Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: scott. on January 22, 2006, 11:29:00 am
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Had customer ring this morning asking about getting rid of fleas...I havnt come accross them before...any idea what to use?..prochem do anything?...
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Most suppliers sell an insecticide to clear the house of fleas.
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have a word with nick at solutions i bought some stuff of him that you spray down after a clean . the house was infested with them ,and all gone. i asked the person weeks later and still no return of the creatures
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hi,
recently i was talking to a repeat customer she tol me that the year before when i cleaned her carpet she had been looking after her daughters dog and it had left fleas behind she tried everything to get rid of them and she said they dissapperded after i cleaned her carpets.
i only extraction cleaned them in the normal way, i do recall her telling me to do parts thoroughly were they was.
i think it may have been presray.
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HWE should kill most of them off, however Chemspecs microban is excellent but expensive.
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I to have used the Solution one No Insect worked a treat ;D
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Hi Guys,
I sourced my own supply of Pemethryn 25%w/w which was excellent and less than half the price of Extracta's.
Cheers
Doug
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Hi Doug
Is Pemethryn safe for use with people still in the buliding?
Regards Gavin
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Hi Gavin,
Unless they changed the rules as this was the active ingredient in most suppliers products.
Would be worth looking into.
Cheers
Doug
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Pemethryn correct me if i am wrong but i thought that after using this chemical the building should not be used for 7 days!!!
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Hi Guys,
Permethryn is widely used in spray products etc
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/pips/permethr.htm
Cheers
Doug
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Its permethrin but read this before deciding to use it ???
“ It appears children may be more sensitive to permethrin than adults. Permethrin is almost 5 times more acutely toxic to 8-day-old rats than it is to adult rats.”
http://www.safe2use.com/poisons-pesticides/pesticides/permethrin/cox-report/cox.htm
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never heard of any of this stuff..What about prochem..do they do anything I dont know about?...Its about the only situation I havnt seen covered by them or their stuff.
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Just had some advice from prochem regarding fleas...
appearently, you can extraction clean the carpet with whatever, and this only starves the fleas of food from the carpet, hence they move on to other parts of the house...or indeed someone else ;D...therefore it is recommended that a professional fumigator be deployed firstmost to do the whole premises.....
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scott as i have already stated try nick at solutions worldofclean in cornwall as he has a friendly totally safe and effective product [ i know i have used it] its called no insect and will not break the bank. a gallon did a large 4 bedroomed house with great results. i did not have to worry about the cat or the young children 7 and 9 . play safe
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Just had some advice from prochem regarding fleas...
appearently, you can extraction clean the carpet with whatever, and this only starves the fleas of food from the carpet, hence they move on to other parts of the house...or indeed someone else ;D...therefore it is recommended that a professional fumigator be deployed firstmost to do the whole premises.....
Maybe thats because prochem don't have a product to kill fleas ::)
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I did think of that steve...solutions are based in cornwall and their carriage rates are just too much in my book..I've had one of their products before, and I'm sorry, but it didn't impress me..Further, I have in the past left 4 messages for Nick to call us back on an urgent matter, and 8 months later, he still hasnt.If they had an outlet in the home counties, maybe they would fare better. Enough said...... I did think of just doing an extraction, however if the fleas do, as stated migrate elsewhere(and you cant speak for every flea in the country), then who gets the blame? ME....Ironically, the customer has thanked me for being so honest and wants to book me for after the fumigation :)
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Scott
If it was so urgent why did you not contact Nick direct
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Scott,
I used to do this type of work but found most of the products ineffective.
I then found the 25%w/w permethryn which worked.
The fleas are relatively easy to kill , but it is important that a residual insecticide remains in the carpet to kill the new fleas which hatch from the eggs.
HWE in my experience does not kill the fleas.
I have not done anything like this recently , would probably recommend using a dedicated company.
Cheers
Doug
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No-Insect from solutions is permethryn free and safe to use.
cheers m\ark
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Steve
As I said...left message on his answering machine 4 times, and his receptionist told him too..zero points for customer service..just cant be bothered with that kind of treatment.
Doug
Yes, thats what I done...as you say...it's a specialist area....Its "flea busters" she needs to call...and Ill extract the dead bodies ;D
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sorry Scott ,i missed your previous post before recommending solutions.Shame you had bad customer care from them as they have been very good with me, as with most cc's i know that deal with them.
cheers mark
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Mark
Thats ok...not slagging him off...just telling it as it was..First impressions last, and all that..If it was anyone else, i'm sure they would think the same...If I was to run a business like that,,I wouldnt have one left.
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scott sorry to hear of your bad experience with nick . i personally have had no problems with him or the company when i order anything its there within a couple of days and im not charged delivery i always thought that the price i pay for the chemicals was inclusive.
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Scott,
If this flea job has not been done, I would give Nock another try.
I agree with you carriage charges on small orders are high, which makes it hard to experiment.
But Nick does have to make a profit.
Perhaps you were trying to contact him when the company was on the move
Regards
Ian
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I personally cannot believe the experience that you have had with nick at Solutions, I called him this morning for some advise and he returned my call within 10 minutes.
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i went to phone him and got a reply before i had dialed all the numbers !!! so beat that !!! 8) and got the chems i wanted 0.5 secs later by fex ex gezzer with a ICBM UP HIS XXXXX :o
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Like I said guys...Not knocking the guy, but it happened..Why would I lie...Maybe he sleeps with the phone now, since my post ;D
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Scott
I know that a few month's ago they had some problems with there phone lines not sure if thats why Nick did not answer his phone but it seems to me that your the one losing out here mate not Nick as your losing out on work that you can charge more for than carpet cleaning! and all you do is spray the NoInsect around the room and walk out ;D in the summer I do lots of this in offices, Hotels etc in Cardiff town, my point is once you got your foot in the door you can pick up lots of other work! Just my opinon tho ;)
Regards Gavin
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Can you give me more info on that spray room and walk away...that sounds easy ;D
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its exactly that you spray the no insect all over the carpet [ i did the beds as well] and walk away . though i would recomend cleaning the carpet first then spraying. as i stated before i did thids several weeks ago and i see the woman most days and she has had no return of the little blighters
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what sorta price is that stuff?
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just checked my invoice and i paid £51 all inclusive carriage as well.
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:o :o :o :o :o :o