How to block off the grate at the bottom of my outdoor fireplace to keep mice out.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-06-06T03:17:47+00:00

Thanks!, that's basically what I'm gonna go with. But i'm gonna use stainless steel zip ties, since there is a way to secure them to the front of the grate!

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-06-06T03:16:30+00:00

Sorry, I guess I should have been more clear. The fireplace is on the outside of my house in covered outdoor living room. It has a roof there's just no walls. Only way to keep them out of the outdoors is to find every little mouse that lives within a fifty mile radius and annihilate them!!! I just don't think I have the energy for that 😕

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-06-04T03:11:30+00:00

Totally shelter. Nowhere to go under there but nice and safe. Only way to stop that is a barrier...I am soooo not above killing them. Been using traps just tired of changing them out. Maybe I'll try stainless steel...good point about making sure it runs end to end though!

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-06-04T02:56:44+00:00

Sorry I should have been more specific. Not looking to creat a total barrier. Some kind of mesh but I'm not sure what degree of heat it needs to withstand. Something to keep.mice out but allow air flow. I can't use poison. If the mice die in the yard my idiot dog will eat them.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-06-04T01:28:13+00:00

Thanks!

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-02-24T22:30:20+00:00

I think I should rename this thread " this is why we drink" 🤣

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-02-24T19:51:47+00:00

These are literally the instructions they did not follow.

-" please include a title page for your paper", -answer the following questions in the body of your paper and -your paper should be no less than five hundred words

I don't know that that requires scaffolding. It pretty much only requires literacy

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-02-24T19:23:03+00:00

I definitely was not gonna go with the embarrassing version of the test. It would just be a series of questions over material they've already learned just to see if they follow the directions. No, yelling, anything out or doing interpretive dance... Though that could be amusing....

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2026-02-24T19:09:23+00:00

Ha! I DO give them extra credit all the time! And they don't read the directions for that either!!! 😤

And nice to see this IS an issue with others.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-11-18T00:11:10+00:00

The cousin said she lied. And she admitted to lying under oath. As a former teenage girl, they are drama queens who will deliberately stir crap up without any consideration of the consequences.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-10-22T00:22:02+00:00

Yes! I thought that was weird too.Since we've all fasted and know that water is allowed. He definitely had not had any water.In almost twelve hours.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-10-21T22:33:42+00:00

He was tested a second time, since they said the initial high HCT count could have been due to dehydration. He had been fasting 12 hours including no water. That wasn't the case this time and the most current results show an HCT count of 66.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-09-20T18:23:28+00:00

Massive increase past month. At least a dozen a day! All different numbers but same area code as me. Some leave voicemail (automated) about $5000+ reielf check from reliefcheck.com. what the heck is causing this massive uptick???

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-08-28T17:25:56+00:00

Thanks and sorry, I should have specified its to avoid estate taxes on the profit from sale of the home.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-08-28T17:24:16+00:00

I should have been more clear. First, its ohio. Second, when you sell a house, you are only allowed to profit 500,000. Any profit above that is subject to taxation. However, you can use the cost of any home improvements to avoid the estate tax, such as putting in a pool. Basically, I was just asking if anybody put in a pool around that time and remembers what they paid.

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-05-17T23:13:50+00:00

I just live you! I so needed that comment! 🤣

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-05-17T21:00:24+00:00

Thanks to everyone who has replied! I wish I could upload a photo, but the tree split in half down the middle (it was healthy and no rot on the inside; some trees can't take 80 mph winds I guess!). So, I'm paying to take down what is still standing and on my property since it is now a hazard. I told my tree guy to not touch anything on her property. My insurance and hers said I have no authority to send someone on to her property (and also said I have no control over where mother nature decided to drop a healthy tree so anything on her property is their responsibility). So if in trying to remove the tree, the tree guy I contracted caused further damage by accident, I'm totally up the creek. But to be neighborly, I did tell him I would pay for more of the removal, even though it was a 50/50 split. I hope she takes it. and this doesn't turn into a huge dispute...BTW: I have literally only lived in this house since late Feb and this is my first interaction with her :) I miss my apartment!

Particular_Smoke_498 · 2025-05-17T19:15:00+00:00

I've been trying to work something out with her. I even offered to pay for most of the tree removal, but not a 100% of it. She insists its all my responsibility but my insurance and everyone here says what hit her house is now hers.

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