Rats &decking?

Hi my friend is thinking of having some decking done, but she has been warned that because she lives next to a river it will be a grt place for them to make a home. Has anyone got any advice, as she would love to have the decking.
cheers

 

Hi Clio I really don't think your friend should worry too much about rats after all they are all over the place.

Tell her to go ahead and build her decking if she does encounter any rat problems she can always lift up one of the boards and drop some poison down, re-screw the decking board and let the poison do the work at least that way if there are any small children or pets it's well out of their way or she could always put some traps down.Hel.xxx.

 

hi clio please dont set us off on rats or all hell will break loose. had this topic lately just before you came on the forum . and boy it was like world war 3..just let cats and rats do what they want.. i know what i would like to do but :silenced : subject :D

 

Hi Clio. I too am just having an area decked and we back onto a farm. If your friend has the sides boxed then rats don't normally burrow under the cladding as long as the soil surrounding the decked area comes up it a little. Just check cladding occasionally for holes.

 

I had a rat under mine in 2004, took one dose of council poison to see the problem off. I don't know if this is the best or indeed most humane way, but it needed removing before I could be happy the kids had a safe environment to play on again.

If you have seen my deck construction pics it's pretty bomb proof, so if a rat fancies a kip in your deck frame it probably will. When we first moved in they ate through expanding foam to get into the adjoining cavity :eek:

 

Ah yes BM. I understand that they love expanding foam but they hate cladding made out of decking wood. The guy that sold me the decking told me that, so it must be right.

 

MMMmmm I am sure he's right

Essex rats are well 'ard though ! :D

 

Id blind the surface soil area with about 3" of type one this will discouradge vermin. Any problems just undoo the boards as stated.

 

When they had trouble with r-ts on the allotment were the pigeon lofts were they used to put a layer of broken glass underneath,this kept them away,don't know about those essex ones though with them being well 'ard.

 

Clio..leave a gap for a cat to get in. Poison can mean a slow death and might be taken up by the wrong creature,as my first dog did. So I use a swifter method, as I have done so for 40 years, and I would probably employ intermiplants to help me because I think he uses the same method.
We had a problem here two years ago and the Council tried poison...They got four in a week..I got ten in a night then got two cats to keep things in order!

 

ere ere, the swifter method at least you know ya got em then :D stop it pal you will get me shot

 

rats .. oh how i love rats
i aint taliking about the pet rat there different
im on about the scum that invades one's house chew away at everthing. spread desese. there as bad a pigions . ive just set two traps under my floor boards. yes they get inside your walls , (and i aint talking suasages)

i use propper rat traps . (as in like big mouse sring traps) these traps are strong enough to breack ya fingures . kill instantly

 

well boooooger me
didnt take long for one of the traps to go off

pow and another rat has gone

or would some one like me to change my traps and go for the keep then alive
im more than willing to change my traps . i can deliver, more than willing to bring the rats round and let them nest under your floor boards

 

:D :D

 

:D :D lets see how many offers you get :D :D