Well, actually more than one!. In a half-hearted go at replacing and re-designing my en-suite I prepared the way by lifting the flooring and doing all the necessary demolition work. As you do at my age, you quickly loose interest, so the scene of devastation sat for a week before I summoned the get-go to finish things off. In between time it became obvious that we had suffered the intrusion of a horde of unwanted house guests. It soon became apparent that they had somehow got into the voids below the suspended floor and took it as invitation to join us in the rooms above when I lifted sections of said floor. Can’t say I blame them given the current weather but whilst I might seem flippant, my good lady is, to say the least, beyond distressed.
So the floor is down again but that has trapped the wee buggers in our living spaces. I have spent much time setting traps and dispatching the victims one by one. Why am I telling you this? Well I built this house way back in 1990 and as a relatively young, go-ahead electrical contractor I installed cabling for just about every conceivable system from fire alarms to whole house music systems. Back then I never thought one jot about rodent intrusion. If I had to do it again there would be no voids unless totally unavoidable. There would be no hidden routes to get between floor levels or rooms yet this was something I deliberately did to facilitate future service installation. If I had to do it again whether reasonable or not the designer would declare an external influence code of AL2!
