As anyone who has ever had a mouse in their home can attest, mice can cause an enormous amount of damage to household items. Now try locking them in a room alone with their household items for months without interruption. They can chew through boxes, make nests out of clothing, squeeze through tiny openings, slippery scales on nearly vertical paths. There doesn’t need to be food to attract mice—they’ll shove their way in just for the joys of shredding a rare first-edition book or tunneling through your new leather sofa and loveseat combo. The only household items that are safe from these terrors are plastic toys.
So what can you do if you need to store your household items in a self-storage facility for a period of time? You can pack all your produce in those plastic containers you can buy at Walmart, even the most tenacious mouse probably won’t go through one of these. And even then, the little rodent would only have access to a box of his goods as he starves now toothless and suffering. Make sure the storage drive installation you are using has a mouse reduction program. Mice reduction can work quite well, but it really needs to be distributed throughout the installation to work well. Therefore; the programs that work are the ones that can usually be seen by customers, like poison blocks in every unit, or metal mousetraps on the edges of every building, or five-gallon buckets being used as traps at the ends of buildings. If you don’t see the signs of a mouse abatement program, your self-storage facility probably doesn’t have one.
What other options do you have, a mouse-proof installation? Do they really exist? Yes, they exist, and the ones that are mouse-proof are usually dust-proof as well. In these types of units, if you don’t bring a mouse with you when you move into the unit, then the mouse can’t get in. These units are typically based on the shipping containers that cross the ocean from China on a ship and are steel containers sealed with a weather, dust and mouse proof compression seal around the door. When the door is closed you break the weatherproof seal around the edges using a 20 inch crowbar on the door latch when the door is closed properly nothing goes in or out of that storage unit until it is opened again .
Sure, there are those who say they are mouse-proof, but they don’t look around the drive if there are gaps between one drive and the next big enough to slide 4 stacked credit cards into. Even in the ceiling joists there are mouse roads and if the storage facilities have them, they had better have a mouse abatement program.
So watch what you’re doing and you can really avoid storage drive terrors.