<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Thanks RT, I'll check your suggested entry points. We have no soffits however. I believe our roof is the real standing seam type as well. No wooden battens at seams however. What I see on our roof right outside my office window looks like a combination of your description of real and the other. Nothing was pre-formed on this roof. I am familiar with the fake standing seam metal roofs. It is the material we used for a cabin. The end result is similar to what we have on the house. I'll send you a photo so perhaps you can judge.<br>
<br>I'm aware mice can enter through the tinniest of holes and if I weren't so afraid of the combination of heights and slippery metal roofs I might more easily check this out. I'll check with the roofer too. I took no photos of the roof in its interim stages unfortunately. So I can't tell what is underneath the caps at the top of the seams on our roof. I am nearly positive however, the seams continue up the roof under the caps </font></font><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">(through a slit in the caps) </font></font><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">to the end of the caps where the counter flashing begins. The tops of the caps are well caulked.<br>
<br>Anyway. Will take a photo or two.<br><br>thanks, Sacie<br></font></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:39 PM, RT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:archilogic@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">archilogic@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div class="im"><br><br>------- Forwarded message -------<br><div>From: "Sacie Lambertson" </div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"> 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. </font></font></div>
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<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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 ?)<br></font></font></div><div>
<font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Just keep moving the board along the length of the trough each night until footprints appear.<br></font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.<br>
</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.<br>
</font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif">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.</font></font><font><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></div><br><div><div>-- </div><div>=== * === AOD257<br>Rob Tom<br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada<br><br>< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a > <br>(manually winnow the chaff from my edress if you hit "reply")</div>
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