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Gods, I remember scraping woodchip paper overpainted with three layers of emulsion from the CEILING of a 20x30' room exactly as Muddy says. Thankfully they weren't using it to cover anything worse than badly lined-up plasterboarding. I think it took me about a fortnight's worth of evenings...

Oh ho ho, I am redecorating my bedroom and so far have spent 2 weeks removing vinyl wallpaper (including from the ceiling) and the last about 3 weeks washing off the glue.....

Then there are all the holes to fill in in the atrocious plastering beneath it, not to mention the lovely score marks where they cut the wallpaper. Then of course the sanding and all that lovely dust!

When I finally get to the painting stage it may be about December.

I've just looked at the title of this thread. How the hell did we get from moles to redecorating?

It's the obvious solution. Artex over the molehills.

I did not think of that but yes, I imagine it would work.

Two days after the ole man had been there was renewed activity! A ole hill right next to the trap. I phoned him and he said that he could not come until tue morning - now seeing as these are "humane" traps, if there is a mole in there it has been unfed for 4 days!!!!!!! Ummmmmmmm

jan

Now who was that who suggested "feeding" them with fruity juice chewing gum? Has anybody tried that? I suppose they eat it and it clogs up their innards... Might not be too humane.

Juicy Fruit chewing gum!!

Well, it still makes sense, doesn't it!

I think that was just at the end of the lunch break - I was a bit in a hurry...

(Any old excuse !)

I read in the Devon Wildlife Trust mag about the solar mole which is solar powered thingy you stick in the ground and the moles are sposed to hate it and move off (presumably to annoy next door now) no idea if it works... just a thought...

Red

I have just ordered one and will update on the success - or not of this new fandangled contraption

Jan

I used to live in the hills in n. California, where we had no moles - but we had gophers instead. Gohpers, unlike moles, are vegetarians - so you didn't just risk an unsighly lawn when they came to visit!

I heard that they, like moles, hated noise, so I built some little windmills and mounted them on top of the fence poles to catch as much wind as possible. As they turned, they raised and then dropped the end of a stick onto a flat stone partially buried in the ground.

I can't say if that's what did it, but we certainly had much less gopher trouble after that. However, in a high wind one of the windmills decided to fly away one day and whizzed right past my ear as I was weeding. Could have been nasty...