By Sara M.
The first cold nights are when it starts. You're in bed, the house is quiet, and there's scratching in the walls. When it turns cold, mice go looking for a warm way in, and a house is warm. Here's how homeowners are getting the house ready before winter, without setting a trap or putting out poison.
The cotton-ball trick is what most people try first: a few drops of peppermint oil tucked behind the stove. Then you're the one crawling back there every time it needs more. One commenter on our ads said the peppermint cotton balls they threw everywhere for the winter were all gone. FUGELYN is three plant oils in a mineral base, in a pouch you set by each spot you can't seal.
A spray has to be done again, and in winter that means the back of the furniture and a cold garage. A pouch isn't a spray. You open the bag, set a pouch by each spot you can't seal, and that's the setup. Look in on them now and then, when you're in the pantry or the garage anyway. We're not putting a number of days on it until we can show you proof.
Turn over other repellent pouches and read what the filler is. A lot of them use ground corn cob, and corn cob is food. A commenter on our ads asked us straight out: "Is it based on corn? Most of these things are based on a food product." Ours isn't. The fill is mineral granules, not grain.
Snap traps don't always end it clean, and glue traps are worse. One person on Reddit used a sticky trap once and never again. A pouch doesn't catch or hurt anything. It's a repellent: it puts a scent in the spot where you set it, and mice don't like to settle near that smell. Nothing to empty in the snow.
Poison works slowly, and the mouse goes wherever it goes next, often inside a wall, under the floor or behind the cabinets. Then comes the smell, and sometimes a hole in the drywall to find it. There's no poison in a pouch, so nothing ends up dying in a wall you can't open.
The pouches are made for mice, and we won't tell you they do anything for roaches or spiders. If bugs are coming in with the cold too, the Buy 3 Get 3 Free pack comes with our Bug Spray, free.
When the scratching starts, a lot of people call a pest company first. One couple on Reddit, in their first year at a rural house, heard mice in the walls as winter came and got a $21K quote for an attic job. They asked other local companies to quote it too, and decided to start with sealing and trapping. If mice are already all through the attic, call a pro. If you're trying to keep them from settling in, start with sealing and a bag of pouches. Every order comes with a 90-Day Money-Back Guarantee, counted from delivery.
Pick a day that isn't freezing, since spray foam sets best when it's not too cold (check the can). Walk the outside of the house with the foam and some steel wool, and fill every gap around pipes, vents, the water spigot, the electric meter and where the gas line comes in. The CDC says a mouse can fit through a gap about the width of a pencil, so the small ones count, and it doesn't have to look pretty. Then set a pouch by the spots you can't reach: behind the stove, under the sink, in the corner of the garage.
Pantry, basement, garage, the shed. Winter sends mice to the closed-in, quiet places, and the pantry matters most before the holidays, when it's full of baking supplies. The packs are sized for that: from a pantry and a room, up to a full home plus an outbuilding, or the whole property. They're for closed-in spaces, so they won't do anything for the open yard.
Every pack ships free. Each size up adds a gift: the Infestation Protocol guide with Buy 2 Get 1 Free, a Mystery Gift with Buy 3 Get 2 Free, and Bug Spray with Buy 3 Get 3 Free.
We're a young brand. The home pouches started selling in July, and through early October, 63 of our 486 orders were the home pouches. None of those buyers has been through a winter with them yet, so we don't have winter results to show you. We asked buyers, most of them RV owners, what they were hoping for. Two of the answers we got: "Peace of mind." "No worries."
Seal what you can reach, set a pouch by the spots you can't. No trap to empty in the snow, and no poison in the walls.
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Word for word from forums and our research. These aren't reviews of FUGELYN.
It really sucks when you open your cutlery drawer and see their droppings over everything.
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I'm sick of picking mouse poop out of the rice.
From our research
Mice keep getting into house after paying pro to seal it. What are my next steps?
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I have sealed what I can, but I know there are likely some places under the skirt, that I simply cannot access.
A. · iRV2 forum
I like to prevent access and have covered every opening I can find. Problem is I can't find them as well as the rodents!
M. · iRV2 forum
Last yr after it was removed from storage and before the first trip, mice built a nest inside the generator windings.The generator had to be removed and repaired.This yr they built a nest inside the exhaust system. No damage, but what a stink when I fired up the engine.
S. · iRV2 forum
The wife won't let me put out poison, and she's not wrong.
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No promise there. It's a repellent, not a trap or poison, and it isn't guaranteed to clear out mice that are already living inside. If you hear them every night or find nests, have a pro take a look. The pouches go in the spots you can't seal, and mice don't like to settle near the smell.
No. Set pouches by the spots you can't reach now, and seal what you can on the next mild day.
We're not putting a number on it until we can show you proof. This is our first winter with homeowners, and we'd rather tell you that than guess. Look in on them now and then, when you're in the pantry or the garage anyway.
The spots you can't seal: behind the stove, under the sink, the back of the pantry, basement corners, the garage and the shed. Keep them up off the floor and out of reach of kids and pets.
These have a mineral base, not corn cob, so there's no food in the fill. They also aren't meant to work alone: seal every gap you can reach, then put a pouch in each spot you can't.
We can't promise a mouse will never bite one. Here's what's in it: three plant oils in a mineral base. There's no corn cob and no food in the fill.
Yes. Seal every gap you can reach. These go in the spots you can't, like the back of the pantry, under the sink, or in the garage.
You'll notice it when you open the cabinet it's in. That's the point. If the smell bothers you, put them where you don't spend much time, like the garage, the basement and the back of the pantry.
Use them as directed. Keep them out of reach of kids and pets, the same as anything with essential oils.
No. It's a repellent. It doesn't kill mice, so there's nothing dying in a wall you can't get to.
Pick by how much of your home you're covering. BUY 1 is 12 pouches for 1–2 zones, like the pantry and one room. BUY 2 GET 1 FREE is 36 pouches for 3–4 zones, a full home. BUY 3 GET 2 FREE is 60 pouches for a full home plus one outbuilding. BUY 3 GET 3 FREE is 72 pouches for full property coverage.
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