No - just an old mouse nest ... Shortly after we moved in we found in the bedroom so before and were horrified:
We did not know exactly what it was and because we discovered comic spun yarns, we are also thought to dry rot or house borer. We have already unpayable bills come to us to save the house or - even worse nightmares - to collapse the whole house.
What happened exactly? We had decided to tear out the carpet of the previous owner, as including one - was wood worm-eaten coconut mat - intended as insulation.
After we pulled out the stuff and thrown out the window * * Great fun
we found a strange floor. We did not know then what it is, now we know - conservationists Thank - that it is a historical stone floor of the 19th Century is that needed to be installed for security reasons as a fire barrier.
And in this soil was shown above the hole - and in the hole traces of insects, strange and tiny threads of newspaper groups. Thanks to the newspaper remains we found, in any case there is a - any kind - is old infestation, because the newspaper was printed in Gothic type.
We are right in the carpenter called our trust and he laughed at us, the whole thing after he had looked at and said, "Do not worry, this is a old mice nest, probably more than 100 years old. Your house will not collapse because of a mice nest "
You have to learn really first to react calmly and to the surprises that are a 400 year boasts old house;)
tell In a next post I will detail, as we have filled the hole.
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