I’m sorry that you have nightmares of this but yes, it’s true, while it sounds like an urban legend, rats can in fact enter a house through the plumbing and arrive at a toilet, possibly even one that is in use. I know, terrifying and very dangerous because a spooked rat may attack and that means you risk getting a plethora of terrible diseases. So what is there to do to stop a rat from swimming into your toilet? What can we do to stop it? A simple answer is to call rat exterminator Guelph.
Rats can swim about half a mile in open water and against very heavy currents that you would think would drown it. From there it can enter the sewer and from there its just a hop-skip-and-a-jump to your toilet. Worried yet?
What you first need to do is get a town or city inspector and hire someone, or do it yourself, to use a smoke-producing leak detector which will reveal cracks and holes in plumbing and help you find where the rats are getting in. You should then replace the broken pipes. That’s important.
Now get over to those sewer vents with some steel mesh and cover them up. It shouldn’t be too hard but make sure it’s completely sealed off.
This is a weird one but if all else failes you can also install a one-way flap in your toilet that stops rats from getting through. Still horrifying.
Now, this is usually not enough, you can’t just block the rats, you also gotta kill em. If you want to try it yourself you can get grocery store snap traps and make your own bait, peanut butter is often good enough.
Place them in areas of high activity and hope to god it works. But if it doesn’t, you can always call rat exterminator Guelph. We can seal up any entrance and get those rats out of your house!
The choice is clear, call Pest Control Guelph today.
