Average Cost to Hire a Rat Exterminator While the average cost of removing a rodent from your home is $378, prices can range from $176 and $580, depending on the infestation size and type, how difficult your rodent "hideouts" are to access, and where you live.

Roof rat droppings are about 13 mm (1/2 inch) long with pointed ends and Norway rat droppings are about 19mm (3/4 inch) long with blunt ends. The best way to get rid of rats or mice is by using traps. If using spring loaded traps for rats, bait three of them in a row without setting them.

Your local qualified Rentokil technicians can provide the most suitable treatments to a rat problem identified in your home or business. Professional services are often the most reliable way to guarantee long-term solution to a pest problem.

Typically, conditions that support high rat populations are left until there's a crisis. Traps and poison are a temporary “fix” that do not control rats long-term. To remove rats from your environment, you must remove the food, water and habitat that are supporting rat populations in the first place.