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What is living in my dads coving?

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  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    Dovefromabove said:
    I discounted efflorescence when I realised that the coving is the polystyrene type.   
    A good observation.  But worth a check on-site.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    If it's rodents, I wonder what the holes are for. Very similar holes at my mum's with nothing but a small pile of plaster dust underneath.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If it's mice/rats/squirrels, the holes are just there because of the coving being eaten from the other side. They won't be using them for access   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Sazz101Sazz101 Posts: 248
    Thank you so much everyone. My Dad won’t listen to me, but when I say’ the folks on the GW forum said it’, well that’s a different matter. Yesterday a field mouse was spotted taking a gander whilst he was drying his hair, so he’s on board with mice. I’m going over today to clear and clean. Council pest control… earliest appointment is mid Jan, but we have a humane mouse trap we are going to start with and see how far we get. 

    A friend suggested that coving is a pig to put up so plaster up the holes for now.

    Anyway, THANK YOU! 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Good stuff @Sazz101. Hope you can get it sorted.
    Coving can be a bit of a pain to do if you don't have the right 'cutter' for the angles, but a patch up will help until you can get someone to have a look. Proper plaster coving is well worth doing though  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good luck @Sazz101 … hope your father doesn’t have too many lodgers! 🤞 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • parkgatemanparkgateman Posts: 50
    No spider in this country big enough to make them holes 
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