Do you use anything in your RV to help remove moisture during winter storage? The lovely couple next door who have owned a variety of RV's over the past 55 years gave me a bit of advice on the weekend. To help remove moisture from the air and possibly form mattresses etc. ....place numerous plates of baking soda throughout your unit. On the beds, in cabinets? Bathroom etc......Place kitty litter in small containers and leave on the floor. In the spring the soda and litter are found in hard clumps. They also remove the covers from W/H and fridge vents. Place 4 mothballs inside, then place a piece of plastic over the opening and then replace the cover. This is one place rodents get in.

I think this depends mostly on where you live. "Up Nort" it gets so dry that your skin cracks and I know no-one to worry about moisture when they store their rigs. What we do when we put our 5'ver away down south for the summer to combat problems with moisture is four things. Put crush newspaper in the cabinetsPut pans of kitty litter outPut pans of charcoal outPut two big tubs of Damp Rid (buy at WalMart in the RV section) out.When we show up in the fall the 5'ver smells, looks, and feels like the day we put it into storage.

We use the "Damp Rid" bags you can buy from hardware / Walmart stores and hang them in the camper. This year we are trying a larger "bucket" this year. I put out Bounce dryer sheets (which I think also collect moisture) and Irish Spring soap throughout the camper. I would not put moth balls anywhere "inside" a camper - once that smell gets in, it is very difficult to get it out. I do put mothballs on the ground outside the camper around anything touching the ground, which for me are the tires and front jack. So far no mice after 10 years, the camper smells nice in the spring, and moisture / mold has been minimal.

nomad297 wrote:I wouldn't use the mothballs.For a long time they used mothballs inside their unit, until......The year they forgot and left 3 opened boxes of moth balls in the unit. It took 3 years to eliminate the smell, LOL

I have never used anything to remove moisture in our RVs. Have used Borax to remove ants and mousetraps to remove mice.

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exeter_acres
Explorer
Oct 21, 2013
tub of damp rid on the counter
JaxDad
Explorer III
Oct 21, 2013
I take the cheapest "basket filter" furnace filter element sheet I can find, tie it around the MaxxAir vents to keep blowing snow and dirt out and then leave the roof vents open.

As was previously mentioned, why work to remove moisture when Mother Nature will do it for you?

Moisture issues in an RV are caused by the wide swing in temperatures during the wet fall months. If the unit is allow to breathe the problem reverses itself.
Jack_Diane_Free
Explorer
Oct 21, 2013
We have stored our current and past 5 other trailers all winter and done nothing but winterize and have never had a problem with moisture. We do put down a lot of bounce sheets to deter any mice and it seems to work fine.
Dtaylor
Explorer
Oct 21, 2013
Get a dehumidifier for moisture removal
robsouth
Explorer II
Oct 21, 2013
Safe Handling

It is important not to place mothballs in areas where food is openly kept or near soil where food is growing. Not only do mothballs have an overwhelmingly noxious smell, they can leave toxins in your food. They contain napthalene, which is dangerous to humans as well as domesticated animals. High levels of exposure to napthalene can cause vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, blood in the urine and jaundice.
tenbear
Explorer
Oct 21, 2013
I have never used anything to remove moisture in our RVs. Have used Borax to remove ants and mousetraps to remove mice.
loulou57
Explorer
Oct 21, 2013
nomad297 wrote:
I wouldn't use the mothballs.

For a long time they used mothballs inside their unit, until......

The year they forgot and left 3 opened boxes of moth balls in the unit. It took 3 years to eliminate the smell, LOL
Tvov
Explorer II
Oct 21, 2013
We use the "Damp Rid" bags you can buy from hardware / Walmart stores and hang them in the camper. This year we are trying a larger "bucket" this year. I put out Bounce dryer sheets (which I think also collect moisture) and Irish Spring soap throughout the camper. I would not put moth balls anywhere "inside" a camper - once that smell gets in, it is very difficult to get it out. I do put mothballs on the ground outside the camper around anything touching the ground, which for me are the tires and front jack. So far no mice after 10 years, the camper smells nice in the spring, and moisture / mold has been minimal.
John_Joey
Explorer
Oct 21, 2013
I think this depends mostly on where you live. "Up Nort" it gets so dry that your skin cracks and I know no-one to worry about moisture when they store their rigs.

What we do when we put our 5'ver away down south for the summer to combat problems with moisture is four things.

Put crush newspaper in the cabinets
Put pans of kitty litter out
Put pans of charcoal out
Put two big tubs of Damp Rid (buy at WalMart in the RV section) out.

When we show up in the fall the 5'ver smells, looks, and feels like the day we put it into storage.
nomad297
Explorer
Oct 21, 2013
I wouldn't use the mothballs.

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