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A very effective way to inhibit ingress and egress of mice into your home is by using steel wool. Follow these guidelines to stop mice with steel wool: Buy several packs of S.O.S. Soap Pads from your grocery store.
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Mighty Mouse, Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Stuart Little, and the Three Blind Mice are all characters made famous through literature and animation. In the book and movie The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, mice are said to be the most intelligent life form in the universe, and commissioned the making of Earth. Famous mice are cute, sweet, wily, courageous, strong, and heroic. While authors of fables, fiction, and cartoons pattern their mice with human traits and characteristics, real mice are destructive rodents that carry disease and serve as host to myriad parasites. Damaging and eating crops, spreading disease, and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of structure damage and electrical fires annually, mice are one of the most proliferate and harmful pests in North America. In the western United States, mice have been linked to the deadly hantavirus—a fatal virus occurring when a human breathes the dust that has come in contact with mouse feces. It is little wonder that people spend thousands of dollars each year to help rid their homes of mice and other harmful pests. Some obvious signs that you may have mice in your home are gnaw marks on wood, furniture legs, baseboards, and drywall; smudge marks along baseboards, left behind from the oily buildup in mice fur; mouse droppings; sounds of scratching and gnawing inside walls; and evidence of nesting. If you have mice in your home, you've probably questioned how they got inside. As long as a mouse has an opening large enough to accommodate its head, it can flatten its body to squeeze through. And if two mice get in, you can expect more very quickly. The gestation period of mice is about three weeks, with a litter averaging eight babies. After giving birth, a female mouse is ready to breed again immediately, capable of producing sixty babies each year. Therefore, it behooves you to rid your home of mice as soon as you suspect that you have them. A very effective way to inhibit ingress and egress of mice into your home is by using steel wool. Follow these guidelines to stop mice with steel wool: Buy several packs of S.O.S. Soap Pads from your grocery store. These pads are steel wool infused with dry soap. from your grocery store. These pads are steel wool infused with dry soap. Find every hole in your home that acts as a conduit for pipes and wiring, and stuff the holes with strips of the steel wool.
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Transforming an underutilised area of your backyard into an outdoor entertaining zone begins with laying a good foundation, and paving is one budget and DIY-friendly ground-cover option to consider. The first step to laying pavers, however, isn’t rushing out to pick the trendiest outdoor paving stones or crazy pavers, but to properly prepare the ground using road base and paving sand. That’s because every good paving job begins with a good base. There are only two layers, but it’s important to compact and level them in the correct way.
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