Discuss Re-wiring a house where Glis Glis (rodents) are an issue in the Electrical Forum area at ElectriciansForums.net

Welcome to ElectriciansForums.net - The American Electrical Advice Forum
Head straight to the main forums to chat by click here:   American Electrical Advice Forum

Reaction score
0
Hey guys,

So there's a house that needs a re-wire after it burnt down. The most probable cause is glis glis chewing the cables. I've previously had to rewire a house with the same rodent issue and did it in FP as the metal sheathing would hopefully stop the rodents chewing through the cable. Does anyone have any experience with this issue and any suggestions other than FP cable?

Cheers.
 
Agree with baddegg - reduce the problem to zero and that leaves you with no problem . . . mon!
Get em exterminated then seal all holes so the buggers don’t come back.
Another solution is what @buzzlightyear did and put the floorboards back down with a cat under the floor - at least it’ll have something to eat!
 
My father in law has been sealing the holes in his house for the last 30 years and the rats still get in.

Cable in containment where there's high risk of Roland wanting a snack.
 
My father in law has been sealing the holes in his house for the last 30 years and the rats still get in.

Cable in containment where there's high risk of Roland wanting a snack.
Not rats though, S.....door mice.
Believe it or not, they were a Roman delicacy (Glis glis).....maybe that's why they invaded us, Claudius loved 'em with his chips.....but the rats in Rome had eaten them all.
 
The OP said the property burnt down,so starting from scratch,would give good opportunity to "proof" everything.

Glis Glis = click click = bang bang

Signal crayfish and knotweed,got looked after for longer than they needed...
 
No idea about door mice but rats don't like ducts filled with wire wool or metal shavings. Just use decent quality wire wool or if you know someone who works in a machine shop get the spirally metal stranded swarf. I guess it must play up their fillings !
 
I worked on a large estate in Buckinghamshire, where these pesky rodents were rampant. As well as causing a lot of damage, they make a rather annoying noise at night.
 
Surely the owner is going to sort the problem? I mean even if you could run all cabling in steel conduits......if they that rampant they just going to Chew everything else anyways?
 
Last edited:
I've previously had to rewire a house with the same rodent issue and did it in FP as the metal sheathing would hopefully stop the rodents chewing through the cable.
.

Rodents won't even notice the metal screen in FP, they'll be straight through that.

This kind of use of FP as a one size fits all cable winds me up. it's a fire performance cable, great for fire alarms and other things where fire performance is an essential requirement, but when fire performance eisnt required why use it?
 

Reply to Re-wiring a house where Glis Glis (rodents) are an issue in the Electrical Forum area at ElectriciansForums.net

OFFICIAL SPONSORS

Electrical Goods - Electrical Tools - Brand Names Electrician Courses Green Electrical Goods PCB Way Electrical Goods - Electrical Tools - Brand Names Pushfit Wire Connectors Electric Underfloor Heating Electrician Courses
These Official Forum Sponsors May Provide Discounts to Regular Forum Members - If you would like to sponsor us then CLICK HERE and post a thread with who you are, and we'll send you some stats etc

Electrical Forum

Welcome to the Electrical Forum at ElectriciansForums.net. The friendliest electrical forum online. General electrical questions and answers can be found in the electrical forum.
This website was designed, optimised and is hosted by Untold Media. Operating under the name Untold Media since 2001.
Back
Top
AdBlock Detected

We get it, advertisements are annoying!

Sure, ad-blocking software does a great job at blocking ads, but it also blocks useful features of our website. For the best site experience please disable your AdBlocker.

I've Disabled AdBlock