Expert Mice Control Across Reading & Berkshire
Fast, discreet mouse removal for homes, food businesses, and rental properties. Carried out by BPCA & NPTA accredited specialists with same-day response, detailed entry surveys, and guaranteed clearance.
Key Signs You Have Mice in Your Property
Mice are nocturnal, fast, and reproduce rapidly. Spotting these signs early helps prevent widespread food contamination and chewed electrical wiring.
Small Spindle Droppings
Tiny dark droppings (3–8mm long), pointed at both ends, typically found along kitchen skirting boards, inside food cupboards, under sinks, and in lofts.
Scratching & Scurrying Sounds
Light scratching or quick scuttling noises inside cavity walls, suspended ceilings, or under floorboards, particularly during quiet nighttime hours.
Gnawed Packaging & Cables
Small parallel teeth marks on cereal boxes, plastic bags, wooden skirting, and electrical wires. Mice constantly gnaw to keep their incisors worn down.
Shredded Nesting Material
Gathered bits of shredded cardboard, paper, insulation, or fabric stashed behind kitchen appliances, inside lofts, or under fitted wardrobes.
Grease Smear Marks
Dark oily smear marks on walls and joists where mice repeatedly squeeze through narrow gaps along their established runways.
Strong Ammonia Smell
A distinctive sharp, pungent ammonia odour from mouse urine trails, particularly noticeable in enclosed cupboards, larders, or under stairs.
What Our Typical Mouse Service Includes
Mice roam wide areas searching for food while nesting in hidden cavities. Rather than relying on superficial traps, our multi-stage approach ensures complete eradication:
Full Ingress Survey
Detailed inspection of kitchen kickboards, air bricks, pipe penetrations, and loft voids to identify exact entry pathways and active runways.
Tamper-Proof Station Placement
Placement of professional rodenticides or mechanical break-back traps inside locked, tamper-proof bait boxes placed safely away from children and pets.
Follow-Up Monitoring
Scheduled follow-up visits to check take, evaluate population drop, refresh baiting, and ensure no secondary nesting remains active.
Proofing & Gap Sealing
Sealing internal service gaps under sinks, pipework entrances, and kickboards with wire mesh and rodent-resistant sealants to stop return.
House Mice vs. Field Mice
Knowing which mouse species has entered your building changes how we treat it. House mice settle permanently indoors and breed continuously, whereas field mice often wander in during colder autumn and winter months seeking food.
Dull brownish-grey all over, 7–10cm long with a tail roughly equal to its body length. Smaller eyes and ears, strong musky odour, breeds rapidly indoors year-round.
Sandy-brown fur with a bright white belly, noticeably large black protruding eyes and large ears. Excellent jumpers that enter garages, outbuildings, and lofts in winter.
Why DIY Traps Rarely Solve Mouse Infestations
A single pair of house mice can produce up to 8 litters per year. Snapping one or two mice with supermarket traps leaves the hidden breeding colony intact inside cavity walls.
Health & Property Risks Associated with Mice
Mice dribble urine continuously as they navigate your home, contaminating surface areas.
Food Contamination & Disease
Mice carry Salmonella, Hantavirus, and Leptospirosis. They pollute far more food than they eat through urine, droppings, and hair shedding across larders and worktops.
Electrical Fire Risk
Mice chew on plastic wiring insulation behind appliances and inside wall cavities, causing short circuits and domestic electrical fires.
Rapid Breeding Cycle
Female mice can give birth 21 days after mating and reach sexual maturity in 6 weeks, causing a small mouse issue to explode into a severe infestation fast.
99.9% Antibacterial Sanitisation Fogging
After mouse clearance, invisible urine trails and harmful bacteria remain across kitchen units, larders, and lofts. Our ULV fogging kills 99.9% of microbes within 15 minutes, leaving a protective barrier.
Frequently Asked Questions About Mice Control
Answers to common questions from homeowners and landlords across Reading and Berkshire.
How quickly can you clear mice from my property?
Most mouse treatments involve two to three targeted visits over a few weeks. Mouse sightings and scratching activity drop significantly within days of setting up tamper-proof baiting and traps, and follow-up visits ensure complete clearance.
Is mouse bait safe for my family and pets?
Yes. All professional rodenticides and traps are housed inside heavy-duty, tamper-proof lockable bait stations. These are placed in hidden voids, behind kitchen kickboards, and inside lofts where children and household pets cannot access them.
How do mice get into my house in the first place?
Mice have soft skeletons and can squeeze through gaps as small as 5mm (the width of a pencil). They enter around pipework penetrations, unmeshed air bricks, under doors, or through gaps in weeping vents.
What is the difference between a house mouse and a field mouse?
House mice (Mus domesticus) are brown-grey all over with smaller eyes and ears, and prefer living inside human structures. Field mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) have larger eyes, prominent ears, yellow-brown fur with white underbellies, and a longer tail.
Will mice return after the treatment finishes?
Mice only return if entry points remain unsealed. As part of our service, we carry out entry-point identification and seal small internal service gaps, providing full advice on external proofing to prevent re-entry.
Why do I need professional mouse control instead of DIY traps?
DIY traps only catch individual surface mice while the nest continues breeding rapidly behind walls. Professional control targets harbourages with commercial-grade solutions and seals hidden entry points.
Suspect You Have Mice? Speak to Grant Today.
Prompt diagnosis stops food contamination and chewing damage. Call directly for free advice or request your inspection online.
