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Kirwin
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Well I just don't know where to begin. We used our Holiday Rambler travel trailer for the last time in 2006 during the week of Thanksgiving. Parked it the Sunday after Thanksgiving at our house on its concrete extension of our driveway. Went out to it a few times this winter to get things but never spent and significant time in it until I went out to turn up the furnace to sleep in it on Friday the 26th of January. When I got out there, my power monitor display was dark. So I started looking to see what was up with that. I pulled off the cover that has the wiring and the back side of the fuse panel inside and I had some mouse chewing on the wires. 
I start looking further and they have chewed off the 2 inch furnace duct where it penetrates the floor into the underbelly, most of the styrofoam from the water heater and there's pink fiberglass insulation all over under the kitchen cabinets. Its not looking good. I put some water in the fresh water tank and start cleaning up all the feces and urine under the cabinets and then I hear running water under the trailer :--) So I drop the underbelly and the little B_____ have chewed through the forward gray water tank in several places, the 1 1/2" rubber pipe couplings are practically completely gone including the black ABS pipe under them and there are chewed areas on most everything that is plastic located in the underbelly with the exception of the wiring. Well I called it a day and said maybe it will look better in the morning. No such luck. In the morning I discovered that they had chewed through a corner of the ceiling and had made it into the roof area and into the A/C ducts in the ceiling! Time to call the insurance company. They had a nest in the underbelly right beside that 2" furnace duct. I'm sure they liked it since the furnace was keeping the trailer about 50 F this winter! They also had a nest that they were building in the A/C duct over the kitchen. So far I've caught 3 huge rats, not mice, RATS. It's looking very grimm. I'm not sure how they got in as of yet. I did find one hole that Holiday used to pull wires into the side wall from under the front fiberglass cap that I guess they could have used to get under the cap. It is clear that once they got in they were using the A/C and furnace ducts to get from one area to another. Holiday Rambler factory service is the only place that I've found so far that would fix it if the insurance company decides I have to repair it. I'm sure glad that its covered at least. The best thing that can happen now, I think, is for the insurance to total it. Then I can order a new trailer. By the way they ate a box of Scooby Snacks for the dog that we accidentally left in the trailer. Oh and a bottle of Guldens Spicy Brown Mustard that was brand new, never opened that was in there too. Any suggestions on repairing vice replacing would be appreciated. How would you repair the ceiling? Ken Irwin HRRVC 87310
I start looking further and they have chewed off the 2 inch furnace duct where it penetrates the floor into the underbelly, most of the styrofoam from the water heater and there's pink fiberglass insulation all over under the kitchen cabinets. Its not looking good. I put some water in the fresh water tank and start cleaning up all the feces and urine under the cabinets and then I hear running water under the trailer :--) So I drop the underbelly and the little B_____ have chewed through the forward gray water tank in several places, the 1 1/2" rubber pipe couplings are practically completely gone including the black ABS pipe under them and there are chewed areas on most everything that is plastic located in the underbelly with the exception of the wiring. Well I called it a day and said maybe it will look better in the morning. No such luck. In the morning I discovered that they had chewed through a corner of the ceiling and had made it into the roof area and into the A/C ducts in the ceiling! Time to call the insurance company. They had a nest in the underbelly right beside that 2" furnace duct. I'm sure they liked it since the furnace was keeping the trailer about 50 F this winter! They also had a nest that they were building in the A/C duct over the kitchen. So far I've caught 3 huge rats, not mice, RATS. It's looking very grimm. I'm not sure how they got in as of yet. I did find one hole that Holiday used to pull wires into the side wall from under the front fiberglass cap that I guess they could have used to get under the cap. It is clear that once they got in they were using the A/C and furnace ducts to get from one area to another. Holiday Rambler factory service is the only place that I've found so far that would fix it if the insurance company decides I have to repair it. I'm sure glad that its covered at least. The best thing that can happen now, I think, is for the insurance to total it. Then I can order a new trailer. By the way they ate a box of Scooby Snacks for the dog that we accidentally left in the trailer. Oh and a bottle of Guldens Spicy Brown Mustard that was brand new, never opened that was in there too. Any suggestions on repairing vice replacing would be appreciated. How would you repair the ceiling? Ken Irwin HRRVC 87310
So far, so good.
