Something inside my loo pipe

[Tim Lamb]

Speechless. Just hurried off through an open door.

[harry]

You really don't have the faintest idea about sewer/drain systems do you?

[Richard]

You, as a sewer rat, probably have much more experience. But there has not been one rat come into my house via the toilet with the lid up. How many have you had?

[Andrew]

The mystery is, the drainage is 'modern' (1976), using hepworth or Naylor glazed earthenware pipes with plastic/epdm connectors so I'm not sure where he could get in. This isn't an area that has a rat problem, lacking running streams or ponds, or fast food outlets.

[Andrew]

Casing the joint for Father Christmas ?

[Cursitor Doom]

Farms out in the sticks get a lot of rats, too. It's not just an inner city thing.

[Vir Campestris]

We've had rats out in the garden. But still no idea how it would get into the sewer pipes.

Andy

[Cynic]

Rats can chew through many things. What makes you think a plastic pipe isn't one of them?

[Andrew]

I think even a rat would struggle to chew through a 110mm plastic waste pipe from the *inside*.

[Sam]

Possibly from the drains. I opened the inspection chamber cover some time back and found a frog living in there!

[John Angus]

But we are discussing how it gets inside, not how it gets out.

[whisky-dave]

Bloody foreigners they get everywhere !