mice in electrical boxes best prevention methods

[TripleSix]

Glue traps inside the boxes.

They're hateful things but effective and nothing else will get on them if it's inside the box.

Remember if you can get a ballpoint pen into a hole a mouse can get through it.

 

[paulthefarm]

thanks triplesix, great idea. do they dry out over time?

 

[milkloss]

Glue traps inside the boxes.

They're hateful things but effective and nothing else will get on them if it's inside the box.

Remember if you can get a ballpoint pen into a hole a mouse can get through it.

Would be a very good solution but there’s this below to be aware of. Banned in the summer I think.


Under the Animal Welfare Act 2006, any animal becomes a 'protected animal' when it is 'under the control of man whether on a permanent or temporary basis'.

Therefore an animal in such a trap is a protected animal, and if it suffers unnecessarily as a result of poor practice in the use of the trap, or through a failure to release or kill the animal in an appropriate manner, then an offence of causing unnecessary suffering under section 4 of the Act may have been committed.

 

[TripleSix]

thanks triplesix, great idea. do they dry out over time?

They do last a long time.

You'll know when they're drying out because as milkloss points out, you'll be checking them all twice a day

 

[paulthefarm]

dear milkloss thanks for pointing out the animal welfare aspect but there is also my mental health to take inconsideration, it is driving me mad thinking that they are starting again to make nests.

 

[milkloss]

dear milkloss thanks for pointing out the animal welfare aspect but there is also my mental health to take inconsideration, it is driving me mad thinking that they are starting again to make nests.

Best bet is just to try and get those boxes sealed somehow. I wasn’t trying to tow the ‘anti’ line with regards the sticky traps but we do need to be aware on a public forum that we can be watched.
I’m wondering if using some Liquid Metal so help seal the box might work……. Would last longer than silicone at any rate.

 

[Woldgrain Storage]

Electrical cabins are always a conundrum, keeping rodents out and trying to prevent condensation at the same time.

We put a lot of effort into filling any gaps with wire wool and expanding foam, especially in the ducts between panels. We also put baited juice in drinker trays for any rats and blocks in all the electric panels for the mice (using a contractor).

The key is to check in everywhere regularly, so nowhere is left with peace & quiet if possible.

 

[GSpest]

sorry did not explain properly, old boxes had rodents in with nests, could not figure out how they got in as glands on the cable entry points, cleaned them out and I put silicone sealer around each entry point. 2 years latter electrical problems nests again and chewed trip switches and stripped pvc off wires. new boxes are similar design where door fits in a groove on the box. I just do not see how they get in. hence the request for suggestions of products to deter them.

Are they getting in from behind the circuits?? any holes ?

 

[paulthefarm]

On the old boxes I sealed every hole I could see with silicone, then when we started to have electrical problems I opened the cabinets and found nests and attacked electrics.

New boxes, new trips and repaired wiring, I cannot see any holes.

Have moth balls containing Napthalene, and have lined the bottom of the boxes with aluminium foil with chilli oil brushed over it.

So if they can accept the smell of the balls they may not like licking their feet to remove the chilli oil.

 

[Flatlander]

On the old boxes I sealed every hole I could see with silicone, then when we started to have electrical problems I opened the cabinets and found nests and attacked electrics.

New boxes, new trips and repaired wiring, I cannot see any holes.

Have moth balls containing Napthalene, and have lined the bottom of the boxes with aluminium foil with chilli oil brushed over it.

So if they can accept the smell of the balls they may not like licking their feet to remove the chilli oil.

Hope it works. Getting them high on the moth balls then sh1t themselves to death from the chilli oil. Animal rights will love that one. Lol. On a serious note the cables entering the electrical box should be in conduit and sealed into the box with a treaded fitting and the other end with a water proof fitting to clamp the wire cable.