How to get rid of mice "smells"
I live in the Arizona desert and all our houses here are pretty much built on concrete slabs and I've never had any issues with mice here (I've lived here all my life for the past 40 years). I mention this because my parents retired to live in the mountains of North Carolina, and they have mice on their property. Under their house, they have a musty crawl space where my dad leaves mouse traps. The smell under his house is the same smell I now have in my Class A diesel pusher and I really don't like it.
So, back to the question... About two years ago, my Class A was sitting unused in the storage facility for about a year without any use. I did go out every couple of months and run the generator and start the engine, but we didn't do any camping for at least a year. When we finally got it out of storage to take a camping trip, we found that mice had been in the basement storage area and in a few of the kitchen drawers. There were mouse droppings in the basement and in the drawers and they had chewed through a box of rice and some other items that had been left in the kitchen drawers. We took everything out of the motorhome and cleaned up all the mouse droppings and cleaned the drawers in the kitchen. Since then, I can't get rid of the "mouse" smell (just like the crawl space in my dad's house in NC). I at first thought maybe there was a dead mouse in some crevice I hadn't found yet, but then I thought that it's probably the smell of their urine in the suedo carpet lining that is in the basement area. I've sprayed Febreeze in the basement storage area, but it didn't make a difference. Is there any sort of device I can put in the basement area that would absorb these odors? I could put some sort of air freshener thing, but that would probably smell worse (sweet air freshener along with mouse smell). Anyone have a suggestion or have this same problem?
So, back to the question... About two years ago, my Class A was sitting unused in the storage facility for about a year without any use. I did go out every couple of months and run the generator and start the engine, but we didn't do any camping for at least a year. When we finally got it out of storage to take a camping trip, we found that mice had been in the basement storage area and in a few of the kitchen drawers. There were mouse droppings in the basement and in the drawers and they had chewed through a box of rice and some other items that had been left in the kitchen drawers. We took everything out of the motorhome and cleaned up all the mouse droppings and cleaned the drawers in the kitchen. Since then, I can't get rid of the "mouse" smell (just like the crawl space in my dad's house in NC). I at first thought maybe there was a dead mouse in some crevice I hadn't found yet, but then I thought that it's probably the smell of their urine in the suedo carpet lining that is in the basement area. I've sprayed Febreeze in the basement storage area, but it didn't make a difference. Is there any sort of device I can put in the basement area that would absorb these odors? I could put some sort of air freshener thing, but that would probably smell worse (sweet air freshener along with mouse smell). Anyone have a suggestion or have this same problem?
