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I got a call from a friend of the family that she heard some kinda sounded like a chewing noise coming from the cellar Sunday night...a few hours later she used the washing machine upstairs ...then went down the cellar next morning to see a flooded floor...she called me..I went over and this is what I found......wow....I mean I fixed it....I been electrician for 45 yrs but I can do plumbing too.....I didn't want money but she forced 100bucks and a restaurant gift card on me.....I just don't know if it was a mouse ...rat...squirrel or what....but. Never saw this before 
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That mouse had a pint too many to be doing that kind of damage..."The education of a man is never completed until he dies." Robert E. Lee -
I would be terrified. You're a good man for taking care of that her!South CarolinaComment
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Never saw anything like that. Better look for bigger critters! 🙂South DakotaComment
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Had a hamster that got out and chewed up the washing machine wires .
Nice little nest . Red that looks like a rat that got locked in the basement looking for water or wanted to go back in the drains . Probably still down there .
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Good man Red, now the rat is in the basement !Lubbock County TxComment
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Packrat or similar critter, possibly a skirl.
when my mom and dad’s house burned a few years ago, we built him a new one. I did all the electrical and had a lot of input in the rest, even though I’m two hours away. I argued with the plumber until I was red in the face over his use of pex piping for all the potable water lines. For those who don’t know, it’s just flexible plastic tubing that’s cheap and easy to install..
fast forward two years...Pop calls me, says he hears water running inside his wall. Mind you, I’m two hours away, so I call a friend to go shut his water off. I head down after work, and end up cutting a hole in the wall to access the back of the shower, where a packrat had been using the HUgE space around the drain pipe to access the void behind the shower, and had been storing acorns and any number of shiny things. I guess it got thirsty and decided to chew through the water line, soaking the everything. I did call the plumber, and I DID call the plumber a lot of words that were NOT plumber.
anyway, for any of you building or planning to build, don’t use plastic anything for supply/pressurized water lines.Wandering wherever I can, mostly in Eastern Arkansas, always looking down.Comment
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Never seen one eat through BX or any MC cable, but the Romex with plastic covering is apparently tasty.
I had a pet fox squirrel when I was a kid, and I would leave him stuff in his cage to chew on to keep him from chewing things he wasn’t supposed to...and he loved a length of pvc pipe about as much as anything. I know that black plumbing pvc is a little more hard than the electrical grey, but they chew on hickory nuts, and they are hard as woodpecker lips.
Lots of people don’t know, but squirrels are like beavers, porcupines, rats, and rabbits. They are rodents, and their teeth never stop growing. They have to gnaw to keep the teeth from growing through their own jaws. They will chew on just about anything. -
Now you’ve done it ! Fired me up about that damn pex ! On top of all the snap rings deteriorating , ( Until they figured it out ) they like to size the junk to small... I had better stop myself there before I really go wild !
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And looking at the picture again, was it chewed through from the inside? I mean it kinda looks like it...? Did you see shavings about d it on the floor?? Could be a sewer rat/big ole Norwegian like JJ said, especially if the neighbor is attached to city sewer.....Wandering wherever I can, mostly in Eastern Arkansas, always looking down.Comment
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I went to sleep last nite thinking about this post. I worried all nite, lol. I hope the BIG critter is not in her cellar. 😬
HNY, Red!South CarolinaComment
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In December, when I was prepping my mom's house to be sold and moving/cleaning, I went to put something in the recycle bin on her carport. I saw something run by and disappear into a crack in the concrete in the carport. I came home and told my husband that I saw A chipmunk disappear into that crack. He said, no, we don't have chipmunks around here. I know WHAT I saw. Fast forward a week and I went downstairs at her house, which is a walkout basement. That critter was running around. I about died. I couldn't get the screen door open and I was in a full panic. Finally ran to another door, got out, went around to the kitchen door, ran in and shut the door to the downstairs and called my husband, hysterical. He made the 30 minute drive and went downstairs and the critter had died on the stairs. He got it with a dust pan and I asked what kind of critter was it? It was a chipmunk. I told him so! I told him not to doubt me again, lol.South CarolinaComment
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I was showing my neighbor the pipe...a d just noticed the teeth marks... wow..I really hope that thing is gone from the cellarSW ConnecticutComment
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