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Help! What are these bugs / mites?
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If you can leave your house for a few hours I would be tempted to treat your en suite as a greenhouse and get one of those smoke cones used to fumigate greenhouses. En suite would need to be well sealed up and when you came back to the house ventilate and open all the windows room by room until you reach en suite then put on extractor fan without opening door.
Make sure all the house is well ventilated before closing any windows.
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If en suite is not used on regular basis are all the U bends and shower traps working as they should and not dried out.
Putting some bleach down them might help in case the bugs are using them for water.1 -
Eldi_Dos said:If you can leave your house for a few hours I would be tempted to treat your en suite as a greenhouse and get one of those smoke cones used to fumigate greenhouses. En suite would need to be well sealed up and when you came back to the house ventilate and open all the windows room by room until you reach en suite then put on extractor fan without opening door.
Make sure all the house is well ventilated before closing any windows.
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If en suite is not used on regular basis are all the U bends and shower traps working as they should and not dried out.
Putting some bleach down them might help in case the bugs are using them for water.
Vitax Greenhouse Fumigator https://amzn.eu/d/4Sc6DjA
We have 3 cats so would need to get them to the cattery for a couple of days, and will need to check the safety aspects, especially for them when they come back to the house.1 -
Yeah something along those lines. As you say you really have to think of the safety aspects first, but generations of gardeners have been using similar, then growing crops in greenhouse.
Have you checked U bends and shower drain are working as they should, as it could be something as simple as that.0 -
boots_babe said:We found a steam cleaner and used this to thoroughly go over everything. Less than 2 hours later they were back :-(2
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Good idea, will try that.0
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Some years ago I got rid of bed bugs by using Acclaim household flea spray. It is highly toxic so take great care if you use it but it does seem to kill most creepy crawlies. ETA You can buy it online.0
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