Moths (and possibly carpet beetles) and about to use fogging bomb. Safe for bedroom??

[GlomOfNit]

That's it really. I've used them once before in the Dumping Room (which unfortunately contained a lot of fleeces for spinning and knitting wool, felt etc... dear god the moths had a party! ) and though it didn't seem to stay smoking for long it did do for them.

We have moths in other areas of the house though which makes me feel like such a crap adult. Surely this is the sort of shit I should be on top of? We have a very cluttered, messy house with piles of jumpers in the bedrooms, piles of lovingly handknitted WOOLLEN blankets in the living room, shabby knackered Afghan rugs that my grandparents gave me which I'm sure the carpet beetles love ... and the shittest vacuum ever (never buy an entry-level Sebo, it does not suck). I'm also not the world's best little housewife and vacuuming is not a thing that happens every day here.

So not surprising that I have moths, really.

I just let off a fogger in the Dumping Room again, to start us off. I bought a pack of 6 mini ones from Amazon and was hoping to do all three bedrooms (have to move the hamster somewhere safe!) and the living room too. But the horrible smoke escaped from the closed Dumping Room and was drawn upstairs because I'd left bedroom windows on and the extractor fan (rookie mistake) and it smells terrible up there. Now I'm dithering about whether I actually WANT to fog rooms where we and our children sleep. It's the standard sort of insect bomb, Pemethrin I think.

Is it actually safe for bedroom use??

If it's stuff sold as being for carpet moths/beetles, it definitely is. I've not used any generic 'insect' ones and can't remember the ingredients.

I've used the strongest 'DIY' ones you can buy and had my flat professionally sprayed twice. Both were totally fine for all rooms as long as you vacate for a couple of hours after setting them off.

The professional stuff - which is probably a lot stronger and definitely a lot feistier - was also totally fine to land all over the clothes in my wardrobe too apparently. I did chuck a sheet over the top of my bed.

Anyway, I'm still alive and whatnot.

Am struggling with this too. Have been using the stupid spray but think I need to upgrade! So this is helpful: will buy some and lob them around before we all go to school/work and see what happens

This is the fogger I used:

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0127J22X4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Just to add - I like this spray for the carpets too:
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01J5V8JOS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

But it's super time-consuming to do all over (I've done this twice). After the professional spraying, I've used this around the skirting.

A nice side-effect of spraying the carpets is that all the insects who land on it die. I get woodlice from the garden, there were flies in the hot summer, there was a giant spider in the living room...all dead when the walked over the carpet!

@GlomOfNit @TastesLikeFlavourlessFizz I have just bought the fogger recommended in this thread and about to use next week. It's my DS's bedroom where the carpet mainly around the edges of the wall under his bed plus a couple of other spots by his desk has been chomped away. The moths must have loved it in there as he never opened his blind and bed was the type that you have to pull out to hoover which never happened. He's now gone off to Uni so I have ripped out the carpet and underlay, hoovered every inch of the floorboards especially the gaps where the skirting boards are and will set fogger off before new (moth proof) carpet goes in.
My question is if you did bedrooms did you leave the mattress in there to be fogged too? Not sure whether to take this out. But not sure if moths lay eggs in a mattress. I have hoovered it and I can't see any signs on it but don't want to go to all this trouble for them to be in the mattress. Hope you have had success with your moth clearance.

I didn’t take anything out at all.

The only thing I did for both DIY and professional fogging was cover 2 expensive pieces of art and I chucked a flat sheet over the top of my bedding. I opened all 4 of my wardrobes and let the fog get in there so the bed doesn’t worry me - I just get spots and sleep on my side/front so I was cautious of residue getting on my face.

I don’t think my bed or the area around it was particularly affected in any case.

Hope you get sorted. I still have the odd moth so the professional spraying didn’t work fully but there are so few I’ve given up for now.

Thanks for replying. No expensive art here to worry about. I will open his wardrobe and drawers, thanks for the tip.
Did it stink out the rest of the house even though door was closed?

Well I did the whole flat (with a mask on) and then left for a few hours. When I came back I couldn’t smell anything but I opened all the windows for a few hours anyway. It was a lot warmer when I did it though!