u/BigMeep12

Hi everyone I am a maintenance technician at two large apartment buildings. Both have a significant mouse issue, and no matter what I or pest control do they continue to return.

Information about the buildings:
- both were built in early 2000s, so relatively new, and use steel studs. They are well and properly insulated.
- they are located between a main road at the front, and at the rear past the parking lot is a strip of forest. To either side there is swamp or forest. Past the strip of forest is a highway. I am including this information for the sake of the type of mice we face.

There are no rats here, no large mice. The ones here are tiny field mice that can enter through the smallest gap. They are fast and smart, hard to catch. My cat stills gets them though.

What I have done:
- extensive building wide hole sealing using coarse steel wool followed by pest control spray foam. Behind dishwashers, where pipes go into walls, gaps in the cabinets, toilets, literally anywhere that has a mouse sized hole.
- communicated to residents not to leave compost open under sinks, and not to leave food on the floor. As well as informing them that mice like clutter.
However this is pet friendly buildings, therefore food and water is always available at ground level, making resident oriented prevention near impossible
- gone around exterior of both buildings and sealed any holes. Although I do see some in dirt around foundation I can’t prove it’s the mice.
- our pest control contractor has come dozens of times to lay more traps and to conduct unit sweeps. They’ve only dusted on a few rare occasions.

These measures only serve to delay the rodent armies formidable advances. The foam and steel wool is but a blown bridge in which they quickly rebuild and carve through. The dust forces them to make a new entry point, better hidden than before. The resident prevention is but a propaganda measure they pay no mind to. The pest control contractor fears them, they laugh in his face and at his pathetic traps.

I asked for more aggressive measures along the lines of “how do we defeat the rodent lords once and for all” in which the pest guy told me “we have already fallen, to find their nests in the walls would be nigh impossible. All we can do is hold out and pray our new rulers are kind to those that once rallied against them”

I’m gonna send seal team snake into the walls soon. Please help anything creative, preferably cheap.

Thank you!

Hi everyone I am a maintenance technician at two large apartment buildings. Both have a significant mouse issue, and no matter what I or pest control do they continue to return.

Information about the buildings:
- both were built in early 2000s, so relatively new, and use steel studs. They are well and properly insulated.
- they are located between a main road at the front, and at the rear past the parking lot is a strip of forest. To either side there is swamp or forest. Past the strip of forest is a highway. I am including this information for the sake of the type of mice we face.

There are no rats here, no large mice. The ones here are tiny field mice that can enter through the smallest gap. They are fast and smart, hard to catch. My cat stills gets them though.

What I have done:
- extensive building wide hole sealing using coarse steel wool followed by pest control spray foam. Behind dishwashers, where pipes go into walls, gaps in the cabinets, toilets, literally anywhere that has a mouse sized hole.
- communicated to residents not to leave compost open under sinks, and not to leave food on the floor. As well as informing them that mice like clutter.
However this is pet friendly buildings, therefore food and water is always available at ground level, making resident oriented prevention near impossible
- gone around exterior of both buildings and sealed any holes. Although I do see some in dirt around foundation I can’t prove it’s the mice.
- our pest control contractor has come dozens of times to lay more traps and to conduct unit sweeps. They’ve only dusted on a few rare occasions.

These measures only serve to delay the rodent armies formidable advances. The foam and steel wool is but a blown bridge in which they quickly rebuild and carve through. The dust forces them to make a new entry point, better hidden than before. The resident prevention is but a propaganda measure they pay no mind to. The pest control contractor fears them, they laugh in his face and at his pathetic traps.

I asked for more aggressive measures along the lines of “how do we defeat the rodent lords once and for all” in which the pest guy told me “we have already fallen, to find their nests in the walls would be nigh impossible. All we can do is hold out and pray our new rulers are kind to those that once rallied against them”

I’m gonna send seal team snake into the walls soon. Please help anything creative, preferably cheap.

Thank you!

Hi everyone I am a maintenance technician at two large apartment buildings. Both have a significant mouse issue, and no matter what I or pest control do they continue to return.

Information about the buildings:
- both were built in early 2000s, so relatively new, and use steel studs. They are well and properly insulated.
- they are located between a main road at the front, and at the rear past the parking lot is a strip of forest. To either side there is swamp or forest. Past the strip of forest is a highway. I am including this information for the sake of the type of mice we face.

There are no rats here, no large mice. The ones here are tiny field mice that can enter through the smallest gap. They are fast and smart, hard to catch. My cat stills gets them though.

What I have done:
- extensive building wide hole sealing using coarse steel wool followed by pest control spray foam. Behind dishwashers, where pipes go into walls, gaps in the cabinets, toilets, literally anywhere that has a mouse sized hole.
- communicated to residents not to leave compost open under sinks, and not to leave food on the floor. As well as informing them that mice like clutter.
However this is pet friendly buildings, therefore food and water is always available at ground level, making resident oriented prevention near impossible
- gone around exterior of both buildings and sealed any holes. Although I do see some in dirt around foundation I can’t prove it’s the mice.
- our pest control contractor has come dozens of times to lay more traps and to conduct unit sweeps. They’ve only dusted on a few rare occasions.

These measures only serve to delay the rodent armies formidable advances. The foam and steel wool is but a blown bridge in which they quickly rebuild and carve through. The dust forces them to make a new entry point, better hidden than before. The resident prevention is but a propaganda measure they pay no mind to. The pest control contractor fears them, they laugh in his face and at his pathetic traps.

I asked for more aggressive measures along the lines of “how do we defeat the rodent lords once and for all” in which the pest guy told me “we have already fallen, to find their nests in the walls would be nigh impossible. All we can do is hold out and pray our new rulers are kind to those that once rallied against them”

I’m gonna send seal team snake into the walls soon. Please help anything creative, preferably cheap.

Thank you!