,& got good feedback. It wasn't particularly toxic for cows, one got about 10 bags (not cyanide ones) so probably 300g, the vet told us not to panic & she seemed to like it. Wasn't an issue for milk contamination etc either.
@@PestInterceptors Not up with current research, but the widespread field use (probably 50kg in a couple of months) showed D3 took its time, and curing non-target mistakes was prolonged intensive care, if it was successful. This was when it first became available here, improvements may have been made. Its expense made its use at scale unattractive. The anticoagulant alternatives had the secondary poisoning issues. The science has now shifted from considering 1080 a poor rat poison to using it at scale for eradication attempts (google ZIP New Zealand). This stuff wouldn't be acceptable for standard pest control, it's good away from mammals & has a lot of rubbish directed at it, but it slays scavenging dogs & having idiots anywhere near it is a real risk, it's deadly with no antidote. That counts out about 50% of humans....
I had a guy from Derby come into my home & check to make sure we were not infested. Before he came I made sure I took pics & when he took me into my first loft he showed me a lot of droppings. I didn’t have any he just ripped me off. Glad I’ve seen yourselves as I know who to call your not far from me. Great video.
@@steveclark..That's absolutely correct! I know of a guy who worked at a tire store. He sold so many auto shock absorbers, he ended up being promoted to a manager at a different location. His secret? He sprayed oil into the shock absorbers. Had the customers look at the evidence and told them: their shocks were leaking.
@@WillieRobertMcKasson Yes, I'm sure, back in the 90's I worked at a VW dealership, it was all about money, the short cuts that the mechanics took on customers cars were shocking. I've never taken my vehicles to a garage for repair, thankfully I have the tools and knowledge to look after them myself.
I was in the industry for 19 yrs on and off I stopped in 2018 don't know why RUclips showed me this as everything is Metal detecting on my channel 😂 but tbf was a great vid and really nice to see a company that actually think outside the box 😊
I put three plastic bags of commerical rat poison in a rat trap. They ate all the poison, they ate the bags and they came back and ate the plastic trap as well. I've still got rats.
This was a great video. I need someone like you to help me in Australia. We have a few issues very similar to this video ... old unused septic tank, no manhole to roof cavity as is a flat roof, bamboo (that will be getting cut back tomorrow), plenty of overgrowth of other plants and a big wood stack. The rats are in my en-suite wall and so far nothing has worked consistently. I've put up with it for 3 years and I know previous owners had issues too. I really wish I could find someone invested in helping me to solve the problem once and for all and give me a rat free lifetime guarantee too..
That's why I put frog flaps on the outlet of my septic pipe (and the grey water) into the septic tank - so rodents or even Cockroaches can't migrate back up the pipes into the house.
“Not here to kill for killing sake” so true a word pest control is about control and management. As a country boy myself if you got fellow wildlife all is good if they don’t bother you then it’s live and let live. If they won’t move in and impact your livelihood or health then you need the extreme measures.
I have been running a constant trapline for rats all over my property, for most of 10 years. I control any foods, any shelters, and still get constant mice and rats all the colder months. When the snakes wake up, the rat and mouse problem stops, except in the garden. As it gets cold, they're getting in again. Control outside and indoor trouble is less.
Look for the source. It’s nearly always drainage/sewer. Think about it. If you have a nest of rats nearby and you kill them all that’s the end of the rats. No rats = no new rats. Rats in sewers are so numerous that you’ll never kill them all. Or you can do the same for another ten years ☺️
Thanks so much for this hugely informative and encouraging video. Am on the edge of a small, busy town and a beautiful AONB, and the rats trot across the footpaths in front of pedestrians.
@@wendyhannan2454 Oh for me it is opposite, but we do not have that meny rats and you only see the occasional rat washing itself when on the street in the morning before the city wakes up. I do not mind at all. If there's anything which disgusts me it is mice! They shit everywhere they stink and they make terrible noise at night. Mice allso live inside the house while rats over here have their burrows in the street.
Rats make me so squimish that I had a hard time watching parts of this video. Thank GOODNESS for people like you who can handle this work! I worry about your health. When you’re in enclosed spaces, like attics, I hope you’re wearing masks and eye protection. I would love an episode on protecting your health while treating enclosed spaces ☺️
@@PestInterceptors you won’t stop them , they think there being kind to birds but causing infestation of rodents which even invade there property , nowt queer but folk.
Preferred to use a bucket with a ramp. I put a spindle through the top of the bucket with a little bit of peanut butter on it. They've tried to walk on the spindle they fall off into the bottom of the bucket. Don't forget to put water in the bucket
@@bxxmb80 yes they can for many days. That’s why these bucket traps are vile and inhumane things to use and are illegal in the uk because of animal welfare laws.
Hi the drain rod that’s stuck in the drain was possibly pulled down when a blockage cleared you would be surprised how much suction you can get especially if the blockage is backing up the soil pipe. Good job with the video 👍
It wasn't pulled down, because the rod was push upstream. If you have metal drain rods, and a hook fitting - you can push it upstream also, hook the rod, and simply pull it out (I owned a drainage company for over 20 years). Also.... most septic tanks lead to soakaways, and they most certainly do not have drains running for miles.
I live in the Arizona desert where mesquite trees flourish. When the mesquite pods ripen, the rodents gather them up and store them in their nests so they have an almost constant food supply. I also have neighbors who feed the birds. I tried trapping them for 6 months and caught an average of 1 rodent per day, but they were breeding faster than I could trap them. (If nothing happens to them, one breeding pair can turn into 1,250 rats/mice in one year, and in 3 years can multiply to 1/2 a billion!). The traps were in locked bait boxes, but so far I've found about 4 dead birds in the rat traps. So traps don't prevent non-target creatures from being killed either. I tried cornmeal and baking soda but they wouldn't touch it. So finally I resorted to using rodent bait which is working. (I put chicken wire over the bait boxes to keep the birds out). I don't have rodents inside of any of my buildings and they aren't coming out of the septic tank or sewer pipes (which are all new). But they've chewed wires outside, torn the insulation off a vehicle hood, chewed through the windshield washer tubing, made a nest behind a glove box, destroyed veggies in my garden, and they've left trails of urine and feces all over, and I'm not going to put up with that. I'm going to keep poisoning them for a while longer, but eventually I will switch to feeding the survivors Conntraceptol, which is rat/mouse birth control.
Yes, external rats are harder to deal with than internal ones sometimes. In your case it sounds like a nightmare situation. I think what we would do in your situation is a regime of burrow baiting (as much as we hate using rodenticides it sometimes is the only answer!). Burrow baiting, if done correctly, is unlikely to affect other wildlife and it helps get over neophobia as the rats have to dig/chew through it to leave burrows. Find a rodenticide that can be used for this; I don’t know the laws and products in other countries. Bag the bait up in plastic bags. (Grain bait isn’t great, use a pasta or block bait). Push the bags into the rats burrows. Cover with soil and then a large stone/rock. (This prevents non targets getting to it). Do this every seven days until the holes stop reappearing. Then remove the rodenticide. Keep going until there is zero activity, you don’t want to leave any survivors! As for the vehicle problem, in the UK, there is a company called Lodi based in Kingswinford, West Midlands, England. They do a product that keeps rats away from vehicles and I have heard great feedback about this product. Get in touch with them and I’m sure they will send you some (kindly mention us when you do enquire). Best of luck.
Just found this channel . . I work on a Golf Course as the mechanic and also shoot anything that's not playing Golf if I have to . . . Like you I don't kill for no reason. If it's causing damage it has to go. I control the vermin. . Moles, Grey's and eat the pigeons. I love all vermin removal info. My last Boss/Head greenkeeper used to say "there's a mole in the rough at the side of (some green, tee or fairway)" I'd say OK I'll pop some traps in. . . . I'd pop a few traps in looking like they were the business and just leave them (they were in blind holes) ha ha ha ha boss never knew. . . . If the mole came out of the rough/long grass and onto a fairway, green bank or tee . . . I would then put traps in "properly" and that's that. . . a lot of times the rough grass grew up to obscure the mole hills and he was non the wiser. Only take them if you really have to. . . live and let live.
Rats and mice have always been my phobia and I am just about to purchase my first house (always lived up high in apartments prior) and am very conscious of this particular subject. Also, something I will not be installing is garden decking. Although it can be both attractive and practical, it has got to be one of the biggest attractions for nesting rats/mice. Something I would not install for the sake of minimising the issue. Overall though, the ways you have shown in this video how they can enter the house from outside, it seems an impossible and endless task of totally eradicating them.
We live in the city, in an ground level apartment, next to a rain pond and a little stream. It's a rat paradise. Our tomcat and the terriers keep the rodents away from the house we live in.
Rats in the US learn very fast. If another rat gets sick or dies after eating something, the rest wont touch it. If they see a rat get caught in a trap, they stay away too.
I live rural in Texas and I truly suffer with the infernal creatures. Over the past 2 years I've gone through 30 pounds of farm grade rat poison,lost a dozen traps to big ones carrying them off. My dogs and cat are expert rat killers.I've destroyed nesting areas in my yard and sealed chew holes in the walls as they appear. They've literally eaten through my walls. I feel so defeated. Everytime I think I've got them gone...a new more indestructible generation shows up. All I can figure is until the surrounding neighbors (a dozen or so clumped up old mobile homes all the way around me) deal with their end of it, I'll just be plagued. Nothing works anymore.
@@Wisepati I think you’ll love our latest videos. I have a rant about rodenticide misuse. It’s not just the general public who are at fault, it’s the big pest control companies who are usually the worst offenders in the uk. We are going to try to stop them 👍🏼
We are in west london and when we moved into this house 3 years ago there were rats everywhere. I coaxed a family of foxes to live under our decking, not seen a rat since!
@MsMom, I live in rural Australia. Your problem was my nightmare too. The destruction these rodents cause is devastating & costly. I too have used everything I heard of or advertised, only to throw heaps of food & other items on a constant basis. A very old neighbour suggested I mix cornmeal & soda bicarb together, & throw in just abit of sugar, of course I didn't try it as I had spent so much money on poisons, etc & this seemed to 'basic' Frustration with the stinky rats/mice made me try, less than 3 weeks 🤞, they almost but disappeared. This mix is safe on all other animals including birds & is cheap. Rats/mice can't burp/fart, the soda causes them to bloat to death. I've cleaned up any places around/in the house of hiding spots, no food left opened, etc Chicken feed is placed in galvanised feeders, no rodents can get to it & no scraps left on ground. I'm not sure the result for others, but this plain, basic mix has been literally a life saver for us,. Anyone who has had to 'live' with these dirty rodents, you have nothing to lose, give it a go 👍
The septic tanks should have 'dropper pipes' in them on the inlet and outlet, and where you said that the drain was broken and allowing vermin in, was immediately below a fence post...
In my boat yard we have members who willy nilly put down rat poison without letting other members know they were doing it ; One member was even putting down POISON in the form of sausages . Once I found I i bent his ears back about that as one of our hounds could have easily ate that . Good to see the none poison route being taken for sure
It makes us super angry. The misuse of rodenticide by the general populace and the pest control industry. We rarely use it. We are also the only vegan friendly guaranteed rat service in the uk…maybe the world!
@@PestInterceptors You sure are mate. No mistaking your accent haha. A little funny story. Our engineers drive from Cheshire up to us in Durham to do our periodical servicing and a few repair jobs that need doing. One of the lads say we get an A1 guarantee. Once they get on the A1 motorway back to base we are on our own until next time lol. BTW, you work hard. That's no small task doing those loft clearouts.
This video is so great!! I’ve learned lots! Thank you so much!! I also live in the country and the rats literally ran me out of my home. I have lotta dogs. They also kill rats but not enough. I have owls and I was going to poison them the rats, but it made sense now not to do that. Thank you, now I won’t kill the owls. And I was always worried about my dogs getting the rats that had poison in them. Although they don’t eat the rats, they kill them. I wish you lived here. I need you for about six weeks please !! Lol thank you for such a great video.
@@glenhiggs3196 our advice would never be to clear and clean your loft to get rid of rats. We would however say to do it if you are sure the rats are gone for good. But never if you are not sure. If we go out to quote for cleaning a loft and we haven’t solved the rat problem, we leave monitoring baits down for at least 3 months to make sure the rats are definitely gone. But, if you’ve used rat flaps and you are sure, you can get a product called Ornikil. Make sure you follow the instructions on the label. ✅
Thank you, so far we have seen no rats on our cameras for a week so intend to spray but keeping loft and rooms under surveillance your videos are an inspiration we are over 200 miles away from you! Thanks again
@@glenhiggs3196 a pleasure to help. Hopefully you don’t need us (and you carry on loving our content 😌) but if it does recur we cover all of the UK with our Rat Free Lifetime Guarantee service. ✅
Why hasn't anyone figured on having the inlet pipe from the house into the cesspit a little higher than the outlet? So that when the outlet backs up to the cesspit and the rats swim in it, the pipe to the house is too high for the rats to reach. it only has to be at least 4, maybe 6 inches...
I worry about rats and Weils disease as I have a dog!!! Not seen any rats in my rural garden but have noted a couple of single rat holes over the last few years ...how do you know if the holes are still being used ? So glad you don't use rodenticids. I have lots of voles and shrews and wood mice as well as tawny & little owls here. Horrible seeing the little dead voles ....
@@PestInterceptors Regularly used holes have worn smooth bottoms & sides. Spider webs etc usually appear quire rapidly if not being swept aside by the occupant.
Poor rats. I back onto woodland my cat sometimes bring them home. I rescue and release if she hasn’t killed it. I would never dream about calling in pest control unless they were in my house. I have squirrels and I feed them! Lovely little animals
I have rats under my shed. Spent a small fortune on poison but they just seem to love the stuff. They also somehow manage to remove the food from traps i put down even when i tie it on with string!
Gave the poison up a while ago and tried the traps. Going to do what i should have done to start with and cover the base of the shed with wire mesh. @@PestInterceptors
Clean daily with pine sol not the cheap version though must be the 💯 percent an pour some around basebords behind stove, fridge mop and clean daily . They will leave they can't stand the smell.
Even if that did work (and we don’t believe it does, if things like that had any scientific basis we would use them) you would still have rats in your walls, floors and ceilings. We hear old wives tales like this one all the time, and as we said above, if it worked we would be using it. Sadly people get mixed signals when using old wives tale remedies. Usually a neighbour has put some poison down or something similar. It then seems like the old wives tale worked….but it’s just bad science. Thank you for your input though. We are always happy to hear ideas. Ps. When we do our Rat Free Lifetime Guarantee for clients they have usually had rats for years and years and have tried every old wives tale there is.
In amsterdam we have underground containers every 50 to 100 meters in the street where everyone can dispose of his garbage 24-7 there are some rats, because they allso dive for mussels in the canals etc, never seen a rat inside my house. When walking at 5 in the morning you see a rat washing itself by the side of the canal and I think them kind of cute.
@@PestInterceptors I was wondering what rats would do in a "coffin shop" but I guess you meant coffee shop, and I think they might consume some spacecake if they can get it, but jokes aside, there are rats in every neighbourhood in Amsterdam, but because of trashbins which are on stainless steel poles, and the possibility of disposing garbage underground 24/7 people dont have to keep their garbage on balconies, the numbers are far lo9wer than what I've seen in videos about rats in new york which is quite disgusting. Anyway we allso have lots of herons in the city as well as buzzards, so when rats eat too much that they become obese and slow they risk to become dinner. I think outside the city center with the red light district most people don't really mind the occasional rat. Biggest problem is that they make burrows under the sidewalks and cousing the tiles to become uneven. If there is a pest in my neighbourhood it is mice, and the terrible noise they make at night. But even mice leave the house if you dont feed them.
@@PestInterceptors thanks for the response! And usefull info as well. My neighbor has some rats around his chicken coop but can't find the nests. They might be around the bamboo at the end of his property then. I'll tell him to bait up the area so they get comfy and we'll have us a fun night of pesting with the airguns
Great video as always. Just a quickie from one pestie to another. Do you offer a contract for the rat flap ? I offer a twice yearly to check its functioning 100% what's your thoughts ? Cheers
I often think terriers are the kindest solution. Ive never had a dog so I don't know if they need to be trained, but in 'the old days' terrier men would come to your property. Nowadays sadly, teriier men are mostly employed in helping to hunt innocent badgers.
@@helenswan705 we never like to kill anything if we can avoid it, even rats! Most of our rat free guarantee jobs we don’t kill any rats at all. In fact we are the only genuine rat pest control company in the uk, maybe the world, who offer a vegan friendly alternative. Check out our playlists to see more.
I moved back to where my husband grew up to be closer to family... its the rattiest place in our country. People's attitudes about it is the problem, i hear them say "there's nothing you can do, that's life" about rats. Just gross. They practically feed them and give them plenty of places to live. Its so weird. Why not just do the things necessary so your property isn't a rat haven?
The Rat Flap is the best invention. No need to kill the poor critters. Just cut them off at the pass. If you have Rats in your attic or house the drains/sewers in the first place to investigate. Some Pest Control companies won't even fit them. Far easier for them to keep coming out laying traps and/or poison. You can then provide them with an ongoing revenue stream. And yes I am speaking from experience.
The flap is only as good as the knowledge of the person fitting it though. We go out to houses with 20 year rat problems with flaps fitted everywhere. In fact we have a video coming out in the near future where we show the flaps and the suggested £6000 further work they needed to do as the flaps hadn’t worked. I think you’ll enjoy that video. We really go to town on the quote in the video. The hilarious and yet sad thing was that the extra £6k still wouldn’t have solved his problems! We did though….in 5 hours. 😇✅
There are videos of people who use a rain barrel and a rotating stick with sticking nuts on it horizontally in the middle. The rats goes on the stick, slips, and is caught. He caught 20 or more in one night.
I just discovered mouse " blankets", 6 ft by 15". They can't jump them. I live in the Mountains, we've had a horrible problem for a few years since we switched from using pine sol to swifter mop pads. I finally figured out they hate pine sol and the mouse blankets picked up 8 mice the first night. After the first week of catching a lot, its slowing down and seeing no new mouse feces. My house is 7800 sq. Ft, 3 stories so its been a nightmare. I think these are really made for barns, shops etc. They can be easily cut up into smaller pieces! Good luck!
It depends. @goobydingbat1027 Are the rats going in from above ground or are they coming up from the sewer below. If they are coming from the sewer you will fill the sewer with gravel and then cause a blockage and it will cause a build up of poop which is food for more rats. So the thing to do is fill the holes loosely with paper and then fill over the paper with soil. When the holes reappear, is the soil and paper on top of the surface? Or has it just disappeared down the hole. If it’s just disappearing down the hole then the rats are coming from below ground, usually the sewer or drain.
@pestinterceptors, what about rats with tunnels in the stone ground under the ground of the property, they have tunnels, any suggestions? Love the vids
Try this (but be aware that this won’t work if the rats are coming from drainage under the house, only fir surface rats). ruclips.net/video/0FDFr1KPbGA/видео.html
Top job. . . Essentially u want to eliminate all access to the house. Out of interest how much would a job like this cost and when u say a lifetime guarantee, do u mean no rats in the house or no rats in the whole of house & lot? The reason I ask is rats can always take up residence in the outdoor area around the house.
It is protected by rentokil. They have had a mouse infestation for years. 😆 Says it all though really doesn’t it! Big politics looks after big corporations….especially global ones.
@@PestInterceptors I agree up 2 a point but from the amount of damage/holes etc you showed on camera and how rats breed and the length of time the customer has had problems then in theory their should of been hundreds of rats about. I think u only caught one and none showed on trail cam. Looks like they had already gone.
@@seankinder4370we are the only money back lifetime guaranteed rat pest control company in the UK, probably the world. So don’t take offence; but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Perhaps you should watch some more of our huge video library.
The mechanical trap is inhumane in my opinion.Used them once years ago with massive rat problem and although some rats were killed instantly, some were impaled across the shoulder and were alive ages later in obvious pain.
Question: is it true that once a trap killed a rat, other rats sense the danger and don't go to that trap..? If yes, what do we do to clean the trap of prior rat kill...? tnks
No. Quite often you will see rats eat the dead rat in the trap. Take a look at this video. RAT TRAPS & RAT FLAPS is all we need!!! IDIOT customer!!!! ruclips.net/video/G0rY5KAKlmw/видео.html
Do you cover Essex? I moved into a house with a rat problem nearly 20 years ago, but I don't really want to use the chemicals that can harm my pet cats
Sorry to hear that your situation! Sadly it is something we hear all too frequently! Yes, we cover the entire UK but only with our Rat Free Lifetime Guarantee service. Here is the website page you will need to tell you everything you need to know. www.pestinterceptors.co.uk/rat-free-lifetime-guarantee
Then use traps. Most domestic cats won't eat bait and would likely need to eat a fair few rats / mice to get a dose of secondary poisoning. Go check the LD50 and you'll see that rodenticide is not as lethal to cats as a cat would have to eat a GREAT deal more than a couple of rats. And of course, you should check for dead / dying rats when using rodenticide anyway.
In the daytime do all of these rats go in those boroughs how do I find more than the ones I found thankfully they're not in the house yet but I am trying to prevent them from coming in there. I have a quarter of an acre land.
Interesting liked the presentation of your videos Sadly I am miles away from you in Harrow Middlesex Our problem mice/rat and Chicken coup. We keep chickens at home we find rats.”mice comes around in the chicken run in night digging tunnel under the chicken wire fencing We don't won't to poison just in case our chickens eat their droppings. How can. We catch and get rid Thanks
One thing you can try is to keep the spilled chicken feed at a minimum. There are feeders that only open when the chicken treads on a treadle plate. When there is very little free food for the rats you can use rat traps in bait stations. Also try to track where the rats are coming from, there is nearly always a sewer/drain problem somewhere. We do travel all over the uk but only with our Rat Free Guarantee program, but that’s mainly aimed at rats in houses. www.pestinterceptors.co.uk/rat-free-lifetime-guarantee
Im in the US and would like to find the rodent spray in your shoppe. Can you tell me what is in it or what the equivalent is? Thank you!! Very good video.
See if you can get an enzymatic spray.. you may find one specific to dog or pet smells and urine blockers.. it's a natural way to eliminate animal odors and scents by introducing an enzyme that eats the bacterium responsible for the odor.. plus is easy to apply and no chemicals 🖐😊
I couldn’t figure out how a rat could be getting in.. the closed toilet lid would make a sound coming back down. The rats were coming along the sewage pipe and into my home via the toilet. I live across the road from a major creek, there’s a duck pond two houses away where daily parents and kids feed scraps to thhe ducks and rats, that then runs fifty km to the water bird reserve. 🚫🐭🐀🐁I hate the smell
rats cant climb up pvc pipes. does your sewage have risers? put a piece of pvc in. better still, as this video showed, every joint of clay pipe can be an access point so consider a total rebuild using pvc.
Reminds me of the scene in the movie Brazil when government contractors go in to fix the thermostat and someone switches their ventilators and hooks them up to the sewer hose. Glad you guys got your proper PP and hope you have your proper papers. Crack on boys!
THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THESE PROPERTIES ARE A BIG PART OF THE RAT PROBLEM......they have made it possible for the infestation, because of leaving all kinds of debris scattered across the entire property.
How do you deduce that from this video?! Our customers were immaculate. The truth is, yes, piles of rubbish certainly doesn’t help, but in reality it’s very rarely the cause. It’s 99% of the time a sewer/drainage problem….as you can clearly see in this video!
@@PestInterceptors haha... had a feeling you'd say that! 🤣hopefully, i can tackle this task myself... not easy living near the woods, and keeping these creatures away....especially considering the fact that my partner has created this Amazon jungle in our back yard! 🤯thanks for the great info and entertaining videos my friend.
Yeah maybe that's where I'm getting some rats coming in my garage from the old suspect not being used for 40 years I have to go down there and block the hole looks like not sure how they made it into the garage though concrete floor single wall edible mice being my major problem worse than rats. I'm assuming you put a u bend on the waist pipe, do you put a bend and pipe under the water going into the sespic? I don't think rats can dive? What is that spray stuff in the left? Where do you buy that from? Better get some.
Nearly all rats in houses in the uk are something to do with drain or sewer. Take a look in our playlists the rat one covers all our rat videos but there are playlists on rat flaps and sewer surveys too. The rat problems will have nothing to do with the mice problems. But we have playlists about them also.
I get called a Gordon Ramsey lookalike a lot when I’ve had a shave 🤷♂️🤣 (I’m only bearded in the winter months) Take a look at out newer videos. Let me know what you think. I don’t see it myself 🤣
Got a cat who is brutal he would be in the SAS if he was in the Army you name it he has killed it lol. Even a rabbit climbed over the fence and tried to get through the cat flap with it I was on the floor laughing so much 🤣. I have only ever seen a rat in my garden once and my dog caught it and killed it. Never seen my dog behave like that he is a good boy a golden retriever. No puncture marks he shook it to death even gentle killing a rat !
I've tried everything, I can't get rid of these bastrds. Baking soda with flour and sugar ... Peanut butter.. Bucket with water trap... Normal rat traps... I've tried it all.. But not caught it. Please help me.
Take a look through our rat playlist. There’s lots of tips and advice. Truth is that it’s very rarely just one rat though. Good luck. Here’s that playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLMSQuVC3ns4-tXLSQM476D3ek4Us1VWhN
@@Billy_Bull_Sheeter it happens to the best of us. Like this: EASY WAY to CATCH RATS that are HARD TO CATCH!!! 100% SUCCESS rate! ruclips.net/video/BjlN6EqOmiI/видео.html
Thank you for your videos. I watched a few of them but unfortunately you're not nearby me you are I believe in the UK I am in the United States so I am having an issue with rats in my yard like this I live near a city plenty of neighbors no farm animals my neighbor doesn't live in their house but they have a lot of brush leaves vines, I believe a old pool that's not in any use just a bunch of debris over there myself. We have a few dogs that their poop is around the yard. Of course I do have a pile of wood, but they had destroyed my vehicles. I have expensive cars they've been outsmarting me with every single trap bait, etc., hard to put poison because my stupid dog will eat it everything that I put non-poison the dogs will eat it so not only does the rats out smart me so my dogs so my question I have I found a few Burroughs a few nesting in my vehicles. what do you recommend doing and you've mentioned in one of your videos chemical that gets rid of the scent so maybe I could spray that along and around my vehicles there is no company in the United States. That will guarantee the way you do. Please advise.
I recently bought 2 black cat rat traps, and a box of liquorice all sorts. Ive not caught a rat yet and I’ve eaten most of the bloody sweets. 😊
Take a look at our video on how to set them.
Maybe get a lockable box for the Allsorts though! 🤣
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@@PestInterceptors 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Put down some dry ice 🧊
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The most professional video of a service ive ever seen. Brilliant, very informative and a treat to watch.
Thank you 🙏🏼
Lots more to come….and we hope we are getting better. ☺️
As a pest controller myself, it’s good to see another pest controller using traditional methods : break back traps and finding the reason there are rats. Also good to see that no poison is being used
Sadly we are in a minority it seems! But time will tell. Hopefully rodenticide will be taken off the market, then, the likes of us good pest controllers will be in a fantastic position 😊
@@PestInterceptorsagreed
i'm not a pest controller and neither are the cowboys who use the poisons. All they are controlling is where they put it and how much they are charging, on the off chance they get lucky with the placement they are just changing a live infestation into a dead infestation, i can only imagine it leaving a wake of rotting corpses in wall cavities or like in that loft.
OUTSTANDING VIDEO‼️This guy really knows his stuff❗️
@@Sunnytrailrunner thank you ☺️
At 5 minutes you can see that the homeowner trimmed because they called in the pros 😅 I do the same thing before someone is set to come over to my place. Run around the yard trimming and desperately trying to tidy up before the appointment 😅. Not shaming, just happy I’m not the only one
They detest coffee grinds. We get them free from the local coffee shops. Spread around the farm out buildings, no more rats. Works with possums as well. And Blackbirds, also called Grackles.
I’m throwing away all our pro products and buying a load of coffee then! 😉
Ps. At best the strange smell will bring on a state called neophobia in the rats. This will only last for a while.
PPS. Most ‘old wives tales’ like this one are born out of incorrect assumptions being put together with incorrect facts. For example; have you ever thought that a neighbour has put down a load of poison around the same time as you decided to throw coffee around?
We moved house about 3 years ago. Beautiful property, backing onto farmers fields. Nice large back garden with a small shed. Just after we moved in we spotted a large (about a foot long) rat in our cranberry tree. We later discovered a large network of tunnels going under the fence into the farmers field. (although there's actually a ditch between our back fence and the crop itself. Then we saw several rats gong under the shed (the floor was sitting on 4x4s and there was also a hole in the wooden floor, obviously created by the rats chewing their way in). So we were getting more and more concerned about our rat problem.
We needn't have worried, we have two cats and two Pomeranians that seem to have taken care of the problem for us. Our tom cat stays out all night seems to be our most powerful little warrior. Sometimes we'd find about a dozen dead rats in our garden in the morning. During the day we even saw him catching a rat as our female cat just sat watching him. We have also seen her despatch the odd rat during the day but she's nothing like as efficient as our tom. He'll drag them out of the tunnels then despatch them pretty quick with a bite to the back of the neck.
As for the dogs, they make a lot of noise and frighten the rats away, but I've never seen them actually catch a rat. It's been over two years now since I've seen a rat on our property. We also dug a trench below the fence and filled it with concreate, so that probably helps. We also laid a concreate base for the shed and moved it to a completely different part of the garden and repaired it's flooring.
The neighbours on one side are grateful that, they too, seem to have no more problems with rats which they put down to our cats. Meanwhile, the neighbour on the other side doesn't like cats and would shoo our cats off her property if they ever dared go over there (so they don't any more). This neighbour still has a problem with rats in her garden and they petrify her.
It sounds like a lovely theory, but I’m not sure it’s all down to the cat.
One pregnant female rat (with enough food and shelter) can become 200 rats in twelve months.
If you extrapolate that over a few years you can imagine the numbers.
So unless you have a cat killing 200 rats a year…..see what I mean?
It’s more likely that someone nearby has used poison.
I guess it could be your cat. But even if it were a team of cats it would be impressive. And you would be finding dead rats everyday.
Great results though and keep up the good work. 👍🏼
@@PestInterceptorsBut to be clear, we've never had rats inside this house. And the infestation we had in our yard was not connected with the sewers. These rats live in the countryside in burrows they make in the ground. To wipe them out entirely we'd have to cleans the entire British countryside. There are millions of them. We'll never eradicate them all, but with so much freedom, they're free to go elsewhere. It's not a matter of wiping out their entire population, it's just a matter of making our property unattractive to them. If their burrows are being invaded on a regular basis, they'll abandon it and move on.
@@PestInterceptors It would be extremely rare for a cat kill a fully grown rat. You may see a cat carryong one but it doesnt mean hes killed it. Probably poisened,
@@geraintellis7708 correct ✅
Get a terrier dog lol
Great video bloke. Well done. I'm a professional pest controller and I only use baits that have no secondary poisoning here in Australia.
Is that using the vitamin D based products my friend?
What is the toxin?
@@johnmead8437 usually vitamin D in these products.
@@PestInterceptors Cholecalciferol was one D3 formulation developed for Brushtail possums (NZ) that also got rats. Cannot comment how % effective it was, it was a paste & used it with the possum bait inside a paste ball. It got enough of the rats to enable some lure/paste to attract the possums.& they got the cyanide pill. But it was expensive. And dogs, and pigs would take it if oportunity happened, like in their reach or dropped out of teh bait bags stapled up high. I think cats did too. Was 25 years ago, dementia.... For PR for farmers without pets we used it,& got good feedback. It wasn't particularly toxic for cows, one got about 10 bags (not cyanide ones) so probably 300g, the vet told us not to panic & she seemed to like it. Wasn't an issue for milk contamination etc either.
@@PestInterceptors Not up with current research, but the widespread field use (probably 50kg in a couple of months) showed D3 took its time, and curing non-target mistakes was prolonged intensive care, if it was successful. This was when it first became available here, improvements may have been made. Its expense made its use at scale unattractive. The anticoagulant alternatives had the secondary poisoning issues. The science has now shifted from considering 1080 a poor rat poison to using it at scale for eradication attempts (google ZIP New Zealand). This stuff wouldn't be acceptable for standard pest control, it's good away from mammals & has a lot of rubbish directed at it, but it slays scavenging dogs & having idiots anywhere near it is a real risk, it's deadly with no antidote. That counts out about 50% of humans....
I had a guy from Derby come into my home & check to make sure we were not infested. Before he came I made sure I took pics & when he took me into my first loft he showed me a lot of droppings. I didn’t have any he just ripped me off. Glad I’ve seen yourselves as I know who to call your not far from me. Great video.
Pest controllers don't carry droppings in our pockets. I smell a rat here. No pun intended.
@@Cornz38 Some would I'm sure. Like with any trade, there's always going to be the odd dodgy one.
Smart insight
@@steveclark..That's absolutely correct! I know of a guy who worked at a tire store. He sold so many auto shock absorbers, he ended up being promoted to a manager at a different location.
His secret? He sprayed oil into the shock absorbers. Had the customers look at the evidence and told them: their shocks were leaking.
@@WillieRobertMcKasson Yes, I'm sure, back in the 90's I worked at a VW dealership, it was all about money, the short cuts that the mechanics took on customers cars were shocking.
I've never taken my vehicles to a garage for repair, thankfully I have the tools and knowledge to look after them myself.
I was in the industry for 19 yrs on and off I stopped in 2018 don't know why RUclips showed me this as everything is Metal detecting on my channel 😂 but tbf was a great vid and really nice to see a company that actually think outside the box 😊
Cheers buddy!
I’ve been thinking about getting into detecting for a few years now.
@@PestInterceptors Do it best Hobbie ever I'm sure you would have no problems getting permissions 😏
@@Timeline-Detectorist that’s a good point!
I put three plastic bags of commerical rat poison in a rat trap. They ate all the poison, they ate the bags and they came back and ate the plastic trap as well. I've still got rats.
I think you need to watch some more of our rat playlist 😉
ruclips.net/p/PLMSQuVC3ns4-tXLSQM476D3ek4Us1VWhN
have you considered making a movie
I've even seen nests made out of the poison!
@@ksgraham3477But I saw portions of poison, deposited by rats. It seems like they hide food for future.
We had about a gallon of rat poison in a plastic tub. The rats ate the tub to get to the poison.
This was a great video. I need someone like you to help me in Australia. We have a few issues very similar to this video ... old unused septic tank, no manhole to roof cavity as is a flat roof, bamboo (that will be getting cut back tomorrow), plenty of overgrowth of other plants and a big wood stack. The rats are in my en-suite wall and so far nothing has worked consistently. I've put up with it for 3 years and I know previous owners had issues too. I really wish I could find someone invested in helping me to solve the problem once and for all and give me a rat free lifetime guarantee too..
That's why I put frog flaps on the outlet of my septic pipe (and the grey water) into the septic tank - so rodents or even Cockroaches can't migrate back up the pipes into the house.
“Not here to kill for killing sake” so true a word pest control is about control and management. As a country boy myself if you got fellow wildlife all is good if they don’t bother you then it’s live and let live. If they won’t move in and impact your livelihood or health then you need the extreme measures.
@geraldevans9782 and lets not forget that legally, in the UK, the least toxic method must always be used first in every instance.
I have been running a constant trapline for rats all over my property, for most of 10 years. I control any foods, any shelters, and still get constant mice and rats all the colder months. When the snakes wake up, the rat and mouse problem stops, except in the garden. As it gets cold, they're getting in again. Control outside and indoor trouble is less.
Look for the source. It’s nearly always drainage/sewer.
Think about it. If you have a nest of rats nearby and you kill them all that’s the end of the rats. No rats = no new rats.
Rats in sewers are so numerous that you’ll never kill them all.
Or you can do the same for another ten years ☺️
In the Netherlands we to have rats in the government, can you take care of it?
It is criminal what they are doing to your great country.
I think many people are, understandably, mistaking a guarantee of no rats in a house for one of no rats on the property.
Thanks so much for this hugely informative and encouraging video. Am on the edge of a small, busy town and a beautiful AONB, and the rats trot across the footpaths in front of pedestrians.
Oh no, I’d have to move towns, I loathe mice 🐁 but rats are something else. 😩
@@wendyhannan2454 Oh for me it is opposite, but we do not have that meny rats and you only see the occasional rat washing itself when on the street in the morning before the city wakes up. I do not mind at all. If there's anything which disgusts me it is mice! They shit everywhere they stink and they make terrible noise at night. Mice allso live inside the house while rats over here have their burrows in the street.
rats are nice, they need to live too.
@@wendyhannan2454 I've seen rats as big as cats dancing in the alleyways of London, UK.
Unfortunately parliament is full of them they promise much but deliver little.
Perhaps the Pest Interceptors should run in the election…we always deliver our promises.
It most definitely is now
Rats make me so squimish that I had a hard time watching parts of this video. Thank GOODNESS for people like you who can handle this work! I worry about your health. When you’re in enclosed spaces, like attics, I hope you’re wearing masks and eye protection.
I would love an episode on protecting your health while treating enclosed spaces ☺️
Note that he was wearing a particle mask when taking out tho old contaminated insulation.
I’m catching most rats in live traps in the garden 2 neighbours are putting down excessive bird seed etc .
This is a problem because if there is food one rat can become 200 in a year.
Do you will need to catch lots 😊
@@PestInterceptors you won’t stop them , they think there being kind to birds but causing infestation of rodents which even invade there property , nowt queer but folk.
You can make them stop their silliness by getting the Council Environmental Health involved. There is legislation that they can use.
Put the rats in their mailboxes.
Hand the Feed to the Postman & Tell Him the Food-chain they will get Bills only From now on !
wow, top job on that loft sanitation, you see how clean you got it
Preferred to use a bucket with a ramp. I put a spindle through the top of the bucket with a little bit of peanut butter on it. They've tried to walk on the spindle they fall off into the bottom of the bucket. Don't forget to put water in the bucket
But it doesn’t get to the root cause does it. The rats will be back.
Illegal
But I'm sure rats can swim
@@bxxmb80 yes they can for many days. That’s why these bucket traps are vile and inhumane things to use and are illegal in the uk because of animal welfare laws.
Hi the drain rod that’s stuck in the drain was possibly pulled down when a blockage cleared you would be surprised how much suction you can get especially if the blockage is backing up the soil pipe. Good job with the video 👍
Thanks for the info
It wasn't pulled down, because the rod was push upstream.
If you have metal drain rods, and a hook fitting - you can push it upstream also, hook the rod, and simply pull it out (I owned a drainage company for over 20 years).
Also.... most septic tanks lead to soakaways, and they most certainly do not have drains running for miles.
I live in the Arizona desert where mesquite trees flourish. When the mesquite pods ripen, the rodents gather them up and store them in their nests so they have an almost constant food supply. I also have neighbors who feed the birds. I tried trapping them for 6 months and caught an average of 1 rodent per day, but they were breeding faster than I could trap them. (If nothing happens to them, one breeding pair can turn into 1,250 rats/mice in one year, and in 3 years can multiply to 1/2 a billion!). The traps were in locked bait boxes, but so far I've found about 4 dead birds in the rat traps. So traps don't prevent non-target creatures from being killed either. I tried cornmeal and baking soda but they wouldn't touch it. So finally I resorted to using rodent bait which is working. (I put chicken wire over the bait boxes to keep the birds out). I don't have rodents inside of any of my buildings and they aren't coming out of the septic tank or sewer pipes (which are all new). But they've chewed wires outside, torn the insulation off a vehicle hood, chewed through the windshield washer tubing, made a nest behind a glove box, destroyed veggies in my garden, and they've left trails of urine and feces all over, and I'm not going to put up with that. I'm going to keep poisoning them for a while longer, but eventually I will switch to feeding the survivors Conntraceptol, which is rat/mouse birth control.
Yes, external rats are harder to deal with than internal ones sometimes. In your case it sounds like a nightmare situation.
I think what we would do in your situation is a regime of burrow baiting (as much as we hate using rodenticides it sometimes is the only answer!).
Burrow baiting, if done correctly, is unlikely to affect other wildlife and it helps get over neophobia as the rats have to dig/chew through it to leave burrows.
Find a rodenticide that can be used for this; I don’t know the laws and products in other countries.
Bag the bait up in plastic bags. (Grain bait isn’t great, use a pasta or block bait).
Push the bags into the rats burrows. Cover with soil and then a large stone/rock. (This prevents non targets getting to it).
Do this every seven days until the holes stop reappearing.
Then remove the rodenticide.
Keep going until there is zero activity, you don’t want to leave any survivors!
As for the vehicle problem, in the UK, there is a company called Lodi based in Kingswinford, West Midlands, England.
They do a product that keeps rats away from vehicles and I have heard great feedback about this product.
Get in touch with them and I’m sure they will send you some (kindly mention us when you do enquire).
Best of luck.
Cooking flour 50% dry mix with plaster of Paris place dry undercover and renew regularly , sets in their guts
Newer vehicles use soy-based wiring insulation which attracts rodents.
Just found this channel . . I work on a Golf Course as the mechanic and also shoot anything that's not playing Golf if I have to . . . Like you I don't kill for no reason. If it's causing damage it has to go.
I control the vermin. . Moles, Grey's and eat the pigeons. I love all vermin removal info.
My last Boss/Head greenkeeper used to say "there's a mole in the rough at the side of (some green, tee or fairway)" I'd say OK I'll pop some traps in. . . . I'd pop a few traps in looking like they were the business and just leave them (they were in blind holes) ha ha ha ha boss never knew. . . . If the mole came out of the rough/long grass and onto a fairway, green bank or tee . . . I would then put traps in "properly" and that's that. . . a lot of times the rough grass grew up to obscure the mole hills and he was non the wiser.
Only take them if you really have to. . . live and let live.
Plenty of rats in Westminster !
That’s for sure! Red rats, blue rats, ever one a real nasty rat.
Appreciate your honesty
Always the best policy and the only one we have.
Rats and mice have always been my phobia and I am just about to purchase my first house (always lived up high in apartments prior) and am very conscious of this particular subject.
Also, something I will not be installing is garden decking. Although it can be both attractive and practical, it has got to be one of the biggest attractions for nesting rats/mice. Something I would not install for the sake of minimising the issue. Overall though, the ways you have shown in this video how they can enter the house from outside, it seems an impossible and endless task of totally eradicating them.
We live in the city, in an ground level apartment, next to a rain pond and a little stream. It's a rat paradise. Our tomcat and the terriers keep the rodents away from the house we live in.
Not if they come into your house through the drains they won’t 😊
Hi what is the trap on your shorts video where you have a metal bar hangs down and put a toy mouse on it to snap it down im in stoke on trent thanks
@markatkinson5838
This one
ruclips.net/video/0qd0OYiI0II/видео.htmlsi=ekxHooL4l2LnNzhf
Hi thanks for rapid reply its the doc15 thankyou
Rats in the US learn very fast. If another rat gets sick or dies after eating something, the rest wont touch it. If they see a rat get caught in a trap, they stay away too.
Same here it’s called conditioned learning. Add to that neophobia and they can be a real challenge.
Try this:
ruclips.net/video/BjlN6EqOmiI/видео.html
And they also eat their brother that was killed in the trap...
Wicked video...now, when can I expect you at my front door in Maine, USA? LOL
You pay for the flights and we are there buddy 😊
@@PestInterceptors
Great professional service and great video just one thing a cesspit does not have a exit a septic tank does
I wish you lived in New York City, could really use your help!
We are always up for a paid vacation 😎
Very interesting. I'm on the nuisance wildlife removal side, but it overlaps with rats. This was very instructive. You have a great operation!
Glad you enjoyed it! Check out our playlists, we do lots of things other than rats that you may find interesting.
I live rural in Texas and I truly suffer with the infernal creatures. Over the past 2 years I've gone through 30 pounds of farm grade rat poison,lost a dozen traps to big ones carrying them off. My dogs and cat are expert rat killers.I've destroyed nesting areas in my yard and sealed chew holes in the walls as they appear. They've literally eaten through my walls. I feel so defeated. Everytime I think I've got them gone...a new more indestructible generation shows up. All I can figure is until the surrounding neighbors (a dozen or so clumped up old mobile homes all the way around me) deal with their end of it, I'll just be plagued. Nothing works anymore.
Rats are nearly always coming from a broken sewer or drain.
You need a cctv survey of your sewer system. 👍🏼
And using poisons can kill the native animals, especially the owls and other predators, that might help kill the rats.
@@Wisepati I think you’ll love our latest videos. I have a rant about rodenticide misuse.
It’s not just the general public who are at fault, it’s the big pest control companies who are usually the worst offenders in the uk.
We are going to try to stop them 👍🏼
We are in west london and when we moved into this house 3 years ago there were rats everywhere. I coaxed a family of foxes to live under our decking, not seen a rat since!
@MsMom, I live in rural Australia. Your problem was my nightmare too. The destruction these rodents cause is devastating & costly.
I too have used everything I heard of or advertised, only to throw heaps of food & other items on a constant basis.
A very old neighbour suggested I mix cornmeal & soda bicarb together, & throw in just abit of sugar, of course I didn't try it as I had spent so much money on poisons, etc & this seemed to 'basic'
Frustration with the stinky rats/mice made me try, less than 3 weeks 🤞, they almost but disappeared.
This mix is safe on all other animals including birds & is cheap. Rats/mice can't burp/fart, the soda causes them to bloat to death.
I've cleaned up any places around/in the house of hiding spots, no food left opened, etc
Chicken feed is placed in galvanised feeders, no rodents can get to it & no scraps left on ground.
I'm not sure the result for others, but this plain, basic mix has been literally a life saver for us,. Anyone who has had to 'live' with these dirty rodents, you have nothing to lose, give it a go 👍
The septic tanks should have 'dropper pipes' in them on the inlet and outlet, and where you said that the drain was broken and allowing vermin in, was immediately below a fence post...
Broken drains allow rats out of the system not in.
Good job we have armchair experts like you about though Paul 😉
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In my boat yard we have members who willy nilly put down rat poison without letting other members know they were doing it ; One member was even putting down POISON in the form of sausages . Once I found I i bent his ears back about that as one of our hounds could have easily ate that . Good to see the none poison route being taken for sure
It makes us super angry. The misuse of rodenticide by the general populace and the pest control industry.
We rarely use it. We are also the only vegan friendly guaranteed rat service in the uk…maybe the world!
@@PestInterceptors How often do you get vegan rats? 😆
There's a rat in mi kitchen. What am a gonna do? Great vid, very interesting to see how you go about it.
We are from the home of the band UB40, so pretty apt. 🤣
@@PestInterceptors You sure are mate. No mistaking your accent haha. A little funny story. Our engineers drive from Cheshire up to us in Durham to do our periodical servicing and a few repair jobs that need doing. One of the lads say we get an A1 guarantee. Once they get on the A1 motorway back to base we are on our own until next time lol. BTW, you work hard. That's no small task doing those loft clearouts.
This video is so great!! I’ve learned lots!
Thank you so much!! I also live in the country and the rats literally ran me out of my home.
I have lotta dogs. They also kill rats but not enough. I have owls and I was going to poison them the rats, but it made sense now not to do that. Thank you, now I won’t kill the owls. And I was always worried about my dogs getting the rats that had poison in them. Although they don’t eat the rats, they kill them.
I wish you lived here. I need you for about six weeks please !! Lol thank you for such a great video.
Excellent video totally cleaned out my loft following your advice but what Biocide do you spray the loft with please?
@@glenhiggs3196 our advice would never be to clear and clean your loft to get rid of rats.
We would however say to do it if you are sure the rats are gone for good. But never if you are not sure.
If we go out to quote for cleaning a loft and we haven’t solved the rat problem, we leave monitoring baits down for at least 3 months to make sure the rats are definitely gone.
But, if you’ve used rat flaps and you are sure, you can get a product called Ornikil. Make sure you follow the instructions on the label. ✅
Thank you, so far we have seen no rats on our cameras for a week so intend to spray but keeping loft and rooms under surveillance your videos are an inspiration we are over 200 miles away from you! Thanks again
@@glenhiggs3196 a pleasure to help. Hopefully you don’t need us (and you carry on loving our content 😌) but if it does recur we cover all of the UK with our Rat Free Lifetime Guarantee service. ✅
The New York City Mayor was advertising big money for anyone that could come up with a plan to get rid of the horrendous problem of rats in the city.
Perhaps if Rudy was still in charge we’d come help 😘
@@PestInterceptors you could start in the mayor's office, then.
Why hasn't anyone figured on having the inlet pipe from the house into the cesspit a little higher than the outlet? So that when the outlet backs up to the cesspit and the rats swim in it, the pipe to the house is too high for the rats to reach. it only has to be at least 4, maybe 6 inches...
There’s a million dollar idea for you. 👍🏼
I worry about rats and Weils disease as I have a dog!!! Not seen any rats in my rural garden but have noted a couple of single rat holes over the last few years ...how do you know if the holes are still being used ?
So glad you don't use rodenticids. I have lots of voles and shrews and wood mice as well as tawny & little owls here. Horrible seeing the little dead voles ....
Just fill the holes with soil. If they reappear….you’ve probably got rats.
@@PestInterceptors ...obvious now you have pointed this out ! Thank you.
@@PestInterceptors Regularly used holes have worn smooth bottoms & sides. Spider webs etc usually appear quire rapidly if not being swept aside by the occupant.
@@johnmead8437 glad to hear you are learning from our videos. 👍🏼
Poor rats. I back onto woodland my cat sometimes bring them home. I rescue and release if she hasn’t killed it. I would never dream about calling in pest control unless they were in my house.
I have squirrels and I feed them! Lovely little animals
What about the rats in rubber boats got anything to get rid of them.
Don't give them anything they would go then
I have rats under my shed. Spent a small fortune on poison but they just seem to love the stuff. They also somehow manage to remove the food from traps i put down even when i tie it on with string!
Just think of all the other animals you’ve killed by secondary poisoning 🤷♂️
Perhaps it’s time to stop the poison no?
Gave the poison up a while ago and tried the traps. Going to do what i should have done to start with and cover the base of the shed with wire mesh. @@PestInterceptors
You don't have a rattus abundance, you have a feline deficiency.
Clean daily with pine sol not the cheap version though must be the 💯 percent an pour some around basebords behind stove, fridge mop and clean daily . They will leave they can't stand the smell.
Even if that did work (and we don’t believe it does, if things like that had any scientific basis we would use them) you would still have rats in your walls, floors and ceilings.
We hear old wives tales like this one all the time, and as we said above, if it worked we would be using it.
Sadly people get mixed signals when using old wives tale remedies. Usually a neighbour has put some poison down or something similar. It then seems like the old wives tale worked….but it’s just bad science.
Thank you for your input though. We are always happy to hear ideas.
Ps. When we do our Rat Free Lifetime Guarantee for clients they have usually had rats for years and years and have tried every old wives tale there is.
What about the Rats in parliament and Prince Andrew,can you get rid of them,ha
They seem to be entrapping themselves well enough without help 🤣
@ takes soooo long
@@Benny18-18 the noose is tightening ✅
@@PestInterceptors haha
Good job. How did they get rid of the stuck drain rod?
@@61sven luckily it was stuck in a pipe that wasn’t used by anything likely to block ✅
In amsterdam we have underground containers every 50 to 100 meters in the street where everyone can dispose of his garbage 24-7 there are some rats, because they allso dive for mussels in the canals etc, never seen a rat inside my house. When walking at 5 in the morning you see a rat washing itself by the side of the canal and I think them kind of cute.
All animals have their place.
You sure those rats haven’t been to a coffin shop and gotten the munchies? 😉
@@PestInterceptors I was wondering what rats would do in a "coffin shop" but I guess you meant coffee shop, and I think they might consume some spacecake if they can get it, but jokes aside, there are rats in every neighbourhood in Amsterdam, but because of trashbins which are on stainless steel poles, and the possibility of disposing garbage underground 24/7 people dont have to keep their garbage on balconies, the numbers are far lo9wer than what I've seen in videos about rats in new york which is quite disgusting. Anyway we allso have lots of herons in the city as well as buzzards, so when rats eat too much that they become obese and slow they risk to become dinner. I think outside the city center with the red light district most people don't really mind the occasional rat. Biggest problem is that they make burrows under the sidewalks and cousing the tiles to become uneven. If there is a pest in my neighbourhood it is mice, and the terrible noise they make at night. But even mice leave the house if you dont feed them.
What makes bamboo so loved by rats? Is it the dense undergrowth?
Absolutely. It’s super tough too so stops predators from getting through it but lots of small gaps for rats to slip through, back to their rat holes.
@@PestInterceptors thanks for the response! And usefull info as well. My neighbor has some rats around his chicken coop but can't find the nests. They might be around the bamboo at the end of his property then. I'll tell him to bait up the area so they get comfy and we'll have us a fun night of pesting with the airguns
I'm binge watching a load of your old videos. It's never the same beard twice.
@@evilutionltd I’m working on a new one as we speak 🤣
Great video as always. Just a quickie from one pestie to another. Do you offer a contract for the rat flap ? I offer a twice yearly to check its functioning 100% what's your thoughts ? Cheers
Not a bad idea.
So should compost be protected with a concrete slab and mesh wire surrounding it on the sides and top?
@@JenMarco the rats would probably just climb in the top.
Always better to get to the source of the rats and stop them from there.
Since I have had a patterdale terrier I have not seen one rat at my rural home in the Highlands, whereas previously they were certainly very evident.
A fantastic dog.
You will find it can’t get rats that are living in your house wall though or under the floors.
I often think terriers are the kindest solution. Ive never had a dog so I don't know if they need to be trained, but in 'the old days' terrier men would come to your property. Nowadays sadly, teriier men are mostly employed in helping to hunt innocent badgers.
@@helenswan705 we never like to kill anything if we can avoid it, even rats!
Most of our rat free guarantee jobs we don’t kill any rats at all.
In fact we are the only genuine rat pest control company in the uk, maybe the world, who offer a vegan friendly alternative.
Check out our playlists to see more.
@@PestInterceptors Totally agree. Fortunately we had 3ft thick walls and slab-stones. In previous properties I have certainly suffered.
Bloody Good Info >> Thank You
No problem 👍
I moved back to where my husband grew up to be closer to family... its the rattiest place in our country. People's attitudes about it is the problem, i hear them say "there's nothing you can do, that's life" about rats. Just gross. They practically feed them and give them plenty of places to live. Its so weird. Why not just do the things necessary so your property isn't a rat haven?
As we prove time and time again. You don’t have to live with rats ☺️
The Rat Flap is the best invention. No need to kill the poor critters. Just cut them off at the pass. If you have Rats in your attic or house the drains/sewers in the first place to investigate.
Some Pest Control companies won't even fit them. Far easier for them to keep coming out laying traps and/or poison. You can then provide them with an ongoing revenue stream.
And yes I am speaking from experience.
The flap is only as good as the knowledge of the person fitting it though.
We go out to houses with 20 year rat problems with flaps fitted everywhere.
In fact we have a video coming out in the near future where we show the flaps and the suggested £6000 further work they needed to do as the flaps hadn’t worked.
I think you’ll enjoy that video. We really go to town on the quote in the video. The hilarious and yet sad thing was that the extra £6k still wouldn’t have solved his problems!
We did though….in 5 hours. 😇✅
There are videos of people who use a rain barrel and a rotating stick with sticking nuts on it horizontally in the middle. The rats goes on the stick, slips, and is caught. He caught 20 or more in one night.
Illegal in the uk. Why would you want to drown any animal anyway?
Oh. And you’d still have rats unless you get the the source.
I just discovered mouse " blankets", 6 ft by 15". They can't jump them. I live in the
Mountains, we've had a horrible problem for a few years since we switched from using pine sol to swifter mop pads. I finally figured out they hate pine sol and the mouse blankets picked up 8 mice the first night. After the first week of catching a lot, its slowing down and seeing no new mouse feces. My house is 7800 sq. Ft, 3 stories so its been a nightmare. I think these are really made for barns, shops etc. They can be easily cut up into smaller pieces! Good luck!
That’s a new one on us!
Giant glue traps. I empathize but just too cruel for me.
Good to see Robin Williams looking well.
I was lining myself to be his stunt double!
Now I have to make fun and informative RUclips videos for a living!
Hi Guys, I have rat holes in the garden, can I just fill the holes in with gravel?
It depends. @goobydingbat1027
Are the rats going in from above ground or are they coming up from the sewer below.
If they are coming from the sewer you will fill the sewer with gravel and then cause a blockage and it will cause a build up of poop which is food for more rats.
So the thing to do is fill the holes loosely with paper and then fill over the paper with soil.
When the holes reappear, is the soil and paper on top of the surface? Or has it just disappeared down the hole.
If it’s just disappearing down the hole then the rats are coming from below ground, usually the sewer or drain.
@pestinterceptors, what about rats with tunnels in the stone ground under the ground of the property, they have tunnels, any suggestions? Love the vids
Try this (but be aware that this won’t work if the rats are coming from drainage under the house, only fir surface rats).
ruclips.net/video/0FDFr1KPbGA/видео.html
I got Ratx packets and Rat 🐀 traps out. I’ve got 3 rats so far I never had issues in my life with Rats!
Did I miss your solution for the compost bin and the wood heap?
Yes.
Sewers.
Like this:
ruclips.net/p/PLMSQuVC3ns49OZlSE012w7J1eaADc6V7o
Top job. . . Essentially u want to eliminate all access to the house.
Out of interest how much would a job like this cost and when u say a lifetime guarantee, do u mean no rats in the house or no rats in the whole of house & lot?
The reason I ask is rats can always take up residence in the outdoor area around the house.
www.pestinterceptors.co.uk/rat-free-lifetime-guarantee
Please visit Westminster parliament. For generations now, rats are causing havoc. The place is totally overrun.
It is protected by rentokil. They have had a mouse infestation for years. 😆
Says it all though really doesn’t it! Big politics looks after big corporations….especially global ones.
I live in a country that's run by rats.
We all live in countries run by rats!
The rats here have set up home in the log piles etc etc because of all the food around. So what makes you think they are from the sewer?
The client is still rat free years later…..so I guess we know what we are talking about 🙂
@@PestInterceptors I agree up 2 a point but from the amount of damage/holes etc you showed on camera and how rats breed and the length of time the customer has had problems then in theory their should of been hundreds of rats about. I think u only caught one and none showed on trail cam. Looks like they had already gone.
@@seankinder4370we are the only money back lifetime guaranteed rat pest control company in the UK, probably the world. So don’t take offence; but you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Perhaps you should watch some more of our huge video library.
How do you get them out of your cavity wall
Subscribe and watch some more videos…..all will be revealed! 😊
The mechanical trap is inhumane in my opinion.Used them once years ago with massive rat problem and although some rats were killed instantly, some were impaled across the shoulder and were alive ages later in obvious pain.
Buy some better quality traps then 😊
Well, they are rats. Vermin. Pests. Disease carriers. Maybe they"ll be walki g on you while you sleep is you believe they deserve to live nearby???
Hi,very informative my daughter has problems with rats she thinks?do you travel uk wide or just certain areas regards from Scotland 🏴🇬🇧👍
Scotland is a bit of a challenge. But I’m sure we could come to some arrangement.
The rats are avoiding the snap traps using peanut butter now.. Any suggestions?
I’d suggest to change bait to liquorice or change the type of trap or both. ✅
Question: is it true that once a trap killed a rat, other rats sense the danger and don't go to that trap..? If yes, what do we do to clean the trap of prior rat kill...? tnks
No.
Quite often you will see rats eat the dead rat in the trap.
Take a look at this video.
RAT TRAPS & RAT FLAPS is all we need!!! IDIOT customer!!!!
ruclips.net/video/G0rY5KAKlmw/видео.html
Do you cover Essex? I moved into a house with a rat problem nearly 20 years ago, but I don't really want to use the chemicals that can harm my pet cats
Sorry to hear that your situation! Sadly it is something we hear all too frequently!
Yes, we cover the entire UK but only with our Rat Free Lifetime Guarantee service.
Here is the website page you will need to tell you everything you need to know.
www.pestinterceptors.co.uk/rat-free-lifetime-guarantee
Then use traps. Most domestic cats won't eat bait and would likely need to eat a fair few rats / mice to get a dose of secondary poisoning. Go check the LD50 and you'll see that rodenticide is not as lethal to cats as a cat would have to eat a GREAT deal more than a couple of rats. And of course, you should check for dead / dying rats when using rodenticide anyway.
@@Cornz38 you shouldn’t be using it at all unless there are no other options.
Has been to Westminster it full of them!
In the daytime do all of these rats go in those boroughs how do I find more than the ones I found thankfully they're not in the house yet but I am trying to prevent them from coming in there. I have a quarter of an acre land.
@guymiller9212 see my other reply 👍🏼
To me. This is the only one. Or to others?
The ad listing covers what is being shown. 🙁
I believe you can grab it and move it.
Click the burger dots & then select dismiss.
I take a box of corn meal muffin mix with equal parts of baking soda pets can belch and expel gas but not mice or rats.
Do the rats explode? 🙈
Do you have any idea how rats reproduce? 3 weeks is 2 weeks too long. Sorry, i have to go back to prestone.
@@johnbryan2414 we don’t really understand the question 🤷♂️
Interesting liked the presentation of your videos
Sadly I am miles away from you in Harrow Middlesex
Our problem mice/rat and Chicken coup.
We keep chickens at home we find rats.”mice comes around in the chicken run in night digging tunnel under the chicken wire fencing
We don't won't to poison just in case our chickens eat their droppings. How can. We catch and get rid
Thanks
One thing you can try is to keep the spilled chicken feed at a minimum. There are feeders that only open when the chicken treads on a treadle plate.
When there is very little free food for the rats you can use rat traps in bait stations.
Also try to track where the rats are coming from, there is nearly always a sewer/drain problem somewhere.
We do travel all over the uk but only with our Rat Free Guarantee program, but that’s mainly aimed at rats in houses.
www.pestinterceptors.co.uk/rat-free-lifetime-guarantee
Im in the US and would like to find the rodent spray in your shoppe. Can you tell me what is in it or what the equivalent is? Thank you!! Very good video.
@@rranimalrescue2052 we can’t sell in the states at the moment. Hopefully we will soon.
See if you can get an enzymatic spray.. you may find one specific to dog or pet smells and urine blockers.. it's a natural way to eliminate animal odors and scents by introducing an enzyme that eats the bacterium responsible for the odor.. plus is easy to apply and no chemicals 🖐😊
@ sounds expensive! The stuff we use is cheap as chips! 😊
I couldn’t figure out how a rat could be getting in.. the closed toilet lid would make a sound coming back down. The rats were coming along the sewage pipe and into my home via the toilet. I live across the road from a major creek, there’s a duck pond two houses away where daily parents and kids feed scraps to thhe ducks and rats, that then runs fifty km to the water bird reserve. 🚫🐭🐀🐁I hate the smell
59km??? Wow... must be hungry... yeah Hangarian ratz
rats cant climb up pvc pipes. does your sewage have risers? put a piece of pvc in. better still, as this video showed, every joint of clay pipe can be an access point so consider a total rebuild using pvc.
Reminds me of the scene in the movie Brazil when government contractors go in to fix the thermostat and someone switches their ventilators and hooks them up to the sewer hose. Glad you guys got your proper PP and hope you have your proper papers. Crack on boys!
Better safe than sorry
THE PEOPLE WHO OWN THESE PROPERTIES ARE A BIG PART OF THE RAT PROBLEM......they have made it possible for the infestation, because of leaving all kinds of debris scattered across the entire property.
How do you deduce that from this video?!
Our customers were immaculate.
The truth is, yes, piles of rubbish certainly doesn’t help, but in reality it’s very rarely the cause.
It’s 99% of the time a sewer/drainage problem….as you can clearly see in this video!
I'm confused you mentioned the septic possibly dumps miles away in a ditch or stream
thanks, great info sir! do you make house calls to Southern California by any chance?🐀🐁
If you’re paying…..🤷♂️☺️
@@PestInterceptors haha... had a feeling you'd say that! 🤣hopefully, i can tackle this task myself... not easy living near the woods, and keeping these creatures away....especially considering the fact that my partner has created this Amazon jungle in our back yard! 🤯thanks for the great info and entertaining videos my friend.
We have to try….we all like a free holiday 😉☺️
Yeah maybe that's where I'm getting some rats coming in my garage from the old suspect not being used for 40 years I have to go down there and block the hole looks like not sure how they made it into the garage though concrete floor single wall edible mice being my major problem worse than rats. I'm assuming you put a u bend on the waist pipe, do you put a bend and pipe under the water going into the sespic? I don't think rats can dive?
What is that spray stuff in the left? Where do you buy that from? Better get some.
Nearly all rats in houses in the uk are something to do with drain or sewer.
Take a look in our playlists the rat one covers all our rat videos but there are playlists on rat flaps and sewer surveys too.
The rat problems will have nothing to do with the mice problems. But we have playlists about them also.
Being professional. Then you should know.
The internal gasses build up to such an extent that the lungs are forced to fall flat. And suffocate.
What on earth are you talking about? 🙈🤣
Fun question, has anyone said you look like the late and great Robin Williams?
Not for a few years.
How are wo going to make Rattatouie if there's no more ratz?
It's two legged RATS we have got the problem with.
When you turn profile you look just like Brian Cranston in the show Your Honor. 😊
I get called a Gordon Ramsey lookalike a lot when I’ve had a shave 🤷♂️🤣
(I’m only bearded in the winter months) Take a look at out newer videos. Let me know what you think. I don’t see it myself 🤣
As he opens his boot, the rats come flooding out..🤣🤣
Got a cat who is brutal he would be in the SAS if he was in the Army you name it he has killed it lol. Even a rabbit climbed over the fence and tried to get through the cat flap with it I was on the floor laughing so much 🤣. I have only ever seen a rat in my garden once and my dog caught it and killed it. Never seen my dog behave like that he is a good boy a golden retriever. No puncture marks he shook it to death even gentle killing a rat !
We may have a job offer for your cat and dog!
What a nice dog.. I could always tell a rat that was killed by my last cattle dog, everything he killed had a fang hole straight through it's skull
YOU DON'T NEED TO LIVE WITH RATS... good advice time to kick out my brother ! 😂
Can’t help you with that rat I’m afraid. 🤣
I've tried everything, I can't get rid of these bastrds.
Baking soda with flour and sugar ...
Peanut butter..
Bucket with water trap...
Normal rat traps...
I've tried it all.. But not caught it.
Please help me.
Take a look through our rat playlist. There’s lots of tips and advice.
Truth is that it’s very rarely just one rat though.
Good luck. Here’s that playlist:
ruclips.net/p/PLMSQuVC3ns4-tXLSQM476D3ek4Us1VWhN
@@PestInterceptors it's no use I've tried most of these things. It too cunning.
Why is it soo difficult.
Why.....
@@Billy_Bull_Sheeter it happens to the best of us.
Like this:
EASY WAY to CATCH RATS that are HARD TO CATCH!!! 100% SUCCESS rate!
ruclips.net/video/BjlN6EqOmiI/видео.html
Where are you based please and what areas do you cover am in cheshire
@@sylvialarkin8719 yes we cover your area. Here is the website you’ll want to read through:
www.pestinterceptors.co.uk/rat-free-lifetime-guarantee
Thank you for your videos. I watched a few of them but unfortunately you're not nearby me you are I believe in the UK I am in the United States so I am having an issue with rats in my yard like this I live near a city plenty of neighbors no farm animals my neighbor doesn't live in their house but they have a lot of brush leaves vines, I believe a old pool that's not in any use just a bunch of debris over there myself. We have a few dogs that their poop is around the yard. Of course I do have a pile of wood, but they had destroyed my vehicles. I have expensive cars they've been outsmarting me with every single trap bait, etc., hard to put poison because my stupid dog will eat it everything that I put non-poison the dogs will eat it so not only does the rats out smart me so my dogs so my question I have I found a few Burroughs a few nesting in my vehicles. what do you recommend doing and you've mentioned in one of your videos chemical that gets rid of the scent so maybe I could spray that along and around my vehicles there is no company in the United States. That will guarantee the way you do. Please advise.
have you looked into exterior dryer or roof vent covers? wall-e-cover has one
We do use them sometimes, usually for mice though. No need on this job. 👍🏼