Sealant/Filler/Expanding Foam & Boiler Pipes

[TheEsoo]

HI guys,


I have a mouse problem that I'm attempting to fix, but what I need to know is if I can use sealant/filler or expanding foam around the pipes leading from my boiler?

I would just stuff wire wool in to scare the little buggers off but there's a big gap that's basically the skirting board where the pipes go in, so I need to fill it up.

 

[Burnerman]

No problem with the normal foam but if you'd prefer - have a look at Fire Retardant foam, Toolstation 85137 - and bash the moose with the can.
John

 

[TheEsoo]

Winner, thanks

 

[bengasman]

It might be an idea not to use highly combustible materials near an open flame, e.g. when an open flue boiler is on. Other than that, there is no reason you can not use foam near the boiler.
If your solution does not solve the mice problem, aa12 is very effective for killing mice.

 

[muggles]

Expanding foam? Mice? I think John's idea of bashing the little critter on the head with the can is the only way you'll deal with it using ex foam. The mice will absolutely love you if you spray expanding foam into your house - chewed up it makes a lovely warm bed for the winter, a nice place to breed many more mice.

 

[bengasman]

...The mice will absolutely love you if you spray expanding foam into your house ...

Not when it is laced with coarse wire wool, they don't.

 

[muggles]

Hahaha

 

[twgas]

or spray the mouse with the foam, see what happens.

 

[glasgowgas]

slightly off topic, but if you can find someone who owns ferrets(!)

ask them for some of their old bedding straw. it reeks of their p i55, humans cannot smell it, mice do a runner

it honestly works

 

[glasgowgas]

evening Dickie,

you have more alias`s than a Tim oan signing on day

 

[satansbrother]

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• satansbrother
• 11 Apr 2008
• 6

 

[TheEsoo]

...The mice will absolutely love you if you spray expanding foam into your house ...

Not when it is laced with coarse wire wool, they don't.

Yeah that was sort of the idea really

 

[xr4x4]

indeed.... mice will chew through expanding foam.. use cement.

 

[bengasman]

indeed.... mice will chew through expanding foam.. use cement.

Cement around copper pipes is a bad idea, bit of a cowboy trick really.
Reinforced foam is the way to do it.

 

[xr4x4]

indeed.... mice will chew through expanding foam.. use cement.

Cement around copper pipes is a bad idea, bit of a cowboy trick really.
Reinforced foam is the way to do it.

guess your right.. and hes not in a position to outerline with larger copper pipe.