Mouse jam

[Dotty]

This time of year furry wee buggers look for somewhere warm, fit plenty of traps and deterrents around and near your boiler or you'll have mouse jam and no heat!

 

[Mr Doberman]

Cheers......didnt want breakfast anyway !

I will set traps now.

 

[Dotty]

Same burner, 2 different mice Mr D. This poor little old lady has had 3 in the last year.

Went and had a bacon buttie straight after, dripping with tomato sauce.

And me with mouse bits still under me fingernails lol!

 

[SimonG]

Not the first time I've seen that. Like you say as it cools down they want somewhere warm.

 

[Best]

I saw same burner on a 1 year old WB boiler making a bearing noise I thought, but it was totally shredded mouse making fan noise (only way of knowing it was a mouse was a couple bits of tail.)
The mice also pull the fibreglass insulation out of the boiler wrap & I see this blocking off the air intake on burner & boiler sooting up. Guess that is the advantage of balanced flues having piped air inlet.
Apart from trying to seal any places they can get in, it is a good idea not to have any bird seed, pet food, etc near that attracts them. One way to stop them getting into burner air intake is to get a fine fishing line & roll it up into a large ball & jam it over intake. Apparently they hate steel wool but this would be a fire hazard near boilers.

 

[REDSAW]

dumb animals.......

supposed to go inside the wheel!!!!

cant you fit a safety rail?

 

[acecharly]

dumb animals.......

supposed to go inside the wheel!!!!

cant you fit a safety rail?

poor little thing, can you imagine how fast his little legs must have been goin before the inevitable....

 

[Dannypipe]

Well he won't do it again, that's for sure!!

 

[migoplumber]

ive not seen that before, hat off too the little bugger for impressing me !

 

[Dotty]

This little old lady has had 3 so far this year Shaun. But the first time I came across one a few year ago it was still fairly moist. It actually made me heave where I wasn't expecting it!