As mice and rats get into the house?
Anyone who lives in the country certainly has repeatedly conceived as rodents can get into the house, if it is completely closed and isolated? This article looks at what home area to pay attention to prevent mice and rats in dwellings.
Top 6 places in which rodents enter the house:
- Places entered in house water: use mouse gaps around water pipes to penetrate into the house;
- entry point of gas pipes, at least - power cable entry point into the house;
- The ventilation holes if they are not covered by the grid;
- The air holes in the strip foundation;
- Ventzazory in the roof;
- Ventfasadov gaps;
How to prevent rodents entering the house?
The best way to deal with the invasion of rodents - the creation of barriers to entry ways described above.
To reliably close the vent gaps roofing and facade systems rodent use fine mesh steel grid with a size up to 6 mm.
If the barrier sheet is used for mice iron, its minimum thickness is 0.5 mm.
Mice and rats can gnaw through brickwork or non-reinforced concrete wall thickness of 12 cm!
It eliminates the possibility of digging rodents under house monolithic slab foundationAs well as reinforced concrete ceiling pore floors.
To prevent rodents Climbing the walls of the house are used circular tides along the perimeter of the foundation or decorative metal strip around the perimeter of the house height of 20-25 cm.