MICE

Snap traps all over with no bait.

Do not encourage more to come in.

Mice are dumb...they crawl all over everything...they will crawl on the traps.

Maybe flood lights under the camper will help keep them away.

5 gal pail 1/4 full of rv antifreeze
stretch wire tight across top
run wire through a tube (pvs, abs, aluminum, soup cans if your ghetto)
ramps up to the wire small dab of pb on the tube near the middle
check it ever few days. can catch 10+ in a night this way and they are less nasty to deal with than traps with less mess.

I keep my RV in one of my barns and the barns all have feline inhabitants. Never had an issue with mice, the cats eat them for dessert. Obviously tasty critters.

Pure Peppermint oil on cotton balls in all hidden places and drawers. I even leave a few laying around on counters. Works 100% of the time for us, and the coach smells great!

janstey58 wrote:
Pure Peppermint oil on cotton balls in all hidden places and drawers. I even leave a few laying around on counters. Works 100% of the time for us, and the coach smells great!

Myth.

Doesn't work, what you are seeing is a "coincidence" that you are not seeing mice.

Goes for drier sheets, ultrasonic devices, moth balls and pretty much every other home and "as seen on TV" mythical potions and devices.

NOTHING and I mean NOTHING works except for PLUGGING the TINY HOLES they are getting through. Your RV the manufacturer may have done a decent job PLUGGING holes which may be why you are not seeing mice in YOUR RV.

My first TT, had lots of issues with mice getting in, my second and current TT I have NO PROBLEM with mice getting in.

Both TTs were parked IN THE SAME EXACT SPOT.

I do not have never had a personal cat around the yard to reduce the mice population, in fact, the first TT I had a neighbor across the road that had an outdoor cat which often visited my yard.. and YET I had mice trouble with the first TT.

That cat died after I got my second TT and my second TT I have no issues with mice..

The difference?

I personally PLUGGED EVERY SINGLE HOLE where plumbing and wiring went from outside into the inside that I could find in my second TT.

Plug the holes and they will not come in.

GO BACK and *READ* the OP's thread-starting post!!...:S

He has broken ribs, can't do the "crawl under" thing...:(

BTW - Fresh Cab works - as well as peppermint oil.
Had TT's since 1976 to 2006, then 5th wheel - Hate Meces to pieces - never a problem.

:W

I can vouch for mothballs and dryer sheets not doing anything given my last invasion had dryer sheets used as nesting and half eaten moth balls all over the place.

We had a very similar problem this year except it was with squirrels. My son and I have solved it as follows.

The squirrel, after getting in the trailer, had eaten a hole right through the metal foil furnace duct. I replaced the furnace ducting with an all steel one from Lowes. If he ever gets in again, he will have some broken teeth if he tries to bite this! He also chewed a large hole around the kitchen gray tank vent so we patched that up with sheet aluminum.


I discovered he got in via a small crack between the trailer frame and the front cap. My son and I closed that up with some sheet aluminum from Lowes. Here is a view of the cap now looking up from underneath next to the A frame. We did both sides of the trailer.


After gaining access to the area between the outer and inner wall, the squirrel ate a 2.5 inch hole in the inner wall behind a kitchen drawer and use some of the insulation to fill the drawer full for a nest.
I took all the drawers home and cleaned them out very well and we patched the hole with another piece of aluminum.


After looking around, we found another place where the squirrel had used to enter the living space. He evidently travelled in the underbelly material and ate a hole in the rear hall closet where the black tank breather goes up through the trailer to the roof. We then patched that hole with another piece of aluminum sheet.


We then proceeded to make a squirrel trap using a 5 gal paint bucket, a piece of 1x4 about 4 feet long, and some waxed sunflower seeds. Pour the seeds into about 6 inches of water in the bucket, place the wood ramp on the side of the bucket and let it sit overnight. Place a few seeds on the ramp and leading up to it..
We caught 5 of the critters this way and have not had a single occurrence or problem with them since. By the way, our trailer sits in my sons family campground right in the middle of the woods so there are lots of critters around. They were evidently living in our woodpile.


Hope you have good luck getting rid of your mice. They and squirrels can do a great deal of damage to a RV and I have no sympathy for them.
Barney

Our mountain cats think mice taste like chicken.....:B:B

Gdetrailer wrote:

janstey58 wrote:
Pure Peppermint oil on cotton balls in all hidden places and drawers. I even leave a few laying around on counters. Works 100% of the time for us, and the coach smells great!

Myth.

Doesn't work, what you are seeing is a "coincidence" that you are not seeing mice.

Goes for drier sheets, ultrasonic devices, moth balls and pretty much every other home and "as seen on TV" mythical potions and devices.

NOTHING and I mean NOTHING works except for PLUGGING the TINY HOLES they are getting through. Your RV the manufacturer may have done a decent job PLUGGING holes which may be why you are not seeing mice in YOUR RV.

My first TT, had lots of issues with mice getting in, my second and current TT I have NO PROBLEM with mice getting in.

Both TTs were parked IN THE SAME EXACT SPOT.

I do not have never had a personal cat around the yard to reduce the mice population, in fact, the first TT I had a neighbor across the road that had an outdoor cat which often visited my yard.. and YET I had mice trouble with the first TT.

That cat died after I got my second TT and my second TT I have no issues with mice..

The difference?

I personally PLUGGED EVERY SINGLE HOLE where plumbing and wiring went from outside into the inside that I could find in my second TT.

Plug the holes and they will not come in.

Good luck trying to seal up a slide out so mice can't get in .... NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!!!!. By it's very nature slide outs are going to ALWAYS be the weak spot for critters to get into a trailer.

Larry