A while back we were talking about mice in the trailer. Interestingly, I never had this problem until last year, and I've had the HiLo since 2007. But, I found evidence of mice in the cabinet under the kitchen sink, in the cabinet under the bathroom sink and in the small narrow cabinet to the right of the refrigerator. In each case, a mouse or mice had chewed up a roll of paper towels, toilet paper, and a washcloth.
The first picture shows the entry point (I hope) under the bathroom sink. It's where the drain line exits to the grey water tank and, as you can see, there is a huge space where mice could have entered. I didn't take a "before" picture, but you can see how I blocked the opening with hardware cloth (available at Home Depot, Lowes, ACE, etc.).
The second picture shows the big opening around the kitchen drain line under the sink. There are also a couple smaller openings under there too, around water tube inlets. Again, I blocked the large opening with hardware cloth but I used a new product called "Pest BlocK" in the smaller openings. It is an expanding urethane foam that supposedly has a "bitter" taste that critters won't chew through. I found Pest Block at Home Depot. You can see it bulging around the water tubes near the top of the picture and at the bottom of the cabinet in the back.
Before I cut the hardware cloth, I made paper patterns and after making slight adjustments to them, I found the hardware cloth installed without much difficulty and it seals the openings well. I show those in the last picture.
More in the next post.
- Jack
The first picture shows the entry point (I hope) under the bathroom sink. It's where the drain line exits to the grey water tank and, as you can see, there is a huge space where mice could have entered. I didn't take a "before" picture, but you can see how I blocked the opening with hardware cloth (available at Home Depot, Lowes, ACE, etc.).
The second picture shows the big opening around the kitchen drain line under the sink. There are also a couple smaller openings under there too, around water tube inlets. Again, I blocked the large opening with hardware cloth but I used a new product called "Pest BlocK" in the smaller openings. It is an expanding urethane foam that supposedly has a "bitter" taste that critters won't chew through. I found Pest Block at Home Depot. You can see it bulging around the water tubes near the top of the picture and at the bottom of the cabinet in the back.
Before I cut the hardware cloth, I made paper patterns and after making slight adjustments to them, I found the hardware cloth installed without much difficulty and it seals the openings well. I show those in the last picture.
More in the next post.
- Jack
There's quite a bit of folklore here in Arizona that if you want to keep pests out of any garden you plant or away from anything else that might be inviting, you make it less inviting by peeing around those areas. Marking your territory, so to speak. 
