How much trouble can mice in garage areas be for homeowners? Although they look like cute little creatures, mice can be quite problematic. They carry different types of diseases that can make your family sick. They can also gnaw away at your property and damage it.

For example, they could make their way under your car’s hood and start eating the wiring or pipes, resulting in expensive damage to your engine, starter, radiator, and other components. Mice in garage walls can chew away at your home’s wiring, causing the garage door or area lighting to malfunction.

Of course, mice in garage walls climb upwards, reaching the usually uninhabited attic to expand their numbers. The creatures can breed all year, with one female giving birth to up to 10 litters a year. In just a few months, ten mince can multiply into 100.

Mice in the garage can also make their way into the main section of the house, spreading germs, contaminating food, and damaging property.

Mice Can Burn Down a House

Don’t take mice in the garage lightly. Mice can chew away at the wiring, starting a fire. In fact, the Illinois Department of Public Health estimates that 25% of all fires in the United States attributed to “unknown causes” are started by rodents biting gas lines, electrical wiring, and matches.

Fires that start in the garage are harder for families to notice until they grow out of control, resulting in tragedy.

How to Get Rid of Mice in Garage Naturally

If you want to know how to get rid of mice in the garage naturally, i.e., without using toxic chemicals, call a GTA and Toronto pest control team that uses pesticide-free products to ensure your home is shielded from rodents, and your health is never compromised.

As certified professionals that use sustainable solutions, at GreenLeaf Pest Control, we are the protectors of public health. Our client’s safety always comes first. We can also help you identify how mice in the garage made their way in.

Proactive Control

Mice are surprisingly quick, agile, and nimble, almost like Olympic athletes. They can jump far, run rapidly along thin wires and ropes, climb on all types of surfaces, swim efficiently, and move through surprisingly small cracks and holes in your walls and doors.

They also love certain types of food and are attracted to clutter. Being proactive is one of the most natural mice pest control methods.

Seal The Gaps

The first step of proactive control is to seal all holes and gaps around the house. Mice can pass through gaps as tiny as ¼-inch. They can also gnaw at a hole and make it larger for entry.

Rodents will also creep into your garage through your garage door at night, so please remember to close your garage door if possible. Additionally, check every night to ensure the door is closed because mice are nocturnal beings that prefer to move in the darkness.

Reduce Clutter

Try to organize your garage and reduce the clutter. Not only will you decrease hiding spaces for mice, rats, and other pests, but any signs of a mouse infestation will be more visible.

In addition to reducing clutter in your garage, manage your trash. Mice often find the odours from trash irresistible. Instead of leaving it in the garage waiting for the weekly pickup, move it outside in tightly sealed bins.

Manage Food

Another step of proactive control is to manage food. Mice enjoy consuming pet foods, cereals, grains, bird seeds, and even toilet paper rolls. Incidentally, many homeowners store these products in their garages. Feel free to store such items in your garage but in airtight and sealed containers or bins that mice can’t chew through.

Make a Spray

Mice dislike certain smells, like red pepper, cayenne pepper, cloves, and peppermint. You can try mixing a combination of these items with peppermint oil and spray it around the garage.

However, this concoction isn’t on the list of foolproof mice pest control methods. Mice may ignore the spray for a chance at grabbing some delicious food or escaping the harsh temperatures of the winter.

Set a Trap

You can use a live trap if you want to rehome the mouse. Such traps trick mice into entering and then trap them inside. However, live traps won’t get rid of your mouse infestation at home. And when you release the mouse in a residential area, it becomes a problem for another homeowner.

In fact, you both probably have mice now. Meanwhile, releasing the mouse in the countryside can be bad for a farmer or a crop owner.

You can also try a sticky or spring trap to eliminate the mouse. Still, this is a makeshift solution.

How to Eliminate a Mouse Infestation in the Garage for Good

Call pest control experts that specialize in eliminating rodents in garages when you notice the following signs of mouse infestation:

• Sounds of squeaking from behind the walls or corners of your garage
• Trails of oily marks on the garage floor
• Mice feces or urine
• Tiny footprints
• Hair droppings
• Chew marks
• Mysterious food scraps

At GreenLeaf Pest Control, we offer the best solutions in mice control in Newmarket, Aurora, The Greater Toronto Area, Waterloo, Kitchener, Guelph, Oakville, Pickering, Ajax, Oshawa, Barrie, and other locations in Ontario.

Please feel free to get in touch with us through our email address: info@greenleafpestcontrol.com. You can also call us at (416) 998-9473.

Mice aren’t the only unwanted guests we can manage. We also offer top solutions in rat control in Toronto and other cities in Ontario. Rats are bigger than mice but just as problematic.

Please be particularly wary of Norway Rats — also known as street or sewer rats. These pests can damage your property and structures and carry diseases.

So, please, get in touch with us if you need help with pest control. We’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves and get our hands dirty so that you and your family can stay healthy and live peacefully. We’re more than exterminators — we’re your neighbours and partners.