mice and plastic pipes

They can be eliminated but they will be back if the access route remains open. Your local council pest control department will usually supply free poison and give advice on eradication.

Only by stoping where they are getting in. As you have read the relevant threads you'll know that with mice that is almost impossible with an old stone built house, far to many holes of suitable size...

|Hi all. |Just installed 50 metres of HEP2O 20 metres of it below my 4 metre square |tiled en-suite in my bungalow. |Then the MICE arrived found mouse droppings under the kitchen sink last |week. |I was quite laid back about the little perishers put down humane box traps |and caught 2 they look more like field mice -brown with orange colour on |backs. |Then I read they eat plastic cables. |Got the deadly spring traps and so far caught one very healthy looking |mature mouse. |Just read the back threads on this forum. |It looks like the exceptionaly warm weather-for Scotland- has encouraged |them indoors. |What I do not understand is they do nt seem to be interested in foodstuffs |but stick to dark places. |Are the spring traps the best way to clear the mice out. |Can they be eliminated once they have moved in.

Yes poison, use two different ingredients, because they are now immune to some poisons :-(

I have poison permanently hidden in places which only I get to, then they die before I notice that I have mice again.

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They have yet to develop an immunity to cats, spring loaded things or fast moving lead. Unless you've been reading "Maurice and his amazing wossnames".

No - not unless you have very few mice. If you've got a colony they can breed faster than you can catch 'em in those things.

Cats are useless too. I have three and they have yet to figure out a way to hunt inside cavity walls, the attic and under the floor where the mice lived.

The ultrasonic things... We tried one once in a stable - absolutely freaked out one of the horses. Lots of other evidence around to prove it's not just mice they piss off. Might work if you have no pets or mentally unbalanced and unusually sensitive neighbours.

Guns/air pistols. Can be fun, but won't get enough.

Poison is the ONLY effective method I've found for mice, squirrels and rats. Make sure it's unaccessible to pets and don't buy the same brand/poison twice in a row.

One female mouse can have 10 litters of up to 14 young each a year and live for five years. ICBA to do the maths, but that's a lotta mouses and with them reaching sexual maturity in 8 weeks, it gets exponential.

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Not impossible, but certainly hard work.

Foam-in-a-can is your friend.

However its harvest time, and they are running off the fields into open doors this time of year..

They eat it :-(

cheers, clive

Copper is also cheaper as well as neater.

Not at the moment, plastic pipe is cheaper. Copper prices are high and don't look like they're going to fall anytime soon.

But I agree it is neater and provides better peace of mind, expecially boxed in or under floorboards.

Not bought any recently, but it's the cost of the fittings which often adds up and push fit types are much more than end feed capillary.

Of course under floor runs are often where plastic is easiest.

|Dave Liquorice wrote: |> On Thu, 03 Aug 2006 08:27:37 GMT, THOMAS PATTON wrote: |> |>> Can they be eliminated once they have moved in. |> |> Only by stoping where they are getting in. As you have read the relevant |> threads you'll know that with mice that is almost impossible with an old |> stone built house, far to many holes of suitable size... |> |Not impossible, but certainly hard work.

An EHO recommended Brillo pads plus filler, they do not like steal wool. | |Foam-in-a-can is your friend.

Do they like foam?

|> Foam-in-a-can is your friend. | |They eat it :-(

Start with a bit of Brillo

I laughed out loud at the suggestion of foam-in-a-can. Ours love foam insulation on pipes and if a bit of foam-in-a-can blocked one of their known access routes they'd simply gnaw through it.