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| Screen held in place with magnets |
They build these in all sorts of places, reportedly in RV furnaces and hot water heaters.
Recently, I've had ants attempt to set up in the water and shore power compartment of the Roadtrek. I now keep the power cable off of the ground. Then there is a red squirrel family that likes to hop around on the RT at about 4:30am or so. I heard the "thumps" again this morning and parted the curtain to look out of the rear window. And there, about 6 inches away and sitting on the spare tire was that red squirrel. We were eyeball to eyeball for a few seconds and then is scurried away. Is it going to set up shop in the heat pump/AC compartment?
Currently I'm dauber proofing the hot water heater, furnace and refrigerator compartments. These are "spare time" chores and the sun sail took precedence. Weather also interferes. We've had a lot of rain recently and I haven't found the access to the shop which is hidden somewhere in this Roadtrek.
I had purchased about $8 of aluminum screening at the local hardware store. This I've used to make a passenger window screen. I also intended to use this for the furnace and the hot water heater, which is why I purchased aluminum screening, rather than plastic. The furnace and hot water heaters have exterior steel covers and so attachment with magnets is easy. I purchased some 3/4 inch diameter x 1/16 inch neodymium high strength magnets. These are being used for securing aluminum screening to the passenger window, furnace and hot water heater. All three of these areas are steel and so the magnets stick easily. I'm epoxying steel washers to the interior of the Dometic refrigerator vents. Magnets will then be able to attache the aluminum screening.
Fastened this way, all of these are readily removable, which was a requirement.
I'll post more photos in a few days, weather and time permitting.
