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Royston's Mouse Repellent Tablets
Royston's Mouse Repellent Tablets
Pressed peppermint, lemongrass & rosemary tablets
No poison, no traps, nothing that dies in your walls
One tablet at every way in, ready to use
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Royston's Mouse Repellent Tablets
Pressed peppermint · lemongrass · rosemary
Make your house smell wrong to mice. No poison, no traps, nothing that dies in your walls.
Twelve dense plant-fibre tablets, each pressed with three concentrated essential oils. Put one at every way in, before the first frosts, and the mice that come looking for a warm place for the winter turn around and stay out.
50% off for the first 300 orders“The one you catch is the brave one. The rest are in the wall.” — Royston
From 33 years in Yorkshire lofts and cellars
Royston Haigh spent twelve years as a council pest control officer and twenty-one running his own firm across the Pennine valleys of West Yorkshire. More than 5,000 homes, most of them old stone terraces with a hundred gaps each.
He learned the oldest trick in the trade on his very first job in 1991: rat catchers used to stuff the holes in barns with rags soaked in peppermint oil. It worked, for about three days, until the oil was gone. So in his last years in the trade, he had the oils pressed into something that holds. He left the tablets in every loft and cellar he cleared, “to stop the callback.”
Last autumn his sister Avis found a nest in the drawer under her cooker two weeks before half-term. Royston put down twelve tablets. Four nights later the scratching in her loft stopped, and her flour line stayed clean until April.
— Royston Haigh, Holmfirth, West Yorkshire
The 3-Nerve Blend: three oils, three senses
Nose
Peppermint
Menthol floods a mouse’s nose. It can’t smell food, can’t smell its trail home and can’t smell whether the coast is clear.
Whiskers
Lemongrass
Citral stings the lips and the whiskers a mouse uses to feel its way along a wall in the dark.
Eyes
Rosemary
Camphor makes the eyes water. Together, the three hit the same nerve that makes yours water over horseradish.
A mouse has more than 1,000 working smell genes. You have about 400. That nose is how it finds food, finds its way and stays safe, and it is exactly where the blend hits. A sound is something a mouse learns to ignore. A sting isn’t.
What arrives at your door
- 1 box with 12 pressed repellent tablets, about 20 grams each
- Enough for an average house, garage and car for 30 to 60 days
- Ready to use: no batteries, no outlets, no spraying, no mixing
Where the 12 tablets go
One tablet covers roughly 10 square metres, or one way in. This is Royston’s own list, in the order he does it every October.
2 tablets
Under the kitchen sink, right where the pipes go through the wall.
3 tablets
Behind the cooker, behind the fridge and in the drawer under the cooker.
3 tablets
The loft: one by the hatch and one at each end of the eaves.
2 tablets
The cellar, where the floor joists sit on the stone wall.
1 tablet
The shed or garage, next to the bird seed, dog food or grass seed.
1 tablet
Under the bonnet of the car, away from the exhaust and the belts.
How to know it’s working: Royston’s flour test
- The night before the tablets go down, dust a thin line of flour along the kitchen skirting board.
- In the morning, check it with a torch. Tracks mean traffic. Wipe up all droppings.
- Put the tablets down at every way in. Where you found droppings, use two.
- Lay a fresh flour line every night and check it every morning. At Avis’s, the tracks were gone by night four.
- When a tablet no longer smells of peppermint, usually after 30 to 60 days, swap it for a fresh one.
Six things that make it different
NO. 01
Pressed, not sprayed
The oils sit inside dense plant fibre and come out slowly. Loose oil on cotton is gone in two or three days.
NO. 02
Three oils, not one
Peppermint on its own wears off fast. Three oils on three nerves are much harder to ignore.
NO. 03
Nothing dies
No poison, so no mouse dying behind your fridge and no smell you can’t wash out for weeks.
NO. 04
Works where they live
Inside cupboards, lofts and walls, exactly where a plug-in’s sound never reaches.
NO. 05
Not bedding
Hard pressed tablets, not cloth or loose fluff, so there is nothing to drag off for a nest.
NO. 06
Twenty minutes, done
Twelve tablets, one Saturday, sink to loft to car. Then nothing to empty, check or reset.
The usual fixes vs. Royston’s tablets
| What people try | What happens |
|---|---|
| Shop-bought poison | Mice die in the wall, smell for weeks, risk for dogs and cats |
| Snap traps | Catch the bold one, the rest learn to walk around them |
| Ultrasonic plug-in | Works for a few days, doesn’t go through walls or doors |
| Peppermint oil on cotton | Smell is gone in 2 to 3 days, mice steal the cotton |
| Pest control firm | £240 first visit, then a monthly contract |
| Royston’s tablets | They leave your house. 30 to 60 days per tablet, nothing dies |
In Royston’s words
“It’s not a dirty-house problem. It’s an old-house problem. Every old terrace has a hundred gaps, and a mouse only needs one the width of a pencil. You can’t find them all. But you can make every one of them smell wrong.”
Royston Haigh, retired pest controller, 33 years in the Pennine valleys of West Yorkshire
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The Haigh guarantee
90 days to see it for yourself
Put the tablets down and run the flour test. If the droppings don’t stop, or you simply change your mind, reply to your order confirmation email within 90 days and you get a full refund. No questions, no hassle.
Good to know
- Keep the tablets out of reach of children and pets, like any household product, and don’t put them where a pet can chew them.
- Don’t place tablets directly on food or on surfaces where you prepare food. Next to them is fine.
- In the car, put the tablet in a dry spot away from the exhaust, the belts and other hot or moving parts.
- The peppermint smell is noticeable for a day or two, then you stop noticing it. To a mouse, it doesn’t fade until the tablet is spent.
- Already seeing droppings? Double up at those spots and take the 2 or 3 pack.
- Dispatched within 24 hours with tracking, delivered in 2 to 4 working days.
Product details
| Contents | 12 pressed repellent tablets |
| Size | About 4.5 cm across and 1.5 cm thick, about 20 g each |
| Made of | Pressed plant fibre with peppermint, lemongrass and rosemary essential oils |
| Works for | 30 to 60 days per tablet |
| Coverage | About 10 m², or one way in, per tablet |
| Use in | Kitchens, pantries, lofts, cellars, sheds, garages, cars and caravans |
| Against | Mice and rats |
| Shipping | Dispatched within 24 hours, tracked delivery in 2 to 4 working days |
| Guarantee | 90-day money-back guarantee |
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Shipping & Delivery via DHL
Shipping & Delivery via DHL
Your order will be ready for dispatch within 24–48 hours. Delivery takes a further 5–8 days. We use GoGreen DHL as our shipping partner. Every shipment is completely free of charge and insured.
90-Day Money-Back Guarantee
90-Day Money-Back Guarantee
You can try Royston's tablets for 90 days and then decide whether you want to keep them or send them back.
What's in the box
What's in the box
1 box with 12 pressed repellent tablets, about 20 grams each. Ready to use: no batteries, no outlets, no spraying, no mixing.
What Royston's customers are saying
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★★★★★
Mice behind the cooker every autumn since we moved in. Did the flour test first because I thought it was nonsense, tracks all along the skirting board. Tablets down on the Saturday, flour clean by the Wednesday. Smells like strong mint tea for a day, then it fades into the background.
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★★★★★
Our utility room backs onto a field so we get them every year when it turns cold. Didn't want poison anywhere near the house, so these were an easy choice. I keep them tucked behind the washing machine. Quiet ever since and it arrived quicker than I expected, well packed.
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★★★★★
I'm 74 and on my own, and I was not going up that loft ladder with traps. My son put the tablets down for me in ten minutes. The scratching above the landing stopped within the week. Lovely to sleep through the night again.
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★★★★★
This is under my kitchen sink. The gap round the pipes is where they were getting in, droppings every morning. Two tablets right in front of it and not a single one since. Not glamorous but it works.
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★★★★★
Tried peppermint oil on cotton wool years ago. Smelled lovely for two days and the mice were back by the weekend. These are a different thing, still smelling of mint after five weeks in the loft. Quiet up there now and I'll be ordering again when they run out.
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★★★★★
Mice nested under the bonnet last winter and chewed a cable, £290 at the garage. One tablet under the bonnet this year, well away from the belts. Nothing chewed, no nest. Proper chuffed.
