Fleas in my house

Ewer123

My dog is allergic to flea's so to get rid of them we used

R.I.P flea's which the vet recommended to us, and vacuumed like a crazy women.

Plus monthly treatment of flea medicine.

Worth noting, that flea's have a 6 week life cycle so you might think you've killed all the blighters, but then the new flea's will hatch so you have to keep hoovering for 6 week, to get them all

LabMac

Hi Davie,

Ok, it sounds very much to me like you have an established infestation of Cat Flea (Ctenocephalides felis) The good news is this is the most common type of flea in the UK.
in order to best answer your question I think I best dispel some of the myths and legends.
No offence to anybody here, advice is free, opinions are like farts and so on - but some of it just is not true.

The Shortest possible answer is to have your house properly treated for fleas by a reputable company. The council will spray and pray!

Now this may seem like to expensive option, but it isn't - for a standard 2 up 2 down house flat or similar you should only be looking no more than £150 (I should estimate a fair bit less actually, but worst poss and all that)
even if I am off the mark with price and it comes in closer to the £150 or there abouts, I urge you to have it treated properly! Fleas are clever wee boogerz, these ecto-parasitic pests have a bit of a knack for survival - did you know that in the absence of food, adverse conditions, threats from chemical means etc they will diapause? - a sort of retreat and wait.

I wont bore you too much with the in's and out's but they can - and do wait around in a pupal stage until conditions improve, then akin to sommit out of alien, out they come and your start from square one.

BUT! if you have it properly treated, it should be a three part spray treatment using a synergized pyretherin compound - (NOT Bendiocarb! it is really bad for you and the cats), if in the very unlikely event you still have activity after all that, the company should re-treat for freeeee :-)
when you look at how much you could spend on all the insecticides, bug bombs, humane traps, you could ramp up a major cost and not get rid - then have to pay a pro.

oh- The best place for flea collars by the way....is in your hoover bag or cylinder, think about it people, you will hoover the larvae and adults up, and in your nice warm hoover among all the dead skin cells, detritus and other crap they will breed like rabbits and your hoover becomes a breeding ground to spread all over the house :-)

Source - I am a pest Control Specialist

LabMac

Oh, meant to say in the above - ANY questions etc - give me a shout and I'll keep you right bud - I'd offer to sort it for you but you're a wee while from Cardiff.
But not to far from where I grew up :-)