What can be done about squirrels knocking down nuts out of trees over my mobile home? (roofing, to live)

[GaiaGoddess]

Originally Posted by Cleverfield

Try ear plugs.

I have, they don't work. I can still hear it. It's as loud as hail landing on a metal roof, you can't just block the sound out with anything.

[GaiaGoddess]

Originally Posted by Kayekaye

Nothing. We get that on our deck as well. They do sound like little bombs going off. You will get used to it, but I imagine that a mobile home would be not as well insulated as a house so it must be even noisier. Throw some old blankets out over everything till all the acorns are down? Not fun.

Yeah bombs is a good way to put it. It jars me awake, it's so loud and sudden that my heart gets beating really fast then it is even harder to fall back asleep. Today I got a whole hour and a half, maybe 2 hours if you add up the minutes here and there. Ugh. I am desperate to try anything, I'll get a bunch of blankets.

[GaiaGoddess]

Originally Posted by AmorphicDN

OP, jokes aside, try garden bird netting. It's inexpensive and lightweight. Should be easy to tie along one side of the roof and then loosely to the trees. It can hang slack. It will not flap or move significantly in the wind. It will soften the blows of any nuts that fall through it. Doubled and tripled over itself, most nuts won't even fall through. And the squirrels will hate trying to run around on it. But to the extent they do you won't hear them scrambling on your roof.

Good luck!

That would be a good idea...but I dont know how I would get up that high in order to reach the trees. They hang over my trailer, they're not next to it. I can't climb them, they're all like a hundred feet tall at least.

[GaiaGoddess]

Originally Posted by earslikeacat

Remove the acorns from the tree and put on the ground. Hire a handyman or DIY.u aunt had the same problem in Iowa. If not feasible, those pink earplugs plus Bose Noise-Cancelling Headphone. Worth every penny for me. Plus maybe a sleeping pill. I suffer from insomnia plus i hear a pin drop and i.m awake. Get your rest and maybe call a tree guy or animal trapper for advise if taking thr nuts down 1x week doesn.t work. Trapping won.t be the answer but maybe they have advise as well. Good luck!

These trees are too high, the tops of them go way up above power line height. You can't even reach the trees from my trailer, they overhang way high above it, not directly above it. But even if I could reach them, I dont know how I'd get all the nuts out, the squirrels are at it every day all day and they still don't get them all.

[GaiaGoddess]

Originally Posted by jmgg

It is a mobile home. Move it.

Well that costs a few thousand dollars to do that. Besides, this park is full of trees and the caretaker says it happens to all of them. It's just that nobody else has to sleep in the daytime like I do so the noise isn't keeping them from sleeping.

Moving to another park isn't possible either, this is the only park in the area I could afford to live in, that's why I moved here. It's only $280 a month.

[earslikeacat]

Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones.

[GaiaGoddess]

Originally Posted by earslikeacat

Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones.

I can't sleep with headphones on, I'm a side sleeper. I can't even sleep with little earbuds in. Besides, anything like that would make it impossible to hear my alarm going off and I'd be late for work.

[jambo101]

An afternoon with a chain saw should take care of business.

[Ghengis]

I am in no way condoning this...

[ellysbelly]

Tie some twine to the trees and hang a tarp or netting over your roof. If you can't do it yourself, hire a teenager to do so. Depending on the size of your home, if that's not an option, erecting a canopy of some sort (maybe one similar to this: Shelter Logic 8 Leg Outdoor Shade Canopy in Modular Garages) might work to dampen the noise.