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    RATS!!!!

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    • I Offline
      imacsg
      last edited by

      My mum stays in Bukit Merarh. The rat can travel up to 22 story, can you imagine? They can travel through the water pipe also.


      I stay in Tampines, new estate, also have rats. The rat can take lift. One day when I was waiting the lift and the door open. I scream when I saw the mother (big more than 30 cm) rat and the baby rat. I complain to the respectively party. But no use. Last time, I only see them in the night, but recently, the rats can be seen in the morning also.

      The condo near by also have dead rat in the swimming pool.

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        Funz
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        I am living on a ground floor unit with a back yard and a garden. So quite impossible to seal off all entry points. Neighbours have recounted incidents of rats wondering into their living rooms from the garden. Whenever we spot and rats on the grounds we will alert the management. As for disposal of garbage, the estate is using a pneumatic garbage disposal system which rightfully means once in the chute, the rubbish should be transported to a collection area away from the residential units.


        Each time they will bring in the pest control to find the nests and put out the baits. But this problem keeps recurring. What pisses me off more is the manager can say it is a problem that people living on the ground floor will encounter. My friends living in landed properties do not have that problem. My office on a ground floor does not have that problem. My grandma who used to live on a groundfloor unit of a HDB did not have that problem. So I don’t buy this having to bear with such things when living on a ground floor unit.

        I seriously wonder if this rat issue really cannot be erradicated or is the management and the pest control company engaged doing a piss poor job.

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          LOLMum
          last edited by

          mine is a ground floor unit too with a yard grill.


          saw a baby rat about 1 month ago at the foot of my stairs and luckily the security guard caught it. report to mgt and the pest control guys came. not seen one anymore.

          my estate is small so easy to spot these pests. but next to mine is a bigger estate with a supermarket so i think the rat could have come from there.

          i think the best thing to prevent rats, roaches and lizards from entering the house is to put those mosquito nets on windows and door gates. so you can have ventilation and yet no fear of these pests (unless it gets in via the floor trap which once again i put a net over it).

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            Nebbermind
            last edited by

            What if the nest is outside yr estate?

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              LOLMum
              last edited by

              if you know or suspect it could be the neighbouring condo/house problem, can get let them know of it.


              otherwise call town council or shoot it to the mp (but dont know if the mp is like some others who like and repsonse to it)

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                willonjohn
                last edited by

                Hello there,


                I think so, you can use http://www.wollongongsafepestcontrol.com.au/mice-and-rat-pest-control/ services for a better option. One more option food max poison after food making many golis & different-2 places to settle here.

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                  daphlau
                  last edited by

                  I had a rat problem too. For a time we had to stop keeping food out in the open. But they have no problem getting into cupboards too. I would recommend putting rat traps if you are able to deal with a living creature stuck in a cage in your kitchen haha.

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                    JassyT
                    last edited by

                    Rat traps are really effective. We used to always catch one everyday but if there’s too many of it, you better get the rat control.

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                      s277400
                      last edited by

                      Hi may i know where to get rat control. I had seen one in my house but it scurried too fast and couldn’t catch it. I called NEA for help and still waiting for them to call me.

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                        s277400
                        last edited by

                        no i didn’t , i thought of buying rat poison instead. What do you think?

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