The main reason I suggested a few drops of bleach is because about 7 years ago, when we still owned the first NEW motor home that we had bought, it had sat for 3 years unused. We took it into an RV repair place and asked them to go through it with a fine tooth comb, because we had seen droppings. When they pulled out the oven, they found a rather large rodent nest with lots of droppings
. At that point they backed out. They put on a mask, rubber gloves and used a very mild bleach solution. They told me, that in their experience, bleach (and you need a only about 1/2 teaspoon for a gallon of water) was the best for killing an potential diease that the rodents may have had and left behind in the feces. I have not done any scientific studies on bleach vs. windex vs. pinesol. All I am going with is what these people told me. You may well be right (you usually are right...dad-gumm it), that pinesol would kill any germs too (and smell a
WHOLE) lot better, at least they advertise that they do kill germs. AND, of course, keep the bleach solution off of any material, only metal parts!
We have a different motor home now, and in the hold with the water hose, I have a squirty bottle with a few drops of bleach and water in it. When I hook up in a campground, I spray the hose bib threads AND inside the threads on my own hose, even though I have a whole coach water filter.
Warning: The surgeon general has declared that it is NOT unhealthy to smoke your competition AND I just discovered that my corvette is a hybred. It burns gas and rubber!