Rentokil PSC50 carpet moth and beetle killer powder

This killed all carpet beetles straight away (I left it down for about 4 hours). Wish I'd covered my nose when I put it down as it made me cough. I bought a face mask on Amazon before I used it again and wore latex gloves. Bottle is small and one bottle just about covered the carpet in one room, so I've ordered more bottles to use on sofa, curtains etc, as bottle says use lots around carpet edges and where there are holes from where they have eaten material, and they have eaten holes in my sofa seat covers and cushions. They lay eggs on any material and the larvae eat holes in the material. I rang Rentokil and they said carpet beetles don't eat synthetic material, only natural fibres, but my sofa is synthetic. Rentokil said it must have some natural fibres in it for them to eat it. Rentokil said adult carpet beetles don't eat material - they eat spirea plants and they recommend getting rid of these as they attract carpet beetles into the property. It is only carpet beetle larvae that eat material.Rentokil said this insecticide kills carpet beetle adults and larvae but not eggs, and the eggs will hatch into larvae in 7-14 days. I was going to wait 14 days before putting more down but Rentokil said they spray insecticide down every 7-10 days, but I will put more down in 14 days.Rentokil said washing material at 60 degrees will kill the adult carpet beetles, larvae and eggs, but washing below that temperature won't kill them. Obviously can't wash jumpers etc at 60 degrees as they will shrink. Rentokil said they use heat to get rid of carpet beetles and this doesn't damage material, so if I can't get rid of them all completely I will have to get Rentokil in.Washing my curtains and sofa covers at 60 degrees didn't get rid of carpet beetles so had to wash them again on 90 degrees and that killed the adults, larvae and eggs.The eggs hatched out into larvae 5 months after I first put this insecticide down, so had to buy more and put it down again.I needed 4 bottles of this insecticide for the carpet of a large room and sofa.

Seems to work, no beetles or moth seen a day after using the powder in my rooms. But you will need to get a applicator to get better results--the bottle isn't convenient to use. Also it's a very fine powder, wear a good mask when you use it if you don't want to risk your health.

We moved into a rented house that had been left empty for 2+ years and had a major moth problem. I tried aerosols and foggers, but the powder is my preferred method because it was the most practical. You go round the edges of the room puffing it onto the carpet, leave it for as long as possible (2 hours minimum, overnight is best) then vacuum it up. Because it's a powder it stays pretty much where you puff it so you can carry on using the rooms while you're waiting for it to work. The biggest drawback is the powder clogs up vacuum cleaner bags and you have to change them frequently, which is an extra expense and faff.It seems to poison the carpet. After you've vacuumed the powder up, the grubs come up to the surface and you have to vacuum them up again (they are small, but frankly this bit is gross - you will never walk around on carpet with bare feet again...). Then for the next few days, no moths or grubs. Then you start to see them around as grubs hatch from the eggs and moths from the cocoons and you have to do the whole thing again.You're supposed to repeat the process at least 3 times at 5 day intervals to catch them at all stages of their life-cycle - the eggs seem to be pretty impervious to whatever you chuck at them, you've got to zap them at either the grub or moth stage. We've done that, and used the foggers and the aerosols, and vacuumed like mad, and we're nearly clear. But the moths are still around (though I haven't seen a grub for some time). I'm going to go round with the powder one more time and then hopefully that will be that.

This product works well against Woodlice, maybe even moths... when the moth touch your light bulb and slightly burn themselves and blind themselves to the point they drop to the floor, they may just land in the bug powder and if so it may just be harmful to them... that I really do not know but I'd assume it would be. Window nets could easily solve a moth problem.Spiders are usually up high unless they are pesky annoying little pricks running around on your floor instead of being like spider-man climbing all over the walls etc.. This may work on spiders again I do not know but I would doubt it as spiders have longer legs so if they went walking through the powder I would assume they would be relatively fine.What I had... have is an infestation of they call em beetle larvae, or carpet larvae. These little very ugly kinda hairy but shiny as they reflect light - little bug like worms. They come crawling from under the skirting boards and aim for my bed as my bed had carpet like material which I had to remove. They creep along the floor, along skirting boards, rarely across your wall more like up the corner of a wall. They likely to head for your carpet, cloths, or any material of the likes. finding how they enter your 'home' is key first of all, and try tackling the problem that way. I did, and it seemed to have solved the problem a little bit. I still see them here and there, slightly more than usual but nowhere near as bad. I bought bug spray the raid.... so every now and then I call it detox but it's actually vaccine.. right?I sweep as berneslai homes seemingly only give their tenants homes with no paint and no floor protection.... at all, unless CARPET at the toilet... which is a new concept for a bathroom. So as all I have to do is sweep I can easily tackle any dust build up here and there. And then I sprinkle some of the powder where the bugs are likely to be seen entering or traveling, and then about knee height I spray the bug spray beneath my bed, and all across the floor. I plan to do this for a good few weeks.I'm suppose to be waiting on Berneslai homes to send repair men to fix the skirting boards, the front door, etc as these are the known places where the bugs slip in. Woodlices were somehow creeping in through a gap beneath the bedroom window which clearly states that gap lead to outside the house!same problem with stairs- HOLES... in the wall which lead to back garden which I blocked with tissue for meantime. And the front door is not sealed right! so woodlice can OFTEN be found creeping around the front door area. And then obviously there is the skirting board problem, Big gaps beneath the skirting board - bugs simply slip right through into the house for cotton diet... AAASs I seem to love and wear cloths etc.Still waiting on the folks to come and do their duty, in fact each member that said they would come on certain date has failed to attend but one. The only problem Is - Me paying for... 'BUG GEAR' is costs I should not have to paying as this is mostly due to BERNESLAI HOMES building errors and not properly prepping a 'HOME' for a new tenant.Complaining does not seem to work...Anywaylive well folks