Mouse Control & Prevention in Minneapolis & St. Paul
Have you noticed that mice come back year after year, often in the same part of your house? The industry standard for dealing with mice is to bait and trap. While this can eliminate the current mouse population, it only provides a short-term solution. Unlike our competitors, our mouse exclusion and prevention services control the current population and help prevent them from returning!
Older houses in the Minneapolis & St. Paul metro area are especially vulnerable to ongoing mouse infestations because aging exteriors can provide multiple entry points. Contact the pest experts at Rainbow Pest Experts to provide longer-lasting control of your mice.
What can you expect from our mouse control and exclusion services?
Our mouse solution: get them out, keep them out! We offer a two-stage approach that allows you to choose your plan. Stage One focuses on controlling the mice you have now, and Stage Two provides protection against future mouse infestations.
Incomplete mouse control services that only focus on eliminating the current population mean stubborn mice will return year after year. When you purchase our complete mouse service, our experts spend approximately 4 hours on-site—double the industry average—to find and seal up mouse entry points. As leaders in mouse control, Rainbow Pest Experts offers a warrantied*, long-term solution for you.
We’re proud to provide the most comprehensive mouse control services in the Twin Cities. Rainbow Pest Experts leads the industry with services to control mice and help prevent their return! Mice can enter your home through openings as small as the diameter of a pencil. As mice find their way into your home, additional ones will follow the scent trail left by the first invaders, and once inside, they can reproduce quickly. We provide peace of mind by controlling the current population and helping to stop mice before they enter your home with our two-stage approach.
*Warranty: If only Stage One is selected, you are covered by a 60-day warranty. If Stage One & Two are selected, you are covered by a two-year limited warranty which includes two free mouse-related visits within two years of the Foundation Seal-up date. Note that limitations outside of our control make it impossible for a Seal-up technique to accomplish a 100% barrier.
What can you expect from the mouse experts at Rainbow Pest Experts?
No one else in the Twin Cities area specializes in mouse control like Rainbow Pest Experts. We take the time to do the job thoroughly and professionally. Our complete mouse exclusion service includes stages one and two and takes an average of four or more hours onsite.
We begin by thoroughly inspecting your house to see where mice are hiding. This helps us determine how extensive the infestation is and the best locations for baiting and trapping to reduce the mouse population. Inspections are done using a toolkit that includes mirrors to view all possible access points, high power flashlights, a shovel to view foundation entry points, and more. Our methodical approach eliminates the guesswork that comes with trying to do it yourself.
The first step in managing your mouse problem is controlling the mice that are already in your home.
We begin by thoroughly inspecting your house to see where mice are hiding. This helps us determine how extensive the infestation is and the best locations for baiting and trapping to reduce the mouse population. Our methodical approach eliminates the guesswork that comes with trying to remove mice yourself. We also choose the most effective and long-lasting products professionally available. Our enclosed bait stations are designed for child and pet safety. They require a special key to open, making them tamper-resistant.
This service can be combined with a protection plan to maintain bait stations, or you can add mouse control stage 2 for a foundation seal-up and 2-year limited warranty.
Warranty: 60 days
The second step in getting your house free of mice is to prevent mice from getting in.
Mice are break-in artists that find multiple ways inside—not just at ground level. Blocking entry points prevents additional mice from following the scent trail left by the first invaders.
In stage two of our mouse control service, we perform a thorough foundation seal-up to prevent mice from entering your home in the future. As an added bonus, sealing cracks can improve your home’s energy efficiency and reduce the number of insects entering from outside. Best of all, we provide a two-year limited warranty* (contingent upon us being able to access the entire foundation of your home), which includes two free follow-up visits within the first two years for our mouse service!
Our experts inspect the home’s exterior and seal every accessible crack the diameter of a pencil or larger. For larger openings that require us to “build-out” the area, we come prepared with various professional-grade building materials that stand up to mice and Minnesota weather, including:
- Flashing
- Quickcrete and aggregate concrete
- Copper mesh
- Hardware cloth
- Elastic sealant (designed to shift with the structure—extremely important in Minnesota!)
See our before and after gallery for examples of the material and expertise we use in sealing entry points.
Warranty: 2-year/2-visit limited warranty available to customers who have completed interior and exterior mouse protection; contingent upon full access to the foundation, attached garage, and attic.
*NOTE: Warranty available to customers who have completed interior and exterior mouse protection; contingent upon full access to the foundation, attached garage, and attic. Limitations that prevent a complete foundation seal up include: any obstructions such as a deck or a porch built very low to the ground (less than three feet high), existing building materials that mice can easily chew through such as foam insulation, and in less frequently encountered situations, very old homes with flagstone foundations, which are susceptible to crumbling and natural degradation over time.
Additional frequently asked questions about mice
Rainbow Pest Experts has perfected the art of mouse exclusion – the act of locating and patching rodent entry points to reduce or eliminate future invasion. This requires in-depth knowledge of home and building structures along with knowing they structures vulnerable to rodent entry. Whether you choose our foundation seal-up as a stand-alone service or as the final step in a mouse control package, we begin with a thorough inspection. We take the time to find entry points—spending twice as long on-site as the industry average. When exclusion is done properly, it minimizes the use of rodenticides and traps, providing a long-term solution to the rodent population within the structure. Note that limitations outside of our control make it impossible for a Seal-up technique to accomplish a 100% barrier.
The experts at Rainbow Pest Experts have noticed an increased number of more intelligent, harder-to-control mice that display many qualities similar to rats. Check out our article on the growing population of urban mice in Minneapolis & St. Paul and find out if you have them!
