[carolvaughan]

I have just stumbled across this forum and read about someone who has flies in their loft after having a rat problem sorted, we have had the same problem without the flies. We had the council out to put down somwe bait to rid us of the rats we had in our loft, but unfortunately one of the rats died under our floor boards in the front room and one visible one died in the loft the others as far as we could see had peed and pooed as well as nested in our new insulation.

We had to pull up our carpet as the smell had been horrendours since last monday and no amount of cleaning got rid of it, so ihave had a new carpet fitted, the rat under the floor board had a mound of dirt which stank of wee and also the stench from the maggots which were present in the rat, had contaminated all it had come into contact with. We also had to bag up all of the insulator which was in the loft and bring it down into the garden and are not finding the council very forthcoming, i am waiting for a phone call from the environment officer so i can get some sense from someone as to how we are to get rid of all this infested waste. I have spoke to someone at rentokill and he is going to phone me about where we stand legally with this.

I think it is disgusting that people are left high and dry with such severe health and safety issues as these with no one acting on a report of rats. I was informed by the pest control man that because we are at the end of a six house terrace our loft is where they are sleeping, nesting, we found lots of burrows in the loft insulation. The man said someone further up is the food source, surely the council should investigate, any way they will once i have finished, sorry its long for a first post. And hello to every one.