Johnynorthland
Senior Member
They got in my generator and ate wires up! Found out that wires contain soy! What genius thought that was a good idea!?
I have 4 of these. 2 of them are a different brand and have an easy access battery compartment that you squeeze and pull open. These that you posted, are a pain to change the batteries with a tiny screw that you drop and loose!My son had mice get into his RV. He placed two of these inside his TT and had no more mice. He said that if it were stored where he could have plugged in, he would have bought the 120 volt ones.
I put those high pitch rodent noise plugins in every room. And I have not seen a mouse yet. Seen is keyword. However after 8 to 10 months my grandson asked what is that high pitch noise. So I went a bought new ones.Our last camping trip ended on November 17. We cleaned out the camper (including all food and drink) and put some mouse traps in just in case some got in.
In the next 2 weeks I trapped nearly 20 mice. I put the camper in my shop and started looking for holes. Jayco should be ashamed of themselves. When I dropped the bottom plastic covering there were so many huge holes between the inside and outside of the camper a wonder we didn't have larger animals in there. After a week of spray foam, screen wire, caulk, wood, and sheet metal I finally thought I had everything closed up.
I put the camper back outside less than 48 hours ago. I just checked my traps and had 3 more mice. It's parked on a gravel pad near the house but we live in the woods so the gravel pad is surrounded by leaves, grass, trees, etc.
Any good ideas short of having a cat or snake live in the camper? I would have thought with no food in there and it's not heated they wouldn't even be that bothered about getting in.
They got in my generator and ate wires up! Found out that wires contain soy! What genius thought that was a good idea!?
That was a great idea! I keep a bag of mothballs under my hood, on top of the fan shroud, in front of the weatherstripping gasket, away from any heat source. It still manages to stink up the RV a bit for the first week or two when new!I once had an infestation of mice in my detached garage where I store two cars. I took a box fan and hung two bags of mothballs (the perforated bags) on the fan. When I entered the garage the next day I could barely breathe. I’m sure the fumes had gotten into every corner and crack of the garage. There were no more mice OR insects in that structure.
DON’T DO THIS IN YOUR RV. It took a FEW WEEKS for the mothball smell to fully dissipate. I had essentially fumigated the whole garage. That gave me the idea of using peppermint the same way as the mothballs I use peppermint scent plug-in air fresheners in my trailer, and underneath storage, peppermint scented mouse proof spray and one electronic pest repeller in every outlet.