I tried bars of Irish Spring soap in the garage. I got that from a friend who had a mouse problem in their RV, and it solved it. I know the smell repelled me.
I tried bars of Irish Spring soap in the garage. I got that from a friend who had a mouse problem in their RV, and it solved it. I know the smell repelled me.
In reply to wlkelley3: Mice like electrical wire insulation. I had a customer with a Cavalier. Battery kept running down. all sorts of checks showed nothing. Then one time, as I walked by the car I heard the fuel pump running. I pulled the pump relay. Next morning after reinstalling the relay , no dead battery. Tech found some bear wires under the dash. Advised owner to do anti mouse actions.
I've yet to hear of a repellent that actually worked 100%, I've personally seen bars of Irish Spring soap with chew marks. The only method that works is sealing things up to the best of your abilities and then trapping the ones that make it in.
I hear if you put antifreeze in a bucket trap instead of water it will keep them from stinking.
1988RedT2 wrote: I find that conventional mousetraps, while terribly unreliable, provide a solution whilst giving the mice a sporting chance at survival. The triggers on modern mousetraps tend to be fairly hard to trip, so that even with peanut butter smeared on the trigger, mice have at least a 50/50 chance of getting the peanut butter without setting off the trap. In fact, I'd say my success rate is closer to 10/90 in favor of the mice. I'm beginning to think the PETA people have paid off the Victor mousetrap company and are intentionally selling traps that ineffective by design! It's a damned conspiracy, I tell you! Where the hell are my meds!!!?
Find the cheap ones that still have a steel trigger plate(or order the steel plate victors online, still in production), a few minutes of work with a screwdriver or pair of pliers and you have to set them down very carefully or they'll go off. I can get them touchy enough they'll go off if you thump the workbench hard enough.
In reply to iceracer: Aware of that. When I restored the Opel I had to re-wire most of the car due to bare wires. Some done by mice, the car sat for a few years before I got around to restoring it. Had to clean mice nest out at that time too. Think the mouse issue is taken care of. Left traps in and haven't caught anymore. Guess I'll drop the instrument panel again this weekend when cleaning out all the mice traces. 
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