How To Kill Mice In Your Attic

Here what you should do to clean up the attic.

How to kill mice in your attic.

Put on rubber vinyl gloves spray a combination of bleach and water or some disinfectant on the dead mice or their nest make the disinfectant absorb the mouse or its nest for 5 minutes. Use concrete mortar sheet metal or heavy gauge hardware cloth to patch the bigger openings. Common weak spots include around the roofline and basically any gap at floor level bigger than a dime. If you use plastic wood or other chewable materials the mice will get into the attic again.

Ingestion of this chemical causes mice to bleed internally and some. Kill them with mashed potatoes. This is mostly done in a painless and quick way. Dipping a cotton ball in the oil placing the cotton balls in strategic locations replacing the cotton balls 1 2 times per week.

To use this funnel leave one opening unsealed and position the funnel over it. If you d rather make your own to repel unwelcome invaders just combine three. Poison won t kill the mouse instantly instead leaving it to die slowly and in pain. Snap traps and electronic house mouse traps are commonly used for killing mice.

Use caulk and steel wool scouring pads to plug small holes. The most common way to get rid of mice in the attic is by using snap traps. Use glue traps or pads. Your local hardware store should carry a range of options designed to send mice scurrying away rather than kill them.

Lethal traps on the other hand catch and kill the mice instantly. If you kill some mice with poison new ones will just appear to take their place. Homemade remedies to kill mice. The classic snap trap is made from wood and it uses a metal trip pedal and wire trigger.

One way exclusion funnels are also useful in removing mice from your attic. Be sure windows doors and screens fit tightly. These are the traps that bait the mice and then snap close when the mouse moves a trigger killing it. Not only is poison ineffective however but it is also inhumane and makes more work for you.

Mesh and filler foam will become your best weapon during this stage. Set up three or four traditional snapping type mouse traps in different areas of the attic. Put a wafarin based poison in the attic.