Rodent Control Gold Coast
Effective Rodent Control on the Gold Coast – Say Goodbye to Unwanted Guests
On the Gold Coast, rodent infestations can escalate quickly, making early intervention essential. Our professional rodent control services provide safe, effective, and long-term solutions to eliminate rats and mice from your home or business.
Rodent Control Services for Gold Coast Properties
Rats and mice are more than just a nuisance—they can spread diseases, contaminate food, and cause costly damage by chewing through wiring and insulation. Using targeted treatments and prevention strategies, we help keep your property rodent-free and protected.
Protect Your Property and Health with Professional Rodent Control on the Gold Coast
Our rodent control services provide fast, effective, and long-term solutions to eliminate rats and mice from homes, apartments buildings, businesses, warehouses, and restaurants. We use a combination of baiting, trapping, and exclusion techniques to not only remove existing infestations but also prevent future ones. Whether you’ve noticed droppings, gnaw marks, or scratching noises in your walls, our experts can quickly assess the situation and implement a tailored treatment plan.
Effective and Discreet Rat and Mouse Treatment
Our team understands the urgency of rodent control and provides discreet, effective treatments to quickly and safely remove infestations. With tailored solutions to suit your property’s needs, we help Gold Coast homeowners and businesses stay rodent-free all year round.
Rats Cause Damage and Disease
Rodents can cause various types of damage in both homes and businesses. This can include structural damage wuch as electrical wires (sometimes causing fires), wooden frames and structural beams. They can also chew through hard plastics and air conditioning ducting. They have even been known to cause major damages to car wiring. Rodent damage is often excluded from insurances. Rodents are also known to spread disease to humans, which can lead to severe illness. This can be from contamination through urine, faeces, saliva or fur, or if you are very unlucky, a bite.
Why they choose your home
Particularly during colder months, rodents seek out shelter and food supply. If you live on or close to water such as canals there is also a higher chance you’ll have water rats.
How To Know You Have Rodents
If you see rats or mice then you most likely need rodent control. They’re pretty sneaky though and they can be present without you ever seeing them. Here are some ways to know you have them in your home.
Droppings
If you see droppings sized between 12mm and 18mm in pantries, cupboards or along skirting boards, they’re probably from rats and mice.
Distinct odour
You may notice a strong, musky odour. This is often caused by rodent urine, which has an ammonia-like smell and can become more noticeable as infestations grow.
Excited dogs
Most dogs will go crazy when they know there is a rat about. Many of the terrior breads will get on the scent days after a rat has been there.
Damage around your house
Check for burrow holes around your home. Likewise, you might see signs of gnawing. Items like dog food containers and electrical wiring can get gnawed on by rats and mice.
Eaten fruits
If you see fruit with the sides eaten out, that will be rats. Also you might see an excess of snails with the slug eaten out.
Squeaking, gnawing or scratching noises
Rats and mice will get busy at night. When it is quiet you may hear them squeaking, gnawing or scratching away.
What You Can Do To Reduce Rats & Mice In Your Home
Under the Public Health Regulation 1811 act, Queensland homeowners are obligated to control the presence of rats and mice in their home. It makes sense to comply with this act given all the reasons we outlined above. There are some simple things you can do to control rats and mice. We’ll outline them below.
Safe storage of firewood and other timber
Store piles of firewood and building materials away from your home. The storage of wood will create an area for rats to call home.
Secure all rubbish bins and compost bins
Keep your rubbish and compost bins secure and tightly sealed, ensuring there are no gaps or entry points for pests.
Block gaps and crevices into your home
Rodents can squeeze through even the smallest gaps, making it essential to block any holes, gaps or crevices around your home.
Remove fruit from trees
Old fruit should be removed from fruit trees. If you allow it to rot and drop to the ground it’ll become food for rodents.
Store pet food safely
Store dog food, chicken and bird feed, in airtight containers. Keep an eye on plastic containers though because rats can gnaw through them.
No meat in compost
Don’t put meat in your compost. This will not compost fast enough. Rats and mice can easily smell rotting meat and will come looking for it.
Rodent Control Solutions
Using safe, industry-approved methods, we identify entry points, remove rodents, and implement preventative strategies to keep your property rodent-free for good. Whether you need urgent treatment or a proactive pest management plan, our team is here to help.
Protect your property today—contact Zapem Pest Management for professional rodent control on the Gold Coast!