Mice in Abington

Most asked question regarding pest control when folks call for help with a mouse issue in their home. Can you find out how they are getting in? The short answer is no. When you consider that mice can squeeze under a gap in an entry door or garage door, through a hole the size of a pencil, wiggle under siding and find an entry point where a pipe or wire might be running, or scale a wall without breaking stride and find an entry point up high, it makes it hard to exclude them totally.

What we can do is check around the outside of a home, seal obvious entry points, and consult on repairs, like lop-sided garage doors to be fixed, which may help. The problem is most folks don’t want to spend the extra money to “seal out” all the areas mice can enter. I’ve pointed out gaps around garage doors and reccomended weather strips be attached to back doors, and it never gets done. So the best we can do is control the situation.

This can be done by placing out plenty of product to crash the current population and then leaving behind plenty of product after the follow-ups for any stragglers to find.

Having said all that, do I discourage exclusion work around the outside of the home? Of course not. We often times reccomend hiring an exclusion company, handyman, or contractor to do this kind of work. Repairing crawl space vents, putting weather stripping on garage door and entry doors, and sealing holes is all good stuff, but expect to pay way more than the mouse Control. This kind of exclusion work can cost upwards of a thousand dollars on up, depending on the size of the home and the amount of exclusion work needed. Grove Pest Control has relationships with a few contractors in the area of Abington, Willow Grove, on up to Warminster who will help with this kind of work.

The other option, which may help, and this would depend on whether you have pets that spend time outside, is to place exterior bait stations, which may help to crash a population outside, eliminating the number of mice that may want to find their way into your home.

Grove Pest Control’s mouse Control program is thorough and provides a reasonable service for folks wanting current infestations controlled, with options to help in the future should a straggler get in down the road.