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Mouse eat pex leak

johnjoe 123 · 2014-01-30 15:43:32

Hi folk iv come across a 1/2" irish acorn hot domestic water pipe running through an attic of an old cottage mice have chewed it twice causing it to leak.. It's not pex it's irish acorn I thought it should have a rodent barrier built in? Any tips??

30-01-2014 4:43pm

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johnjoe 123

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Hi folk iv come across a 1/2" irish acorn hot domestic water pipe running through an attic of an old cottage mice have chewed it twice causing it to leak.. It's not pex it's irish acorn I thought it should have a rodent barrier built in? Any tips??

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#2 30-01-2014 6:17pm

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johnjoe 123 wrote: »

Hi folk iv come across a 1/2" irish acorn hot domestic water pipe running through an attic of an old cottage mice have chewed it twice causing it to leak.. It's not pex it's irish acorn I thought it should have a rodent barrier built in? Any tips??

Probably a rat not a mouse

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#3 30-01-2014 9:45pm

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Dtp1979 wrote: »

Probably a rat not a mouse

Aaa ya, the bigga mouse.......:D

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#4 28-07-2015 7:48pm

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I'm sure when you buy Pex, they don't ask you if you have rat's in your house? Maybe you should kill the rat's before you do anything in your house. Pex is much better then copper, the only downside is you shouldn't use it outside and like you say rat's can eat a hole in it.......

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