MICE INFESTATION !
We put our 98 Endeavor away last December , drove the car out west for a 2 month ski vacation around the 1st of February and arrived home around April 1 . I had planned to get the MH ready soon after , however , I became extremely ill for a month and a half. Well , we just went to check it out yesterday to see what we needed to do .
When I opened the door I could not believe my eyes or the terrible odor.
There were mice droppings everywhere . I'm not talking about just some here and there . I mean there were massive quantities everywhere ! Under every AC roof vent there was piles of styrofoam pellets and fiberglass.
I couldn't do much at that time so we ran to the store and placed sticky traps around .
We came back today with cleaning supplies and a shop vac .
I'll try to shorten this , but we just spent 7 hours vacuuming the AC ducts and cleaning the upper cabinets that always before I had thought were impenetrable to mice. They had burrowed from the AC ducts , following a roof strut and had chewed through a hard plastic 90 degree strut cover located in the cabinet. The cabinets had about 2 inches of
a combination of chewed up food and mice poop . When I opened one of the cabinet doors one jumped out and I saw another jumping around !
I closed the doors . I later came back and opened all the cabinet doors and began removing chewed up boxes , bags , etc . Mice were just lying up in the food . I vacuumed all the stuff on the bottoms of the cabinets . One mouse went up the vacuum hose !
Anyway , it was and is still a major nightmare . I can hear mice running in the roof, and we were seeing them run around on the floor occasionally while cleaning .
The only time I remember seeing so many mice was years ago as a kid in an old barn with corn stored .
We still have hours and hours of cleaning to do , however I still have mice in there and doubt I can catch every one of these critters.
Also my AC thermostat is not working , so no AC . I'm sure they chewed up some wiring.
I am in serious need of advice and help on how to get rid of these pests !!!!
HELP !!!
Thanks
PS We had parked the MH last fall at a state park storage area in a field , so I imagine that's where the mice came from.
When I opened the door I could not believe my eyes or the terrible odor.
There were mice droppings everywhere . I'm not talking about just some here and there . I mean there were massive quantities everywhere ! Under every AC roof vent there was piles of styrofoam pellets and fiberglass.
I couldn't do much at that time so we ran to the store and placed sticky traps around .
We came back today with cleaning supplies and a shop vac .
I'll try to shorten this , but we just spent 7 hours vacuuming the AC ducts and cleaning the upper cabinets that always before I had thought were impenetrable to mice. They had burrowed from the AC ducts , following a roof strut and had chewed through a hard plastic 90 degree strut cover located in the cabinet. The cabinets had about 2 inches of
a combination of chewed up food and mice poop . When I opened one of the cabinet doors one jumped out and I saw another jumping around !
I closed the doors . I later came back and opened all the cabinet doors and began removing chewed up boxes , bags , etc . Mice were just lying up in the food . I vacuumed all the stuff on the bottoms of the cabinets . One mouse went up the vacuum hose !
Anyway , it was and is still a major nightmare . I can hear mice running in the roof, and we were seeing them run around on the floor occasionally while cleaning .
The only time I remember seeing so many mice was years ago as a kid in an old barn with corn stored .
We still have hours and hours of cleaning to do , however I still have mice in there and doubt I can catch every one of these critters.
Also my AC thermostat is not working , so no AC . I'm sure they chewed up some wiring.
I am in serious need of advice and help on how to get rid of these pests !!!!
HELP !!!
Thanks
PS We had parked the MH last fall at a state park storage area in a field , so I imagine that's where the mice came from.
