Customer Reviews

Weitech 0180-B 1000-Sq. Ft. Plug In Pest Repeller

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The Weitech 0180P Plug-In Electronic Pest Repeller works! I was starting to feel my small house was going to be overrun by mice, but I haven't seen hide nor hair (nor other evidence) of any of them since I started using this device. I was very skeptical of electronic pest control, having used another brand previously with no success at all, but a friend insisted this one had rid her country home of mice. The "variable frequencies" seemed an improvement over old technology, as did the promise that the noise from the unit wouldn't harm my dogs. (I could hear the sound waves bouncing out of the device I'd used years ago.) I tried it and got de-moused right away. It's important to remember that sound waves don't travel THROUGH walls, so you might need more than one unit, but they're really quite affordable.

Get rid of the poison! These devices work amazingly well!

This model constantly cycles between high and low frequency sound waves. Low gets rid of mice and rats -- high gets rid of insects and spiders. You plug it into the wall like a night light or a room deodorizer. It is about the size of a deck of cards. It is white and unobtrusive.

The ultrasonic sound does not go through walls -- so use several in different rooms. Move them around occasionally to really confuse the critters.

I keep a Weitech 180 on the sun porch where the cat and dog food bowls live. Another model (Weitech 800) gets moved from room to room.

I live in the country, so every mouse family that comes by thinks my house looks like a good one to live in. The ultrasonic sound confuses the hapless rodents. This confusion is an incredible hunting aid for my 17 year old cat, Checkers. Just last fall she caught five mice in two hours. (Unassisted, her previous record was three in one night -- and she was much younger.) Poor unfortunate mice. R.I.P. They are really picking the wrong house move into if they choose mine.

These devices do not seem to be effective at keeping opossums from coming in the dog door. One old gentleman opossum was insistent that my house was a good one.... then I got a Jack Russel Terrier and he moved on. (Opossums are marsupials -- not related to squirrels, mice, gerbils or raccoons, etc. at all.)

Last summer a bat flew in the open patio door (a mouse with wings) -- I didn't stay in the house long enough to see if the bat was confused or not. I climbed out the living room window and went to the neighbors, screaming. It had flown back out by the time we returned so, maybe this device worked against it. I do not know.

I saw a snake outside last fall. I do not think these devices work against snakes either.

But for spiders and bugs and other creepy-crawlies, they are much more effective than any spray or trap -- and safer and cleaner -- get several! (And maybe a Jack Russel if you have an insistent opossum.)

We bought a trio of these Weitech 180-B units shortly after a minor rat-infestation had been cleaned out of our garage, hoping that this would prevent such a problem (lately common in our neighborhood) from occurring again, as well as drive away the scattering of spiders, ants, and other bugs that seemed to favor the nooks and crannies of our garage. We plugged two of these in opposite corners of the garage, and one in the nearby kitchen.

In the several months since then, I don't think I've seen a single rodent, insect, or arachnid anywhere in or near our garage or kitchen. Further, our dog doesn't seem at all bothered by them (although he does think they make great chew-toys, so we have to be careful where we place them). I plan on getting a few more of these to scatter around the rest of the house.

Do note that, from the various reviews on these types of devices, it may be that the efficacy of any ultrasonic pest repeller can vary depending on location or other factors. (Some units purportedly work great for some users and terribly for others, etc.) But the Weitech 180-B seems to work very well in my house, and it would be the first such device I'd try in any new location.

I bought one for a small townhouse. The main floor is about 500 sqft. The mouse (which used to come nightly) never returned after I plugged it in. I purposely left out food to lure it one night and it didnt show up. Great product.
I did have one minor problem. The original location was next to a metal a/c return grid. We could hear a harmonic noise. Moving to an outlet across the room fixed that.
I would recommend this product to friends. I got rid of mice for under $20 without poison or traps. I didnt have to worry about dead mice in the walls.

I had three of these units placed throughout a 600 square foot apartment (ground floor). Unfortunately, I had to squish a spider, silverfish, or unidentified bug almost every other day (in the summer). Sometimes, I fould find a bug just hanging out directly under the pest repeller! I did not notice a decrease in bugs at all.

I can't say if this product repels mice or not. I never saw a mouse in my apartment before or after I started using the repellers.

I bought several of these, primarily to deal with a large population of spiders in my finished basement. Unfortunately, they didn't seem to have any noticeable effect. In fact, I saw one spider set up a new home and spun a web for itself just 3 feet from one unit in operation. After 3 months of continuous use, they just didn't seem to have any impact. Overall, a disappointment.

I was extremely disappointed in this product. We bought a couple of these in hopes of solving our insect problems. We had ants coming in through an outlet in the kitchen and brown recluse spiders coming down from our attic. I put one in the kitchen outlet, and the ants just kept coming in! They were even crawling on it! I put the other one in the hallway, and still I found couple of spiders in the bedrooms. Don't waste your money on this and other like products to get rid of insects. We ended up hiring an exterminator.