THE Prepping thread - a new beginning :)

maryb

Kittie try getting a flea collar from a pet shop cut it into pieces and hoover it up. That will stop any cavortings in your hoover bag

jk0

Hoover bag would be in the dustbin here. Not in the house!

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While the bag is attached to my vacuum cleaner, then there is no leakage of these fat flies, everything is pitch black, so there is no noise. I will take it outside later on and remove the bag, quickly putting the cap on the bag, so it is sealed. Later on I am going to check all the windows upstairs, cluster flies like cosy places such as around window seals. Luckily the big windows are tilt and turn, floor to ceiling and I can push them open to the outside. That elevation faces south, which they like

https://www.pestcontroldirect.co.uk/how-to-control-cluster-flies/

luckily I don`t have a loft

Karmacat

I've had cluster flies twice in my loft, and they are **horrible**. No way to get them out of soft insulation but I have a new lofthatch, which might stop so many of them getting down to the house in spring ...

To Be Continued.

jk0

kittie wrote: »

While the bag is attached to my vacuum cleaner, then there is no leakage of these fat flies

Other than any who manage to crawl back down the hose?

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two houses ago, they were all around the bathroom window. They can get in the tiniest space. I cannot find any of them today, I am hoping that they fragmented on the way into the vac, it has a very powerful suction, or buried deep into the shallow layer of dust. I looked all over with a torch. I have sprayed the hose and bag with fly killer. It was a new bag and I am not wasting it

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now a different topic. I spent a few hours this morning extending my house search area and am feeling rootless and disillusioned, knowing that I would have to make friends from scratch in most areas. I think I am on the right lines, I walked a short way in one specific place and three people said hello and one stopped to chat and I found the cycle racks. The shops were old fashioned and lovely. Very expensive house area though. The other areas I think are potentially too isolating. I am being drawn back to my first choice area, only just over a mile away but bus/hall/doctors/shop and that makes all the difference to where I am now. If I had one dd there would be no problem but I need to be between both, one is actively looking for a house near a chosen school in wales and the other is yearning to move to living an isolated country life but I have no idea when. Looking at it practically, they could not afford to do anything for years, so that kind of leaves me in limbo. My best times were in the south lake district and my 30+ years in s wales. Everywhere has changed, for the worse imo, traffic has become horrendous, all over, except where I am now

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Oh Kittie love I do so know how you're feeling! we've just driven back from DD1s area and looked at 3 lovely houses yesterday, the two we were supposed to view today both accepted offers yesterday so the choice of suitable properties was shortened yet again. One house was very nice but bland and although it was very nicely upgraded and had a woodburner in situ already, a good garden and was in a lovely village we didn't like how it had been modernised and all appliances hidden behind twee doors and the hubby who cooked was complaining that he hated the induction hob they'd had put in. The second one was a bungalow in the same village and the loft conversion doors were so low that even I had to duck to get through them, less than 5 feet high and you could only stand up in the middle of the rooms because of sloping ceilings. Village had one small shop, very sparse bus service and a large new estate being built on the periphery. Oh deary me! The third and by far best of the houses was in a nearby small market town and is a topsy turvey house with bedrooms downstairs and was wonderful. Best and largest kitchen I've seen in a domestic dwelling and tacked on to the end of it a conservatory with underfloor heating, was fab! but very small garden. We are debating if we can deal with that as in all other respects it's in a divine position at the end of a no through road and has a footpath very close that leads directly into the centre of the town. Stand in the garden or in the road and all you can hear is birdsong and quiet. Nothing new on today so unless we can convince ourselves that this is 'the one' like you love, the hunt goes on!

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tbh mrsLW I thought I would enjoy looking but it isn`t like that at all. It is very tiring and I am making mental compromises all the time. Some houses are in such a state that they are obviously money pits and they are still asking top dollar. Others have no garage and I need garage for my exercise and my wood hobby and my bikes. Others have nice gardens but are 2 bed bungalows, looking rather tired and obviously probate sales, surrounded by other 2 bed bungalows in the land of `waiting to die`. The new houses are over-priced, do not have a chimney and are dressed with flashy smaller furniture, to disguise the fact that rooms are small

I so regret that demise of public transport, so many isolated lonely people and villages that are becoming ghost villages, no transport, no shop, no community any more

I don`t like many of those loft conversions either, sloping ceilings, so you can only walk down the middle but they call it another bedroom so they think they can ask 000s more, then we find that they never did have building reg approval and no paperwork or structural reports

That third house, sounds really idyllic. Maybe they have allotments close by?

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They do just a couple of roads over and there are vacancies as He Who Knows walked up there this morning and chatted to some of the plot holders. The garden is only a fraction of the 6th of an acre we have though and we both wonder if that is just too little for all the jobs like sorting out and storing the wood for the stove etc. needs thinking through!