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Rodent control that stays solved past month two.

Rats are pattern-locked: same runs, same drinking spots, same entry voids. A single round of poison gets you a week of relief, then a new family moves in. Dawnplex’s rodent programme maps the runs, seals the voids, builds the bait-station network and audits it monthly — so the population can’t replenish.

  • Map the runsTrack dust, droppings, gnaw marks per zone
  • Seal entriesSteel wool, hardware cloth, mortar — no foam
  • Bait networkLocked, tamper-resistant stations with logs
  • Monthly auditActivity by station, mapped against trend
Dawnplex technician kneeling to service a tamper-resistant rodent bait station outside a Klang Valley restaurant
Three rodent species, three protocols

What we’re actually dealing with in Klang Valley

  • Roof rat (Rattus rattus). Black, agile, lives in ceiling cavities and palm crowns. Common in older terrace rows. Treatment: ceiling-void bait stations, palm-trunk barriers.
  • Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus). Bigger, stays low — drains, basement carparks, rubbish stores. Common around F&B outlets. Treatment: external bait-station ring, drain trapping.
  • House mouse (Mus musculus). Pencil droppings, fine gnaw marks, often singular. Treatment: bait stations indoors, snap-trap audits, void sealing.
How the programme runs

Three months from heavy pressure to maintenance

Audit week

One technician walks every level — droppings, runs, gnaw marks, droppings density mapped. Output: rodent activity map (PDF).

Seal week

Entry points sealed with steel wool, hardware cloth or mortar (we don’t use spray foam — rats chew through it in days). Drainage flap covers added where needed.

Knockdown phase

Tamper-resistant bait stations, snap-trap arrays in food-prep zones, monitoring at day 3, 7, 14, 21. Population usually drops 80–90% in three weeks.

Maintenance phase

Monthly station checks, bait refresh, trend chart per zone. Most clients move to a quarterly cadence after 6 months of zero activity.

Why we don’t use loose poison

Bait stations or nothing

Loose blocks of rodenticide kill rats — but they also kill dogs, cats, monitor lizards, and the kites and barn owls that follow the dying rats. Dawnplex uses Department of Agriculture-registered second-generation anticoagulants only in locked tamper-resistant stations — accessible to rats, sealed against pets and wildlife.

Every station has a printed serial, a barcode, and shows up on your monthly audit map. If a station is lost or damaged the technician logs it and replaces it on the next visit.

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Bait-station floor plan map for a Klang Valley warehouse, marked with Dawnplex technician notes

Hearing them in the ceiling? Don’t wait it out.

Rodent populations double every 25–30 days under Malaysian conditions. A four-rat ceiling cluster becomes a thirty-rat colony before raya. We can be on site tomorrow.