Buying items from IKEA AKA Rats!

[Johnrgby]

Thread drift.  This is about IKEA!  Please begin a separate thread.

Does it really matter that Much????????????

[cjm]

"logically, if Clingfilm stops them, a weight of any kind on top of the toilet sets should work."

The clingfilm presumably helps prevent evaporation of water in the bend whick keeps them at bay?

Anyway, probably more than enough of this "thread drift"

[el caballo hambriento]

Yes it takes people away from what I asked.

[el caballo hambriento]

Thread drift.  This is about IKEA!  Please begin a separate thread.

Does it really matter that Much????????????

Yes because it takes people away from what I asked originally and is poor forum board etiquette.

[Johnrgby]

I really have more important things going on in my life than " Forum board etiquette"

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

This thread is now about rats.......... unless it drifts 

[Ducks]

Apologies for starting the drift, but I really have to know. It's keeping me up at night!

[TamaraEnLaPlaya]

Nearly as bad as the cockroaches? 🤣

[Can the Man]

Ok, here’s the blood and guts of the story. We have a lady who looks after our apartment one summer her partners mother or father was sick - read dying so he had to go home to look after them so she was left with 2 kids and a number of apartments she looked after.. As we don’t let our apartment out only family use it we don’t have have a lot of traffic so exactly as Tom said the water evaporated, the seat was down but our furry enemy found his way up the U bend and gnawed the 4 little stoppers that hold the seat up off the porcelain. He eventually managed to push up the lid and get into the bathroom however in doing this the lid obviously closed so he had no way back out. He pi$$ed and $h1t everywhere, beds, furniture, towels, etc. All the kitchen cabinets, he got into a drawer in the kitchen and managed to eat an entire box of high strength paracetamol which would have killed a human being but not a rat.
WE have since set up a procedure with our key holder to flush the toilet once per week, also run the taps, the stoppers in the sinks and wash hand basins to be put in to prevent any cock roaches entry, we have a 5L water bottle filled with sand to sit on the lid of the toilet, but we have also fitted a child proof lock to the toilet seat so doubly sure.

[Can the Man]

Follow on......
Insurance were not interested said we were not covered by vermin, but interestingly if someone had broken in and pi$$ed and $h1t everywhere and wrecked the place I was covered. 
Management company said they had no responsibility as all the sewers and drains in Fuerteventura are full of rats, we got a rat catching company to come in, he was a really funny guy, he came in the door stood and smelt the air, Aahh Rats he said, he the new proceeded to check each room, threw down small bags of bait unopened he told me always when putting down bait to leave it in the wrapper as that way you will know if the vermin have eaten it, other animals will not eat the wrapper as well. Anyway he wedged all the interconnecting doors semi open and placed a glue trap between each doorway so if ratty was going from room to room there was only one route over the glue trap, and that’s where we caught him. 
WE only found out about rat on the Monday and we were due in on Thursday or Saturday I can’t remember anyway we had to rent somewhere else and we had friends coming with us. So the entire holiday was spent organising rat catchers, someone to clear out the place, some one to sanitise the place, and then later refurnish. Luckily all our clothes were safe as they were in wardrobes and chest of drawers that the rat hadn’t  got into, also we never leave food there only my coffee pods and they are in sealed box.