TIL a mouse chewed through a line in an attic crawlspace

Got a call for no signal in a house built in the 70s. Checked everything outside, all good. Took me 4 hours to finally trace it to a gnawed cable in a tight attic corner above the garage. Had to replace about 15 feet of line. Anyone else deal with rodent damage in weird spots?

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noah3265mo ago

Yeah, I've had to replace a chewed coax line in a drop ceiling before. The trick is to run the new line through some PVC conduit in those tight spaces, even just a short piece. It's a pain, but it keeps them from doing it again next season.

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the_mia5mo ago

next season"? @noah326 you have regular chewers?

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lunah863mo ago

PVC works but I have had mice chew through it anyway in crawl spaces.

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