These furry creatures can make themselves at home in walls and crawl spaces also.
Rats in ceiling between floors.
Like rats in the walls this is a case in which you can t easily set traps.
We also know that mice need to eat often.
Both rats and mice need to gnaw on hard items to control the growth of their teeth.
If you have rats in the ceiling walls or attic of your apartment you may find evidence of this behavior.
The only visible sign of any activity occurred under a bathroom sink in the basement where bags of bar soap were decimated.
There is no obvious entry from outside except for a dryer vent which i covered with hardware cloth.
Rats can be heard knawing in the ceiling floor between the first floor and basement.
In fact depending on the architecture of your house the rats are probably in the attic which of course is the open space above your ceiling.
Discovering mice in the ceiling between floors can most certainly leave you feeling uneasy.
First let s look at the non invasive and non destructive way to get rid of the rodents.
There are 2 ways you can get rid of mice from walls and ceilings.
If you hear rats high up in the ceiling it is probably the roof rat black rat as opposed to the norway rat brown rat.
We know that mice can move around quickly and easily thought the whole house including walls ceilings floors attics and crawl spaces.
If a rat dies in a ceiling area and there is no access to an attic space above it then.
The cat is at alert and a little hole about half the size of a pencil has formed in the middle of the living room ceiling.
I don t know where to start with this one.
The past couple of days it sounds like we have rats in the void between the downstairs ceiling and the upstairs floor.