Rats running over your floors, hiding behind furniture and doing away with food from your kitchen or table is bad enough. You may be at loss when they take up refuge not only in clutter but also get in to the walls, basement, attic and other unused places. Rats may be living right under you, in the basement floors under the floor boards. They must be venturing in to your home by climbing from down the floor boards or breaking in to your attic and accessing the ceiling. These are concealed places where you can hardly reach and you will have a struggle in your hand to place traps and capture them. Here we will learn how to trap rats that live in your basement and ceiling. Before doing that you could also check up with the local rat control professionals like BBPP, the most affordable rat control Brampton and effective rodent exterminators in the town and for nearby towns.
How to keep rats out of your basement?
If you suspect rats in your basement you cannot ignore it because they will spread to other areas of your home and make your life miserable. By following the simple plan chalked out below you can get rid of them.
- Clean basement thoroughly and remove clutter, debris, old junk, and old furniture etc. then disinfect the space by cleaning it with bleach water. If weeds and debris have grown outside your walls get rid of them. Check for holes and cracks in the wall and foundation and seal them with impenetrable material like steel wool and fortify it with caulk. Hunt for any inviting entry points around your home and seal them. Put weather stripping under the basement door so rats don’t graduate to the upper floors.
- Rats don’t like places that are frequented by human and basement is one place where you don’t go regularly. This is the reason they like your basement, so make it a practice to go down at least once in a day. This will deter them to some extent from building nests there.
- Place traps along the basement wall and bait them with peanut butter. Do it for several weeks and if you are not catching anything switch around traps and spaces. Rats are sucker for greasy stuff and they will certainly fall for the bait.
- You may hear scratching sounds coming from under your floor board and you can confirm that by the strange ammonia smell pervading in the area. Here you have to remove a floor board and keep a trap there or open up a larger area and keep many traps. Seal all other holes except the one you have opened up.
- You can use rodent repellants like the sonic mouse repellent. By keeping the device in the basement or under your floor boards you can force them to come out and easily exterminate them. But make sure you read the label and instructions before deploying the devices.
When the rat population is high the above methods may not be comprehensive solutions. it is time consuming, laborious, stressful and require high vigil. Your best bet to remove rats from your basement or from sub-floors is to engage professional rat exterminators like BBPP, the best pest control Brampton and much sought after by nearby towns. Contact them on phone number 647-910-6315 or by email info@bbppcanada.com and get a free quote.