Wednesday, April 14, 2010

How to Rid Off the Rat

To make the rats clean from your house you must know where rats living, that usually build the nest on your house or near your house. You also can find out the rats nest near your house by awake all night and shuffling around in the attic. Usually rats stay close to the ground and live near the walls of your home’s foundation. From this burrows the rat can do everything like dig more far and build the way to get into your house like from water drainage by make a hole on the drainage that usually build from plastic pipe, this drainage will flow of food rest from your kitchen. From there the rat can take every food flow in it.

Make sure always to wear protective mask and gloves when working near the rat nest. Rodent urine is supposed to show up under black-light if you have one of those handy. This is LED black-light in flashlight form.

If you have found the rat house, you should find out how they are getting into your house. Rats can enter through a hole with ½ inch wide. Pay close attention in order to detect cracks in the foundation and excess gaps where wire or pipe enter to your house. Rats are expert climbers, so they can enter to your house through a hole from roof of your house and other hole like from windows, air ventilation or from the gaps of every house appliance installed on the wall.

You must detect of every house hole point and close them all off. To close the hole better use sheet metal, cement or mortar are the best rat-proof barriers. Find in the cracks of your house foundation with cement. Some people put sharp things in the wet cement to deter the rats from digging it out before it dries; broken glass seems to be effective for this. If you use other soft material like foam or caulking to seal a hole, the rat sometimes

Now that you have located the entry points, it is time to close them off. You will want to seal up those holes with something the rats won't be able to chew through. Heavy gauge metal meshing, sheet metal, cement, or mortars are the best rat-proof barriers. Fill in the cracks in your foundation with cement. Some people put sharp things in the wet cement to deter the rats from digging it out before it dries; broken glass seems to be effective for this. Cover the other holes with the metal sheeting and fasten it tightly with external screws. You can use expanding foam or caulking to seal a hole, but without something metal to block them, they will just chew their way through.