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I mentioned in a couple of threads about my mice in flat roof problem. Anyways, due to difficulty of access I got the pest murderer in and he popped some poison blocks up through the LED downlight holes.
So, they have worked. I know this as my study, which is below the flat roof, smells of dead mice. The blocks went up two weeks ago, the scratching sounds stopped about a week ago and smell started yesterday. So I think the mice have been dead for about a week. How much longer shall I expect to work with the smell of death?
Just wait until you're inundated with bluebottles, and have maggots falling from the downlights like some kind of biblical pestilence...
Don't ask me how I know this!
Ah, I remember the sweet smell under our conservatory in a previous house. I believe it lasted about 3 weeks. Such delights.
Just wait until you’re inundated with bluebottles, and have maggots falling from the downlights like some kind of biblical pestilence…
You know that feeling when you really, really wish that you hadn't asked?
Mask the smell with prawns sewn into the curtains. 😉
We had a similar issue last year with a dead rodent in the wall and it took around 3-4 weeks before the scent of death was gone. Get yourself a wax burner and some wax melts.
Just wait until you’re inundated with bluebottles, and have maggots falling from the downlights like some kind of biblical pestilence…
this^^
I once walked into my bathroom to be met with something accurately described as that. 2 cans of raid and hoovered up 200 dead flies.
it was quite a big dead rat though, behind the bath.
as for smell, normally a week and it fades
Depending on where it is anywhere between days for a mouse somewhere warm and very dry through to several weeks for a squirrel or rat somewhere poorly ventilated, cold and damp.
Just wait until you’re inundated with bluebottles, and have maggots falling from the downlights like some kind of biblical pestilence…
My in-laws recently moved into a house, and when I was there to help they asked if I'd mind changing all the blown bulbs in the spots upstairs. Every single light was utterly infested with dead flies. The ceiling spots fell out of the ceiling when touched (thanks, vendors!) and a stream of hundreds of dead flies fell out of each one. It looked like the moment before they add the currents to the biscuits at the garibaldi factory!
What was worse, was as soon as they switched the heating on, all the live ones came out so the place was full of flies for weeks. Properly grim.
We had a similar issue with a rodent trapped in our wall.
The flies...:shudder:
These seemed to be quite effective in masking the stink.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AQDJL42/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Can you not get up there and get rid of it? (Checks that the OP isn't WCA)
It'll get worse before it gets better, it'll be a couple of weeks at least and it's properly, properly rank. 🤢🤮
If it makes it seem any better, I went to the coast at the weekend and went for a digestion aiding post curry walk, happened across 2 whales that beached about Christmas time, the larger of which is still recognisably a whale. The smell hit me about 200 yards away and by the time we were passing them at probably 40-50 had me barely able to breathe without gagging. Mrs brain, similarly overcome by the stench managed through gritted teeth to ask (and try to guilt trip) me to go stand next to the carcass for a sense of scale whilst she took a photo.
I'm unsure if she wanted me in the photo or just to laugh at me as I tried to get closer without relieving myself of my dinner.
I worked in a Portakabin block - 4 big units in a row. A rat died under the floor in number 2 and the smell of death pervaded all summer - it was proper boak 🤮 when you walked through the door.
Just wait until you’re inundated with bluebottles, and have maggots falling from the downlights like some kind of biblical pestilence…
Or falling into hanging light fittings shorting out the electrics...
Killing rodents treats the symptoms but the cure and long term solution is to find out where they are getting in and stop them. In our case I had to smash my way through a tiled floor to get to the broken drain.
Coincidentally was talking to a friend about rotting dead rodents the other day - like you do - and she recommended this stuff as a solution. Haven't used it myself, but she reckoned it worked really well faced with a dead mouse:
https://www.powair.co.uk/products/
No smell, but raining maggots.
Couple of weeks ago. Half-an-hour before a house-viewing, my wife was mid cleaning frenzy in the bathroom. Then she appeared in my office frowning.
"There are maggots in the bath."
" ", I said.
"There are *maggots* in the bath", she repeated.
I frowned too.
Went upstairs to look and sure enough, there were about a dozen live maggots squirming around in the bathtub. No visible signs of entry. Assumed they'd crawled in from the overflow. Slooshed them down the drain.
Five minutes later, she shouted "There are *more* maggots in the bath."
We both watched the bath carefully to see where they were coming from, and then we spotted it. There was a *tiny* hole in the artexed ceiling above the bath, and they were dropping in one by one. I sealed the hole up five minutes before the potential house-buyers were due to arrive.
I'm therefore assuming something's died in the roof space. Was up there a week before all this happened and didn't see or smell anything.
At some point I'm gonna have to go up there and deal with it properly.
But yeah. It was raining maggots in my bathroom. The stuff of nightmares.
Can you not get up there and get rid of it?
Nope, its a new flat roof, no access point other than through the down lighters / holes
Nope, its a new flat roof, no access point other than through the down lighters / holes
Call in an air strike, quick while there's still time! Even better, nuke the town and surrounding 20 miles, it's the only way...
Nope, its a new flat roof, no access point other than through the down lighters / holes
Given what your about to go through.....I'd make a hole from under retrieve the dead thing using a grabber and then make good the hole.....
I’d make a hole from under retrieve the dead thing using a grabber and then make good the hole…
How many holes to find a mouse burrowed into rockwool/fibreglass? How much ceiling left before you realise its crawled into the wall?
The ceiling will look like a crumpet before you find it.
If there was a thought that it was a rat or squirrel I think destruction to find it would be justified. I'm hoping just a teeny weeny ickle mouse will dry and and be odour free quite quickly.
Think of it as the sweet sweet smell of victory
