To live in my car, I can't get rid of the flies

[greyspottedgoose]

I have been in my flat a month, by all accounts the Tennant before was a dirty little monster. A cleaner came in before we moved in and iv scrubbed the place myself but I can't get rid of those tiny little flies, a friend called them fruit flies but i don't know if that's the actual name.

I seem to have about 20 around the sink/Drainer whenever I go In the kitchen, and a load in the ensuite each time. The neighbours must think I'm mad always clapping but I'm constantly trying to catch them! We are at the point that I can't put the kids squash in cups any more only sports bottles as the juice is full of flies within half an hour of being left on the side.

Please help me get rid before I move us all into my car

Try cider vinegar or wine vinegar (wine works too, but better to just drink that!) mixed with a bit of washing up liquid. Put in a cup or bowl and they'll be attracted to it and drown in it.

The warm weather doesn't help, but make sure all fruit etc is covered or in the fridge. I'm sure they'll go eventually, but they are annoying!

Could be drain flies. Pour some bleach down all the drains. We get them sometimes too. Pain in the ass!

Fruit flies; I worked with them at uni so I know they can be a pain in the arse. You have rotting vegetation somewhere so I'd recommend loads of sink/drain unblocker, maybe get someone to have a look.

You can also set your own traps with something sweet that they can get into but can't escape; we use to get a coke bottle, cut it in half across the label, turn the top upside down to make a funnel then stick it into the other half. Put some juice in the bottom, the flies fly in but struggle to get out.

And fly spray. We had a lot of fly spray incase they escaped the lab.

(And maybe try pouring boiling water down the sinks and drains to kill any living down there?)

I had these little buggers too.
Had to put a saucer over my wine glass to keep them out.
I have one of those 80s Hostess trollies in the dining room and eventually discovered that I'd left some (totally unidentifiable) vegetables in there which turned out the be the source
There will be something rotting somewhere where they are breeding

The raid spray really works. Black down the sink. A whole bottle. Check everywhere for the source.

Once I'd dealt with the potatoes /carrots /god knows what, they disappeared after a couple of days and a can of flyspray

Sounds like drain flies. They like damp.

The vinegar and walking up will work. I also used a hand held vacuum to hoover them up - 5 mins every morning. Cover the nozzle with clingfilm otherwise they’ll escape overnight.

So many suggestions il get some more boiling water then vinegar down the drain, I keep all fruit
& veg in the fridge, even potatoes, iv even been up cleaning the tops of the kitchen units I'm completely at a loss where they come from and why 🙄 thanks for the replies hopefully one of the suggestions will save my sanity

Do you have a plug for any of the drain holes? Put it in every one you can.....
And yes to chemicals down every drain.

I live in a flat and I get these. Yes, I think they are drain flies. Apple cider vinegar, boiling water all seem to help but they are a bugger to shift!!

Pour a mix of bleach and boiling water down the sinks
Also tear your place apart-somewhere there will be rotting food (in our case it was a bag of potatoes that had been shoved to the back of a cupboard)
Scrub under the sink etc
The vinegar idea is good too
They breed like hell which is why they are so hard to get rid of
Cover any food/drink that is out-I.e your fruit bowl etc
Google fruit fly that may give you more ideas
Good luck

We used to get these in our bathroom sink. Put a foaming sink blocker down to clear as much as you can then keep a plug in when not using the sink. When you do use it, put the water on full blast for a few seconds as soon as you take the plug out to clear any of the little buggers that may be lingering.

Do all the previous things suggested but also if you have any house plants, put them outside. We had horrendous little black flies everywhere and they were fungus gnats (yes as gross as they sound) living in the soil.

I also catch any roaming fruit flies with a bottle with a small amount of vinegar in the bottom, then clingfilm over the top with a few small holes poked in it - they all go in but can't get out.

Do you have any houseplants? They can be living and then coming out of the soil so move any to outside in case they’re the source.

We had a bad case of fruit flies a few years ago. Put clingfilm over a glass of cider vinegar, stab holes in the clingfilm. They go in and then can’t get back out. They seemed to have either died right back to the parent flies, or sent signals to the others that our house was a terrifying death trap. Either way, never been bothered by them again.

Urgh we had these last year. Even in the bin, every time I opened it they'd float up out in a little cloud. Keep everything sealed up as you have been doing and then catch them in a trap as suggested above. I used a bit of old fruit in the bottom of a pint glass and a piece of paper wrapped up in a funnel shape, they'd fly down and not be able to get out. Would come down in the morning to a glass full of them! Did that for a while and they eventually disappeared.

Clingfilm cider vinegar traps seem to be the way to go, iv been to home bargs for more bleach and some caustic soda for the plug holes.

No houseplants I can barely keep myself and kids alive!

Have you got an extractor fan over the hob? I had a fly infestation in there last year. I can't say I dealt with it in the best way (sprayed a load of fly killer up there).

There is an extractor, when I moved in the mesh parts where (filthy) in the oven so iv cleaned them/it all and put them pack so hopefully not that