Anyone ever had any problems with silverfish?
There was a dead one in the bath when I moved in 2 months ago, I saw another running around in my kitchen a few days ago and today I killed one in my bathroom.
It's unlikely I have an infestation I hope or surely I would have seen many more of them? but clearly at least a few lodgers aren't paying any rent! I would like to evict them.
Whats a cheap and simple effective way of dealing with them? I'm pretty sure there are no leaks in the bathroom and I'm always careful water doesn't go flying everywhere when I take a shower, the kitchen was newly fitted and I cant see any moisture or anything under the sink.
So far I have stuck some crawling insect powder stuff around the doorways and any crevices they may be coming from but I have no idea if it is effective against them.
Websites always claim you need an exterminator bla bla bla.
but at my previous house I had a carpet beetle infestation where I would go around the house during the night and hoover up atleast 5-10 beetle larvae around the carpet edges and eventually I got rid of them all using the same crawling insect powder I'm using now.
I'm a firm believer in anything other than cockroaches you can easily handle yourself as long as you put the effort in.
There was a dead one in the bath when I moved in 2 months ago, I saw another running around in my kitchen a few days ago and today I killed one in my bathroom.
It's unlikely I have an infestation I hope or surely I would have seen many more of them? but clearly at least a few lodgers aren't paying any rent! I would like to evict them.
Whats a cheap and simple effective way of dealing with them? I'm pretty sure there are no leaks in the bathroom and I'm always careful water doesn't go flying everywhere when I take a shower, the kitchen was newly fitted and I cant see any moisture or anything under the sink.
So far I have stuck some crawling insect powder stuff around the doorways and any crevices they may be coming from but I have no idea if it is effective against them.
Websites always claim you need an exterminator bla bla bla.
but at my previous house I had a carpet beetle infestation where I would go around the house during the night and hoover up atleast 5-10 beetle larvae around the carpet edges and eventually I got rid of them all using the same crawling insect powder I'm using now.
I'm a firm believer in anything other than cockroaches you can easily handle yourself as long as you put the effort in.
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