Rodents move into Sunbury homes once the cold sets in, and up the ranges that happens weeks earlier than in Melbourne. Rats come off Jacksons Creek and the bushland reserves, mice come off the cropping land and the paddocks, and both head for the nearest warm building: the roof void, the subfloor, the garage, the feed shed and the stables. The older homes with timber floors and the rural properties with outbuildings are the first to notice.
We run a baiting program with lockable, tamper-resistant stations placed along the runs rodents use: fence lines, behind the shed, around feed storage, under the house and in the roof void. Stations are checked and refilled on a return visit so bait is not left out, and on horse properties and hobby farms we place them where the animals cannot reach them and tell you where each one sits. The other half of the job is the entry, and we walk the whole property looking for gaps under roller doors, broken subfloor vents, open pipe penetrations and branches touching the roof, then tell you what to seal.
