rat resistant cables

[mad_cl0wn]

Soon i plan on wiring 2 PCs and an access point to the grid. The problem is, in winter I tend to get lots of rats moving into the roof. I hear they like to chew on cabling for the insulation or whatever, is there an easy way to prevent this? Thanks 

 

I'm not all too against poisoning the place so they don't come in, but i don't want any corpses in my attic. also poison isn't a long term solution is it?

maybe the rat version of mothballs (if such a thing exists), and just renewing them every winter?

 

I was thinking taping the cabling down or against somethings so it's hard for them to get to and would pretty much never be in the way for them, the issue then is i also want the cables to exit at a vertical wall, and that might mean making it accessible to them pesky rodents.

 

Thanks 

[Kevo05s]

buy a snake

[Bananasplit_00]

i have a few ideas:

1: poison them(with the stuff that they bring back to the nest and therefor kill all of them)

2: kevlar wrap the wires, should help them for a while

3: incase the wires in metal/acrylic/whatever you have on hand

4: tape the wires to the walls so they cant get to them

[Bananasplit_00]

2 minutes ago, Kevo05s said:

buy a snake

and have that freeze to death in the atic! lol

[Kevo05s]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

and have that freeze to death in the atic! lol

they are smarter than that lol, he'll come out of there when he's cold, and go back for food.

 

Jokes aside, if you know where they come in, you could try blocking the hole? you could also wrap it in foil? or simply add a wooden layer over the cables...

[ProjectBox153]

You could wrap the length of the cabling that goes through the attic with a thick layer of electrical tape. 

[Leonard]

45 minutes ago, mad_cl0wn said:

Soon i plan on wiring 2 PCs and an access point to the grid. The problem is, in winter I tend to get lots of rats moving into the roof. I hear they like to chew on cabling for the insulation or whatever, is there an easy way to prevent this? Thanks 

 

I'm not all too against poisoning the place so they don't come in, but i don't want any corpses in my attic. also poison isn't a long term solution is it?

maybe the rat version of mothballs (if such a thing exists), and just renewing them every winter?

 

I was thinking taping the cabling down or against somethings so it's hard for them to get to and would pretty much never be in the way for them, the issue then is i also want the cables to exit at a vertical wall, and that might mean making it accessible to them pesky rodents.

 

Thanks 

Find the point of entry and seal it then put traps around it.

40 minutes ago, Kevo05s said:

buy a snake

then he will have to buy a mongoose for when the snake proliferates.

[KenjiUmino]

1 hour ago, mad_cl0wn said:

I'm not all too against poisoning the place so they don't come in, but i don't want any corpses in my attic.

if you don't like dead rats you could use traps to catch them alive.

 

you would have to check on the traps every once in a while and think about a way to get rid of the rats you captured but at least they are not dead (yet)

[AshleyAshes]

1 hour ago, Kevo05s said:

buy a snake

The best part about this post is that one could readily argue that a snake is a kind of cable.

[mariushm]

There are ethernet cables which have double insulation and some toxic / repellent substance between the two layers. But that is mostly for squirrels and various animals, not quite aimed for rats and mice.

Sadly, I wouldn't know where you could buy this.

 

What I can suggest would be to use some  wire ducts, or some protective hose/sleeving  or some spiral wraps so that the cable would be inside a metal duct, and therefore rats would have a harder time to reach it.

 

Digikey (US seller of electronic components and all related to it) has a lot of options, here's the "cable management" category : https://www.digikey.com/products/en#cat-23

 

Some products are even marked as "vermint resistant" but there's few which highlight this particularity and they're usually a bit expensive.

 

[legopc]

You say you are hooking up ap's. Research if POE can be deadly to small shits. 

[Kevo05s]

6 hours ago, KenjiUmino said:

if you don't like dead rats you could use traps to catch them alive.

 

you would have to check on the traps every once in a while and think about a way to get rid of the rats you captured but at least they are not dead (yet)

As a snake owner, if I had rats at my place, I would do this, free food for the snake, and I'm getting rid of a problem at the same time

[The Benjamins]

9 minutes ago, Kevo05s said:

As a snake owner, if I had rats at my place, I would do this, free food for the snake, and I'm getting rid of a problem at the same time

My parents has a few cats, and rats would get into the unfinished basement. after a few weeks of cats being down there and lovely presents from them the rats stop showing up.