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<body><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><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"><br></font></font></div><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 id="M2Signature"><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></div></body></html>