Bug Bombs???

I just bought a house that has been vacant for 10 months & spiders have taken up residence in there. Years & years ago I used to buy some things called Bug Bombs that you closed the home up tight & set them off & came back the next day & there were dead bugs everywhere. Then do it again in a couple weeks after any previously laid eggs hatched & you were good to go forever. Do they still make these things or something similar. I don't know where I bought them as it has been a long time since I have used them. Or is there something I could fog the home with. I will be painting all the rooms over the next couple weeks & then cleaning the carpets after that.

ya they still make them Walmart, Menard's,Fleet Farm i know for sure has them

They still make them and you can get them at your locale hardware store Home Depot, Lowes. They are sold with all the other insect repellents. they call them bombs or foggers

Thanks Guys. I was hoping they were still made. When I pick up paint I will buy some. Thanks again

Yep still use bug bombs in the garage every once in a while. We also use Ortho home defense spray around the exterior windows and doors. Keeps new ones from finding a new warm place. That too is available at home depot, Lowe's and even places like wallmart. Cheap insurance against the vermin.

Read the labels. I have never used them in the house but have heard they can cause explosions if the have and ignition source. If you are on gas I would watch the pilots on the stove.

Yes...picked a couple up at depot to knock out the fleas. Took care of them real good. ,Just watch for ignition ,water heater, stove,furnase, ect. I have gas so i blow out everything!!! I even shut off the breaker box. A lot of people don't think of that. Do it now whi
le the weather is still warm. Give it at least half a day or over night. Next day throw all of the windows open and let it air for several hours. That should do ya. DON,T BREATH ANY OF THAT CRAP!!!!!!!! I got just a tiny wiff and my lungs and throat were a mess for several days, A fullcartridge mask would do ya for a glancing wiff. Face mask aint gonna cut it.

Pay attention to the square footage warnings on the product. Too much fog in too small an area can cause an explosion or asphyxiate you when you reenter.

Go out to your gas meter and shut off the inlet. It's the valve that has a spot to put a paddle lock through it if the gas company shuts off gas and then locks it out. The valve is a 1/4 turn on the street side of the diaphragm. It's harmless. What that will do is allow your pilot lights (furnace, water heater, etc) to deplete the line from the meter and simply burn out the supply, they will go out. The point is not to have flames present when you set the bombs off because as others have said, they are explosive. Get rid of flames, no problem. Can put one in each room at that point. I think that once you set them off though, be quick, and exit quick and don't come back until the next day. Most say not to enter for at least four hours. Once, years ago I set them off and entered after about two hours. I walked in the back door, through the house and out the front door. I barely made it. Start by setting them off as far away from your exit as possible, don't waste time setting them off and exiting.

Some years ago some lady a few miles from me leveled her home. Blew it to bits. Her mistake was setting off bombs in every room of the house...and not shutting off the pilot lights. No one was hurt, but she broke lots of neighbors windows. The secret? Light a burner on the stove, go out and shut off that valve at the gas meter, go back in and watch the burner go out...depleted the gas, pilots all extinguished, safe to bomb at that point. When you're done (next day to be safe), open that valve at the meter, you will hear the diaphragm pressurize, then go inside and light your pilot lights.

Decades ago I purchased a used antique dresser from someone. Turns out they had cock roaches. None left with me, but they lay their eggs in cracks, in corners, under furniture and you name it. Their eggs are coated with some sort of wax that bug bombs won't penetrate. You can either bomb again in a month when they hatch and are too young to lay their own eggs, or can spray and coat them if you see them. Roaches come out of their eggs eating, eat the poison, and...

Good luck. Shut the gas off first, you will be ok.

Mark

But with all the activity, emptying the house, carpet cleaning, painting...

Chances are the bugs will be long gone with their habitat that disturbed!

By the way, that valve at the meter. If the two loops line up so can put a paddle lock through them to lock it out, the valve is closed, the gas is off. Turn it 1/4 turn so the moveable loop is parallel with the pipe to the street, the valve is open, gas flowing to the house.

Good luck.

Mark

Spiders are harder to kill than most other bugs because they don't drag their bodies on the ground through poison, they also don't groom themselves and injest poison that way either.

Foggers can get them as long as the aerosol reaches where they are, they like to hide in walls, under floors, stairs, cabinets, base boards and up in the attic. Another effective way is using a pesticide dust and puffer, and puff dust into hidden places, cracks, floor seams/joints and then use a dusting machine in the attic.

Dollar General has the cheapest price on several brands of the bombs.

They do make some that use a chemical reaction to make the fog and is non explosive so you don't have to shut off the pilot lights.