we have them in the lounge and sunroom the buggers sit waiting for the window to open they only die when the come in out of the soil as had the auto spray sitting on the sill waste of time as they die any way Also they are in the attic by the way my house is not crap tweake i just sweep up at least they are not the house fly that hangs around food these just keep to themselves but the same time dirty little buggers
tweake,
May 16, 10:04pm
considering there is probably only a few hundred decent air tight homes in NZ, odds are your is not one of them. if air can't get in then insects are not getting in either.
susievb,
May 16, 10:51pm
Maybe put small pieces of plastic tulle ( l am thinking of the tutu of ballerina) in the air vents in your aluminium windows,vents , it would let water /air through but would block big insects like flys cockroaches
tweake,
May 16, 11:33pm
there should not be air vents through aluminium windows. tho there is one crowd that makes windows with them, but i think they have a pretty decent insect mesh. besides closing the vent fixes that issue, especially as its a dumb idea that no one else has bothered with.
tweake,
May 16, 11:35pm
yeah well if you leave doors/windows open that allows birds in then flies are always going to come in and be a problem.
kacy5,
May 17, 12:36am
Are these the ones that live in the roof space? We had our fairly new house sprayed for spiders one year and the millions of flies that poured out of the top of the brick spacings was amazing. In the 10 years we lived there we never had them again.
mr-treevers,
May 17, 2:38am
Why the strange obsession with living in an air tight house, and insulting anyone who doesn't?
tweake,
May 17, 3:03am
just pointing out the merits of having a decent home. warmer, drier, better air quality and keeps the bugs out. yet kiwis insist on wanting drafty cold damp houses. eg nz insulation standard is below half of comparable counties overseas, yet think its "good". we build low standard houses then complain about high heating costs, mold, condensation and bugs. its all easily fixed, just build decent houses in the first place.
if your insulted because someone called your low standard house crap, maybe you should have a look at what and how they build elsewhere. people assume minimum code is good, yeah its not, its horrible.
btw govt is looking at fixing that, i really hope they do and drag kiwis up to international standards.
trade4us2,
May 17, 3:03am
I have installed vent pipes from the outside, through a fine mesh. We do have fans in them but there is always air coming in, so the fans are seldom needed. The fans are not completely silent.
artemis,
May 20, 5:00pm
Chemwash, the firm we use for house washing has an exterior fly, spider and insect spray service. With a 3 month warranty. Have not used it though. Has anyone tried it and does it work?
joanie32,
May 20, 11:22pm
I think he’s a ventilation system salesman
There were no vacancies selling snake oil at the time.
mercury14,
May 21, 5:50am
We use sticky fly papers. The buggers can't get off that. Also wait for them to land which they do and then get them with a fly swat or rolled up newspaper. Also take the end off the vacuum cleaner and get them as well. Have found that fly spray only knocks them out for a while. Does not kill them.
tygertung,
May 21, 6:11am
I don't think it is necessarily a good thing to have your house hermetically sealed.
jbsouthland,
May 21, 6:36am
We had them in our converted country church , really bad the first year .We sprayed outside around the windows , hoping . but not sure it did a lot of good .Vacuuming three times a day was our ritual , used a separate vac for this job and burnt the results . The following year we had chooks and far less cluster flies for the next two years . Do I miss them . Hell no !
macandrosie,
May 22, 7:51am
Even though it is an old villa home we have aluminum windows. But the rubberwear is perishing a little & because the flies are so small they can squeeze in around the windows. We have found that if you open up the house or rooms that are a problem - give them a way in & out helps. They are pretty resistant to borer bombs. It's not just a few flies but hundreds come in each day. You can't stop them getting into the roof cavity if you have a corrugated roof. Homes are really not 100% sealed. Thanks for all your replies.
macandrosie,
Jul 23, 6:06am
What I am wondering is - like bees have a point of entry, would cluster flies as well? They let off a pheromone which attracts them in armies! I have watched them hover & congregate under the eaves of the house on the west side on a warm day. I guess they can get in anywhere with corrugated iron but I did notice one point where they seem to gravitate to.
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