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Me: not so much 'in the closet' as 'in the cupboard' earlier today.
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It's been an extraordinarily mild Autumn. Some
of the nasturtium flowers survived into December.
But, as soon as it got a little colder, who should turn up in the kitchen cupboard
again but the mouse. Remember him from last January?
So I took the side panel off the cupboard and crawled inside to find out how he
was getting in. |
I soon spotted a large hole behind the central heating pipes, leading into the
wall between the kitchen and living room. The *%@$** lazy workmen who installed
the heating hadn't bothered filling it -- probably because it was out of sight
from the front of the cupboard.
They had also made quite a mess with their blow-lamp as they welded the copper
pipe. I don't know if this is unavoidable, but in a couple of places in the kitchen
they have literally turned the skirting board into charcoal.
Mice and rats LOVE these holes, which are often left around pipes. They provide
a great entry point for them, from outside into the cavity wall and from there
into the house. One place where I lived, we discovered we had rats under the bath.
It's worth checking under your bath and sink and anywhere else a pipe enters,
inside the house and out to see if there are any gaps. Of course, a mouse can
squeeze through quite a small space and is hard to stop. .
Anyway, I mixed up some filler and, an hour later, it was all fixed.
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