How do you keep mice out of MH

We tried dryer sheets, peppermint oil, mothballs, electronic repellants and nothing was successful in keeping the critters out. I finally built a barrier using aluminum flashing similar to what "More To See" described above, except instead of surrounding the tires and jacks, I surround the entire MOHO. I have a removable gate to get the RV in/out and have been rodent free for about 7 years now.

Also, as noted above keeping the mice out of the inside of the rig is only half the job. Before the barrier I had to remove and repair my generator twice on my previous rig due to mouse damage.

Lou
05 Travel Supreme Envoy

Thank goodness, Monaco seals all the holes and passthroughs very thoroughly with expanding foam.
I do put bounce sheets and sticky traps in the basement compartments and kitchen cabinets. So far this winter 1 mouse on a sticky trap in a small basement compartment that had a flip up outside door and was heated.

BTW, Great Stuff, the expanding insulation foam aerosol now makes a formula that contains a pest repellent....this past fall I sealed all of the holes in my MH (that I found or could see) with it.......we'll see if it works or is chewed thru.......

I use a ultrasonic device and I pulled out every drawer etc. and filled every cubby in the coach that they use as a passage way with very coarse steel wool.

I use three things and between the three of them, it works (let's hope I don't jinx myself..

1. Bounce sheets

2. Peppermint Oil

3. Feed the neighbor's cat and she makes our home a 2nd home..part time

Stalker certainly earns her keep around here.

Its simple, Get A Cat. Been fulltiming all over the country for 4yrs now. I saw a cat once, about the same time the cat did. Never saw that mouse, or any mouse again.

We finally used sticky traps and decon

We had a mouse problem in our motor home and put out some sticky traps but here are some other ideas that are very interesting for home and travel.

Function
Imagine you're a mouse and you want to stay alive. You certainly wouldn't go to an area that you knew contained some of your most fierce predators. That's the logic that some of the natural mouse repellent' s use for their formulas. There are formulas that contain fox and bobcat urine. Urination is one way that the predators mark their territory. Mice definitely don't want to go near that area. There is a problem with the use of these products. They smell bad for people too. These must be used outside the house so new mice won't enter. Some products are specifically for the home, so they don't give off horrendous odors.
Identification
Tabasco sauce mixed with a gallon of water and sprayed around keeps mice away. They evidently don't care for the scent of cayenne pepper either and if you sprinkle some in oil and mix it thoroughly and then put a cotton ball in the oil and place them in locations where you have mice problems, the mice stay away.
Types
Mix up some peppermint and spearmint and you'll have a sweet smell that mice don't like. Even though the scent is pleasant, many natural mouse repellents use these two scents together to repel mice. This sounds a lot better than animal urine for the house. Make sure you use the true oil of peppermint or spearmint, not an extract.
Effects
Get a box of whole cloves and soak them in oil. Use the oil on pieces of cotton to place in areas that the mice frequent. The strength of the clove scent is the important factor so if you already have clove oil at home, uses it instead.
Considerations
Pour small containers of ammonia and leave them in areas where you have problems with the little critters. The logic here is that mice aren't fond of anything that smells remotely like urine and ammonia does the trick.
Misconceptions
Replace the Bounce fabric sheets often if you try them and use several scents. Mice don't like unusual smells and some find that the Bounce fabric softeners work for a short period until the mouse gets used to the scent. The problem is that you have to keep changing the sheets, both because they become accustomed to the odor and because the scent fades. These aren't as effective as other methods, but smell nice.


Read more: http://www.ehow.com/about_4621300_what-scent-repels-mice.html#ixzz2jJnlcJrl

I know lots of people recommend cabfresh, we bought it, and found fresh
mouse poo all around it! I placed bounce fabric softener sheets all over
in every drawer, cupboard, the dash, glovebox, etc. So far so good, I'll
let you know in the spring if it kept working! :)

MrWizard wrote:
we full time
our "jack russel" makes sure there are NO Critters in the RV

What do they do in their spare time? :B

we full time
our "jack russel" makes sure there are NO Critters in the RV