Rats Under Floorboards Upstairs

Mice thrive in dark secure locations such as under floorboards but regularly crawl out in search of food and water.

Rats under floorboards upstairs. Now as our three week old daughter napped in her moses basket on. Something moving under upstairs floorboards 58 posts add message report. We had thought no more about it. They had rats in the attics me and my youngest son heard them one night my parents didn t tell me as i m terrified of rats and mice.

Lou1221 tue 24 oct 17 09 10 28. As i am paranoid they will somehow get into the kids bedrooms. More of a word. We don t have any holes upstairs we have thoroughly checked.

Loud squeaking saw what i thought was a mouse scurry behind the fridge but in hindsight think it was probo a baby rat they have tried to break into the cupboard in the lounge via a broken floorboard. Rats are large animals and their corpse takes weeks to decompose. Live rats beneath your floorboards are awful but dead rats can be even worse. During this time your house will be filled with sickening smells while maggots and flies have a feeding frenzy beneath your house.

To tanith carey s horror she discovered that she was not only living within six feet of a rat but a whole pack of the rodents had taken up residence under the floorboards beneath her house. Can anyone help. Rats can be heard knawing in the ceiling floor between the first floor and basement. There is no obvious entry from outside except for a dryer vent which i covered with hardware cloth.

Its in the kitchen we have been hearing noises under the floorboards for weeks we thought it might just be a cold mouse and let it pass but my dad walked into the kitchen yesterday and there was a huge rat. So he chased it with a spade and it ran back under the floorboards he then saw it again this morning. Have caught 3 in the traps over the last 10 days but only babies. Sounds like scraping noise frm upstairs but it not.

Also can rats squeeze under doors. They also affect your health by spreading a wide array of diseases. I have set traps under the floor again as activity has picked up. Rats get everywhere we d reasoned optimistically and after all the house was a building site.

Then sounded like it s under the floorboards upstairs coming dwn to the dwnstairs ceiling. I am scared to go in the kitchen we cant go in there to make food drinks etc we. I hear rats under my floorboards in my upstairs bedroom. Down the boxed in central heating pipes to under the floor boards and 2.