Kit Storage

[Kalahari Diver]

Does anybody know of a sort of large ventilated cupboard type thing. Something you could put in the garage/storeroom and your kit could breathe but the ventilation holes would be well screened so that no nasties could get in.

Something with aluminiun mesh sides top and bottom would seem to be an idea. Just think no more nibbled kit.

[Fiona]

Originally Posted by Kalahari Diver

Something with aluminiun mesh sides top and bottom would seem to be an idea. Just think no more nibbled kit.

Mouse trap

[Kalahari Diver]

I like it! But living where I do as soon as the weather gets cold the rodents move in in battalions! It means all my kit has to move out of my nice dry garage into the house. I would have to set traps like one of those mad sequences you sometimes saw filmed, where one was set off and the bouncing traps set off the rest. Unfortunately it would be my little dancing feet. Have you no sympathy or finer feelings! Funny though. My family would really fall about.

[applepie]

I would get guess a standard cage will do then just put fine chicken wire layering on the bottom.

[Kalahari Diver]

Chicken wire won't work. How can I put this? If you can put a pencil through the hole a mouse can get in!

Please forward all clever comments to somebody else!

[Woz]

Lock a cat in the shed.

[Craig]

What about one of those plastic 'garden shed' lockable units from argos? You can get them sized for one or two sets of gear, can bolt them to the floor, lock them (for what its worth) and if you drill some 3mm holes in the base/ sides they woul be breathable.

[rick]

Not suggesting that you do this, but I have seen it done.
Aquire one of the 'cages' that supermarkets have their goods supplied in.
Steel cage that can be padlocked. They can also fold flat for storage.
All the ventilation you need & enough room to store your kit safely.

[StephenT]

How much kit do you have? :>

[applepie]

Originally Posted by Kalahari Diver

Chicken wire won't work. How can I put this? If you can put a pencil through the hole a mouse can get in!

Please forward all clever comments to somebody else!

err not 100% as i defer to your superior knowledge but chicken wire is commonly used on bottom of trees to prevent rodent/mice damage as well as in gardens.

chicken wire has also been used to make DIY mouse cages.

failing that is easy to purchase wire shelving racks that have horizontal "slits" (that a pencil wont fit through) and construct a cage from one. they're cheap and come in big sheets.

personally I would get an old cabinet, cut "windows" into. use hardware cloth in a cross mesh across these windows. if you cant get hardware cloth, there are insect repellent or similar meshes but they are not as strong.

there are also steel cloths you can get, they are porous, flexible and solid but cost more.