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01/07/2009, 18:48 Iceni Joined on 23/08/2004 Lot 46 Posts 3,633 Re: FLIES FLIES AND even more B....... lies  cooperlola wrote:  Iceni wrote: . In the doorway we have a dangly curtain which seems to stop so many coming in. John Have you managed to find an attractive looking fly curtain? - and if so, where please? I didn't say it was attractive. Suggest that you try La Four Fouille (sp?) John    Report

02/07/2009, 10:47 Dog Joined on 24/08/2004 Lost in France Posts 2,624 Re: FLIES FLIES AND even more B....... lies Most supermarkets sell the grey fly mesh curtains for doors. They have three overlapping strips of mesh and work well. I do not like killing flies so even one in the house is distracting and unhygenic. It is foul to be in a house full of flies. Espouse elucidation and eschew obfuscation!    Report

03/07/2009, 17:04 valB Joined on 21/11/2007 Posts 609 Re: FLIES FLIES AND even more B....... lies Yes, Dog, I totally agree.We have a mesh overlapping door screen which is great when we make sure it is overlapping but my Labrador is in and out all the time. He has not learnt how to make sure they overlap and so we do get the dreaded things coming in. So that is when the plastic swat comes into it's own.    Report

03/07/2009, 18:55 Dog Joined on 24/08/2004 Lost in France Posts 2,624 Re: FLIES FLIES AND even more B....... lies A Belgian Shepherd lives with me and he is in out out checking the flock all day with no probs - add some weight to the bottom of the flyscreen. Espouse elucidation and eschew obfuscation!    Report

20/08/2009, 16:04 partout Joined on 25/01/2009 Duras/W Sussex Posts 61 Re: FLIES FLIES AND even more B....... lies As promised , Have just returned from a month in France, and would like to keep you up to date on our fly and pong problem. No flies in our loft, until we use the loos in the house that is, it would appear that we may have got 2 birds with one stone... We had an awful smell up there, something dead or rotting, hence the  loads of flies, well it would appear that our loft bathroom had no stink pipe, and the smell would work its way back into the loft, then the flies appear. So our plumber has fitted a stink pipe up thru the roof from the sewage pipe, and voila, pong and flies gone. He also told us that whenever we return to the house to drop a septic tank sachet down the loo before we use it. I bought some I think it is called eparcyl. Thanks Mr plombier, good old fashioned gent he was. He also told us off, we have been decorating since the day we got the house, every day for I don't know how long, and yes we know, emulsion shold not be tipped down the drain, but we did, and we won't any more... Oh to be back in Gods own country,    Report

20/08/2009, 16:40 Stan Streason Joined on 22/12/2008 Mid - Essex & Deux Sevres 79 Posts 273 Re: FLIES FLIES AND even more B....... lies Have a look at the products on http://www.pesthelp.co.uk  They deliver to France for under £10 and can price in euros. I used a dozen their mini fumers in my unconverted top floor and other than having to vacate the house for 8 hours (a day trip to La Rochelle) it sorted my loft infestation relatively easily. Other than as a customer I have no link to the site.    Report

21/08/2009, 23:08 Lancashire Lass Joined on 19/07/2009 Jonzac Posts 52 Re: FLIES FLIES AND even more B....... lies  Stan Streason wrote: Have a look at the products on http://www.pesthelp.co.uk  They deliver to France for under £10 and can price in euros. I used a dozen their mini fumers in my unconverted top floor and other than having to vacate the house for 8 hours (a day trip to La Rochelle) it sorted my loft infestation relatively easily. Other than as a customer I have no link to the site. I bought plug in devices last year from  LeClerc and deep joy, this year they are still in stock! So I have bought the refills! They were for mosquitos but they seem to keep the flies down too!    Report

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