Why I have critters everywhere...

I actually thought (this was before the plumbers did out soil stack on Thursday) that I might be winning the war against the mice and squirrels. But then the soil stack was removed and this is what the plumbers found. 

Yes, We have another surprise! Someone, in their wisdom, cut a hole in the foundation to run water and heat out to the extension. CUT A HOLE IN THE FOUNDATION!!!!! And not a little one. 

No idea how much this is going to cost, but yeah, just one more thing to fix. Good thing we have so many stones on our property.


You can see the piers that the extension is resting on- and yeah that will have to be fixed too. A project for summer. 

This is why our inspector did not find the hole.

Styrafoam. That's it. This ranks with sticking cloth into the holes in the masonry and basement windows so that the mice would have a nice place to sleep.

Critters 3-Karen 1 (I give myself one point as the mice in the attic seem to be routed by the poison.)

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