Mice mystery

[Dayle1]

Now, if I have your attention, maybe you have another perspective that will get me to the right answers. #1 The obvious question is how do mice get inside the trailer? #2 How can they get into the ceiling?

My fiver has been inside my steel RV garage for 2 months, now 2nd night on the road and I've got a mouse inside the ceiling. Not on the roof, but directly on the ceiling panel. Heard it last night in the bedroom and this morning further back toward the living room.

Doesn't seem logical for a mouse to go from the basement or living area up to the ceiling, especially with all the supplies we loaded into the trailer in the past week. And I can't see how a mouse could get on the roof to enter from above. And then once on the roof, how to get into the ceiling? I've come up with just one possibility. At the A/C, maybe chewing thru the gasket and then thru the A/C duct?

Anyway, help me solve this mystery.

[pianotuna]

Hi Scott,

Mice don't mind foam. Next time squeeze in some metal pot scrubbers with nice sharp edges before you foam.

ScottG wrote:
As far as the ceiling is concerned, When my TT was new I noticed the fiberglass cap extended down below the frame in front. It was actually open to the underside of the trailer and a mouse could have easily enter there, climbed up the thin insulation in the cap and gotten into the tiny attic in the ceiling.
I sealed the area up with spray foam.

[nineoaks2004]

midnightsadie wrote:
a mouse only needs a hole the size of a dime. and they can find away.

X 2 I know this from experience

[ScottG]

As far as the ceiling is concerned, When my TT was new I noticed the fiberglass cap extended down below the frame in front. It was actually open to the underside of the trailer and a mouse could have easily enter there, climbed up the thin insulation in the cap and gotten into the tiny attic in the ceiling.
I sealed the area up with spray foam.

[Water-Bug]

Move a cat into your steel RV garage. Mice find their way in, cats find/scare mice. Cat food is cheaper than RV repairs. When I worked for a major phone company, I would encounter customers that had multiple issues with mice chewing wiring outside/under the home. If they owned a cat, I would advise them to dump their cat box near the site of the latest mouse on wireing attack. I rarely had a second call from customers that heeded my advice.

[westend]

I've talked to a few mice and most of them said they climb onto the waste tank, shinny up the vent pipe and then relax in the ceiling cavity where it's nice and warm with plenty of bedding. Not one of them has said anything about how they are driven out but I guess those trapped or poisoned aren't around to tell the tale.

[midnightsadie]

a mouse only needs a hole the size of a dime. and they can find away.