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Old 10-27-2013, 10:19 AM   #1
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Winter stoage question....

When I store the camper in a few weeks, I plan to set some moth balls in the cabinets and D-Con around to help keeps critters out.....Good idea or no? If good, should I set D-Con on outside of camper as well? Plan to store it at a storage place on pavement. Thanks!
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Please no d-con outside the camper as the other animals will eat it too. maybe your own pets or the neighbors.
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If I remember, I've also read where moth balls really don't work??
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Old 10-27-2013, 03:02 PM   #4
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Winter stoage question....

I would never stink up my trailer with moth balls!
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Old 10-27-2013, 03:47 PM   #5
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Have you had "visitors" in your rig before, or are you simply doing this as a precautionary measure? If this is your first winter or you've never had any "visitors", I would concentrate my efforts on closely inspecting the underside for any possible entry points and seal them up. If you've had problems previously, then maybe you need to try such items as D-Con and mothballs if you unable to determine where the vermin are getting in.

In the 13 years I've owned my TT, I've never seen (knock on wood) any evidence of critters nesting inside.
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A lot of people recommend the sticky traps versus poison.
That way they don't crawl away and die in the walls or duct work.
Also, peppermint extract soaked cotton balls are recommended over moth balls.

I've never had any issues either in cold storage.

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We wrap cloves in cheese cloth, a bit bigger than a golf ball, about 10 of them and dryer sheets spread around and in the storage. No critters and a great smell upon entry.
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Neither if you ask me, you will never get the smell of moth balls out of the camper and you don't want the mice to die in there
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Have you had "visitors" in your rig before, or are you simply doing this as a precautionary measure? If this is your first winter or you've never had any "visitors", I would concentrate my efforts on closely inspecting the underside for any possible entry points and seal them up. If you've had problems previously, then maybe you need to try such items as D-Con and mothballs if you unable to determine where the vermin are getting in.

In the 13 years I've owned my TT, I've never seen (knock on wood) any evidence of critters nesting inside.
X2, I spent a few hours under mine and placed a little steel wool and then a little marine caulk to fill the holes. There were a lot of holes under my HTT. I also spend a few hours each fall cleaning, to remove any smellables.
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A lot of people recommend the sticky traps versus poison.
That way they don't crawl away and die in the walls or duct work.

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A agree with Doug's suggestion. Or, even a spring trap (more humane) baited with peanut butter would be better than an ingested chemical.

It would be bad enough to get a critter chewing up the inside of a RV, but equally as bad to have it crawl away to a hard-to-get-to place and die, creating a stink that will linger for a long time even after the carcass is removed.
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Old 10-28-2013, 07:01 PM   #11
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I store mine in a building, they put mothballs all around the outside of the building and around the interior walls then they put them on the ground around the trailer as well. I put dryer sheets inside the camper also. This does not stink up the camper, the dryer sheets keep the inside smelling nice and it keeps the critters away.
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I don't think I would put any poison in my camper as if they die on the camper it will stink!!! I have used dryer sheets and they seem to work or they are just not trying to get in.
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DO NOT fall for the dryer sheet myth. It will not repel mice. My buddy a fellow Jayco owner put 30 of em all over his RV before the winter... they used it as TP He had one heck of a cleaning job that spring.
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I would never stink up my trailer with moth balls!
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I was walking through the CG last weekend when we were out, and I could smell someone's moth balls from the main road...

I like the peppermint and cloves ideas; much more pleasant smell.
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Don't use moth balls...they are the absolute worst and you'll never get rid of the smell. As far as the D-Con is concerned in my opinion for the damage that mice do there is no death painful enough for them so go for it. Put it in a bait station box so as to limit collateral damage to unintended species.
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I have tried just about every trick I have ever heard of to keep mice out of my garage, in order to keep them out of my old car. I have never had mice in my car. But none of the tricks work to keep them out of the garage. Spring traps work nice, but once they have sprung they are no longer any good. The one that I found by accident that works surprising well at capturing mice is a 5 gallon bucket with a little bird seed in it. I am not sure how it works, but it works. The mice can climb in, but they cannot climb back out. First year, I had about 12 mice in the bottom of the bucket by spring, I did not know they where even there until I did a little spring cleaning.
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One of the primary rodent pests here the the desert southwest is the ever present rural and /or urban pack rat.
The damage they cause is well known to those of us living in southern Arizona.
One of the satisfactory preventative steps is to place a set of "string lights" on the ground under a TT or RV.
With the string lights connected to a timer or a remote switch, the lights can be set to come on from dusk to dawn, or left on the entire 24 hour period of the day.
Pack rats don't like daylight or a constant light source which is why this light source is of some help in keeping rats at bay.
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