Have you ever seen mice have a nibble on vertical plastic pipes?

[Plumb Line]

Hi folks

We live in the sticks and sometimes have mice in the house. I even saw a stoat once in the loft!

Most of our pipework is copper, but there are a couple of bits that are plastic which I'm going to have changed to copper while the plumber is here doing other work. It's not worth the risk imo. The obvious bits to change are at ground level and in the kind of places mice like. But there's also a run from the top of the cylinder in the airing cupboard, which then comes down behind the cylinder and joins copper beneath the floorboards. Have you ever seen mice have a go at pipes in that kind of position - i.e. vertical-ish and above ground?

Here's a couple of pics. You can't see it all cos the cylinder is in the way, but hopefully it's enough to get the gist.

Many thanks

 

[rpm]

Seen the teeth marks on all plastic pipes and cables, horizontal and vertical, they dont care.

 

[exedon2]

I've seen there bigger cousins go through all types of plastic pipe they love M D P E !
Grey squirrels equally bad few years had van wiring destroyed by them.