Mice

Try freshcab it is ano kill stuff it uses potanicols to drive them out it comes in teabag like poutch depending how big your van is I put three or four in difernt locers in the van it worcks a treat look on line or your RV suplyshop or cmpinworld.com justthink no dedmice to cleanup or wors little zombemice in your vanJ&I

You can get electronic devices that are said to keep them away. I don’t expect they work, but one might put your mind at rest, Fia. I think you’re worrying unnecessarily.

Write your comments here...They DO work, but mine are powered by the mains, 5 years and no mice, and we live in a rural area, plenty of mice about.There is a 9v battery powered one, but no experience of that. 

www.earthkind.com try this J&I

Thank you everyone.  I have also learnt that to put a bottle of peppermint oil with a rag soaked in the opening of the bottle and then place  it under the caravan/motorhome is supposed to be very effective. We haven't had mice in our motorhome but the caravan stored next to ours apparently had quite a few.  We don't kep food in our motorhome when it is stored. 

I think the main thing is do not leave food in it but there seems to be little you can do to prevent a determined mouse getting in if it wants to.

We had mice in storage facility 3 yrs ago. I purchased can of expandable foam and squirted drop in every conceivable gap-crevice and cable entry points. This took a while co's the little b*****s can sqeeze in anywhere. I did NOT block up any grill/ mesh vents beneath beds / heaters / cooker etc.

Result. - 3 YRS free of the little peskies.

Mice don't like strong smells. We use lavender,peppermint and have managed to get some moth balls. The CC article on mice mentioned using Jeyes Fluid around the outside of the van. 

More traps than mice.....it works every time!!

Any hole that is big enough to poke a pencil into is accessible to a mouse.  Cover the air vents with mesh, fold the mesh if necessary to make smaller holes, fix it with a staple gun.  Don't block the vents though as they are a safelty feature.  Check flexible ducting on the heating system.  Some of it may run under the floor outside the van.  A split can allow access to a mouse.  Remove all food including pet food and even sealed items like sauce sachets.  Leave a tiny bit of food such as a biscuit fragment in the middle of the floor, if it gets eaten you know there is still a mouse inside.  This is what I did when we had mice in the van some years ago.  It worked as they have never been back.  Check the vent mesh yearly as it, and the staples, can rust and allow access.

have come on line to ask if anybody has had the plastic grip on their Alko hitchlock gnawed? Just taken the cover off our "pride and joy" to get ready for our first trip this year and the grip has had a right seeing to! The hitchlock cover has been on all the time and secure yet the so and so has still managed to get underneath. Any ideas on how to avoid a re occurence?