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Kingston,Mi | After you cure the holes, the rodents etc., excavate a 2 to 4 ft wide area around the building 1 ft deep and fill with either 1 1/2 inch septic field stone or what is known locally here as "stonecrete" (3/4 down crushed limestone). Until the little rascals learn to shore up their mine shafts, it will stop their undermining activities, provides a clean look around buildings and allows you to turn up your mower to "11" when you trim the yard.
The broken bottle trick works also, when we moved into this house 60 years ago and had the well water brought to the house, rats repeatedly dug out the concrete that dad placed around the pipe until he mixed it with smashed up Goebles bottles. Solved 2 problems with 1 action, no rats and no broken bottles in the yard.
Using steel to keep them out will be a failure, we cast a new floor for a small shed that was being relocated. Drove 2ft tall sections of galvanized roofing dow into the ground and use it as the form. The rats have used it as their fortresss to attack other buildings. somehow they manage to spread the edges and have established a colony under it, so unless you eitheer bolt, rivet or weld it together, they will defeat it. | |
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Rats tunnelling under shop floor
