Do you get your house sprayed?

17 years ago

Only a few times have I gotten our house sprayed for pests. The last few weeks it seems like I find a spider a day. The spiders freak me out. I leave our porch light on nightly and my porch is covered in webs and spiders. I try to clean it, but that freaks me out too. The only thing I worry about the spraying is the chemicals and my kids(asthma). Do you get yours sprayed on a regular schedule? Should I or shouldn't I?

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linda_in_iowa
17 years ago
We once rented a house that would get invaded by ants. Millions of them. We had the house sprayed quarterly. They would spray around the outside of the house and inside the attached garage. Never saw a bug inside after they started the spraying.
Instead of leaving your porch light on all night, you might consider getting a motion detector light on your front porch. I really like mine.
pattico_gw
17 years ago
We did once...No spiders or crickets or anything for over a year...it was wonderful...

This year has been terrible with crickets and spiders.TERRIBLE !!!

But we had a couple cold night and the crickets have all but stopped coming in. I wish I knew where they were getting in . Nasty noisey things.

patti
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OklaMoni
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I have before, but no one had asthma. This house must have been sprayed this summer? before we bought. I find dead bugs often.

But, there are also spiders coming in now. I just squish them.

I don't like them, but I dislike them not as much once they are squished.

Moni
socks
17 years ago
I don't like using pesticides. We are being invaded by spiders in the yard this fall, but I don't find many in the house. They don't bother me. I just get them with a tissue and give them a marine burial.

In the yard I sweep away their webs and squish as many as I can. I know they are important to keep other pests under control, but I'm sure there will still be enough left to do that.
angela_nor_calif
17 years ago
We have a monthly service come and spray. I think it makes a big difference.
gramzeeinmd
17 years ago
We get our house sprayed inside and outside several times a year by two different companies.
One company is a pest controller and they will come back if we see any kind of a bug. The
other comapny is our lawn care company and they only spray outside. I do not have asthma myself
but two of my children do along with Makayla and Kaden having breathing problems. Plus, we
have two cats and one dog and it does not bother them either. The spray has never bothered any of them.
You can call the company that you are thinking about using and they will explain everything to you about the chemicals they use.
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sea_shell
17 years ago
NO never a whole house spray, insects don't bother me, Spiders are good insects, eat other insects but I'm sure you have been told this many times.

Now that being said, years ago treated for carpender ants, they were in the kitchen sink and dishwasher looking for water, so also could have be in the framing "eating" the house. Dog and I were away for a few days so house could be treated and aired.

If I have an severe regular ant invasion do treat the area where they are, but not the whole house.

I have allergies can't stand the odor of chemicals, so it's a very localized treatment for me. Even take care with everyday "soaps" and cleaners I use, I'm that crazy woman in the store, sniffing at bottles, hate it when they say "new" fragrance,

Sue
des_arc_ya_ya
17 years ago
Yes, we do. We're on a quarterly schedule with Terminix. When it has rained a lot we have a tendency to get ants around the perimeter of our house and they occasionally try to "tunnel" through! LOL
okwriter
17 years ago
We just buy the stuff at Lowe's and do it ourselves 3-4 times a year (inside and out).
angelaid
17 years ago
We have a service that comes out every three months. They only spray the outside. Made a huge difference in the indoor spider population!
marilyn_c
17 years ago
No, I don't like to breathe poison. Spiders don't bother me, and that is the only "bug" I ever find in here. I don't have roaches. I do have a few geckos that have moved in, and I guess they eat the spiders because there are less spiders now than there used to be.
susanjf_gw
17 years ago
check with the kids doc before doing anything. it's just not worth the sleepless nights or breating treatments...

i took the pressure washer to some of the worst webs...
whidbeykathy
17 years ago
I have a quarterly service that comes and does a GREAT job. I was asking about spiders, and they told me since spiders don't "groom" they can only be killed on contact. I don't know about that, but after they sprayed the last
time, I haven't seen any spiders at all. Or any creepy crawlers or mice or .... Kathy
jannie
17 years ago
I set off three flea bombs in my house every fall. I never see any spiders afterward. And my pets are good all winter.
curlysue
17 years ago
I work for an exterminating company, actually I am a lisenced PCO, and I have never had my house sprayed or sprayed it myself. I only see an occassional spider, a cricket in the basement now and then and a couple of centipedes in the basement last spring.

If your kids are school age, just have your house sprayed after they leave for school and by the time they get home it will be fine. We always caution anyone with any kind of breathing problems that they shouldn't stay inside while the house is being sprayed because the chemical can be airborn. Even though the chemical we use is low odor and very low toxicity-I don't know how to spell it and I have trouble saying it too. Anyway it is safe or so they say.
frostedc
17 years ago
Nope, I have cats, and prefer not to spray
chemicals around them. It's normal for spiders to
come inside, when the temperatures get cooler.
trinitytx
17 years ago
I have had Orkin spray monthly for over the 20 years I have lived here. I was cutting back one year, and cut Orkin out of the budget. After spending one hundred bucks on do it yourself sprays, and having more tarantulas, mice, water bugs and snakes than I can count on both hands and feet, I happily invited Orkin back in my life. Took about 8 weeks for me to succumb. We have a lake out back, and the bugs, reptiles and animals here are nothing to mess with.
I do love the Geckos out on the front porch at night, they are doing a great job too.

Trin
mariend
17 years ago
We had a great service in CA that the chemicals were herbal based. Never had a problem, even with dog/cats. It really did not destroy the "good bugs" like lady bugs and some spiders. But it did hit the ants good. Western Exterminator in CA in the LA area.
mrs.micki
17 years ago
When I moved into my new apt.,there was tons of spiders.It wasn't until I pulled the covers back and found 2 of them in my bed did I freakout.I bought these things you plug into the wall and it's suppose to get rid of mice ,spiders ,fleas , mosqiutos(sp?)and also flies.Since I've had them only one spider have I seen.I bought them at Target,I think they were 2 for around $15.00.Sorry to have told the spiders if they couldn't pay rent they couldn't live here,yet alone share my bed.I really don't think so!

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