The Figure
The price is a fixed £260 for mice control in a home. We tell you that on the phone and confirm it again before a date goes in the diary, so you are not agreeing to anything until you know what you are paying.
What the treatment involves, including how the visits work and whether any proofing is part of it for your property, is explained before booking. That is deliberate. Every house is laid out differently, and it is better you hear how the job will run for your building than read a general promise on a web page.
What the Treatment Involves
A mouse job is not a single spray and a goodbye. Broadly, it has three parts, and the price covers the approach as a whole rather than one trip:
- A survey. We look for droppings, gnawing, smears and nesting inside, and for likely gaps outside, so we know where the mice are living and moving.
- Treatment on their runs. Mice eat little and often and wander widely, so bait goes in locked, tamper-resistant stations and traps go where only mice can reach them, placed along the routes they actually use.
- Following it through. Activity tails off over days to weeks, and it gets checked rather than assumed. The article on how long mice control takes explains that part properly.
Why the Way In Is Part of the Job
Dealing only with the mice already indoors is half a job. If the gap they used is still open, the next ones find it, and you end up paying twice for the same problem. So part of every survey is working out how they are getting in, and telling you plainly what we found.
A mouse needs a gap roughly the width of a pencil, so the answer is often small and easy to miss: round a pipe under the sink, at the back of a boiler cupboard, where a cable goes through an outside wall. The full list of usual routes is in how mice get into houses.
Timing matters. Gaps are sealed once the mice inside have been dealt with, not before. Close them too early and the mice are shut in, where they either die in a void or chew a fresh way through.
What to Tell Us When You Ring
A few details help us plan the visit and place treatment sensibly. None of them changes the fixed price; they change how the work is set up.
- Who lives there. Children, pets and anyone vulnerable in the home. This decides where stations and traps go and what you are asked to do on the day.
- What you have seen. Droppings, noises, gnawed food, a mouse running across the floor. Where and roughly when.
- What you have already tried. Shop poison, traps, plug-in devices. Tell us where any poison was put down.
- The building. A flat, a terrace, a detached house with a garage. Whether you own it or rent it.
What to Ask Us
You are entitled to a straight answer to all of these before you commit, and we would rather you asked:
- How will the visits work for my home, and roughly over what period?
- Is any proofing part of the treatment here, or is it something I would need a builder for?
- What do I need to do between visits?
- Where will bait stations or traps go, and how are children and pets kept away from them?
Renting, and Other Pests
If you rent, who pays usually comes down to the tenancy agreement and the cause. We are pest controllers, not legal advisers, but the landlords advice page sets out the usual position. If the droppings look large for a mouse, you may be dealing with rats, which are covered separately on our rat pages.