Moth problem

[HDAS]

Can anyone recommend a company to deal with a clothes moth problem. Fumigation or heat treatment, freezing clothes? Also anyone used Southwark councils pest control service? All advice gratefully received.

[DulwichFox]

Clothes Moths are a real problem for many people. You are not alone.

I have been plagued with them for years. They have completely destroyed large areas of my Axminster carpets.

I have installed electronic plugin devices that attract, trap and kill the little buggers.

Unfortunately, only the males actually fly. The females cannot fly and get around by hopping and crawling.

If you spray a female they will drop to the ground. The males will fly off and die.

The moth Larvae do most of the damage. Clothes Moths live for 65 - 90 days and lay around 50 eggs in that time,

By the time you see Moths you are already infested.

They hate the cold and love hot places.

I do not believe there is any way to completely eliminate them. They can and will always come back.

You need to get some sprays and zap them when you see them.

They lay eggs under furniture that does not get moved like sofas.

You need to Vacuum these areas.

Also get some moth killer cards that you can hang in your wardrobe and place in your draws and cupboards.

DulwichFox

[KidKruger]

I have all but nailed them this year, after several years being plagued by the bastards.

I removed all carpets and underlay and gripper bars and took it to the dump, vacuumed the wooden floors thoroughly (including the gaps between floorboards - especially where they cross a joist which is where dust/eggs settle), washed with a bleach wash the same including under skirting, rubbed down and painted the floors to seal them, 'spring-cleaned' every room where stuff has lain for ages (that's what they like, dark static places).

I'm down form dozens of moths per day to 1 or 2 per week which is a massive result for us.

Next I'm going to let-off those moth smoke bombs when we go off for the weekend, because now that there's nowhere to hide we hope to kill-off any remaining and form that point we only expect moths to come in form the surrounding houses which means we'll have to keep on it every year form now on.

I HATE MOTHS.

[Jacqui5254]

They have eaten my clothes and my bedroom carpets.

I have tried everything on the list, and was just at the point where a flame-thrower was the only option, UNTIL....

http://www.pest-expert.com/carpet-moth-treatment-kit-for-1-room-3-p.asp

I've not even had to use the whole kit, just liberally sprayed the affected parts of the carpets with the Formula C and I have not seen a SINGLE moth since that one application in May.

[Gaynor Hill]

I had terrible problem last year due to operation I could not pull out furniture bed etc once a week for cleaning after a month I found moths under her to my horror

Brought soon stuff but after a few weeks it did not seem to work very well so went to another company www.mothprevention.com got the super strength pack and it worked

I cleaned out wardrobe dry cleaning all that could not be washed and used the spray

This year had a few but been using the sticky strips along with the strong spray

Luckily I never had holes in carpets as they were not long there, best think is move everything and hoover ones a week and use spray and sticky strips to keep them from breeding.

It's a pain and may take a few weeks but you will get there

Rentiol kill and others companies can not guarantee there work that's why I did it myself

Good luck

Gaynor

[Bradleycarpetclean]

I do moth fumigation and I offer a guarantee

Here is a link to my website

http://www.brosacarpetsandpestservices.co.uk/pest-control

Thanks Bradley