I also have this problem. We have a very old house, and are constantly finding holes, and resealing, etc. No matter how hard we try, we get mice. It's not even a question of mouse traps and extermination. I finally had to throw the toaster away. I really miss it!!! Have you found any toasters that work? I was thinking about a "toaster Oven", but I really don't want that big of an appliance just for toasting!
They make them and they sell them. There are free patterns available if you sew or know somebody who does.
Actually, toaster ovens, in my house anyway, should be oven toasters. We really use is more for warming and browning. We just went through several iterations of bad ones. The one we have now is pretty good. It's the cheapest Cuisinart at about $75. It is probably the best oven toaster we've ever had, but the others have been to super cheapos. This model was in between in cost. Some can cost over $200!
Fyi, toasters and toaster-ovens are usually readily available at the local Goodwill/Salvation Army/similar shops, typically for 5 to 10 dollars (toaster), a bit more for the combos.
So if you're going through them at this rate, that might be a cheaper option.
Better to invest in traps or a few cats - - - - - . My last toaster was 30 years old when my wife decided she wantes a white one instead of a chrome one
Some toasters are sold with a lid but they're not easy to find online.
Perhaps storing the toaster in a metal breadbox will keep mice out.
Why not place a book or ceramic flooring tile on top of the toaster after it cools down?
If I had mouse problems that bad my wife would have left me a LONG time ago!!!! There would be traps next to traps all over the house, along with electronic repellers and I'd be busy with screen and mortar stuffing every hole I could find and clean up everything around that would attract vermin.
Either that or move out and let the mice have it.
I had an infestation in my old house, a nice brick 2-flat. After about 3 weeks of pristine cleanliness - difficult with 5 kids - trapping, sealing holes, hunting at night with a pellet gun, there was one left alive. I heard him at night in the wall behind the fireplace mantle, where I hadn't sealed the trimwork. Figured he'd just starve to death. Coming home from work one day I noticed what seemed to be crushed crayon on the vestibule floor. Before I could mention it to my wife we started horsing around with our 1-year-old. My wife tickled her while I played protector and ran with her from the kitchen to the vestibule. I saw the mouse duck behind the stair carpeting. Yelled to my wife to get the broom. She killed that last mouse. Discovered that the crushed "crayon" on the vestibule floor was the door bottom weather stripping that mouse was desperately chewing trying to escape the house - into sub-zero weather. Never had another mouse in the house. But it was a lot of work getting rid of maybe 30-50 mice. Took a few weeks.
replying to dannydee, MikoDel wrote: I have a really nice SS Cuisinart 2-slice that cost me $60. One day I noticed (from the smell... AAHHHH gross!) that a mouse had been in there. I have spring traps, glue traps, Tomcat poison and an electric (The Green Mile) trap, but so far these freakin' mice are too smart, and I haven't caught even one. All kinds of bait including peanut butter, chocolate, bread soaked w/coconut oil, etc. I was gonna throw out the toaster but I thought, HELL w/that if some stupid mouse is gonna cost me a toaster that I genuinely like a lot. So I took it outside and spent several hours with grain alcohol and a gun cleaning kit, and went thru about 20 patches. I cleaned everywhere inside that thing, over and over, including the heating elements themselves. And I left it in bright sun shining into the slots for hours. I saved it, and now I have a cover on order.
replying to Dan Espen, Ms.C wrote: They carry deadly diseases!
replying to Pete, Ms.C wrote: This is what I do and the toast actually tastes better!
There are tons of mouse and fly trap videos all over the net, too.
Put toaster on stand - four thin legs 6" high and flat top.
Any self respecting mouse can jump a lot higher that 6".
I just switched to a toaster oven because they can be cleaned, unlike a toaster. It is very difficult to completely stop mice in a 170 year old house.
get one of those enamelled metal bread bins and keep your toaster in it. if you have a large toaster you might have to downsize to fit it in. you can even use it upside down and just cover your toaster with it. being metal, you won't have to wait for the toaster to cool.
I have a bit of news. 1st of all, before I found Xcluder (more on that later...) I had my coffee grinder on screens, on top of my toaster, as a guard, for years, once I had cleaned and saved it. I put two overlapping stove screens, the kind you get from lab supply companies to shield glassware from electric heat, and then my little Cuisinart grinder on top of them. Stopped the mice from getting in, 100%. But what REALLY solved my mouse problem was moving every appliance, and radiator cover, and stuffing Xcluder into all the holes in my floor. Water, electrical, tub access panels, poor moulding/wall architecture... anything and everything, BEST way to stick it to those cute but FILTHY little vermin is to NOT let them in inna 1st place. It's only been a few months but I haven't seen 1 single rodent since the Xcluder project. I HIGHLY recommend Xcluder. And also... I still have my little Cuisinart toaster, and I still love it.
mice build nests in ovens and grills. so this is not an option.
what a silly answer.
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