[Greenbuilding] Pest Management, mice in particular

[Kenn Brown]

Sacie, 

After 42 years in pest control, my advice if for you to go to the grocery
store, get a package of what we in the business, call toss packs.  You can
toss the packs near the hidden area where they live, mice are inquisitive
creatures, they will find the packs. These packs contain a first generation
anti-coagulant that breaks down the lining of their stomach. They will bleed
to death, I use them in the kitchen and utility room of my home; we never
smell the dead mice. We buy the anticoagulant by the small case.

My suggestion to an Architect would be to wrap the outside joints of the
doors, windows and corners with aluminum sheet metal, before the tarpaper
was applied the exterior, being sure to make entries of pipes etc, clamped
with screw pipe clamps. If you were cold and or Hungary, you would do as
they do, find food and warmth.                              After bldg is
built, go to the Dollar Store, buy stainless chore pads, pound them with a
hammer and punch into the hole, then caulk. K

 

Kenn Brown

Environment Sensitive Pest Control

512 805 7777 (a few days AT&T coast to coast, cell, toll free, rather than a
local land toll line)

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From: greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org
[mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of Sacie
Lambertson
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 12:10 PM
To: Rob Tom; Green Building
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Pest Management, mice in particular

 

Hey RT, you're just full of neat suggestions for unwanted critters.  All of
them ingenious.  Unfortunately the powder to detect foot prints won't work
in our case.  Our mice enter through some minute hole in our standing seam
metal roof, entry point unknown.  They end up  inside however, on the top of
a large beam that supports the gable roof of my office.  The area between
the edges of the beam and the triangle formed by the gable is large and wide
for a mouse, or in our case a number, including newly birthed ones
occasionally.  It is my opinion, since mice are territorial, we may
sometimes have two groups up there along the 14 ft beam.  Certainly at night
I can hear them moving around at each end.

At one end of the beam, probably near where they enter, there is barely
sufficient space to allow us to slip a piece of paper loaded with warfarin
onto the top of the beam.  Sort of a mouse banquet.  Ingesting Warfarin
causes critters to seek water so out they go after they've eaten enough of
the bad stuff.  For a while I no longer hear mice scurrying along the beam.
Eventually one returns and we go through the process again.  I hate using
poison, but it is effective.  Unfortunately mice will sometimes die up there
on the beam; I must then put up with that smell for a few days. 

My problem with the whole scenario is the holes they make in the foam
ceiling insulation in order to get inside the house.  Holes that I obviously
don't want in our envelope.  Once a mouse discovers such a soft easy
to-move-through entry point, they can make a very large hole.

Cheers,  Sacie



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