I’m not sure if you have ever dealt with a mouse problem in your home or RV, but those little guys can be a huge problem and we gathered up the best ideas for how to keep mice out of campers, garages, and houses. This is by far one of the cheapest (and most cruelty-free) method to keep the critters away. No need for traps!
We love to camp and this 1976 Scotty trailer was our first camper. We have made so many awesome memories in this cute little thing. Honestly, I’m not the camping type so my husband has always tried to glam it up a bit to keep me interested in going on our camping trips. One thing that is a sure way of keeping me away is critters in the camper!
Now that Fall is here, mice will find their way into RV’s, homes, and garages to keep warm so now’s the time to use one of these ideas to keep them out of your living space.
How to keep Mice out of Campers
Place a bar or two of Irish Spring soap in your trailer. Critters absolutely hate the strong smell of the soap, and will stay far away from it. You can also leave the bars of soap in your garage, basement, or anywhere else you suspect pests are hiding…
Place dryer sheets in areas that you suspect critters to enter or hide. Be sure to change the dryer sheets every few weeks to keep the scent strong enough to keep them away…
Soak cotton balls with peppermint oil and place them in suspected areas…
Moth balls are also a good idea. I personally do not prefer to use this, but others do not mind the smell…
Here are some other ways to keep the mice away…
Steel Wool – covering holes that mice can get through, they don’t like the metal.
Aluminum Foil – blocking passages.
Keeping areas clean and tidy will really help giving critters no areas to hide in. Also making sure all food is put away and sealed.
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209 comments on “How to keep Mice out of Campers”
I used dryer sheets in my camper. Works great.
Be careful it might be a cat trying to keep warm. And if you start the engine it would kill it. Bang on the hood before you get in the car to start it
I have tried this and the little guys ate the irish spring soap and nested in the bounce sheets. The next year, I tried the cotton balls with the peppermint oil and I even haf bowls of cloves lying in the problem areas – they nested with the cotton balls.
I have no idea what to do this year!!!
We just left the dealership having bought our first camper. The recommendation for keeping mice/squirrels and such at bay was to put a very few drops of coyote urine around outside places every month or so where creatures could sneak in!!
How to keep chipmunks away. They are under my deck
Fox urine is the best ive used it for the 3 yrs ive had my camper and not one crittee has entered u spray around the whole under carriage and perimeter on the ground u wont be dissappointed i use it in a spray bottle and we havent had a one yet .
Ants you should use vinegar and baking soda mixed together and make a paste and leave little chunks of baking soda and they will bring the baking soda to their nest and die. It will leave a paste but u clean your floors after and your good.
Ants hate cinnamon! I used it to keep ants out of my animal food in my shed. Worked perfectly
STICKY TRAPS. CAUGHT 4 AT ONCE THEN INCINERATE ON BURN PILE
Crushed light bulb mix with peanut butter put it near hole gets read of rats and mice.
I have tried every one of these time and time again along with several others and nothing works when you live in the country! Except lots of wild cats if you like cats.
Aluminum foil doesnt work…ive tried it!
Irish spring works in your garden.to keep deer and rabbits and other bugs from eating your plants never thought of trying it here
One thing we did when we had a family of mice living in our camper worked great. Bought a big bag of activated charcoal from a fish store and filled up some old nylon stockings, soaked them in peppermint oil and placed them in the hard to get places of the camper. Scared the family out and kept any new “friends” away
People who have a blood enzyme disorder called G6PD (similar to Sickle Cell) cannot breath moth balls, so keep that in mind as well.
i live in a rural community and work at an auto repair shop. Repairing electrical and wiring damage caused by rodents – mice and squirrels – in the engine and passenger compartments of cars and trucks costs our customers tens of thousands of dollars every year. One woman’s car was completely destroyed by mice. One man’s brand new car was in the shop a week after he bought it – with severe rodent wiring eating damage.
The dryer sheets work best, – but you really Do have to change them often. We use a rodent repellent tape to repair wiring, but some critters eat it anyway. We pull huge rats and mice nests with tiny babies in them out of air conditioning and heating ducts. We keep cats outside and rodent poison all over the shop – and it helps – a lot. If your vehicle sits too long, leave the hood open so light gets inside the engine compartment.
Once a rodent gets in to your car or RV, others will follow the scent of poop and pee they leave behind them – so if you see one, your problem is permanent.
Mice ate the soap bars…fabric sheets seem to no longer be keep them out, on to the peppermint oil!!
Will any of ghese work on Voles eating ny grass in my lawn? Their tunneling through my entire yard killing mh lawn.
Get a couple of corn snakes,”hog-nosed” snakes, or garter snakes. All are non-poisonious. Owls, and red-tail hawks are also good.
Borax, sugar and water. Put equal parts in a water or soda bottle cap.