Please help I'm going mad!

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Hello!

I need a bit of advice.

I live in a ground floor flat with no pets, never had them.

Over the last two weeks with the warmer weather and having Mabel does open all the time, my flat has become infested with fleas! I'm at my wits end. My feet are absolutely covered in bites and everytime I move I'm picking up to 4 off my legs.

I've sprayed flea spray all over my upholstery ( the flat is laminated throughout but I have a fabric bed and a baby cot in my room) and washed everything that's out on a hot wash but the problem seems to have gotten worse not better.

As my flat is rented, is it up to myself to sort the issue or is this something my landlord can do?

I think the flat needs fogging or something.

All my windows open that was supposed to say... not Mabel 🤭 whoever she is!

Unfortunately fleas are a bugger to get rid of and have been especially hardy over the last two years!

We had fleas last year and it took us 6-8 weeks to get rid of them completely.

Here's what we did. Ours came from our two pets btw so I've taken any of that advice out.

We:

• Bagged up and quarantined any clothes, bedding, blankets, soft toys (we have a toddler) into black sacks. Especially if you have a floordrobe anywhere like we did. Washed them on the hottest wash they could take and then tumble dried anything that could withstand it to kill any surviving fleas and their eggs.

-Washed all our sofa covers and hoovered out the actual sofa and the cushion fillers.

-Hired a carpet cleaner and cleaned all the carpets.

-Then hoovered the carpets

-Flea sprayed the whole house and I mean the whole house. Indorex is the best and it lasts for up to 12 months. However we did this weekly, airing the house out every time and hoovering as well.

-Make sure you are emptying your hoover after each round of cleaning or they'll just lay eggs and hop out and about again rendering what you've done useless.

-The life cycle of a flea speeds up in the heat but that means they can lay lots and lots of eggs so you have to be consistent and keep going until they're all gone and you're confident you'll have got all the eggs.

-We thought we'd got the buggers because we got a bit lazy and didn't follow the abovr advice, then we reckon a whole host of new eggs hatched and we were back to square one.

@USaYwHatNow h my days what a process! I just can't believe how bad they are, everytime I move I've got a couple on my legs/feet. I'm lucky I don't have carpets but do a big kong size fabric bed and I'm convinced they are hiding in that as I only ever get bitten when I'm on the bed sleeping or feeding the baby. Oh and in my bloody bathroom mat as well!