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HARRIS Diatomaceous Earth Powder Duster with 6 Inch Extension Nozzle
Light Dusting - Spreads diatomaceous earth evenly and efficientlyUse in Multiple Settings - Perfect for household use in residences and apartments or outdoorsGreat for Tight Spaces - Places powder in difficult to reach areas, saving you time and effortMinimal Clogging - Turn upside down and begin with light puffs to reduce cloggingFine Tip Nozzle - 6" extension included for precise application
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22 Reddit comments about HARRIS Diatomaceous Earth Powder Duster with 6 Inch Extension Nozzle:

u/PurdyCrafty · 82 pointsr/budgetfood

Dude, you need to get out of there ASAP. Contact your local housing board, contact a local attorney for a free consultation, this is a really big deal and just changing your diet is not gonna help. If the infestation is as bad as you say AND the landlord has failed to do anything about it, you are usually open to legal recourse. Review your lease with an attorney and see what recourse you have.

If you're seeing multiple out in the open, thats a really bad sign. Roaches don't like being out in the open and will only really go out in the open if theres a real infestation.

With that being said, below check out the best most effective ways to make your house as unlivable as possible for those sons of bitches:

The key to taking care of the roaches is essentially making your house a living hell for them to live in.

First, Determine the kind of roach you have. German roaches are the most common, and tend to be the ones found in apartments.

Second-of-ly, Throw out any and all cardboard you have. They live on the glue holding it together. This means ALL of it, every old amazon box, cereal box, shoe box, old pizza box, gift box from your aunt you wanted to reuse for your other nephews birthday... throw all that shit out. I hope you were planning on spring cleaning because that's next.

Once you've thrown out all your cardboard, I highly suggest deep cleaning the entire apartment, get up every single crumb you can, do it around the entrance to your apartment, do it on every window sil, every shelf. Just....everywhere. Every crumb, hair, and just general shit you pick up is one less morsel for them to eat.

Clean every single dish, bowl, culterly, all of your dishes and put them in large storage bins something like this.

Now, go through your fridge and remove everything, clean the entire fridge out. If you can empty it I would, though this is /r/budgetfood so just I'm sure others will disagree if this is needed. All of your canned good, rice, pantry crap go into another empty bin. Put these in the middle of your living room floor.

Move all your furniture away from the walls and try to get as much of it off the floor as possible. Try to remove as many "hiding spaces" as possible.

Got textbooks, novels, bibles or any other book that has glue in it? Either throw them away or check and comb every single page for roach eggs. They like to lay them deeeep inside the bindings. Once searched, put them in a bin and stack with the rest of your stuff.

At this point, see if your landlord will come in and fill any open holes in the apartment, this includes pipes for plumbing, heater pipes coming out of drywall, underneath dishwasher, cabinet seams. Basically anything that can be caulked should be. If your landlord is an ass and doesn't want to/won't its gonna make this next part harder but not undoable.

So now that's done, you're next gonna wanna buy these two things:

Depending on the size of your place, a shit ton of boric acid

a drill

A Powder duster

The boric acid dries out and fucks up the roaches exoskeleton and they then ingest it causing themselves to (hopefully painful) death.

Take the boric acid and cover your entire floor with it. You don't need to use the duster quite yet, but just make sure your floor is completely covered. Next cover your furniture. In your now empty pantry and drawers, cover them in boric acid. This includes bath tubs, under the sinks, around the toilet etc.

Now at the bottom of one of your walls take your drill and drill a hole into your wall deep enough to get to the internals. Using the powder duster filled with boric acid, shoot the powder up into the wall. The idea is to coat the entire inside with it. It more important to get the acid everywhere. After your first hole, move about 8inches to a foot in either direction and continue spraying internally in the wall. continue to do this until every walls inside is covered in boric acid.

So now the adults are slowly on their way to perish, Nope the fuck out of your apartment for a few days, if you can't for some reason leave for a few days, in the very least do not bring any food, water, plastic, glue, boxes, paper, anything new into the house. Trash should be taken out multiple times a day and laundry needs to be stored in ziploc bags.

Okay, so now the adults should be slowly dying. Unfortunately, prior to their death, besides eating all of your food, they've been nonstop fucking and laying eggs all over your house. So now your house is literally about to be filled with shitty roach orphans and outside of going back in time and trying to teach the roaches in your apartment safe sex methods, there isn't much you can do to stop them from hatching.

Unfortunately this means in about 10-20 days after your initial treatment, you'll have to do the entire thing again. After that, outside of maintaining an impeccably clean apartment your roach problem should become more bearable. Sadly, unless EVERYONE in your building follows the above steps, you'll always have that problem.

Source: Dealt with these little shits for about 6 months, every treatment I basically grilled the bug guy to give me as much info as possible on roaches....

u/RedShirtDecoy · 8 pointsr/news

anything that has more than 4 legs.

I hate bugs. I am the biggest tomboy in the world until it comes to creepy crawlies. Plus we have had confirmed sightings on brown recluse in my building and I dont want them biting me or my dogs.

I also live in Cincinnati which is the bed bug capital of the world or close to it.

So I put the stuff down all over the place twice a year. I will do the following (while wearing a mask)

  • remove the mattress and box springs to spray under the bed and along the walls (small bedroom with king sized bed, its shoved in a corner)

  • use a cup instead of sprayer and put the stuff on the edges of my bed frame. apparently bed bugs love the edges of bed frames.

  • spray bottom of box springs while against the wall in the hall way (this doubles for covering the carpet in the hallway, 2 birds one stone thing).

  • put box springs back and lightly spray the tops of the box springs. This will cover the top of the springs and the bottom of the mattress while making sure you dont breathe the stuff in at night.

  • using gloves, grab a little bit of DE and mash it into the seems of the mattress (bed bugs LOVE mattress seams, its the first place they tell you to look if you think you have them). Slowly but surely wins this race. Make sure its only in the seams and not on the mattress top itself to prevent breathing it in.

  • spray in all corners and behind the dresser.

  • IF you have a good mask, and only if you have a good mask and I would recommend eye protection just in case... spray the tops of your walls where they meet the ceiling. Bed bugs love to hide in those corners/seams. If you spray a light coat will stick to the walls but the rest will fall, hence why you need a good mask for this one. Also make sure pets are well out of the way.

  • spray along the bottom of the walls all through my apartment.

  • pay special attention to all corners

  • spray all windowsills (the back half of my apartment is half underground and the windows are literally 6" off the ground, lots of bugs get in through them.

  • spray the couch

  • take the long end of the spray bottle, stick it in the cracks and crevices of the couch, and spray.

  • spray around all doors

  • go outside and spray around the windows and doors as a barrier.

  • cover all of my dogs "spots" around the house. Places where they like to nap or go to after coming inside . let it sit for an hour and run a vacuum over it (dogs are in a different room during this time or out talking a walk). This allows just enough DE to to remain to kill any fleas that may jump off my dogs when they come in from outside.

    Due to how my apartment is situated (its built wonderfully, just 5 feet from the tree line and half underground) if I dont put the stuff down I have to deal with an incredible amount of spiders and silverfish, which give me the creeps. But even worse its a flea breeding ground outside and the DE along with flea medication is the best at preventing a problem before it starts.

    The cherry on top is living in Cincinnati. So it help me prevent a bed bug problem before it can even start.
u/bluequail · 4 pointsr/needadvice

Oh, and boric acid isn't bad for your health. It may be, if you ate copious amounts of it, but not in how I suggested you use it.

Here is an amazon page for it, but it is much cheaper at your local walmart. But the first one listed (the suppository) should give you an idea of how safe it is:

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=boric+acid&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aboric+acid

Also, when I was young, I used to be on a swim team, and would get an occasional stye. They made a boric acid eye wash.

This is the kind of duster you would want to use to dust inside your cabinets and stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Harris-Diatomaceous-Powder-Duster-Extension/dp/B01LRMN9ZM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1541161933&sr=8-4&keywords=DE+duster

u/Sryden42 · 3 pointsr/Bedbugs

If they die in the open you'll see them but sometimes they survive long enough to crawl away and die. I would expect to see at least a few dead in the open though. I'd get a diametrious earth duster like this.

I applied it as dust and it's supposed to be applied or at least left as dust but I'm not sure of all the ways it can be used (supposedly it can be mixed with water and sprayed but not sure how it's done).

When dusting it's applied very thin, you should barely even be able to see the residue.

u/Throwawayaccount2O19 · 2 pointsr/Bedbugs

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B01LRMN9ZM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 this is the product I used to apply the powder. Even with this applying it is a huge pain. Even the lightest tap causes it all to go all over the place. I heard that unless the powder is barely visible then the bedbugs will just go over it. That's why I am asking.

u/Zagaroth · 2 pointsr/Bedbugs

>If I place the dust everywhere, should I try to refrain from vacuuming? Or just reapply after vacuuming?

I'd vacuum, then apply, then re-apply after any future vacuuming.

>Can you possibly link me to the pump/sprayer?

Here's 2 options, we used this one ourselves, but this one seems to be promoted by Amazon right now. Looking at that yellow one... eh, I'd personally recommend going with the first one. THe extra $6 is worth it for higher quality.

>How much is needed for a ~800 sq. Ft. Apartment?

Per their Amazon link, 2 ounces covers 100 ft^2, large bottles are 4 ounce, so you'd want 4 large bottles

Oh, and as a safety given the high chance other apartments are infested, you probably want this XFasten double sided tape, you will want to make squares around every power/cable/telephone/airvent/etc. outlet, and a large square above your bed, slightly larger than your bed. Yes, they are known to crawl along the ceiling then drop down onto beds.

u/MalibootyCutie · 2 pointsr/DeadBedrooms

Dust the place with this:
Rockwell Labs CXID032 Cimexa Dust... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085HRWI8?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share


Use with this cheap bellows duster:

Harris Diatomaceous Earth Powder... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LRMN9ZM?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Cracks and baseboards, and bed perimeter with this:
Ortho 0202510 Home Defense Max... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JYT16AA?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share


Get that dust everywhere. I see you got rid of your furniture? But, when you get new? Get that stuff down in the cracks and everything. Do under your bed. Just do the whole place with a fine layer it will grind into everything and disappear...but stay there for ten freaking years. The NEXT day I started finding them dead and dried out. The live ones were all jacked up acting and had dry bodies inside of plump ones. When I mashed a live one? It just flaked apart. I still keep the bed traps under our bed feet? Nothing. Check out and read the reviews on that dust. It’s no joke and it won’t hurt you. It works FAST and it’s deadly.

I dusted the bed frame and pulled off the sheets and dusted the box spring and sides and my mattress too. Put the sheet back over it and pulled my bed about two inches from the wall...well I did all the beds like that.

I did every inch of this place....over kill. But they crawl trough that dust and it fucks them up big time.

It was ages before I finally felt completely “safe”. But I haven’t even thought about them in months now.

The dust is Cilicia gel. Like the little packets you find in new shoes of beef jerky. Dries them out. Just absorbs every drop of moisture in them. Works through their exoskeleton. Literally turns them to flakes.

u/aloveablebunny · 2 pointsr/Bedbugs

Buy a hand bellows duster. Like this. Only a fine dusting of the CimeXa, NOT piles of it everywhere or the bedbugs will avoid it.

Apply CimeXa everywhere. On carpet, on office chairs, across doorways, under desks, you can even put it in your car if you like.

u/Ender06 · 2 pointsr/tifu

Just spray it around dry. The bottle used looks like this, or this.

u/yoonamaniac · 2 pointsr/IndoorGarden

I seriously don't know what I'm doing (you like my flair!). I just can't stand pests - when I see one, I get heart palpitations and sweaty palms and lose sleep. Some tips: if you're going to use diatomaceous earth, you need to get a duster similar to this. It's very fine like flour, so it gets messy and you'd want to wear a mask or something so you don't breathe it in. A drawback of neem oil is that it stinks, and it can burn the plant if you're not careful about diluting per the direction on the bottle and also use it at dusk so that it's all dry by the sun up in the morning.

u/etrainman · 2 pointsr/OntarioLandlord

I had a tenant who "told" me that her boyfriend brought beg bugs in from his apartment. I had to pay to remove the bugs in hers and all adjoining units. She was on odsp so I was unable to get any cash. I now only rent to odsp if they have a guarantor that owns a house in the area. I check with the city roll number of the guarantors house to confirm they are an owner.

I paid before but next time, I will rent a 100000 btu portable heater and heat the unit to 140 degrees for 8 hours. From what I understand, that should do it at a cost of $100-200. Spray diatomaceous earth around all baseboards. You can buy a small duster on amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Harris-Diatomaceous-Powder-Duster-Extension/dp/B01LRMN9ZM

or

https://www.bedbugsupply.com/crossfire-bed-bug-concentrate.html

u/derkaderkaderkaderka · 2 pointsr/leaf

Diatomaceous earth in a duster (https://www.amazon.com/Harris-Diatomaceous-Powder-Duster-Extension/dp/B01LRMN9ZM?sa-no-redirect=1&pldnSite=1) is the first thing that comes to mind to get rid of the ants. It doesn't smell and is safe for humans, kills them relatively quickly and then you can vacuum the dust up.

u/slayerming2 · 1 pointr/HomeImprovement

Well that's the thing, when I was first doing research on ways to get rid of bed bugs I heard Cimexa was the way to go.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0085HRWI8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Since it was considered a lot safer than Diatomaceous powder, which a lot of people didn't recommend.

I sprayed the cimexa around with this powder duster.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LRMN9ZM/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And didn't go into my bedroom for more than a few minutes for the next few days. When I went in two days ago I immediately noticed a flea on my leg, since then noticed 1-3 more. Not sure if the cimexa agitated them or not, since the last three weeks I haven't noticed or see anything of the sort.

So thoughts?

u/poustinia · 1 pointr/indianapolis

You can use something like this to spray it along the base of the walls, window wells, and any nooks where bugs have been seen hiding.

u/exiestjw · 1 pointr/dogs

Heres how I got rid of fleas once. It was quite a challenge, but thankfully not super expensive.

1: treat the carpet and furniture. I sprinkled diatomaceous earth in all the carpet and furniture, and then vacuumed it up. Then I distributed it all along the baseboards and in the couch backs/arms under the cushions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth#Pest_control

2: physically removed the fleas from the dog. You have to get a flea comb and remove the fleas from the animals. It takes FOREVER. You have to comb through all their fur. I made a bowl/cup with 1/2 cup water and then put 1/4 dish detergent in it. When you get a flea, put it in the solution and it will drown.

https://www.google.com/search?q=flea+comb

I then rubbed/sprinkled the DE on to the dogs.

DE is not poisonous if ingested, but DO NOT breathe in clouds of it. Either you or the dogs.

I have 40lb short hair dogs and it was 2 hours for each dog.

And then.... get this... I had to repeat this process two more times!

So... yeah. But its all you can do.

Frontline and shampoo are good for preventative care, and can stop an infestation if you catch it super early.

But once you have an infestation, the only option is to physically remove the fleas from the animal. The treatments just do not get them all.

I used this to distribute the DE:

https://www.amazon.com/Harris-Diatomaceous-Powder-Duster-Extension/dp/B01LRMN9ZM

u/loki154 · 1 pointr/espresso

Link for anyone who'd like to try it.

u/SarcasticSocialist · 1 pointr/pestcontrol

Since I haven't seen it here yet, a good way to kill any roaches and prevent reinfestation is by using Cimexa dust. Buy a duster and some Cimexa and lightly dust the interior of the ps4 through the air vents. Bonus points if you open it up and dust the inside too. Watch some videos on dusting appliances so you get a feel for how little you need to use to be effective. This Cimexa is not a poison but rather it dehydrates the insects and doesn't harm electronics. Best part is you can use it in other areas of infestation as well.

If you decide to go this route make sure you use a dust mask when applying and read the label on the Cimexa bottle before you use it. It's not poison but I'm you still don't want to put it somewhere where someone could breathe it in so make sure you know how to apply it before you so.

u/CurlyHairedGirlTX · 1 pointr/pestcontrol

TL;DR Try insect growth regulators, and find ways to dehumidify the house (and keep the dehumidifier drain pan emptied). Boric acid or diatomaceous earth with a puff hand duster in wall voids, under sinks, behind electrical outlets.

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Ask the pest control company if they applied any insect growth regulator. If they didn't (and maybe just to be sure) get some Gentrol Point Source discs. Put them on every wall of every room you have cockroaches in, and the other side of the wall on rooms next to the rooms where you've seen cockroaches. And under every sink.

Get a hand powder duster like this one https://www.amazon.com/Harris-Diatomaceous-Powder-Duster-Extension/dp/B01LRMN9ZM/ . Fill with diatomaceous earth or boric acid or both depending on your comfort with toxicity and whether you have kids or pets or anyone with asthma in the house. Do some reading on this, I'm not an expert. Unscrew and remove your electrical outlet plates, and send a couple puffs in each outlet. Then replace the outlet plates. Also use the hand duster to puff in the cracks that you have mentioned.

I tried putting dabs of gel bait in back of the outlet plates as well. (edited to say that someone else on another thread said I shouldn't do that because the bait is wet and there's an electrical hazard)

Did pest control treat every room in the house, or just the kitchen? If they were focusing on the kitchen, that's probably where they applied most of the pesticides. Have pest control come back and treat any room where you've seen roaches. Or ask which pesticide they've been using, and see if they can switch to another in case the smokybrown roaches are resistant. Most of the over the counter products I've seen seem to have Fipronil, so it's possible that if the previous residents were only using roach motels instead of calling an exterminator, that they have become resistant to that specific pesticide. Someone on another thread said Fipronil is generally a good pesticide.

Have you been plugging the drains at night? That's one potential way that roaches could be getting in the house. As a random idea, try putting glue boards down at night in the sinks of the rooms where you see the most roaches.

Are there any dripping faucets or sources of humidity beyond that of a Texas summer? Can you install a dehumidifier and frequently empty out the drain pan? Apparently water and plant material are the main things smoky brown roaches are attracted to.

It's also possible that since smoky brown roaches aren't attracted to food like peanut butter, that the roaches aren't eating the bait the exterminator is putting out. Is there stuff in the attic they might be eating? I know that most Texas houses don't have basements.

u/PocketSizeDemons · 1 pointr/Bedbugs

Was the styrofoam seal a little bit lifted? I think the ones I ordered were the same...possibly the dessicant properties of the powder eroded the stickiness of the seal over time. Or when they were putting the seals on, remnants of the powder on the rim resulted in a weak seal.

As long as it was closed and the powder is light, fluffy and very fine there shouldn’t be any issues.

Did you pick up an applicator too like this one?
https://www.amazon.com/Harris-Diatomaceous-Powder-Duster-Extension/dp/B01LRMN9ZM/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?keywords=powder+insecticide+applicator&qid=1565873469&s=gateway&sprefix=powder+inse&sr=8-5