As anyone who has 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 on boxes, make nests of clothes, pass through small openings, climb almost vertical slippery paths. You don’t have to have food to attract the mice, they’ll fight their way just for the fun of shredding a rare first-edition book or building tunnels through your new combination of leather sofa and loveseat. 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 storage facility for a period of time? You can pack all of your goods 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 your goods while starving now toothless and suffering. Make sure the storage drive installation you are using has a mouse removal program. Removing mice can work quite well, but it really needs to be spread throughout the installation for it to work well. Therefore; The programs that work are what customers can normally see, such as poison blocks in each unit, or metal mouse traps on the edges of each building, or five-gallon buckets that are used as traps at the ends of buildings. If you don’t see that history shows signs of a mouse removal program, then your personal storage facility probably doesn’t have one.

What other options do you have, a mouse-proof installation? Do they really exist? Yes, there are, and the ones that are mouse-proof are also usually dust-proof. In these types of units, if you don’t bring a mouse with you when you move to the unit, then the mouse cannot enter. These units are generally based on shipping containers coming over the ocean from China on a ship and are sealed steel containers with a weather, dust and mouse proof compression seal around the door. When the door is closed, break the weatherproof seal around the edges using a 20-inch pry on the door latch when the door is closed properly, nothing goes in or out of that storage unit until it is opened again

Of course, there are those who say they are mouse-proof, but they don’t look around the unit to see if there are gaps between one unit and the next large enough to slide 4 stacked credit cards. Even on ceilings, joists are mouse roads and if storage facilities have them, they better have a mouse elimination program.

So watch what you’re doing and you can really avoid storage drive terrors.