Best household flea killer?

Mandles

I am not talking about flea killer for putting on cats, but can anyone recommend a good flea killer for the house. We dont seem to have many but just one flea on my son makes him look like he has some spotty disease as each hop of the flea is a massive red blistering mark and then a huge scab.He looks like a dot to dot puzzle!

I have shampooed my carpets, de fleaed my cats , hoovered from top to bottom regularly and unfortunately we are decorating so floorboards exposed so this is probably causing a problem. Anyway, i know i had some amazing stuff before that you spray on carpets and it kills everything for months after(it was great , found dead spiders on the floor for ages which never usually happens.) I have forgotten the name but if anyone has had a similar problem and found a good house flea killer that they could recommed it would be great.

geri1965_2

Your best bet would be to get something from a vet - most supermarket products are ineffective.

We use Acclaim.

Mandles

Thanks. How do bob martin products kill your cat? I hought that they were pretty rubbish products and i used frontline but it makes one of my cats quite ill.

the_devil_made_me_do_it

I recommend getting the council to do it. They use a water based spray and it is very effective, even kills fleas on the cat too. It' s quick and easy and there is no fumes. Once is enough and it lasts a very long time, much longer than any flea spray. I think the council may charge a fee, but it's worth it.

geri1965_2

Mandles wrote: »

Thanks. How do bob martin products kill your cat? I hought that they were pretty rubbish products and i used frontline but it makes one of my cats quite ill.

Have a look at these links (warning - they are distressing)

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/pets-and-animals/bob-martin-flea-products/reviews/

http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews55782.html

spankymonkey_2

boots have acclaim flea spray for £12.99. mine has lasted a year....very good stuff as i have 2 cats and 2 dogs

snowman2_2

I would use RIP Fleas, Acclaim or Skoosh - ask your vet - we spend a lot of time killing fleas!!

spookylukey

snowman2 wrote: »

I would use RIP Fleas, Acclaim or Skoosh - ask your vet - we spend a lot of time killing fleas!!

Do you not rate Indorex then Snowman? I've always used Indorex over Acclaim as it says it kills dustmites too which Acclaim didn't use to, but I see Acclaim have changed their formula - or at least the blurb now.

looby-loo_2

I have used Accliam for years. One can lasts a year and does my house twice. I do it on return from holiday after the house has been shut up for a while and the fleas are hungry! Very quick and easy. I didn't realise the formula has changed.

snowman2_2

Indorex works nicely in the same way Arsenal play football. Works well but wouldn't be my choice as #1. Staykill is a bit sticky and seems to leave a residue, RIP Fleas smells the nicest and comes in a big can. The market has shrunk a lot as the EU has banned certain products on safety grounds (like Nuvan Top) and other products have been reformulated. The one I use at the surgery is RIP Fleas Extra.
The biggest secret to success is to be thorough. Vacuum everywhere first, wash any bedding that is washable, then make sure you spray in all the cracks and crevices that often get missed.

caela_2

Just a warning that RIP Fleas is RUBBISH do not bother using it at all. We've been tackling a flea infestation for years now, tried Frontline on the cats and RIP on the carpets, neither did a thing. Frontline is another BIG waste of time. Advocate on the other hand has proven far more successful so we have switched to that and are now switching the flea spray too. Not sure what to switch it to though. Thinking this 'Acclaim' might work. Any advice?

I'm honestly at my wits end with this- the fleas seem to be resistant to everything. I've got laminate wood flooring and mopped it and flea sprayed it and still, fleas everywhere. I've been using these products thinking there was just some user error (maybe I wasn't thorough enough etc.) before resolving to stop beating myself up and get something else. It's just so expensive though to keep buying these useless things only to have to throw them away and buy a different thing. Thinking of getting the council in for this one now. Nightmare.

** Oh yeah, just to explain with the RIP fleas, we treated most rooms in the house, save one or two, one of which was the kitchen (I know, should have done all the rooms but it wasn't possible) and whilst RIP fleas states it will treat a problem for up to 1 year, the cat re-entered one of the treated rooms and must have dropped some fleas there. A few days later, we went in there to check and were literally crawling in fleas it was horrendous. I know the cat had fleas at the time, but the claim that this thing kills fleas for up to a year I would have expected they should have died after jumping off the cat onto the floor. However, they seem to have multiplied in their millions and have now infested that room. This was an EMPTY room as well, so only flooring and flea spray in there- it wasn't like they were living in something like a sofa). I sprayed it again with what was left in the can, but don't expect anything of it. So yeah, that is one of the reasons I say it doesn't work. The other being we treated our last flat with it and treated the cat as well with a spot on and there was still fleas all the time. Someone correct me if I'm doing something wrong lol!**