How to Keep Mice Out of Your House for Winter (My One-Afternoon Fix)
First cold snap of the year is when mice start shopping for a warm house, and apparently mine had good reviews. I found droppings along the garage wall and decided I'd rather spend one afternoon sealing the place up than spend all winter setting traps. The thing nobody tells you: a mouse can squeeze through a hole about the size of a dime. A quarter inch. If you can poke a pencil through a gap, a mouse can probably get through it. That's why traps alone never fix the problem — you're catching them one at a time while the door is still wide open. The walk: I went around the outside of the house with a flashlight and actually looked. The gaps are always in the same places: where pipes, wires, and the AC line come through the wall, the bottom corners of the garage door, cracks along the foundation, the dryer vent, and the gap under the back door threshold. I found six spots in twenty minutes. Six open doors. The fix: stuff every gap tight with copper mesh . Copper w...