Booklice in new build

[Emmyyyx]

We moved into a new build January 20 and over the last week found booklice all in the main bathroom and then my sons room which is the room next to it!

Went on a hunt around the house and found multiple in all rooms - I’m killing loads every day, hoovering all the time, bleached all skirting and bathrooms!

It’s making me ill as I’m constantly on the hunt for them and constantly crying about it (I am pregnant so hormones won’t be helping)

Bought 2 plug in dehumidifiers and hygrometers and loads of disposable dehumidifiers and whacked the heating up the last 3 days but it’s not something I can do constantly!

I know they are harmless but it’s the fact they breed so quickly I feel if I’m not constantly on the go getting rid of them then my house will be over run.

Anyone had these in a new build and managed to get rid of them??? My partner tells me when the house dries out they will go but I can’t cope with another year of this!!

Dehumidifier is the only way to dry out a house and i have been using it. Its also impossible to have the whole house stay down to 35, there always deep places you cant reach. And for heat treatment, I have done researchers on it. It doesn't always work, especially they are mainly hiding behind the drywalls. People use them for bed bugs, costs $3000 up and they still can't eliminate them and also it does damage to your belongs. For booklice if you cant heated everything, its just waste of time and money. For booklice is best to have sometime stay working for long period of time to break their breeding circles.

Yes, you are right, the only solution would be if it starts to dry out over time, but they will continue to reproduce until it dries. According to the articles I read, the only salvation is to get used to living with them. Hopefully we will get used to it and they will decrease over time. The less we see, the quicker we get used to it. I've been moving for 3.5 months and I've seen nearly 10 in total. They're usually dead because I spray them. I know they aren't seen much these days due to the season. I will edit the situation in the summer. I hope there will be light at the end of the tunnel and hope for people. I hope people who moved will also edit their status.

I was going to ask the question too does heat treatment work as I feel mine are behind the plasterboard too(drywalls)
then come through paper or paint on walls
heat treatment is mixed reviews and a lot of money and I’m going to persevere and also try not to look for them everyday as it’s making me very anxious
please keep posting and updating whoever can as it reassures those who are going through this horrid time at the moment
thanks

Hey finally another aussie on here and I feel your pain I'm from NSW and it's the worst, so I don't no how it started but when I got married My mum gave me some of her stuff like th cabinet, my grandad's dining table etc, in the first two places when lived we didn't see any as I didn't no they even existed, but the last place when moved to I saw them running over the the screen I then saw them everywhere, I throw everything out and moved into a new house I didn't see any until my mum brought more of my stuff over and now I have seen them downstairs, and again they could of came with me from the other house as I have slot of figures and Lego in Boxes so they could if stayed in there. What have U used to try and get rid of them, I can't find anything really besides spray from Coles and Woolworths, I was thinking if getting a crap load of bug bombs from Coles or Woolworths and setting them off but it's a nightmare

I talked to a professor today and my world fell apart. A dry house or constantly running dehumidifiers does not kill them. People who contacted him said that they could not get rid of these creatures even though they eliminated the moisture. The food source of these creatures is the people who settle in a house. Along with humans, they enter the house with food and reproduce. He said that the relationship of these creatures with moisture is exaggerated. "If the source inside the house cannot be found, spray it for years, but if you cannot get rid of it, they will continue to come from where they came from," he said. The source said: Either outside, at neighbors or in a part of the house (they mostly breed where you see them, the nest is close to there). I moved out of my new house because I couldn't find resources. At my current home, the neighbors have none of these creatures. I hope it will end with spraying in time. Just when I was about to heal, the people I talked to were tearing me down again......

Oh no
so disheartening I hope over time they’ll go for us all who are riddled with them

I don't remember ever being this worn out... Why can't anyone get rid of this? What kind of thing is this? If even one of them enters a house, it will be inevitable for them to reproduce, and in fact, they should be easily found everywhere. Spraying may be the solution, but finding resources is more important. But there is no sourceeee!

if we were to find their nest would be easier to
eliminate but other than removing plasterboard and skirting boards I have nowhere else to look
So I’m hoping they go elsewhere where they came from and not my home
I definitely didn’t have them before we had the extension I’ve lived here for ten years would have noticed

This means that yours does not come from outside, from neighbors etc. If you find the source inside the house, they can be destroyed by spraying. Have you ever seen it in front of windows on your balconies or something?

No I haven’t but I’m sure I saw one or two in garden last time but they could be barklice
im not sure
I have them
predominantly in most rooms downstairs 1-2 which could suggest they are nesting somewhere close
il just have to keep spraying and try my best
other than being behind plasterboards or
skirting boards not sure where to look and if I remove them and they’re not there then so much expense to replace everything again
I’ve removed plinths in kitchen and put powder everywhere so
il see if that helps
wel keep
posting

they never end they will never end😭

Hi, I know people managed to get rid of them by trying different methods. Its just situations by situations, so just keep trying and experimenting it .

Just want to share this... it took him 3 years to eliminated them.. just keep trying, one day they will go away!

Explains why they were in my flour then
also what website is this off pls? I’d like to read his article
thanks

I think I mentioned this app before, its an app called Reddit. Its not an article, its people that actually experienced booklice problems & they ask questions about booklice and I just randomly comments on their posts and ask how they get rid of them, Lol. Most of them who managed to get rid of them are saying alot of vacuuming, DE, and keeping dehumidifiers on.

It is the best way to close the gaps in the window sills for those coming from outside. Today I siliconed them all with white silicone, I also siliconed my door sills. It is obvious that they go outside or come from outside. If you cannot find any source, block their entry from the outside and share the result. I will write here in the summer months.

Do they do all of these at once? Are there people who actually manage to get rid of them? If you hear something different, please share it with us.

Thanks for all the advice

Yea, there people do mange to get rid of them. So just keep trying. I am seeing more of them these two days as weather is getting warmer. The insecticide that was sprayed around the baseboards are still working, so all of them are dead. I have one thing to be share is that pest control back in my home country always suggest not to do any treatments for them during the winter times as during winters, most of them will just hide and wont come out. Which its hard to fully eliminate them during winter time.

Yes, I wrote that spraying should be done in early spring because they hide very well in winter. Now, I see dead insects from time to time and I feel obliged to spray them because I think they have come to my new house with my belongings, but once every 2 weeks or once a month. Window edges etc. were sealed with silicone. When the weather gets warmer, I will spray the balcony well because they like to go outdoors and when the weather gets cold, they try to come back into the house. I also vacuum frequently, I hope we get rid of it. I'm losing hope because I haven't come across anyone who managed to escape.

you mentioned you only see 10 in 3 months right? Thats very little, don't worry too much, air out the house more during summer

Yes, I'm afraid their numbers will increase again and I won't be home for 3 months in the summer. I don't want to face an invasion when I return

Weather has warmed up and seeing more booklice now
some are alive
feel
like they’re coming out from plasterboard and skirting boards are sprayed and they’re on walls
how on earth do you treat these

They are probably coming out of the walls. Spray the walls where you see them, up to the ceiling. But it would be better to find the outlets and close them, for example, the edges of the sockets. What is the air temperature? To tell the truth, getting used to living is more important than anything else. Most people, like us, get used to living after struggling for a long time and seeing the book lice win, otherwise the process would be very exhausting psychologically.

Frequently sweep every crevice and crack with fine-headed tools, maybe the eggs will decrease, check if it is coming from outside, spray the glass in front of the windows and see if you see dead lice. Lavender oil has repellent properties. Drop it on important things you don't want book lice to get into.