Rat invasion can cause serious issues if you run a warehouse or factory. The damage they can do in just an evening can run to many thousand of pounds, against which you might not even be insured. People try all sorts of remedies but often to no avail; miss just one rat and the problem persists. Damage can cost a huge amount, even if only a few wires are nipped. An inaccessible area of large industrial robot or complex piece of equipment could cause serious problems. It may require hours of testing and investigation to investigate, isolate and fix. Remember the cost of the downtime when you are trying to work out how much it will cost you.

Enter Hammer Technologies. This new startup has a great solution to get rid of rats; rat-proof flooring. It generates an amazingly effective boundary around the edge of your factory or lock-up which rodents can't cross. Their patent-pending technology will protect you when all else fails.

It is well worth noting that rats did around nine billion dollars of damage to human's property in North America in 2009 alone. Frankly, this is despite all the known pest control methods. Clearly something needs to be done differently. The Hammer Technologies solution sounds like an excellent idea. Practical and easy to implement, unlike many other available solutions.

Sometimes the alternatives don't bear thinking about. If you've got a huge factory then trying to block every one of several hundred tiny holes in the roof and walls may cost a fortune. You've only got to miss one 2cm hole and they are bound to find it and make their way in. This can be totally impractical as some hole s may be inaccessible to humans but easily accessible to rats. Think of drainpipes entering rooves close to adjacent buildings on the fourth floor. Rat repellent flooring is definitely the solution here.