Slash Costs Of Mouse Control - Do Your Own Pest Control
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
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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