READ MORE Rachel Reeves ‘looking at’ pay-per-mile car tax for 1.3 million drivers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\u201cOr, in the case of an air brick, fix a purpose-built cover, or direct replacement may be more suitable,\u201d says Niall Gallagher, the technical and compliance manager at the British Pest Control Association.<\/p>\n
Gallagher recommends \u201cmaking sure surfaces and cupboards are cleaned regularly, you\u2019re not kicking crumbs under the kick plates, and that you are keeping food in rodent-proof containers\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sarah Spratt, the owner of the pest control company The Bed Bug Queen, says hotspots are behind the headboard, under divans and at the ends and undersides of wooden slats.<\/p>\n
\u201cCheck the beds and the seams of the mattress before settling in,\u201d she says. \u201cI always put my suitcase in the bathroom and fully strip the bed and check the bed frame.\u201d<\/p>\n
Contact your landlord and try natural methods, too. \u201cI blocked everything I could and created an environment that wouldn\u2019t interest them,\u201d one homeowner says.<\/p>\n
\u201cA combination of blocking physical gaps, removing food sources and using ultrasonic pest repeller plugs stopped them coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have been able to manage any mice that come through using humane traps, and leaving chocolate buttons and peanut better in them to entice them,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tend to catch any quickly after that and drive them 10 minutes away and let them out.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can also use professional experts. She adds: \u201cMake sure they do not chemically treat the room if no evidence is found. They must find live bedbugs, shed skins, black spotting or poo.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Households and communities have been warned.UK households urged to ‘block entries’ to home as epidemic sweeps England UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,6333,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-519070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-housing","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115416686596433897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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UK households urged to ‘block entries’ to home as epidemic sweeps England<\/p>\n