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Have a little check around to see if some food might have been dropped some where and if so, are there any small brown oval egg shaped cocoons? If they keep appearing even after you have sprayed them, it means they are hatching out from some where, even the bin is a possibility. Keep spraying them, they will go eventually, you dont have to fork out ?200. Be brave, it will be worth it to save the call out fee :)
You don't happen to have a lot of banana's lying around. Had lots of flies last summer which particularly liked banana's. Have had more though this year with the banana's under wraps and just kept spraying them whenever we saw them. Seem to have gone now. So keep spraying. You will get rid of them.

sounds like you've got something rotting and the flies are hatching from there, could there be a dead rat/bird/rodent under the floorboards ?

is there a foul smell - have a sniff around the floor ?


you can get fly paper at the DIY stores on LL or down by ED station. Once stuck on that they will never escape


those big green flies are gross aren't they !

Hi all, well I sprayed fly killer then hoovered up bodies (cancelled pest control on advice of people on here and other friends who I phoned in hysterics) - must have been about 50 then they just stopped coming....there is no foul smell coming from anywhere though I accept they must have come from something rotting. Could it just be that maggots have hatched, flies born, I've killed them and now they're gone or could there be another lot of them coming soon?...

Had the same fly problem 2 years straight! it was a NIGHTMARE!! i cannot deal with anything insect-ty at all. Walked into my flat and the window was covered and there was also around 10 dead ones on the carpet. They were the big black flies which means something was rotting, but because i live in a flat conversion and basically have walls, and ceilings like paper, the dead rodent could have been anywhere, a couple of kind people on this forum offered to help as i was petrified.


went away after 2 days, with me frantically hoovering and spraying, it turns out my upstairs neighbour was living in a dustbin. He moved, problem solved!!

Probably not relevant here, but Mr Twirly had a similar problem a few years ago before moving down south and in with me. He lived near a beach, and they were doing some work on it, moving tons of sand around - resulting in the flies being made homeless and moving in with him (and other people). Maybe there have been some sort of excavations near where you live and they've been made homeless from there?

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