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Posted 1:47 pm, 10/21/2016

food grade diatomaceous earth kills all bugs

Time_Will_Tell

Posted 12:41 pm, 10/21/2016

most all democrats naturally have fleas, you have to be careful because they will give them to your dog

Powerball

Posted 12:32 pm, 10/21/2016

Product is called Siphotrol.

MarieLaveau

Posted 11:47 am, 10/21/2016

Emp that works. I did same process & fleas were attracted more with Dawn. I tried Joy the first time, they didn't seem to like it but loved Dawn.

1goddess

Posted 11:43 am, 10/21/2016

😉...LTF

LearnToFly

Posted 11:30 am, 10/21/2016

Vladamir, we had both carpet and hardwoods. Didn't damage ours a bit. The carpet should be wet to the touch, not exactly drenched. Get a swifter or bona type floor "mop". Spray and wipe down the hardwood floors.

Goddess, wrong type of alcohol, darlin'! Ha. I'm talking about the rubbing alcohol.

Powerball

Posted 11:17 am, 10/21/2016

Go by any vet office, they have a spray that kills them

empowers

Posted 10:50 am, 10/21/2016

THIS REALLY WORKS. I TRIED IT AND HAVE SEEN IT FOR MYSELF....

A lady I know has a huge brick house with a basement. She had dogs in the basement that brought in fleas. The fleas were all over her house. She tried everything to get rid of them, spent a lot of money...nothing worked. She finally found a solution that cost nothing. So glad she told me about it.

You take a white bowl, fill it 3/4 with water, squirt a little dish washing liquid in (don't even have to stir it.) Place the bowl on the floor near a night light at night. In the morning you will find dead fleas in the water...then you simply flush them down the toilet. I tried this. The first morning I counted maybe 75 fleas in the water, the next day 40-50 and it continued until there were maybe 1 or 2 fleas in the water.

You must be careful about putting a bowl of water near an outlet or night light. Of course that is just common sense.

deph

Posted 9:09 am, 10/21/2016

I had a girlfriend that let all the strays in the neighborhood move in while i worked out of town. The best, cheapest and easiest way i found that worked is to take a big dish a couple inches deep and fill it full of water and mix some dish detergent in it and put it under a nightlight. When you wake up in the morning you will have a flea graveyard in the bottom of the dish.They kill themselves for you. easy

LS77

Posted 9:01 am, 10/21/2016

Buy several large containers of salt and sprinkle it over all the carpet in the home and leave in the carpet maybe overnight, then vacuum. Sprinkle it all again after you vacuum and leave it down for several days before vacuuming again. This is supposed to kill fleas and when left in the carpet it dries up their eggs that would eventually hatch later. I found this after searching online for solutions for fleas for my outdoor dogs. We sprinkled salt over the whole lot and in their bedding.

1goddess

Posted 8:42 am, 10/21/2016

All you,re gonna have is a bunch of drunken fleas....plus if you don't treat the yard you're still gonna have fleas!

Now,considering that the op generally appears poor as a church mouse being disabled and all such calamities...only to find out they are land/slumlords.....your best bet is to get an exterminator. That will guarantee that when the next renter/victim moves in...they won't withhold rental income and come on gowilkes complaining about you and the deplorable conditions they are forced to live in!!!

Its Friday folks have a wonderful weekend!!!!😀

Vladimir Putin

Posted 8:31 am, 10/21/2016

Wouldn't that damage your carpet / finish on your hardwood floors?

LearnToFly

Posted 8:10 am, 10/21/2016

All the money spent on alcohol? For a 2,000 sq. ft. house it costed less than 5 bucks. As for fire risk, true, but the fumes should cease in a couple hours. Leave everything turned off and unplugged and find somewhere to go for a while. Come back. Vacuum. Voila! No fleas.

river otter

Posted 6:56 am, 10/21/2016

It might be a good time to replace the carpet with hard flooring. My experience with the exterminator is that they insisted on a contract for 3 applications for close to $500 total.

Bestill

Posted 6:35 am, 10/21/2016

The OP is the landlord. Of course the landlord should hire an exterminator.

river otter

Posted 6:12 am, 10/21/2016

Get your landlord to pay for an exterminator. It's a lot of work to get rid of an infestation in wall to wall carpet using dust and a vacuum. They sell a flea dust for carpet also but you have to repeat it a few times for it to work.

Rocky Field Farmer

Posted 6:10 am, 10/21/2016

Raid Fumigator 3 pack at wally world.

Bestill

Posted 5:53 am, 10/21/2016

Or you could save hours of really gross hard labor and way too much money spent on alcohol (and all the worry that the house will burn down).
Everybody should have borax, but if you are infested, call the exterminator.

pdtw

Posted 5:38 am, 10/21/2016

When a cat brought them in our house years ago, the only way we could get rid of them was to sprinkle Sevin Dust in the carpet. It took a lot of vacuuming and then cleaning the carpet after that to make sure the kids weren't exposed to the Sevin Dust but it got rid of the fleas. We had tried the bombs and everything else. Sevin Dust was the only thing that worked!

brandonthefairchild@gmail.com

Posted 12:02 am, 10/21/2016

Bestill has it right. call an exterminator, and get the granules you can spread in your yard to kill them. Even if you kill those in hour house you can bring them in. When I first moved into my house, I had no carpet for them to live in, but my grass was plenty enough to let them find me on my walk in from the car.

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