A few days ago, I had a look around a house currently undergoing extensive refurbishment, which will include at least a partial (if not complete) rewire. Many of the floorboards had been lifted. The house had been unoccupied for a very appreciable period of time.
The rodents had had a real field day with all the telephone, alarm, Cat5 and coaxial cables - not just near where they went through holes (which usually seems the most common place), but scattered all along their lengths - in some places having totally severed the cables.
However, virtually all the (PVC, seemingly all metric) T+E cables appeared to be essentially intact. There were a few 'teeth marks' in a few places, but we didn't see any examples of them even having even penetrated the sheath.
Is this a common experience? Is there something about T+E which they don't like and/or something about the smaller cables that they find particularly attractive?!
Kind Regards, John
The rodents had had a real field day with all the telephone, alarm, Cat5 and coaxial cables - not just near where they went through holes (which usually seems the most common place), but scattered all along their lengths - in some places having totally severed the cables.
However, virtually all the (PVC, seemingly all metric) T+E cables appeared to be essentially intact. There were a few 'teeth marks' in a few places, but we didn't see any examples of them even having even penetrated the sheath.
Is this a common experience? Is there something about T+E which they don't like and/or something about the smaller cables that they find particularly attractive?!
Kind Regards, John