About rats
Rats appearance
- Body length up to 25cm with tail of similar size.
- Male average 350 grams, female 250g.
- 12 to 24 months lifespan in the wild.
Behaviour
London Rats are mostly Brown rats. They mostly thrive in our sewers and manage to colonise many abandoned or derelict buildings.
They are often associated with rail tracks, tube stations, industrial estates, overgrown gardens.
They are very resource full and are very good diggers. they can easily travel 300 m around their nest.
Infestation
A rat seen indoors is enough to consider it a rat infestation. A rat seen at garden level, may only be passing by.
Either way, rat infestation in London are difficult to deal with. Our sewage system is suffering its age, and there are more faults than ever that allow rats out in the open spaces, or into the domestic sewage system.
From there, other series of faults may allow them to escape within the void space of a building. Sometimes rats even end up swimming through the u-bend of the toilet.
The main annoyances are the noise they make within the walls, and the smell they can generate when they die that is often associated with flies activity.
They are powerful animals and they can also cause some serious structural damage to your property, or chew through electrical cables and pluming.
Our rat treatment
Normally rats are not fussy and would eat pretty much anything. When you place bait down, the bait still need to be more appetising that the other food stuff at their disposition.
We use as routine more than one bait formulation on every job. Deadline rat bait block is possibly the most successful product of all.
Depending on circumstances, we would treat at void space level, at garden level or at inspection chamber level.
Any time a rat is actually reported within a room, we put a strong recommendation on having the proofing done ASAP.
In some instance we can also recommend drain work to be carried out.
