Hep2o and mice

[Mr Fizzion]

Any new information or stories on hep2o and mice?

I read this thread:

it seems Gruff thinks that using Hep2o barrier pipe is enough protection against rodents whereas Hepworth's site states:

"Hep2O does not specifically attract rodents. However,if the installation is in an area where there is a high risk of rodent attack, Hep2O like other piping and electrical cables should be ducted to ensure no damage can be caused."

My house periodically suffers from mice attack. The biggest problem is that they are around long before you become aware of their activity. They are active under the suspended ground floor and it could be months before they "surface" :-)

If ducting is necessary, my first thought is "might as well use copper"

Any info appreciated.

Thanks

Mr F.

[Doctor Drivel]

> and it seems Gruff thinks that using Hep2o barrier pipe is enough

yep.

[Grunff]

It's Grunff dammit.

My point was that plastic pipes (Hep, JG and PolyPlumb) are much, much tougher than T&E cabling. If you have a rodent problem so severe that they resort to eating your extremely hard, difficult to bite plastic pipes, they are also likely to decimate your cable runs.

I'm not shouting "plastic is better than copper" - copper has many advantages, but plastic comes into its own on fiddly, bendy runs, where you can dramatically reduce the number of elbows you use.

By all means use copper - in fact, there's no reason not to mix the two, using copper where you keep rodents, and plastic where it makes a run more convenient.

As for Hep's statement - they have to say that, because the product isn't rodent proof. Nothing is really - rats can eat though anything.

[Doctor Drivel]

I blame Thatcher. She took away funding for the rat catchers, and in her time the rat population quadrupled at least.

[Andy Dingley]

The mice have now started on cast iron downspouts and sewerpipe

[Doctor Drivel]