Rat Pest Control and Removal Service

Removing Rats from your home or business

It’s really important to ensure your environment is and remains rodent and pest-free. Protecting your home, business and reputation. Customers, clients or friends would most likely go elsewhere if they suspected rats were on your premises.

We have decades of experience in pest control and the removal of rats is one of our specialities. We’ll tailor our services to you. For more information on our rat removal services contact our friendly team today.

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Whilst we are based in Bristol, we provide rat removal services for most of England and Wales.

Get in touch with us today for rapid and effective Rat Pest Control.

Fast and effective Rat control solutions

When you contact Bristol Pests we talk you through your specific rat removal circumstances, we will assess the severity of the situation over the phone and complete your booking providing you with email and text message appointment reminders. Whether your rat removal project is big or small, we are happy to manage the project from start to finish.

We can provide you with a quote for the treatment before any visits are carried out. Please keep in mind that in order for us to quote for any post-treatment proofing work such as filling access holes or gaps an initial inspection or treatment would have to commence.

We will arrange for one of our BPCA qualified technicians to carry out a risk assessment and survey on your first visit. With your permission and quote agreement it is likely that the technician will be able to start the treatment there and then.

Not only will the technician complete their treatment program using technically advanced rodenticides and traps. They’ll monitor the footprints of the rats using ultraviolet light and fluorescent tracking powder on your follow up visit.

One of our experienced technicians will provide you with a specialised digital report outlining the risks, the pest findings, the treatment and actions. Any pesticides used and any recommendations to help prevent a re-infestation in the future.

Why should I use The Bristol Pest Controller over other companies?

Unlike other pest control companies out there with us you will receive top quality customer care here with us at The Bristol Pest Controller. If you need convincing simply Read our reviews and see what the rest of our customers say about us.

We will keep you updated when the technician will be arriving for your next visit, our aim is to control the rat problem so they don’t return and we make our recommendations detailed and easy to understand.

Rat Removal After-Care

If the rats return it might mean that you need a Rat Drain Camera Survey. This might mean you have a broken pipe underneath the floor of your house.
Rat drain survey

On the plus side we have a team of expert technicians who know exactly what they’re doing with CCTV Camera drain survey equipment. We no use external companies with our pest removal projects.

Our focus is to find the broken sewer pipe using the camera survey equipment which will help us to identify the holes or point of ingres. Once this is complete we will provide solution to fix that too.

We will find the broken pipe or the hole that the Rat has chewed it’s way through and come up with a solution for you to fix the problem so you won’t have to worry about Rats again.

Get in touch today

We are always delighted to talk through your requirements, so please contact us on 07970 749 482, at any time between 8 am & 6 pm, 7 days a week.

Identify your pest – Free identification service

If you have just found a pest, we can tell you immediately what you might be dealing with. Send us a photo by email or by picture message, using the contact details above. The image quality doesn’t have to be perfect. You might find that scan-to-email on a desktop scanner or multi-function printer is a viable alternative to a camera or mobile phone.

Types of Rats

The two main species of Rats in the UK are Rattus Norvegicus (The Brown Rat or Common Rat) and Rattus Rattus (The Ship Rat or Black Rat). The Black Rat is rarely found these days in the UK but are more common in urban than rural areas.

Ensuring that you have essential rat control protocols in place is essential. It will probably make you feel a bit uneasy to know that rats are carriers of many life-threatening diseases; these diseases can be transmitted to humans through their urine such as Leptospirosis or Weil’s disease.

Not only do rats affect our reputation and health they also do severe damage to property. Rats can carry out excessive gnawing and burrowing damage to building materials such as electrical wires and pipes causing serious fire hazards, electrical and flood damage.

Identifying Rat infestation

In order to begin treating a rat infestation it is first necessary to identify them as the pest causing your issues. You may notice them on sight, or by hearing their scurrying, but there are other signs that will help you identify a possible rat infestation.

Droppings

Rat droppings can be an early sign that you have an infestation. Rats can produce up to 40 droppings per night, which are usually concentrated in certain areas and resemble large grains of rice.

Chewed food packaging

Rats often enter buildings to find food and will chew through food packaging and waste containers in order to find it, if you find food packaging with chew marks it may be a sign of infestation.

Grease marks

Rats fur tends to carry a lot of grease, this can be transferred to surfaces such as floors and skirting boards as they move around, leaving streaks and small footprints.

Rat sightings

Rats are nocturnal, meaning they are most active during the night and at dusk and dawn. Seeing rats during the day time can often be an indication of a serious infestation requiring urgent treatment.

Rat Control Frequently Asked Questions

Where do rats come from?

It may seem like that Rats are always on the increase – and you’re right! In-fact they have actually been around for about 54 million years originating from Central Asia and North America, and their population is always increasing.

The Ship Rat (Black Rat) was commonly found around ports and dockland areas where old wooden ships would dock. The Black Rat is agile with prominent ears and nose with a long tail ideal for climbing on old ropes of old wooden ships.

With the change in the style of maritime shipping culture, the Black Rat is a bit of relic of the past. The Brown Rat or the Common Rat is typically found in the UK.

How do rats get into buildings?

Now we are familiar with the history of Rats. It’s important to know where rats come from and the most likely points of ingress of rats into a building. Rats mainly live in the sewers, it wouldn’t be unusual if you were to find a rat in your bathroom, particularly if this was in an old house on the ground floor.

Did you know it’s possible for a Rat to works it’s way around a U-bend of a toilet? Although in this situation it is more common for a Rat to do this if there wasn’t water in the U-bend. Rats can enter large gaps exposed around utility pipes, broken brickwork or paving in your building. We find that old Victorian buildings tend to have larger air bricks with gaps around them. This is where Rats can easily squeeze through.

How can Rats harm me?

There is a slim chance that Rats will attack you unless you corner it or if the rat becomes trapped in your property. Rat can become trapped within buildings if the proofing is carried out too early and before a professional baiting program is put in place.

Rats have 2 incisors teeth which are continuously growing, part of their natural behaviour is to randomly gnaw on the edges of floors and walls this is to keep their teeth from growing too long.

On the upside it is unlikely that a Rat will bite you unless you confront it, unfortunately they will harm you in other ways by the transmission of their diseases to humans.

Rats were infamous for the spread of the bubonic plague (The Black Death) in the fourteenth century killing 50 million people in Europe.

How do I Permanently Stop Rats from Entering my Property?

The best way to stop Rats forever entering your building is to remove their food source and cut off their water supply; changing these 2 simple things alone will help keep them out.

Now we have taken care of the rat’s diet it is important to think about changing the environment they live in, take away their harbourage and implement a professional baiting program.

As a preventative measure proofing should be carried out in additional to environmental management, particular attention should be noted below:

• Broken air vents
• Redundant sewer lines
• Cracks and gaps in holes in walls
• Gaps under doors
• Broken windows, open windows
• Up walls, climbing guttering, behind harbourages, along wires, over hanging trees

The Bristol Pest Controller are BPCA qualified and Safecontractor approved. We will always deliver a professional rat control and removal service.

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