Damage to RV while in storage by Rodents

Mr-MrsPete wrote:
Buy a box of dryer sheets and use the whole box. Put them in the cupboards. storage bins, etc. No creatures will bother you! ;)

I'd heard the same - cloves were supposed to help too. Forgive me for taking the wind out of your sails, but here's how our trailer came out of storage this spring. Note the urine on the bounce sheet and the two droppings on the far side of the cloves.



We always put poison in the trailer before storage and thankfully they've always gone straight for it - no damage other than cleanup. This year we decided we'd had enough, so we set out to plug all the access points.

Steel wool works, but it rusts. Brass wool is better; I have never found a source for it but luckily these brass scrubbers are just as good. It can be cut into whatever size you need.



To form the best defense we used expanding foam too. This stuff contains a pest deterrent. The can works be when it's upright; to allow us to shoot foam into gaps above and below the nozzle we purchased several feet of clear tubing. Bonus: When foam dries and clogs the tube, throw it out and install another one.



Each access point got stuffed with brass and filled with foam.



Here's the biggest access hole of all, and it was well used:



That was another job.