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Do Your Own Pest Control For A Problem Mouse In The House

This lovely 18 year old home has housed several families including humans. That’s right it has also been home to a few raccoons, and probably 30 to 50 mice and 3 wasps nests (all in the past 4 years since the new human owners moved in 2009). Fortunately, since 2012 the home has only knowingly allowed humans to enter. 

Photo 2010 – Mice In Home 

Rid-O-Mice Installed 2012  – No Signs Of Mice

Photo 2024 – Mice Haven’t Been In Home Since 2012 

Before and after installing Rid-O-Mice weep hole covers

Dealing With Mice

The owner’s daughter moved back from university and took up a room in the basement, soon she complained of mice droppings in the closet and carpeted floor of her room. The invasive and disturbing noises in the walls heard for the months the daughter was away began to be understood by the home owners. So out comes a second Wildlife Control company. The previous company came to remove a Raccoon in the attic and suggested they caulk the soffit  gap just below the roof line where it meets brick to save on future damage and prevent mice and bats. This guy was right and the second company picked up on this in their assessment. For field mice in the house however, the home owners still had other preventative measures to perform as well as the need to extract the current house mice. The quote came in at $2,200 (2012 prices) to do all this work and the home owner just didn’t have the coin. They paid for the assessment, stressed about what laid ahead and started to investigate ways to do it themselves. In the process they discovered Rid-O-Mice. They bought enough to install the device in all of their Weep Holes minus the ones they could not get at which were buried behind their deck header board. It cost them less them $50 to buy the product and they were able to insert them by themselves. They also examined some areas in the foundation and wall that needed caulking and filled those in. From the inside of the house they used store bought devices such as traps to eradicate those mice that remained.

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The mouse problem stopped

No further work has been done and this family is now wondering what the squirrels and birds have up their sleeves which may lead to a future Wildlife Control call to the Pros who will know the next move.

And that is how this family saved over $2,200 on their ‘problem mouse in the house‘ budget.

UPDATE: It is now Aug 2024 and this family reports they have not had to deal with mice since 2012 and prior. In other words, since the installation of Rid-O-Mice.

Video below shows 2012 installed Rid-O-Mice being removed from weep hole in 2024. The cover has not aged and its self anchoring properties are still fully engaged and functioning, ensuring mice cannot pull the cover out. 

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Rid-O-Mice Looks New And Maintains Spring More Than 10 Years Later.

Some Honest Reviews of Rid-O-Mice Weep Hole Covers

It seems like a couple of times each year I was battling with the odd mouse. I set traps along the outside walls and had to resort to poison where I noticed their beautiful brown pellets usually in the furnace room but also under our dishwasher. That seemed to work temporarily. A friend of mine in the pest control business told me about Rid-O-Mice so I asked him to come by and take care of it. Haven’t had any issues since.
Dave S.
Chicago
We had elongated weep holes… meaning the weepholes extended above and below the actual brick. We were able to purchase some spare stainless inserts and cut them to fill in the gaps created by the abnormal height of the weep holes. Not all were like this but some were and it worked perfect!! See Wes’s blog post with pictures here.
Wes Grands.
Pensicola
Last year we bought a 30 year old home and our home inspector pointed out the house had signs of mice. Just the thought of that didn’t appeal to us but everything else about the house was right for us. Fortunately our home inspector gave us great information on how we could prevent the mice from getting in. That is when we met Rid-O-Mice who helped us protect our largest investment.
F. Perry.
Pittsburg

You may ask yourself, 'why do I have mice in my house?'. Just about everyone does and once you know a bit more about why including issues like mice urine, you have a better chance to stop the problem..