Mouseproof covers for stove burners?
Regarding Brownstoner’s mouse post the other day, we’ve done our damnedest to plug the holes in our house, but the one place we can’t reach (without incurring major expense) is behind our gas stove. When we moved here last winter, I saw a mice climb out of one of the burner holes, which – I’m…
Regarding Brownstoner’s mouse post the other day, we’ve done our damnedest to plug the holes in our house, but the one place we can’t reach (without incurring major expense) is behind our gas stove. When we moved here last winter, I saw a mice climb out of one of the burner holes, which – I’m told – is a popular point of entry.
I’ve seen covers for stove tops but are there any that would be mouseproof? ie Ones that would block the light from below? I’m hoping we could keep covers on the burners when we’re not using them.
Mice are coming up through the hole with my gas line into my stove as well. Can’t believe I found this conversation going on. Any feedback on the victor shock traps?
Alisa, yes, I’m sure we can’t move the stove. My husband and I have not only tried moving it ourselves, we’ve had two contracters come in on different occasions and tell us there’s no way to move it without damaging the cabinets. (Don’t get me started on the geniuses who lived here before us…)
HA! Me too. I thought I was the ony one who had the pleasure of seeing a mouse slither down into my stove as I turned on the light at 3 AM. Gross. Humane traps have done nothing. There where now apparent wall holes, so I popped the top off the stove and filled the open holes in the rear with tin foil. So far so good.
Even if you got burners covered so they couldn’t crawl through, they would still be crawling around the inside of your stove. You sure you can’t slide your stove out? You may not be able to remove it completly but enough to contort yourself to get to the pipe entry with some steel wool and spackle? Not being able to pull your stove out seems a little odd. The flex hoses that go from the gas pipe to the stove can spring a leak and need to be replaced sometimes.
“Mickey Mouse Pixie Dust.” Does the trick everytime.
Give me a little credit. I know they’re not coming in through the pipe, but there must be a hole in the wall where the pipe enters that they are coming in… and of course there’s also an area in back of the stove that allows them to get inside it. We’ve gone through the kitchen inch by inch and every other hole in the place has already been plugged. (As I suggested, we can’t access the hole in the wall behind the stove, but there is no entry point into the kitchen from that area except except through the stove burners. Really.)
the mice are just feeding/playing in your stove – they don’t come in through the gas line or anything – so covering the burners is not going to help you.
the holes to plug go from your apt to the outside, or to other apartments, like around water/gas/waste lines between floors