How Much Does It Cost to Get Rid of Mice From a Harrow Weald House?

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What the £240 Buys

£240 covers professional mouse treatment at a house. It is the number we publish because it is the number that normally applies, and we would rather you knew it at eleven o'clock at night when you have just found droppings in a cupboard than have to wait until morning to ask.

Why a House Costs More Than a Flat

A house is simply more property to work with, and with mice the difference is more pronounced than people assume:

• More rooms, and considerably more ground-floor perimeter where entry can occur
• Usually a loft — a classic mouse harbourage that most flats do not have
• Often a garage, shed or outbuilding connected to or abutting the building
• Underfloor voids in many older properties
• A garden, and therefore a boundary with whatever is on the other side of it

Each of those is somewhere mice can live, travel through, or enter from.

What the £240 Does Not Include

Proofing is separate

Treatment deals with the mice that are there. Proofing deals with the gaps letting them in. With mice the second is more often necessary than with any other pest we handle, because the gaps involved are so small that they are rarely spotted or fixed incidentally.

Proofing is £180 for up to one hour on suitable small holes, so a house needing both comes to £420.

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Building repairs are not pest control

Where mice are getting in through something structural — a broken air brick, a gap under a badly hung door, a hole where a soil pipe passes through a wall — that is a repair. We will tell you exactly what we found; making it good is a builder's job.

Treatment and Proofing Together

That is the honest full figure for the more thorough job, rather than a headline £240 that grows later.

Does the Loft Count as Part of the House?

Yes — a loft is part of the property and mouse activity there is part of the same problem. Lofts are a common place to find mice in a house: warm, undisturbed, full of insulation that makes excellent nesting material, and connected to the rest of the building by cable and pipe runs.

If the noise is heavier than you would expect from a mouse and comes in daylight, it is worth considering whether you are dealing with a squirrel instead — that is a different service at £280.

What About the Garage?

A garage attached to the house is part of the same building and part of the same problem. A detached garage at the end of a garden is a different question, and worth thinking about separately before you book anything.

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Rented Houses in Harrow Weald

Rented houses are treated at the same £240 published price. For a landlord that means the cost of responding to a tenant's report is known immediately, which usually makes it easier to authorise the same day — and mice in a let are not a problem that improves with a week of back-and-forth.

Common Questions About the House Price

Will it cost more if the problem is bad?

£240 is the standard published price for a house. If a property falls materially outside the normal scope of the service you will hear that from us before any work is arranged, not afterwards on an invoice.

Do I need to empty the kitchen cupboards?

Ask us when you book and we will tell you what preparation actually helps for your situation, rather than issuing a generic list.

How long before the mice are gone?

It depends on how established the activity is. It is not usually a single-evening job, and anyone promising you that it is should be treated with some suspicion.