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ICFfam
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| 10/19/2009 12:13 AM |
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| I have a two year old two story with walkout ICF house - ICF all the way up. Since moving in, we have had a continual problem with mice in the walls, so much so that we even cut an access hole in one lower area where the baseboard goes to clean out dead mice. They seem to love this one spot. The part of the wall they are in is interior stud, but we are at a loss on how they are getting in. Any ideas on how to track this down? Next step is to cut a huge hole in the sheetrock wall to investigate, but I'd love to avoid this.
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We get them primarily in this one spot, but also have seen evidence of them in the attic and we hear them seemingly IN the ICF wall in the room under the garage (formed by Lite-deck forms). Granted, we are on 25 acres in the middle of a corn field, but how in the world are they getting in the house? |
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tb1472000
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ICFfam
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| 10/19/2009 8:45 AM |
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| Further research into this last night appears to have confirmed that the mice are knawing into the enterior foam and must be creating vertical pathways all the way up to the attic (30' higher!) since I can see perfectly round openings at the wall edge in the spray in foam in the attic that covers the gable walls and rafters. Amazing.
More research. We have the Platon dimple fabric drainage mats against the foundation walls. At the mats topmost edge, a layer of stucco was applied overlapping the mats by about 8" and goin up behind the siding about 8". This bridges the gap between grade and the siding. It seems that in some places, the stucco has been pulled away from the house by the (settling?) Platon, which tore. So...I've got a few places with torn Platon exposed that has created easy access to the foam.
Question: How do I remediate? Is the 'easiest' way to dig out around the house a couple feet, remove the bottommost course of siding, reapply an overlapping layer of Platon, reapply the stucco, re-attach the siding, and put the dirt back? |
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