Mice Control Milton Keynes

Mice Control in Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes gives us the full spread of building ages in one city, and mouse entry is almost entirely about how a building was put together. A 1970s estate house, a Victorian terrace in Wolverton and a three-year-old apartment block each let mice in somewhere different.

The other local factor is the sheer amount of service penetration. Grid square housing was built fast and repetitively, which means the same unsealed hole behind the same kitchen unit turns up street after street.

Ring 01908 465226 and tell us what you have seen in Milton Keynes.

New and newer

Estate Housing and Repeated Weak Points

The useful thing about a house built to a standard pattern is that the weak points are in the same place every time. On a lot of MK estate housing that means the boxing where the soil stack drops, the gap under the kitchen units where the pipes come up from the floor void, and the hole drilled for the boiler flue or the condensate pipe and never filled.

We check those first because we know where they are, and it shortens the survey considerably. If a neighbour on the same street has had mice, mention it — identical houses fail in identical ways.

Photographs on this page are for illustration purposes only.

Flats

Blocks and the Routes Between Homes

In the blocks around the centre the mice are rarely coming in from outdoors. They are in the service riser, the void above a suspended ceiling, or the hole where pipework passes through a party wall into the next flat.

That means a flat can be proofed perfectly around its own front door and still have mice. Where the evidence points at a shared route we put it in writing, because in a managed block that note is what gets the riser and the adjoining flats looked at.

Photographs on this page are for illustration purposes only.

What we ask

Before We Come to Milton Keynes

Tell us where the droppings are, where you hear them, and whether it is a house, a flat or a business. That decides most of what we need to know before we arrive.

You will be told what was found, where the entry points are, what was treated and what proofing is done or still outstanding. Where the way in belongs to somebody else — a neighbour, a landlord, a managing agent, a shared riser — we put it in writing rather than leave you to argue it.

If what you are describing sounds heavier than this — movement overhead with weight to it, droppings 12 to 18mm — it is a different animal: rat control in Milton Keynes.