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Space over MBR bath tub - mice!!

7 years ago

last modified: 7 years ago

guys

At the back of my bath tub, the installer did a shoddy job by not covering the holes for the electrical wiring - we've seen mice droppings there. Unfortunately, the hole is all the way to to the back and not accessible

I need some material to completely close out the top of the tub - what material should I be using for this? It has to be flexible as the material will be placed at the edge of the bath tub from the left side in the pic all the way to the back right It's about a 7 inch gap

Thx

Comments (4)

sherwoodva
7 years ago
Sorry, no holes are shown in the photo. That isn't a bathtub, it is a shower. (Not that it makes any difference.) It looks like you have tile in the wall. Did the hole get created after the tile was installed? If the hole is not visible when standing on the floor, I would get up there and stuff steel wool in the hole in the wall, assuming you are talking about less than 3 inches wide.
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Original Author
7 years ago
The tile is on the side walls - not the ceiling over the jacuzzi shower. The ceiling is simply drywall and won't help seeing the hole because there is no way to get to it (5ft deep) to patch it up without removing the shower which is a lot of work. It's also a large hole (shoddy job done by jacuzzi installer). I need to patch up everything that is accessible to me by some flexible material and install this around the whole edge of the jacuzzi that you can see
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graywings123
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago
What is on the other side of the two walls that form the back of the shower? Is there another room or rooms there? Or is there an outside wall?

And, if you stuck your hand in behind that top ledge, how much space is there - 3 inches maybe? Or is it completely flat, so that your fingers can't go down? And how high is the space above the top ledge?
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