Rat Invasion Do rats make you feel sick and make your skin crawl? Well they do to me especially when rats invade my home!

I live right on the edge of the 2012 Olympic site. Recent earth moving, scuttling of buildings and general re-landscaping of the area has caused the destruction of possibly hundreds of thousands of rats in the area. Where are they to go but directly for the nearest safe haven, that would be my place on White Post Lane, Hackney Wick.

It started late at night - I could hear strange gnawing sounds coming from behind the toilet - hmm not nice at the best of times but after a quick inspection - it was solid concrete (although not the best of workmanship as you can see in the photo) I thought nothing is getting through there! I thought wrong! Within three days the not so little bugger chewed it's way through solid concrete to make entrance to my space. From there it was all over - being woken up in the middle of the night to hear the contents of the studio being unmercifully chewed is not a pleasant sound. So it was on to the landlord first thing in the morning. Thankfully within two hours the rat exterminators were here, they placed rat bait around the points of entry and through to the kitchen, however within two hours the rats were back in broad daylight no less consuming the bait. The problem was there doesn't seem to be enough to go around! So my fellow tired or squemish readers in the following posts I will hope to uncover more and more information about these rat invaders to find out what really does work for rat exermination!