How To Drive Away Rats From Your Residence

| Saturday, February 18, 2012
By Frank Bishop


Rats are a major menace for houses all over the world. Here are some methods that can help you remove the rats from your residence.

You can make use of electronic methods for removing them from your residence. There are effective sonic rat repellents available that emit noises of high frequency to drive away rats. These sounds are not dangerous for humans or pets as they are audible only to rats.

Another method of dealing with rats is by making use of organic rat repellents. This technique uses small pellets of chemicals that let out smell of carnivores that eat rodents, thereby scaring them away. These can be scattered uniformly within the house, garage and any other place which can serve as rat hideaways.

You can also make use of moth balls as their strong odour can serve as a good repellent for the rats and ward them off. They are highly efficacious if kept in remote and dark corners of the home, which are likely to be frequented by the rats.

Using mechanical traps, often called wooden snap traps, is a method of rat extermination that is still quite well known. They are less costly and quite efficient when used with suitable baits. However, they can injure the children and pets and therefore have to be carefully placed. The limitation with such rat traps is that they can capture not more than one rat at one go. Though, the advantage of this technique is that it is not hazardous like chemical pesticides.

A glue board can also be used to trap and kill rats. They can be made of cardboard or wood with their surface covered with glue. The board can then be placed at particular places after placing bits of food as bait for the rats. When a rat scuttles across the board for the bait, it gets stuck and eventually dies from either starvation or suffocation.

Why must you go through the trouble of applying pest control measures for the home? For one or another reason in the future, you might be putting your house up for sale even if it's not an activity that you would be willing to do as of the moment. Real estate agents and possible buyers alike would usually avoid a pest-infested house, knowing full well that it is bad investment. A termite colony existing in your home's foundation could very well diminish the resale value of your home. Furthermore, lending institutions can be very strict in approving loan applications, particularly if you will use your home as collateral; you may find your application denied if the bank representatives found pest infestations in your household when they come over for ocular inspection. So, in order for your house to remain as a smart investment, just think of the fee for hiring a professional pest exterminator as a safeguard to the conservation of the structural quality of your home.




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