Mice and plastic pipes

[manty]

Some mice have decided to move in and as a welcome gift have chewed a little hole in my 22mm Hep2o heating pipe making a bit of a mess of our wooden floor

I am able to sort the piping out, but would rather they didnt chew any more

We have tried rentakill poison which they snack on in between pipe munching.

Where they have set up base is in the carcass that surrounds the internal soil pipe ( which is also where the heating pipes run through)

So i have had to remove some plaster board to gain access

I am thinking of laying some traps before replacing the plasterboard.

Any recomendations on traps or poisons?

Edited by manty on Tuesday 24th November 22:05

[Wings]

Use the old type wooden traps with bird nuts, non salty type.

[b2hbm]

Old style as above but with plastic bodies available from B&Q, etc. They'll go for almost anything but something with a scent seems to work best - things like peanut butter, chocolate, etc.

[DocJock]

B&Q sell a paste bait in a tube.

Little criters seem to love it, never had to wait more than a couple of hours for a result.

[SS2.]

Heard a good tip on the radio yesterday - butt sprung loaded traps against a wall. This is because mice tend to run tight to walls and skirtings and even if they don't stop for a nibble of the bait, there's every chance that the trap would be sprung as they scuttled past.

Oh, and peanut butter is supposed to be a very good bait - they love the nuts and, because its sticky, the trap is more likely to be sprung as the little buggers try to remove it.

[briSk]

yep. peanut butter.

[chris1roll]

Go to your local petshop and get the white milk chocholate rodent treats. Strangely enough rodents love them. Force them onto the spike on the trap so the heat from your hand slightly melts them in place.

Caught five in 12 hours like that a couple weeks back.

Or replace the plastic piping with copper

[northwest monkey]

I've used Snicker bars for trapping squirrels before now & I'm about to try the same trick with mice in the garage. It's the smell of the peanuts & the chocolate they like.

And if they don't like it I'll eat it

[annodomini2]

Random idea, expanding foam?

[sherman]

Replace all under floor piping with copper

The rodents will just much through expanding foam

and go to a proper old DIY shop and ask for rodent poison in there. They usually hav some leathal stuff.

[968CS]

Peanut Butter works wonders. I'm up to 23 this season.

[SS2.]

annodomini2 said:

Random idea, expanding foam?

The critters would nibble through that in no time - wire wool works better, apparently.