Expert Pest Control Advice for UK Homes & Gardens.
A tunnel rat trap is a covered, two-entry rodent trap that shields a snap or kill mechanism inside a plastic sleeve, letting rats enter from either direction while keeping fingers, paws and curious noses well away from the business end. If you’ve ever watched a rat vanish under next door’s fence panel the second it … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with hearing something scuttle behind the skirting board at eleven at night. You freeze, the telly goes mute in your head, and a single thought forms: right, that’s it, I need the best tunnel rat trap money can buy, and I need it now. Fair enough. A … Read more
An electric rat trap is a battery powered box that lures a rat inside with bait, then delivers a high voltage shock through two metal plates the moment the animal completes the circuit — killing it in seconds without poison or a spring bar. So, do electric rat traps work? Broadly, yes, provided you buy … Read more
A rat doesn’t knock before it moves in. One night you hear scratching behind the skirting board, the next morning there’s a greasy smear along the wall and a suspiciously chewed corner of cereal box, and suddenly you’re standing in the kitchen at 2am googling “best electric rat trap” with your phone torch on. An … Read more
There is a very specific kind of 3am dread that comes from hearing something scuttle across your kitchen floor. You freeze, you listen, and then you spend the rest of the night mentally rehearsing how you’re going to deal with it without hurting anything. If that sounds familiar, you have landed in the right place, … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with hearing scratching in the loft at 2am. You lie there doing the maths on how many rats “a bit of scratching” might actually mean, and by morning you’ve decided: whatever’s up there has to go, but you’d rather not kill it to make that happen. That’s … Read more
You spotted the droppings behind the washing machine. Or heard the gnawing in the loft at 2am that sounded suspiciously purposeful. Maybe the dog has been staring at the gap under the garden shed with an intensity she normally reserves for the postman. Either way, the conclusion is the same: you’ve got rats, and something … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with hearing scratching in the walls at half past midnight. You lie there, perfectly still, telling yourself it’s the pipes. It isn’t the pipes. If you’ve spotted droppings behind the fridge, gnaw marks on the skirting board, or — worse — caught a glimpse of something dark … Read more