[Closed] There is something living in my ceiling...

Rats are pretty good at eating through plaster board. 😉

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As you say mice or maybe rats. I am not sure there is much you can do. You should check the light fittings are well sealed. You could unscrew them and push some poison up into the void. You could call the council, they generally only care ime if its rats are in the property but you could say thats what you are worried about

As an aside we have a mouse, can't catch the little devil. Watched it last night as it sniffed the trap amd then jumped
clear over it. At one level I was quite impressed, the wife less so 😐

Ceiling cat?

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That cat 😆

We had a rat visit our old house every night, would scrabble about in the loft at roughly the same time every night. Apparently they follow the same routine. We called the council, guy came round and placed poison up there, never heard from the rat again. Few years ago now, at that time it was a free service.

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Mice sound bloody loud at night if above your head though, might not be rats.

Get the ****er sorted before it does a number on your electrics!! 😯

We had rats in the roof. Came in from next door where her builders had not connected up the drains properly (didn't blank a old run) and left a hole in party wall when they boxed the plumbing in. They were very nicely settled into my insulated ceiling void. I had to cut a hole in the plasterboard. Then blocked up the hole to next door with cement which they promptly burrowed through, I then glued a tile over the hole to allow the next lot of cement to set properly. Got a couple with traps and left some poison. Had to Hoover out a ton of shit then left some stinky air fresheners up there and it is now back to normal. Unpleasant but happy now it's dealt with.

Mice, rats, edible dormice, squirrels or if you are lucky then bats. Good idea to check what you have before going down the poison/trap route just in case.

Is it your violently insane first wife?

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Animals in ceilings, always a hot topic for me.

Last few months there has been a rat up there, when it naws away at the wood it is LOUD and makes me angry. The cat is shit and doesn't care.

This was until yesterday, when the bee man came to see how big the bee nest was in our roof that we had spotted, huge is what he said, and we can't get into it due to there only being a single fixed vent. He has gassed them best he can with the hope they move elsewhere.

Before you bee lovers get all moany, they are little ****s here, turn the lights on at night time and they swarm them, interesting if it is the outside light, not so interesting if they decide the light coming through a mosquito screen door bedroom door is what they want.

Our old house, had something that jumped around up there all night, had the maintenance put glue traps up there and block as many holes as possible, one white oriental squirrel, and every To-Ke within a 10m radius were caught. It all went quiet after that.

Where's that then Quirrel?

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When I was a kid we used to live in the centre of a row of terraced houses. The attics/lofts of the houses were only separated by a 2ft high wall so there was nothing stopping you walking from one end of the terrace to the other - this only became apparent when one person started doing just that and trying to get down into the houses themselves.

Anyway it's probably not that, sleep tight. 😉

Starlings. If there's a chimney on your end of the building, it'll be starlings. Coming down the chimney and nesting in the attic space, rat-tat-tatting about the place with their tiny little clawed feet.

Flat roof so no attic to worry about 😉

I did think birds or bats but the ceiling cavity doesn't seem to be accessible from the chimney, I seem to have narrowed it down to a Small section against one of the walls where the ceiling is about 6 inches lower? Not sure what this is and where it leads to, almost drilled a big hole in it last night to catch the bastard 😆

We had a similar situation to nickjb, drove me mad lying awake at night listening for scratches. I blocked the hole they were using with concrete with screws, nails and broken glass mixed in. Then used Tomcat poison which got rid of them (unlike the useless b&q stuff).

Whatever it is is almost certainly nibbling on your cables so get it sorted quick before it does too much damage.

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upstairs is fully carpeted under the floorboards

That's your problem right there.

We have the carpet on top of the floorboards, why make it nice and cosy underneath? Of course things are going to want to live in there 😉

I realised that mistake and hoped I'd gotten away with it as nobody noticed yet... 😆