OMG - fleas!!! and we don't even have a pet

[geekgrrl]

almost changed my name but decided to be brave...

We seem to have a flea infestation - all of us have been bitten over the past couple of weeks and whilst I loosely suspected fleas I thought it might be from the very friendly sheep in our field, rather than in the house. Unfortunately we do seem to get bitten indoors too and I actually spotted a flea today on the floor in the d/s loo.
We don't have any pets (other than a hamster, and they don't get fleas) and have wooden or tiled floors, apart from the stairs.
Can I tackle this myself or do I call pest control on Monday?

Fleas can live in grass I think so they may have come into the house on you ?

We have some spray from the vets that kills fleas for a year on your soft furnishings maybe that is worth a try?

Before we had cats we moved into a house with inherited fleas that were so bad that we had to get pest control out to deal with them.

ok thanks folks. will go to the vet's tomorrow morning. what a palaver!

I think the spray we have is called 'spraykill' I don't think it is THAT potent in comparison to some - you only need to vacate the area for 15 mins or so as I recall. It must work as we don't ever have flea problems anymore (I ALWAYS get bitten when fleas are about)