Just to be clear, I don't have mice eating my wallpaper. What I have is asbestos pipe insulation in the basement of my 1925 house. Asbestos insulation is dangerous only if the insulation becomes ragged and the stuff gets into the air. So for about the past 5 years, I've been wrapping places where the insulation was getting torn up with strips of old sheets, glued on with wallpaper paste. That worked fine and it blends in nicely with the white color of the original insulation.
Then a couple of weeks ago I started getting what looked like confetti on my floor, because a mouse or mice were eating the wallpaper paste and shredding the wrappings I put on. (They're not interested in the original insulation). I set a trap and caught one mouse. I'll be doing more, because it's hard to believe one did all this damage.
Traditional wallpaper paste is wheat based, which is probably what they were after. So now I need to re-wrap these pipes with a paste that doesn't attract mice. I know epoxy, etc., wouldn't attract mice, but to work well with strips of cloth, it should be a nontoxic, water-based adhesive like wallpaper paste. There are wallpaper adhesives I've seen online that are called clay based. Has anyone tried those, and would they be mouse-proof?
Mike Taglieri
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Posted by: Mike T <mctaglieri@gmail.com>
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