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There’s a moose loose aboot this hoose

lyledunn
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!
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    Many cables have been gnawed by rodents in lofts but this is never seen, as the tons of thermal insulation covers the damage, and who moves that dusty stuff to fully inspect every inch of cable runs. But, the saving grace is that rarely do the conductors short together, and also, the likelihood of fire is greatly reduced as the thermal glass fibre insulation is non flammable, and would reduce oxygen supply to any potential fire. Obviously it is not good practice to cover cables that carry heavy loads in thermal insulation, such as shower, storage heater, immersion heater or cooker circuit cables, as this could cause heat damage to the cable's insulation. 523.9


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    Many cables have been gnawed by rodents in lofts but this is never seen, as the tons of thermal insulation covers the damage, and who moves that dusty stuff to fully inspect every inch of cable runs. But, the saving grace is that rarely do the conductors short together, and also, the likelihood of fire is greatly reduced as the thermal glass fibre insulation is non flammable, and would reduce oxygen supply to any potential fire. Obviously it is not good practice to cover cables that carry heavy loads in thermal insulation, such as shower, storage heater, immersion heater or cooker circuit cables, as this could cause heat damage to the cable's insulation. 523.9


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