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Default Dripping gutter down pipe - use string!



Broadback wrote:
Steve Walker wrote:
LSR wrote:
Matty F wrote:
On May 2, 9:25 pm, "Steve Walker" wrote:
Matty F wrote:
On May 2, 7:37 pm, Les Desser wrote:
Just a word of thanks for the advice to run a length of string
down the inside.
Did that yesterday with 1/4" nylon rope and it seems to have
solved the problem!
That will also greatly help the rats to climb up the pipe!
for a rooftop protest about their conditions?
The rats go up the pipe to the roof and look for holes to go into.
Corrugated iron has lots of rat-sized holes especially for rats!
Tie a slip-knot every so often in the rope so the rats snare
themselves in the noose. (Use the rope to pull the bodies out when
necessary).


With a piece of cheese by each loop, so that the rats stick their
heads through to eat it.


Does the string need to go to the bottom of the drain pipe?


No good - the rats will use ladders to reach the rope.


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