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Orion · 10-09-2015, 04:48 PM

We built in 2001 and have never had a rodent in the house. We did get one in the exterior wall in the one electrician-created hole I missed when scouring the house for entry points. Electricians are generally not thinking about rodent-proofing when drilling for wiring in the wall base plates. Before walls get closed up it's great if you can go around to all through-floor holes and stuff steel wool tightly where anything passes through. Same holds true for plumbing openings. If you don't get it before closing walls up, you'll have to crawl under the camp, unfortunately. But if acorns are getting in, the holes are at least the size of acorns! And yes, it there's a hole, a rodent WILL find it, and they do like to nest in beds.....my neighbor found out when she crawled into bed in Spring.

10-09-2015, 04:48 PM	#17
Orion Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: MA Posts: 914 Thanks: 598 Thanked 193 Times in 91 Posts	Ya gotta rodent proof We built in 2001 and have never had a rodent in the house. We did get one in the exterior wall in the one electrician-created hole I missed when scouring the house for entry points. Electricians are generally not thinking about rodent-proofing when drilling for wiring in the wall base plates. Before walls get closed up it's great if you can go around to all through-floor holes and stuff steel wool tightly where anything passes through. Same holds true for plumbing openings. If you don't get it before closing walls up, you'll have to crawl under the camp, unfortunately. But if acorns are getting in, the holes are at least the size of acorns! And yes, it there's a hole, a rodent WILL find it, and they do like to nest in beds.....my neighbor found out when she crawled into bed in Spring.