Recent content by KnightWhoSaysNi

Thanks guys, I've applied this acrylic roofing coating with fibres for now. Come spring I might put felt on if it still leaks.

Thanks, I've already got Cromapol Acrylic Roof Coating. It says don't use before frost or rain, so I guess I'll have to let it leak for a week or two more.

What would be the best tool to use to sand it? I don't think I can grind the topcoat off, it's too thick already, but it's bumpy, so if I can grind the bumps off, maybe I can make it flat enough to put the felt on top of that.

I know I was robbed. They took the money and didn't even finish the job. I think I'll keep patching it with a thin layer of topcoat for now, until I have more money to hire someone to put felt on.

The original roof was made with felt, but it was stubbornly leaking, so I hired someone to fix it and they replaced it with a fibreglass resin roof. The new roof was put on in January 2022 and it was made with plywood and resin on top. The resin was this product: and covered with this, with...

It must be at the top of the 2nd floor. I haven't seen the access point itself, don't know what it looks like. I don't know if it's nesting, have only seen one bird there and the sounds in the ceiling space have been there for over 2 months, although this was the first time I heard them myself...

A long overdue update... I bought rat traps, but despite having done measurements couldn't get them through the downlight holes. So I put a mouse trap in with a square of chocolate. For a long time nothing ate it; today I checked and it was finally gone, the trap had been triggered but there...

I was considering that possibility. He's slim so could have made it up the downpipe.

I hope it can be done in a lighter-handed way. I've been quiet because I had a lodger in there and didn't want to be too intrusive, especially since he was moving out. Now I can go in in full armour. I put two squares of chocolate on strings the other day and they're completely gone. Is it ok...

Solid brick. The outside has pebbledash, which provides good enough grip for a squirrel to climb all the way up (as I have witnessed). Not sure about mice and rats. The dormer has stud walls and its roof is of similar construction - two layers of plasterboard with insulation in between. I'm not...

It's a solid wall house with a converted loft. The loft room is a bedroom in use, there are no droppings in there.

It scratches so it's probably a mouse or a squirrel.

Ok, I've ordered an endoscope. Do you guys think it's trapped or it's just that it has found a home in there? If it's the latter, perhaps a repellant spray, applied through the downlight holes, could sort it?

Thanks for the ideas. Any thoughts on the ultrasonic repellents that you plug into a wall socket? Perhaps I could wire one into a downlight to bring it closer to where it's needed? Also, do you think a mouse trap could work? Granted, it may be something bigger. I've seen a squirrel climb the...

Is it likely to go away on its own? How could it gave got in there in the first place?