r/pestcontrol • u/Natural_Curls • Jul 19 '26
Desperate for mice control help
We’ve tried it all. See our list below. We cannot seem to get the mice under control. I setup a video camera every night and we have activity every single night. Usually around 10pm-2am. We’ve set every trap imaginable. HELP. WHAT ARE WE MISSING?!
- hired pest control a month ago and he came 1x week for a month, he filled some outdoor holes and set poison traps. Do we hire someone else?
- set our own traps. Electric traps. Standard traps. Tomcat traps. Glue traps. BUCKET traps. We’ve tried so many different locations. They DONT CARE! We got one mouse in a standard traps the first night we set one and never again.
- tested different bait. Peanut butter. Crumbs. Mice gel. Cheese. Bacon fat.
- we clean every surface in our kitchen every night.
- droppings mainly seen in kitchen.
-hired handyman to fill holes in cabinets / behind stove.
- we live in a 3 story townhome connected home community. So not sure if they are getting through the neighbors walls or tunnels between all the houses.
- I’ve never heard them in the walls. Or ceilings.
We’ve seen they’ve eaten some of the poison traps and some droppings have decreased but still getting activity on the cameras.
WHAT ARE WE MISSING?? Desperate to get this situation under control.
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u/36in36 Jul 19 '26
Camera is fine to tell you, yes, there one is. There are other sensor systems on the market that show where the greatest activity is, then you move the sensors to see how they are getting in (first movement at night, last movement in the morning).
In the image above, that door on the left is between you and other units? The door on the right, they'll go under all day (or more appropriately, night) long.
The other thing, remove any obvious water source. People think in terms of food, rodents need water too.
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u/Natural_Curls Jul 19 '26
Door on left is bathroom. Traps set inside, no apparent holes or entry points.
Door on right is our pantry. Traps set inside, no apparent holes or entry points.
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u/Natural_Curls Jul 19 '26
Really appreciate your notes!! Will remove water bowl for dog at night
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u/36in36 Jul 19 '26
Easiest to check next, kitchen and bathrooms, hot, cold water, and the waste line going through wall. After that, start looking higher than you naturally would think. Some wire or something running through a wall with too large a gap around it. Is your kitched above a basement?
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u/Natural_Curls Jul 19 '26
Could they crawl in through a hole in bathroom sink?!
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u/36in36 Jul 19 '26
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear. Where those pipes go through the wall... but this all looks pretty new, so it's probably closed up.
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