Moth removal - London. Any recommendations?

[XB70]

Seems like the little *&*&(& are back - we are seeing them around the flat and in particular, wardrobes.

Has anyone here any recommendations on who to use (we are in NW8) or, amidst the PHer's, anyone do this for a living?

Thanks in advance

[Puggit]

Just turn the heating off, and open the windows - HTH

[Elskeggso]

Standard PH answer:

[Mr.Jimbo]

Try opening your wallet more often?

Edit: Outside, perhaps, try to minimise online shopping.

Edited by Mr.Jimbo on Saturday 9th January 18:33

[XB70]

Ha ha....wife just asked "any sensible ones?". She does not understand the guidance and wisdom to be offered on here. Where else can questions of helicopters in oil tankers (about 16 months ago) be debated.

Anyways, part of the problem is having opened the windows in the past (Oct) when there was a damp problem (rented flat) and they may have come in then.

As we have a 3 mth old, so don't have much of a timeframe to have the windows open.

Looks like you can gas them out with a specialist - we used to have a thing called Baygone back in Oz (thermonuclear level attack on cockroaches) that you activated and let off in the house when you were out.

Edited by XB70 on Saturday 9th January 18:38

[XB70]

Ha ha....wife just asked "any sensible ones?". She does not understand the guidance and wisdom to be offered on here. Where else can questions of helicopters in oil tankers (about 16 months ago) be debated.

Anyways, part of the problem is having opened the windows in the past (Oct) when there was a damp problem (rented flat)they may have come to visit then.

As we have a 3 mth old, so don't have much of a timeframe to have the windows open with the heating off in this weather.

Edited by XB70 on Saturday 9th January 18:39

[Cock Womble]

Let me get this right. You're asking for some outside agency to visit your house and remove the moths and you are prepared to pay them?

Can you not just do what normal people do and:

a) Catch them in your hand and release them out of the window

b) tt them with a rolled-up newspaper

?

[Eggman]

Why don't you take a stroll to your local hardware shop and buy some Moth Balls?

[catmartin]

Are these little tiny moths? I had a problem with these in my old house, but only in the dressing room as obviously it was full of clothes. Would be interested to see how to get rid of them as they were so annoying during the summer!

[XB70]

A bit of credit guys....

-There are 12 moth repellant things hanging in the two wardrobes

-The walls look like the Somme from me belting the hell out of them when I catch them

The problem is not when they are moths, since you can see and kill them, but the larvae that they lay. Unless you get rid of them, the moths will just continue to reproduce.

Edited by XB70 on Saturday 9th January 18:48

[XB70]

catmartin said:

Are these little tiny moths? I had a problem with these in my old house, but only in the dressing room as obviously it was full of clothes. Would be interested to see how to get rid of them as they were so annoying during the summer!

Yes, those are the ones. Not the large ones that are easy to whack with a paper as another poster suggested.

[freecar]

You do realise that only one species of moth are attracted to clothes don't you?

The others will be laying eggs in your dry foor, cat food, pet food and dry comestibles!

We were infested with moths for a while once and had to clean out the cupboards regularly until they were gone!