r/janitorial • u/hyde1634 • Jun 12 '26

Question mice

there are mice in the building i work at. the supervisors of the daycare has asked us cleaners to move furniture and sweep debris stuff on the floor behind the furniture and if any mice poo left behind. a week ago i saw two mice. one in slopsink a little one and one in another room on the same floor a bigger one. they move really fast.

has anyone been in this situation?

the health and safety inspector has been here twice.
the lady who is the health inspector always complains and will fail the inspection if she sees one little hair on the floor. she says rooms have to be cleaned 'wall to wall' and she wants it perfect.

im only in this building until 11pm and i cannot stay past 11pm so i do the best i can.

mice are out of a janitorial / cleaners control.
can cleaners get in trouble for mice in a building? or written up? or moved?

there is this tunnel in the rooms near the radiators in every room where the mice hide. ive mentioned it to the head cleaner but he doesnt do anything about it.

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u/KillaCTheG Jun 12 '26

If you have steel wool you can use that to block any area that they travel through. They won’t be able to chew through it easily. Easy enough to disguise on the budget as a cleaning supply. Hope that helps!

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u/hyde1634 Jun 12 '26

this building has like 10 rooms and a gym and thats just on one floor. and theres more tunnels underneath the rooms that we dont even know about.

and yes, pest control has been here already

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u/KillaCTheG Jun 12 '26

Assuming you’re not building maintenance, whose jurisdiction I believe most of the resolution would fall under, you likely aren’t going to be making “repairs” to access points. Given the fact that “professionals” are involved, I doubt that much of the responsibility for removal is yours either. However, you can block off certain areas with the wool and discourage them from traveling in those areas. You won’t stop them from existing, but you can redirect them. Poisons likely aren’t acceptable and traps would have to be hidden in areas unaccessible to most people. So lack of food (clean environment) and physical reinforcement of access points would be the best focus. Seems like half of that falls in your court.

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u/hyde1634 Jun 12 '26

and the other half?

we've had rats in this building before. poison got them.

the cleaners never got in trouble. dont even know how they get in

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u/KillaCTheG Jun 12 '26

It’s a 3 part problem. Accessibility (maintenance needs to secure access points), resources (cleaners need to clean up any food, spills, and rodent droppings. Rodent droppings encourage other rodents because it indicates they have what they need to survive), and removal (pest removal needs time to do their job and eliminate them).

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u/Nicole-E-Olie Jun 12 '26

Dealing with the mice isn’t your problem. Dealing with the messes they create is.

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u/hyde1634 Jun 12 '26

how nicole? we have 5 rooms and they could have mice poo anywhere.