Rat Traps and why traps aren’t the solution Rat traps trap the rats that are getting into your building but it doesn’t get to the root of the problem – preventing the rats entering in the first place. That’s why you need Pestology! Rat traps catch rats right? Well that’s the intention but you’d be...
Rat proofing by the experts ensures we get rid of your rats for good We stop rats coming into your living areas This means you will no longer see the rats, find rat droppings and rats can’t contaminate food or food preparation areas, but the rats will still be able to access wall voids, floor...
The first thing to understand when considering this as an objective is that the rats don’t just ‘come to be’ in life – like any living thing out there, they need 3x environmental variables to be present if they to etch out a living….FOOD/SHELTER/WARMTH
From what I’ve observed over time, most living creatures out there have an inbuilt behavioural pattern to follow regular food availability to its source.
Smoke tablets and the use of smoke itself in drain testing is something that’s been around for over a century and is actually the first way the Victorians used to test their drainage.
So general consensus is that we as humans like to have an area of hard standing just outside the back door and in the last 20 years or so the cheap fix to this need is a few slats of decking.
We come across this a lot and its clearly something that has been passed from generation to generation and so is now entrenched in folklore and legend.
A rat’s life is very survival-focused – max life span is going to be 18 months-odd in the wild so they need to hustle if they want to get to adult size and get some babies done before the end comes to be.
Drainage doesn’t just carry human waste that ends up in toilets – it also receives what goes down the kitchen sink, shower, bath and basin plug holes.
One common theme we’ve seen over the years is the insistence of customers to refer back our findings to a builder and ask for their thoughts and opinions on it all.