An expert has said that now the cold and wet has started mice are set to invade homes and are ‘experts at squeezing into tiny spaces’. If people don’t want their sofas chewed and dropping everywhere, Wayne Perrey told BBC Morning Live they need to take urgent action.
Host Gethin Jones said: “As the temperatures get a little bit colder, it could mean the arrival of some unwanted visitors inside the home.” Wayne said: “We’re having lots of little creatures like you say, it’s getting cold outside. They’re coming in to say hello. There’s ants everywhere. At the moment we’ve seen spiders.
“I was speaking to Marc [detective sergeant Marc Cananur] earlier on who was telling me that his daughter literally rang him last night and said, ‘We’ve closed a spare room. We’ve put a towel down the bottom. It’s a crime scene. When you get back from filming today, you need to sort it out. So to arrest them.’ So dramatic crime scene a bit dramatic.”
Mr Perrey said that slugs were invading homes a lot currently: “There’s nothing worse than seeing the slug trails around your house. And the trick is you need to prevent them from coming in. So we’re gonna be giving you lots of tips on how to make sure they come in.
“Obviously we don’t want to kill them. We want to get them out. But also one of the reasons why at that is one of our morning live team said they found them in their kitchen, but they can go into appliances. And wouldn’t they found a slug in the back of their dryer motherboard? The slug didn’t quite survive. And the washer and the dryer didn’t survive either. So it can cost you money.”
He explained that the nasties like mice and slugs largely get ionto the house through cracks in walls. Wayne said: “So my tips today really just stop the things coming into the house. So it’s cracks, isn’t it? Cracks in walls. You’ve got pointing, you’ve got concrete and people think that’s a big building job. It’s not. It’s something you can do yourself. You can buy a bag of cement. It’s already mixed. It’s got the sand and cement in there, and you just add water to it.
“Costs about 7 or 8 quid, as you can see here, it’s like that ready made cake mix. Add a little bit of water into it. Get yourself a a towel. Mix it all up and if, like you say I added a little bit more becausse it felt a bit too wet you want it to be like mashed potato.”
Michelle Ackerley asked about mice and Wayne explained that a mouse could get into the house through a 10mm hole: “What you need to do it fill those holes, now mice like to chew, they’ll chew through cable and chew through wood, so we recommend wire wool.” The mouse is unable to chew through that and can’t get in, he explained.