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Chemical placed in water heater box

Irish_Reb
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I heard a suggestion about placing an small open container with a little cotton laced with some type of chemical that helps prevent insects from getting into the compartment.
Does anyone know about this and what the chemical is?
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GrumpyandGrandm
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Irish Reb wrote:
Thanks for some great ideas. My wife mentioned the peppermint oil.

That's for mice.
Grandma in front of her retirement home..
She lets Grumpy drive!!

Irish_Reb
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Thanks for some great ideas. My wife mentioned the peppermint oil.

JAYHAWKERS
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Why not just buy and install a mud dauber screen over the vent opening/ Did that to my Suburban furnace, Dometic refrigerator vents, Suburban water heater and the A/C roof top unit. The rubber end caps on the bumper are a favorite entry point for wasps, so I cut some aluminum window screen and hot glued it to the inside of each cap. Wasps and spiders can be a real problem and seem to favor RV's. Only had our new trailer one month and sparrows were entering the roof top A/C and building nests back in the squirrel cage blower. I bought refrigerator vent screens and used small zip ties to fasten them on from the inside of the unit, had to form them to the match the curves at the rear of the A/C. good fit and no more bird nests. Happy camping to you......

rockhillmanor
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moth balls

....And they are toxic to breath let alone in a small RV.

Peppermint Oil on cotton balls, it has to be 100% pure oil. Not cheap but works!

For spiders it's spray coconut oil and vinegar, gone in a flash and won't come back.

You will not have any critters in your MH and it will smell like the tropics..........and won't burn your lungs out like moth balls will.

OR you can put moth balls in the RV if you don't mind these ailments:

""Moth balls contain either naphthalene or paradichlorobenzene""

Babies are especially vulnerable because their bodies are less able to clear naphthalene byproducts formed in blood.

""theyโ€™re a health hazard for kids for several reasons. Naphthalene exposure can cause red blood cells to break apart, a condition known as hemolytic anemia.""

....The EPA links short-term exposure of humans to naphthalene to cataracts, liver and neurological damage. The agency considers the chemical a possible carcinogen.

The EPA warns that short-term exposure to paradichlorobenzene can cause nausea, vomiting, headaches and irritation. Long-term effects include anemia, skin lesions, appetite loss and liver damage....


""mothballs contains 396 grams of naphthalene, which is sufficient to raise the average residential indoor air concentration to approximately 200 micrograms per cubic meter over a period of 1 year, though in small homes or apartments this would be expected to be much higher. Exposures of this magnitude are commensurate with industrial exposures to ... jet fuels.โ€"

Nope I don't think I would be putting moth balls in the family RV. :B

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

downtheroad
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Yup...moth balls will supposedly keep spiders away....supposedly.
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enblethen
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Moth balls!

Bud
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