YUCK YUCK YUCK, We are infested, please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Dd1 woke me this morning to ask me to take her to the toilet because there were "10 million flies all over the bathroom"

I told her to stop being silly, that there was only one moth and I closed the window after it got in, so there wouldn't be anything else.

But she insisted that she was telling the truth so I went with her.

She was right, there may not have 10 million though, but there was about 20, all over the window.

Where are they coming from? I have checked the yard and bins for maggots and there are none.

Plus the window was closed. And I only cleaned the bathroom yesterday inc. bleaching the drains and toilet. So where are they coming from?

If you've just done the drains, I'd bet they're drain flies.

Please help. I am having a sleepover tonight and I don't want all the children to terrified to go to the loo.

Or to go home to their mum and say "ergh, I'm not going there again, it's full of dirty flies"

hhhm, maybe drain flies. They looked very much like bluebottles, but I don't understand where else they could have come from, if not the drains, as I closed the window.

So if I clean the drains they will go away?

I find that it's the cleaning which forces them out, but they settle back in again given a week or so - try rinsing them out daily.

maybe a dead mouse under the floorboards? sorry to suggest but we had this - if you're in terraced they can get in under the floorboards from a next door house.
best thing to do is open the window wide as all they are trying to do is get out, and keep the door closed and keep spraying lots of good fly spray in there every hour or so.

if you have floorboards rather than carpet (as we do) spray the flyspray at the cracks in the boards - and keep an eye on rooms next door to where they are now, as if you spray the floorboards it sometimes forces them into other rooms....

bitter experience on return from holiday last october...

We have just changed the carpets in kitchen, bathroom and living room and checked under the floor boards then, to ensure my cats had nit got trapped before we laid new carpets/line/tiles and there were no maggots/bad smells then.

Upon closer inspection now that they are dead they do resemble drain fly.

Google say to clean your drains with half baking soda/half caustic soda and rinse with white vinegar to cause it to foam.

Dh is currently on his way home with supplies!!

And again YUCK!! I am bathing at my mothers from now on!!!!