Rats In Kitchen Roof

Fortunatelly air comes through even small holes and rats don t.

Rats in kitchen roof.

Listen for scratching scurrying and chewing noises. The lure in the kitchen is obviously the food especially when it s left uncovered and on tops of units overnight. Hearing scratching noises at night from above may suggest their presence. Remove clutter like paper or cardboard that rats may use to build their nests keep dog food and other pet food.

These can be purchased in local hardware stores. The rat will steal the food and take it back to its safe place to hoard. Be mindful of foul smelling and strong odours produced from faeces and urine. Seal roof soffits and vents with a material rats don t like to eat.

Sprinkle crushed pepper or spray a pepper spray near openings and holes. Brown rats on the other hand are less adept climbers. Black rats also known as the roof rat are agile climbers and can easily gain access into loft spaces and upper floors of buildings. You need to make sure there are no open holes in your building big enough for rat to come.

Steel wool for instance or a mesh screen. In fact depending on the architecture of your house the rats are probably in the attic which of course is the open space above your ceiling. To reduce roof rats on your property consider the following. Place peppermint oil cayenne pepper pepper and cloves around the home to keep them away.

You could put extra grating behind the louver or change the louvers to more dense one so that the rat can t come through however you may have problems finding one so i d stick to grating. Store food in metal or plastic containers with tight fitting lids instead of cardboard boxes that can easily be gnawed. Use a traditional rat trap. If undetected the rats can live and breed in your kitchen space.

Other signs of rodent activity include. If you hear rats high up in the ceiling it is probably the roof rat black rat as opposed to the norway rat brown rat. You may hear them scurrying under decking sheds and floorboards.