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I've found three mice in my apartment in the past 6 weeks. Today, I started moving stuff to look for holes and found that: 1. My stove has some wiring in a twisty metal tube-like thing of about 3/4- of an inch in diameter that goes into a hole in the wall that isn't sealed, and that hole leaves like a 1/2-inch gap between the metal tube and the wall. Seems big enough for a mouse to slip through. 2. Behind my bed is an uncovered electrical outlet. The outlet works, it just doesn't have a cover, so there's a ton of space and you can easily see into the wall. Could mice get into through here? Will adding a plastic cover to the outlet prevent mice from getting in through it? And then standard steel wool for the stove hole?
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Dec 29, 2015 21:12
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That's not good news. When putting the cover over the outlet, I think I left a 2-4mm gap between the outlet plug and the opening of the cover, since the outlet sits too deeply within the wall to be flush with the cover. I thought I could pull it forward a bit, but it still kept getting pushed back into the wall when I tried to screw it, so I had to push it all the way in before it would stop moving... But then that means the cover isn't perfect. :/ Any idea how I can keep the outlet from getting away from my screw without pushing it all the way back?
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Dec 30, 2015 00:18
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When I found mousepoop I sprayed it with a chlorox spray and then letit sit for a couple minutes before wiping it up with a paper towel. Also wore an N95 mask and a pair of rubber gloves. It's really not hard.
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Jan 12, 2016 17:49
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