[Greenbuilding] Pest Management, mice in particular

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From: "Sacie Lambertson"

  Unfortunately the powder to detect foot prints won't work in our case.   
Our mice enter through some minute hole in our standing seam metal roof,  
entry point unknown.

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It could work if you devised a way to suspend a board from the fascia,  
just under the edge of the roofing (ie placed on top of eaves trough  
perhaps ?)

Just keep moving the board along the length of the trough each night until  
footprints appear.

However without even looking at the situation my first guess (if they are  
in fact getting in through the roofing rather than the soffit) is at the  
end of the standing seam if the panels are the snap-together, pre-formed  
panel type as opposed to the "real" standing seam roofing that is formed  
on site with wooden battens at the seams.

The ends of the seams should either be have a sheet metal cap to close off  
the end of the "ridge". With real standing seam panels, the ends of the  
pans would have been folded under to lock onto clips or flashing  
underneath and the ends of the standing seams folded to form an integral  
cap.


The other place I would suspect is the other end, at the top where the  
ridge cap meets the standing seam panel.  Again, with real standing seam  
panels, there would have been a fold-locked joint where the ridge cap and  
roof panels meet. With the pre-formed, snap-together panels, the ridge cap  
may simply be lapped over the end of the roofing panel and held down with  
screws leaving a small gap in the area between adjacent standing seams   
where the ridge cap meets the ribs of the roof panel.

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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada

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