Mice need a cozy place to shelter during the cold winter months and a grill provides the perfect habitat. Come next summer, the last thing you want to deal with is having an extra barbecue in the form of cooked mice that did not get a chance to escape the grill before you started your barbecue.
Follow these tips to learn how to keep mice out of the grill;
Clean the grill thoroughly before storage
Make sure your grill is always clean. The smell of food or any residue left on the grill after use is the primary attraction for mice.
Scrub down the grills using a safe scraper as well as the rest of the grill to remove any food scent that might attract the mice.
Invest in a rodent-proof grill cover
Get a rat-proof grill cover that will prevent the mice from moving into the grill. Most of these covers are coated in a chemical. It will deter the mice from trying to eat their way through it.
They also tend to be made from a material that is weatherproof and hard for the mice to chew.
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Make it inhabitable
To keep rats from bbq colonization, discourage them from wanting to inhabit the grill by using rodent traps to deter them from staying in your grill.
You can use a mousetrap, sonic pest control, or poison to keep the mice away. You can also use repellents such as cloves, cat fur, peppermint oil, or camphor as mice despise these scents.
Last but not least, buy a well-built grill. There are grills in the market that don’t have any open spaces that small rodents often take advantage of. Which makes them perfect rodent-proof grills. If worse comes to worst, consider hiring an exterminator to get rid of the mice in your compound.
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