How to get rid of Deadmau5 ???

[NuclearNed]

A mouse took a dirt nap in the ductwork leading to my master bathroom. Short of crawling under the house and taking the ductwork apart, is there anything I can do about the odor? Or do I have to just wait it out? <puke>

The wife & I tried to run a vacuum hose into the ductwork from the vent, but no luck...

 

[PottedMeat]

have you tried burning the house down?



i don't think you should wait it out, won't the smell just become a permanent part of the ductwork?

 

[sdifox]

A mouse took a dirt nap in the ductwork leading to my master bathroom. Short of crawling under the house and taking the ductwork apart, is there anything I can do about the odor? Or do I have to just wait it out? <puke>

The wife & I tried to run a vacuum hose into the ductwork from the vent, but no luck...

Maybe a duct cleaning service that has a camera mounted on a sucction head?

 

[Northern Lawn]

A reputable duct cleaning won't work? The good companys have cameras from what I understand. But watch, there's a lot of scammer duct cleaners out there.

 

[NuclearNed]

have you tried burning the house down?



i don't think you should wait it out, won't the smell just become a permanent part of the ductwork?

It's happened before... after a long while the smell goes away, but I really don't want to wait, especially with family coming to visit next week for the holiday. I'll have to see if I can find a local duct cleaner... didn't even know such a service existed.

 

[edro]

Make sure the duct cleaning co knows up front about the mouse.
Like others have said, some are scam type companies that do a quick job.

 

[Northern Lawn]

I'll have to see if I can find a local duct cleaner... didn't even know such a service existed.

Very popular business now, a lot of carpet cleaning companys have expanded into it. Make sure it's a camera one. Even if the vacuum can't get the mouse you will have a position on it to take the duct apart.

 

[highland145]

And someone needs to fix the hole in your duct.

 

[SagaLore]

What, you don't like electronic dance music?

 

[NuclearNed]

What, you don't like electronic dance music?

Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-bonfire!!!

 

[rivan]

What, you don't like electronic dance music?

Exactly what I expected. Was curious what NN's strategy would be

 

[NuclearNed]

Exactly what I expected. Was curious what NN's strategy would be

1st thought that came to mind, based on previous experience:
When you have yellowjackets creating a problem, you dump gas in their hole.
When you have Deadmau5 creating a problem, dump gas in it's hole???

 

[Northern Lawn]

What, you don't like electronic dance music?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYw-t4uDblM&feature=related

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-bonfire!!!

Lol. Bwawwwnnnnnnn brawnnn brawb brawb brawb brarb

 

[FelixDeCat]

Oops, I think you hit the 5 key instead of the S in your post. You also forgot the "e" on the end and to seperate the adjective from the noun.

 

[NuclearNed]

Oops, I think you hit the 5 key instead of the S in your post. You also forgot the "e" on the end and to seperate the adjective from the noun.

I think... oh, nevermind. Quoted for posterity.

 

[Exterous]

Came in here expecting a long, entertaining NuclearNed story. Left dissapointed

 

[Miramonti]

If mice are getting into the vents on occassion, you're also losing hvac efficiency. A crawl underneath the house would probably be well served sooner than later.

 

[jupiter57]

Dead mice/ rats are no fun!
On my last farm, we were plagued with mice & rats due to all the cattle feed.
The (ex)wife really loved the D-con, much to my chagrin!
Had a few mice die, one in a wall in the Living Room. Couldn't get to it, but I narrowed down where it was in the wall, bored a 2" hole in the wall & dumped a LOT of Hydrated Lime in the hole, patched & repainted, then caulked the entire length of that wall along the floor. That helped a lot.
Here's where we enter a NN-type story:
Noticed an odor of dead rodent in the same LR a few years later, stronger & stronger every day. The odor finally became unbearable.
Of course I had moved all the furniture, checked behind it, inside it, even removed the lining on the bottoms to check. No rodent found.
Finally decided to go upstairs & check the crawlspace, BINGO!
A large rat had died almost on top of one of the can lights, so far back that it was unreachable from the crawlspace.
From the LR, I was able to remove the can light, (wearing a full respirator, latex gloves covered with leather gloves, & long sleeves taped to the gloves!) reach up through the opening & drag the remains out.
Man do those things rot fast! It already had maggots in it!
Scraped, wiped, bleached for what seemed like hours. When I got all of it out that I could, threw several handfuls of Lime as best as I could on & all around it between the joists.
Took a couple weeks with an exhaust fan in the window & lots of Febreeze to fully get the odor out!

Needless to say, D-con was then forever banned in my house!
Spent the rest of my time in that house baiting & setting Mouse & Rat traps, checking them frequently.

Now I'm on a different farm, (with a different wife,) same Mouse/Rat problem, we set mouse traps in the house (Have no idea how they get in!), but we also got 2 cats in the barn.
It's been forever since I have caught a mouse in the house, and I see maybe one a week in the barn.

NN, may I suggest placing a pan full of Febreeze inside your return register?
Just get the Febreeze, dump it into a pan sized to fit your duct so as to hasten evaporation, (be sure to set your fan to "run" rather than "automatic" on your thermostat).
Or, just spray your filter(s) as often as possible for as long as it takes if you can't get into the actual duct.

 

[BudAshes]

I had one get into the blower for my trucks airconditioning. I was driving along and turned up the fan and heard some bad noises. Had to rip the dash apart to get the damn thing out as it smelled like ass within 24hrs and obviously couldn't use the heater/ac. It is amazing how foul they smell.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Taking the ducts apart will be cheaper than having a duct cleaner come out, and you'll have more material for your next installment of True Tales. Never know what else you'll find (maybe that you need duct cleaning, lol)?

 

[lord_emperor]

After getting rid of the current problem, be sure to prevent all future occurrences with one of these:

 

[OOBradm]

Turn on your AC in reverse, in order to suck the mouse into the AC unit and pop it out

 

[Muse]

Needless to say, D-con was then forever banned in my house!
Spent the rest of my time in that house baiting & setting Mouse & Rat traps, checking them frequently.

It's because of the fear of a similar experience that I have never resorted to poisons when dealing with varmints. I've got a handful of rat traps and a mouse trap or two. It's been years since I've had an inkling of a visitation by a rodent, however. I don't figure my attic's ratproof now, I haven't done anything I can remember that would render it so. I think maybe in some almost mystical way the rats sense that it's not safe for them there, maybe they can smell the fact that dead rats used to lay there in my traps. Don't know.

Over ten years ago I must have caught at least dozens of rats in the traps up there and after my total roof tearoff and replacement (about 7 years ago) I meticulously vacuumed out all the dried rat turds from the attic, as well as all the detritus left behind from the roof job. Unfortunately, a plumbing fiasco a couple years later blew water into a portion of the attic flooring, evidently activating the dried rat urine and when the attic warms during the day a nasty odor fills my bedroom. I haven't hatched any ideas to remedy that, and it doesn't seem to be getting better.

 

[CrackRabbit]

Country music on full blast will usually work in getting rid of Deadmau5. :whiste: