To use fly spray?

[Colabottle10]

We live in the countryside, I'm used to the odd fly in the house over the summer. But it's got worse this year.

I came downstairs and the kitchen looks like a horror film. Flies all over the walls and windows. They are black, quite sleepy buggers. So I removed any fruit sprayed the room. At which point my husband went mad. We have a 1 yr old, who was at the other end of the house with my DH, nowhere near the spray. I came out to wash my hands and he went mad about spraying neurotoxins near the baby!

Anyhow, there is obviously a problem so a deep clean of the kitchen is in order. But I'm fucked off to be 'told off' about spraying them.

Rubber gloves at the ready.

It's fly spray.
Tell him to calm down
YANBU.
If you are worried you can make your own with "natural" ingredients, but I don't know how effective these are.
So long as you air the room afterwards I don't see an issue. Especially if your dd wasn't even in the room.

Your husband sounds like a knob

Your DH needs to calm down.

It's not like you were funnelling it into her mouth.

It's fine.

You could make Garibaldi biscuits.
Offer him one

Soooooooooooo he doesn't care that these flies carry germs ??

He was BU, I don't spray aerosols with my ds in the room but the other end of the house is no problem...

Did he just want an excuse to have a go at you do you think?

Not sure why he had a go tbh. He's always had an issue with fly spray, I've no idea why!

Honestly, they were all over the ceiling and window, it's disgusting. So I sprayed them. He's in there now, god knows what he's doing, maybe talking to them and asking them to leave

It will be me that ends up donning the rubber gloves and deep cleaning the kitchen. No doubt there is a dead mouse somewhere....

These sound like big flies - but if you have the small fruit flies too, I have a tip...no matter how clean our kitchen is, we have a problem with fruit flies every year.

Get a few shallow bowls and half fill with malt vinegar. Cover them tightly with cling film and poke lots of holes in with a fork. Fruit flies love vinegar, they get into the bowl through the holes but can't get back out. It's the best fly catcher I've ever used, much better than sprays it sticky strips or anything.

I don't like to see people berating your dh on here for worrying about his baby. I personally would have tried to get rid of them another way first and would have told dh before spraying but I also worry about chemicals in the air.

If you knew he had an issue with fly spray, you must have known he'd start panicking? Why didn't you talk to him first?

Bought one of those blue light things that electrocutes them. I'm fed up with them. It's horrible, and I really do CLEAN the kitchen. Remove pet bowls, stickiness, dishwasher closed etc.

It's year 4 in this house and it's been a problem every year. We've tried other methods but this is the way forward.

It works a treat and I can highly recommend it.

My gran lived in the countryside and had one of this sticky strips that hang from the ceiling. Hers used to be filled with flies, ours barely caught anything.

YY to cleaning the kitchen. That many flies usually means something dead somewhere. It has only happened to me once, when a dead pigeon was lodged in my chimney.