Mice Control Tring

Mice Control in Tring

Tring sits on the edge of the Chilterns with farmland and woodland on most sides, and the housing is heavily period and converted. That combination produces the hardest version of a mouse job: a building with many ways in, next to a landscape with a large outdoor mouse population.

Wood mice from the hedgerows are as much a feature here as house mice, and they move indoors on the same autumn schedule.

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

Old buildings

Stone, Timber and Gaps You Cannot See

An old cottage rarely has one hole. It has a slow accumulation of them: where a beam meets a wall, under a threshold that has worn, behind a fitted cupboard against an uneven wall, at the head of a chimney breast, and wherever a later trade has drilled through eighteen inches of stone.

Proofing a building like that is patient work and it is what the visit is mostly about. We will be honest with you about which gaps can be closed properly and which are a matter of managing rather than sealing, because in some buildings that is the truthful answer.

Photographs on this page are for illustration purposes only.

Field mice

Wood Mice and the Hedgerow Population

Where houses back onto fields and hedgerows a good proportion of what comes in is the wood mouse rather than the house mouse — sandy brown, bigger eyes and ears, and a jumper not a scurrier.

It changes the approach more than people expect. Most professional products are approved for the house mouse not the wood mouse, so where wood mice are the ones coming in the answer leans towards trapping and proofing rather than bait. And a hedgerow population is effectively inexhaustible, so proofing here is something to maintain rather than do once. We will tell you which entry points will need looking at again.

What we ask

Before We Come to Tring

Tell us the age and construction of the building, whether it backs onto open ground, and when the problem started. That decides most of what we need to know before we arrive.

What we are looking for is the route, not just the mice. Treatment deals with what is inside now; finding and closing the gap is what finishes it.

If it turns out to be rats rather than mice, that is treated differently and has its own page: rat control in Tring.