Kennon's Mouse-proof Pipe Covers Prevent Disease Carrying Mice From Nesting Inside the Insulation

How do you keep water flowing through above ground pipes in the winter?  You can cover and heat them inside huts, or wrap heat trace cable around the pipes and cover them with insulation, which creates a smaller footprint that better blends into the landscape. Both methods create warm places for mice and their predators to gather.

Wherever mice nest, you will find that rattlesnakes, skunks, badgers and other creatures follow their food supply, creating a danger to oil and gas field workers.  If that isn’t scary enough, consider another real danger facing workers from the mice themselves.  Some mice carry the deadly hantavirus that spreads from one mouse to another and to humans through urine and droppings stirred in the air.