On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:29:27 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 16:02:48 +0000, Jon Telfer
wrote:

|Hi all,
| I had a couple of mice move in for winter (2 trapped within 2 days and
|nothing in the last week) and I'm trying to seal their route in. They came
|from the void in the bottom of the house and up through gaps round the gas
|pipes leading to the meter under the stairs. So can I squirt some PU foam
|to fill the gaps? Is it a risk to the pipes?

Pack the hole with steel wool or brillo pads first, then follow with filler
or something. Mice can eat most things, but they do not like steel wool.

Mice can get through a hole which you can get a pencil through, or arguably
two pencils.


Steel wool in contact with copper?

Doesn't seem like a good idea, electrolytically.


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..andy