we just bought a house and the peaple who were liveing there were pigs. we didnt even get 5 feet into the house and my husband asked if i was getting bit. we looked around and we had fleas all over us. none were bighting me but he was so bit up he looked like he had the chicken pox. we have had a professional out there and he said he has never seen a infestation like the house. the house was sprayed but the fleas come back in one week. we then went to the vet and got 4 boms that cost 12 bucks a piece. this worked for about 4 days. we have a farm house. my husband has gone as far as to cut the grass so short that i think that it will die. can some one please help me. we have a 2 year old daughter that is just as allergic as her father. i dont want to take her to the house unless it is clean. i wish i could finde the people who trashed the hous and pay them back. they realy screwed the friend that we bought the house from.
2006-09-08 04:28:04 · 9 answers · asked by kris s 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Cleaning & Laundry
Sprinkle all the furniture and carpets with table salt and leave over night. Vaccuum up and empty the bag. Repeat every 4 days until the infestation is over.
Get a bottle of febreeze. Get some tea tree, lavendar, and euctalyptus oils at a whole food store. Add 20 drops of each to the bottle of febreeze. Spray liberally around the house every day. The oils are a natural insect/flea repellant.
Add 10 drops of the tea tree oil and lavendar oil to your body product bottles and into your laundry as well. This will help to keep the fleas off of you.
2006-09-09 17:16:36 · answer #1 · answered by C K Platypus 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bombing is not working because the flea eggs are hatching out after you bomb. Rent a steam cleaner or buy a Hoover steamvac. Wet down the carpet in a 8 x 8 area, let it sit for a couple of minutes then vacuum up. The soapy water will kill the fleas and the eggs. Just spraying the hot soapy water out ahead of the vac doesn't work because it doesn't give time for the soap to kill the critters. We had an infestation that came in the house on a cat, tried vacuuming and flea sprays etc; once I steam cleaned the carpets we never had another problem.
2006-09-08 22:14:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer from Karen S. was good. You have to keep treating every week to get the ones that hatched. (The professional should have told you this. Ask for a refund.). You also need to treat the yard. Cutting the grass short won't help. Your husband and daughter need to take some form of Benadryl in the meantime. Also, consider pulling up all the carpet and having wood or linoleum flooring put in. This will help with the fleas and other allergies and is much easier to keep clean.
2006-09-08 11:39:23 · answer #3 · answered by jiminycricket 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just spray around the skirtings with a good flea spray, as directed on the can. This will kill live fleas. Then repeat, as instructed to kill the newly hatched ones, before they lay again. For peace of mind, repeat the whole process. You do not need new carpets, unless it freaks you out a bit...
2006-09-11 13:55:40 · answer #4 · answered by Richard M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man that really stinks,
Unfourtunatly you will have to change the carpet, and have a professional come out and spray underneath ( basically the cement of the rooms under the carpet) wait a few days like 5 or so, and do a bombing again!
Then wait again a few days and see how it is, bomb again if needed, this should work, i used to manage an apartment complex and this is what we had to do twice in different apartments, but it worked!
GOOD LUCK!
2006-09-08 15:51:17 · answer #5 · answered by crystald 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy De Con flea bomber. Get the one that says kills eggs. Repeat in about 2 weeks.
I am sorry your husband got chicken pox. BUT I don't think it was from the fleas. Honest. Fleas you can see jump around on the carpet and such but rarely do you see them on yourself. You may feel a few bites. I am convinced it is not fleas that you are talking about. I think you need to hire an exterminator and than clean the house with good cleaners and wash very precise, and than have the exterminator back again and clean again. Keep your child out of the house til it is extraordinarily clean and safe.
2006-09-08 11:57:32 · answer #6 · answered by Nana 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You could try China berry leaves. Fleas hates this. We got rid of our fleas by putting leaves all over the house. The dog would lay in it and it would kill them off of her as well. I know walking around in leaves seem nuts, but it really works and the fleas do not come back. No chemicals.
2014-06-13 07:24:38 · answer #7 · answered by Rose A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They make a powder that has a pet deoderizer / flea killing product in it at pets mart. I think you can even buy it at Wal mart. You might try that first. Vacume really good. And remember when you vacum to clean the vacum. DO NOT LEAVE THE BAG IN THE VACUM!! They escape. And you have to repeat every 4 days or so for the eggs to cycle out.
2006-09-08 11:33:22 · answer #8 · answered by Karrien Sim Peters 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your best chance of getting rid of them is to break down and get a professional exterminator in there to spray.
2006-09-08 11:35:32 · answer #9 · answered by Swordsman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋