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Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 11:33AM |
...or near garage, I guess. There's this little gap between the framing around the door and the concrete of the driveway and garage floor:
Okay, so maybe just sand settling around the foundation...after 25 years. >:/
So we fill it with sand, and it keeps opening up. Over and over. Hmm.
To the (motion-activated) Batcam, Batman!
Uh-oh - what was that?
Mouse. Big mouse. Or rat, which we've never seen around here.
Maybe it was just passing by?
Nope! Better look at these other clips it caught.
Oh dear.
Oh, dear God!
Sadly, not Photoshopped. This was all just last night.
So, to come to the point, what would you do? I'm inclined to stuff the hole with coarse steel wool embedded in caulk...but would that just trap this burgeoning colony/family inside? Should I set traps outside first, then seal up?
What would you do?
Okay, so maybe just sand settling around the foundation...after 25 years. >:/
So we fill it with sand, and it keeps opening up. Over and over. Hmm.
To the (motion-activated) Batcam, Batman!
Uh-oh - what was that?
Mouse. Big mouse. Or rat, which we've never seen around here.
Maybe it was just passing by?
Nope! Better look at these other clips it caught.
Oh dear.
Oh, dear God!
Sadly, not Photoshopped. This was all just last night.
So, to come to the point, what would you do? I'm inclined to stuff the hole with coarse steel wool embedded in caulk...but would that just trap this burgeoning colony/family inside? Should I set traps outside first, then seal up?
What would you do?
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 11:37AM |
Set traps inside and seal it up with mortar.
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 11:41AM |
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Set traps inside and seal it up with mortar.
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 12:24PM |
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Looks like the mice are in the walls. Might be time to call an exterminator.
I was thinking the same. but they are just gonna put out traps too.
You will want to make sure you trap all of them before sealing anything up, natch.
Having them die inside the wall will stink for a long long long time. Trust me.
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 02:12PM |
Awww.. if those rodents were born with furry tails, they'd be loved, photographed, fed peanuts and adored like their squirrel cousins. Without furry tails, they are chased, screamed at, whacked with brooms, fed poison, and traps snap their necks. Reduced to hiding in walls and coming out at night in search for scraps of food in the garbage 
Try a bit of bacon or beef jerky tied tightly with thread onto the snap trap trigger. Something that makes the rodent tug at it... SNAP!
Try a bit of bacon or beef jerky tied tightly with thread onto the snap trap trigger. Something that makes the rodent tug at it... SNAP!
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 02:38PM |
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Awww.. if those rodents were born with furry tails, they'd be loved, photographed, fed peanuts and adored like their squirrel cousins. Without furry tails, they are chased, screamed at, whacked with brooms, fed poison, and traps snap their necks. Reduced to hiding in walls and coming out at night in search for scraps of food in the garbage
Try a bit of bacon or beef jerky tied tightly with thread onto the snap trap trigger. Something that makes the rodent tug at it... SNAP!
Pretty much what we do with minorities in this country.
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 05:46PM |
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Awww.. if those rodents were born with furry tails, they'd be loved, photographed, fed peanuts and adored like their squirrel cousins. Without furry tails, they are chased, screamed at, whacked with brooms, fed poison, and traps snap their necks. Reduced to hiding in walls and coming out at night in search for scraps of food in the garbage
Try a bit of bacon or beef jerky tied tightly with thread onto the snap trap trigger. Something that makes the rodent tug at it... SNAP!
Pretty much what we do with minorities in this country.
What do you mean by "we"?
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 05:54PM |
Had chipmunks gnaw through a corner of the garage door insulation to get into my mom's garage. They pooped on everything and climbed a shelf, got to a big bag of bird seed and cleaned it out in a matter of days (leaving lots of poop in an otherwise empty bag).
I made a clean cut in the insulation, carved a chunk of melamine sponge into the right shape to fit the gap, painted it with epoxy resin to harden it and secured it to fill the hole, then soaked a cotton swab with "Red Fox Urine" predator-scent and painted the outside corner of the garage with it, around the hole, left the cotton ball in the soil near the garage.
Had to deal with a strong ammonia odor for a few days just outside of the garage. Scent didn't spread very far by our human noses.
They never came back.
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I made a clean cut in the insulation, carved a chunk of melamine sponge into the right shape to fit the gap, painted it with epoxy resin to harden it and secured it to fill the hole, then soaked a cotton swab with "Red Fox Urine" predator-scent and painted the outside corner of the garage with it, around the hole, left the cotton ball in the soil near the garage.
Had to deal with a strong ammonia odor for a few days just outside of the garage. Scent didn't spread very far by our human noses.
They never came back.
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 06:30PM |
Please don’t use a sticky trap.
I think those are one of the cruelest ways to trap any animal, and you still have to kill them after they are stuck.
A rat zapper worked well for use to kill a few rats we had inside a pantry, where the cats couldn’t get to them.
Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
I think those are one of the cruelest ways to trap any animal, and you still have to kill them after they are stuck.
A rat zapper worked well for use to kill a few rats we had inside a pantry, where the cats couldn’t get to them.
Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 14, 2021 09:28PM |
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So, thanks for your help and suggestions. Here's my plan: lay a few snap traps (baited w peanut butter, which mice seem to love) for a few nights to (hopefully) decrease the population. Wife is worried about the local chipmunks, but I think they are less nocturnal, and might be able to get out of a mouse-sized snap trap.
After the count goes down, I'll either find some copper wool and caulk it in, or mortar it closed (which I'm less certain about having a good cosmetic result, unless I get a mortar tube and some premixed stuff).
I'll let you know how it goes.
Something like these might work in lieu of copper wool and can usually be found in your local grocery/department store...
Chore Boy Ultimate Copper Scrubber Scouring Pad, Pure Copper (10-Pack)
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 15, 2021 08:52AM |
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Something like these might work in lieu of copper wool and can usually be found in your local grocery/department store...
Chore Boy Ultimate Copper Scrubber Scouring Pad, Pure Copper (10-Pack)
Ordered. Thanks!
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Re: Need help with problem with garage Date: August 15, 2021 12:38PM |
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Was thinking that if you could put something down in the hole they don’t like, they won’t go back. Ammonia? No, something safer. Vinegar and red pepper? If you’re lucky you might even flush them out or at least catch them on “off hours” (they gotta go out for food and water.)
And then seal it up. One of those small driveway sealer bottles should do it.
I was wondering about that, too.
Supposedly they don’t like the smell of peppermint. I bought some peppermint oil and soaked cotton balls with it to help keep mice out of a closet.
Moth balls might work, but don’t know if they would kill the buggers or be bad for off gassing in the garage.
Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)
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