Author Topic: Mice in my trailer?? (Read 1115 times)

1911crazy · « **on:** October 28, 2003, 07:07:43 AM »

I have had a few good years(15) of no mice using mothballs in and outside of my trailer up north when I close up it for the winter. But lately the past two years I'm getting mice and I finally figured out how their getting in?? The snowfall has been higher the past few years and goes up over the roof of my trailer the mice are on the top of the snow getting in threw the roof vent from the furnace that was there. I blocked off the inside but left the outside mushroom so the trailer could breath. My neighbor says the only thing sticking out of the snow is my stove pipe. The next trip up north I will close off the out side vent on the roof completely. Before it snows. BigBill

kevin.303 · « **Reply #1 on:** November 18, 2003, 10:15:15 AM »

i had a similer problem in my tent trailer. it would sit on my grandparents farm for the winter and red squirrels would come in thru the hole where the support legs retract.(and let me tell you those retractable legs are a pain in the A$$) those little demons chewed thru a 3/4 inch thick wooden cuboard! the next winter i slide thru the door and placed a pie plate with rat poison and left it there. killed the squirrels but left a bad smell.

1911crazy · « **Reply #2 on:** December 01, 2003, 09:51:05 AM »

I used decon in all the lower cabinets that I don't use it got rid of them. But now they got in thru the roof vent when the snow is high. Now I plugged that off too and its quiet inside again nothing is stirring not even a mouse. Plus I put mothballs under the trailer and in the lower cabinets it works to keep the little pests away too. BigBill

Winter Hawk · « **Reply #3 on:** December 10, 2003, 02:27:46 PM »

Big Bill,

Have you thought any about putting a chunk of stove pipe with cap over the vent to raise it above the snow? Perhaps you could then still have your ventilation during the winter, but it would be too high for the little critters to get in. Maybe even some hardware cloth around the opening to keep them out also. Anything to keep it breathing!

-Kees-

savageT · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2004, 11:00:25 AM »

Last year at the start of the summer boating season, I got our 18' boat out of storage and prepped the outboard motor for the season. Everything worked great in the driveway. When I launched "Quit-cher-Bitchin", as soon as I got clear of the launch sight, the motor began to act like I forgot to put the sparkplugs in! Very sick. I limped back to the dock, popped the cover off the motor and discovered the mice had built a nest out of insulation in the cover. It got sucked into the carberators and ran like it was choked up.....dah? Needless to say, it was only the start of much more problems for the boating season.......Some other time we'll go into that long story. As you say, I hate those little rodents!
Jim