Exterminator john kane witnessed an extreme mouse infestation at a home in philadelphia pennsylvania in 2009.
Attic low ceiling mice.
Mice prefer to be near food sources.
For a start it offers warmth bedding and comfort.
It also offers a mouse a place where they can sleep without worrying about predators and gives them an excellent base to use while they travel your house looking for food.
Mice choose secluded areas in eaves and corners and beneath mats of insulation.
Usually sound is the first sign of mice in the attic or walls.
They will eat through wires wood and stored personal items.
Sometimes the feces or urine can leak through the drywall and onto your ceiling.
It might sound like they re running.
Signs of mice in your house.
Mice in the attic can cause trouble.
I bolt the steel in place.
Once inside a mouse can scurry though any part of the architecture the walls the ceiling and get into the attic where they like to live and nest.
So the first reason they like your attic is convenience.
Look in the attic for urine stained areas and trails of mouse droppings small black pellets the size of rice grains.
Seal up all of these entry holes using steel which mice can t chew through.
Mice are not clean creatures and if they are living in your attic you may smell their urine which is similar in smell to ammonia.
Mainly coming from behind the wall or ceiling.
An attic is a perfect place for m ice to hide.
At night there will be a scratching or scurrying noise.
Once they re in the attic it s fairly easy for them to find ways into the main part of your house where they can cause more problems by chewing on things and pooping.
When mice climb up downspouts jump down from tree branches or access your roofline in some other way the first location they will find in your home is the attic.
Of course mice always deficate and urinate in the attic.
Mice can also carry disease.
Usually once mice are in the attic they can find their way down into wall or ceiling voids and can emerge into your kitchen or other areas.
It s dark rarely disturbed and there are probably lots of boxes to nest in and insulation to use for nest material.
But do not worry it is very common to get mice in your attic.
It just happens to be the first place they found.