What the hell has bitten this ! ?

[mattyp]

A section of pipe I found bitten through,under some laminate flooring !

 

[Dotty]

Mouse.

You can tell by the droppings.

 

[Masood]

That's one hell of a rat!

 

[erpkid]

View attachment 12919 A section of pipe I found bitten through,under some laminate flooring !

Looking at the staining around the hole I would say installation damage rather than rodent.

 

[mjt]

Mouse nibble and pressure blown the rest off?

 

[CXR100]

ive seen dogs chew through them before, but that one was bite and chew marks all over

 

[mattyp]

I've seen mouse bites before but usually they are much smaller ! They nibble through get wet and bugger off ! Deffo wasn't install damage and the section missing was nowhere to be seen !

 

[mountainman]

Don't get these problems with copper pipe and fittings

 

[SimonG]

Mouse tends to be much smaller, the ones I've seen they nibble but then do one as soon as it's spraying.

 

[Killy Bing]

That looks like a flippin squirrel has had its way with that.

 

[mattyp]

There was very little room under the floor,chipboard over celotex insulation on a concrete base, there was no way a squirrel could have got in !!

 

[erpkid]

Look at the brown stains on the pipe, that is long term leaking not rodent damage IMHO.

 

[Dannypipe]

Saw one that was badly chewed my a rat. It left really disitinctive teeth marks in it. Where it had knawed it along, and finally gone through it. That was a big hole, but nothing like the one in this photo at all.

 

[mattyp]

It was on a heating pipe ,4 years old on a sealed system, customer had not topped the pressure once in all that time ! Just lost pressure over night last week .When i got there i found the filling loop fully open as the customer couldn't get any pressure in the system and forgot to turn it off ( for about 5 hrs)
:90: From my experience its quite hard to damage plastic in this way ? For example if you hit it with a hammer it won't crack

 

[Dannypipe]

It was on a heating pipe ,4 years old on a sealed system, customer had not topped the pressure once in all that time ! Just lost pressure over night last week .When i got there i found the filling loop fully open as the customer couldn't get any pressure in the system and forgot to turn it off !
:90:

Very weird indeed!

 

[on31ll]

i think its install damage too. why would a rat lets say chew through it then keep chewing while nearly drowing in water ?

 

[mattyp]

Here is another photo ! Bit closer up

 

[Best]

That last picture does look gnawed. Weird though!

And now we are seeing the results of plastic pipes!

 

[Best]

Maybe there is a drenched mouse lying on it's back nearby, with a large piece of plastic in it's mouth?

 

[on31ll]

has the pipe only just started being used ? maybe chewed on install or time the floor was put together etc then commissioned and left to leak for a while ?

 

[mattyp]

Been in and used for 4 years !

 

[lame plumber]

sqirrels are just furry tailed rats and do similar damage but got to be rodent of one sort or another. Best find out where they got in to prevent further damage, after all,now they got a drinking supply

 

[on31ll]

sqirrels are just furry tailed rats and do similar damage but got to be rodent of one sort or another. Best find out where they got in to prevent further damage, after all,now they got a drinking supply

The same drinking supply as homeowners !

 

[Reg Man]

Rats get in anywhere, maybe it was thirsty. Normally they go for the shocking experience of chewing electrical cables.

 

[Destroyer2813]

Just a thought everyones saying mouse rat and signs of where they may have eaten through the insulation to actually get at the pipe