Do mice gnaw foam

Polyfoam is a building material used to insulate the facades of a building, houses from the outside and inside. It is a foamed synthetic polyester. For a living creature, nothing in it is valuable, there is nothing useful. The answer to the question of whether a mouse eats foam is negative. But interest for rodents is.

Why do mice need foam

Rodents have a special structure of teeth. On the upper, lower jaw is located on a pair of incisors that appear closer to 20 days after birth, grow until the end of life.During the day the teeth grow by 1 mm. If nothing is done about it, the mouse simply cannot close its mouth.

On a note!

Such a mouse structure forcing them to grind down the cutters on hard materials every day. For this reason, they gnaw absolutely inedible "products", especially not turning over. In the course is plastic, concrete, brick, wood, fabric, polyester, foam, etc.

Mice also gnaw foam for more reasons:

• In a stressful situation. When there is a lot of noise in the room or there is a struggle for survival, the habitat. Rodents in this way mark their territory, calm their nerves.
• Innovation. All unknown materials of the mouse taste. Useless "food" rodents will not eat, but will use it for other purposes.
• Building material for the nest. Not only people, but also mice evaluated the properties of the foam. Non-toxic, well separated into pieces, has a high thermal insulation. Mice build their nests directly in the thickness of the foam, gnawing there numerous passages, or bite off parts, drag them to a place more convenient for them.

Foam and mouse

The foam in the walls separates the outside of the building from the inside.Trying to get into the room, the mice gnaw everything, assessing the hardness. Seeing that the material lends itself well, the animals firmly achieve their goal. A kind of flaw in construction. Allows pests to enter the house almost unhindered.

Scientific research

By order of manufacturers in the laboratory, experiments were conducted in which they tried to find out how the mice relate to the foam. Does it make for rodents an interest in what pests are capable of if they are not stopped in time?

• They tried to feed the hungry animals with synthetic polyester. Rodents refused to use as food. They turned it into dust, but did not eat.
• Behind the sheets of construction tools had stocks of food. Mice in the foam made numerous moves, trying to get to the food. Then they began to use it as a building material for their nest. Live in the foam of the mouse without harm to their health.
• Left at the complete disposal of the rodents several sheets of foam. For a month only crumbs remained from him.

This suggests a conclusion - if there are rodents in the walls, nothing to do with this, at the end of winter you can start dismantling the old thermal insulation, fixing the new one.

Witnesses tell about the appetites and taste preferences of mice, leaving their feedback.

Feedback

In the summer he warmed the house; in the winter, mice were bred in the walls with foam. You can’t get them out of there, put them in the house mouse cells. Poison for mice were afraid to use. I will say that the cat does not help either, if the mice have already settled in the walls. Warn mouse populations can. So, I had to tear the bottom sheets in spring. Changed to more dense. Put protection in the form of a metal grid in height to 1 m. The next winter passed without rodents.

Kirill, Moscow

External protection of walls from rodents

Protect foam from mice

How to protect the foam from mice, you need to think in advance even during the installation work. The outer layer should be protected with galvanized iron to a height of 30 cm. Only the lower part of the building gnaws pests, trying to get inside. Climb the walls of the mouse can not. You can protect the foam outside the house with a metal mesh with small cells or use insulation that does not gnaw mice. Then the rodents will not be able to get into the house with all the desire.

On a note!

Foam and mouse - inseparable things.If it is in the house, the rodents will definitely find it. To prevent damage to property, to protect the insulation, you need to buy a dense foam, in which the fibers are arranged somewhat differently, do not lend themselves to the teeth of mice, and cannot be bitten through by pests.

During installation, special attention should be paid to quality. Mice penetrate the house through the most insignificant, narrow walls. There should be no flaws. If rodents cannot get inside, they are not destined to live in a house.

Internal wall protection

Mice penetrate the house in an unpredictable way. Tracing where they made their moves is sometimes difficult. In the room, the animal is looking for a suitable place for arranging its housing. Most often under the floor, in the attic, in the walls, if there is a suitable material.

Inside the house to lead rodent control You can lead in any convenient way, except for poison. If you treat the foam with poison, between the walls there may be corpses of mice, which will eventually begin to decompose. Getting out is very difficult, and get rid of the smell of mice quickly fail.

The inside of the walls can also be protected with a metal grid, any dense material.Or soak the foam with denatonium benzoate. The substance is not dangerous to humans, does not contain toxic ingredients, just has a pronounced bitter taste. Mice will not gnaw such material, the walls will be completely safe. Bitter substance will protect the inside from all pests, including rodents, insects.

Interesting!

The question is interesting to many - mice like foam plastic or minvata. There are several varieties of mineral wool, including ecowool. Rodents build moves in it, drag them into nests, as does foam. They try to avoid glass wool, because small particles of glass stick into the paws and irritate the skin.

Virtually all synthetic insulation lends itself to mouse teeth, attracting the interest of pests. The most important protection is the high quality of construction, installation works.