Raid Flea Killer Carpet & Room Spray, Kills hatching eggs for up to 4 months, 16 Oz

Kills 'em dead. Light spray does it with no heavy odor. Sprayed heavily on patio to begin, next morning dead bugs all over. Sprayed entry areas with only slight chem smell.

This Raid flea killer has worked really well. Every spring into fall we battle with fleas and my dog has ended up sick from them. I decided to try this and it really does knock out the problem, and for longer than I would have thought. It’s simple to apply and effective. The smell isn’t overpowering like some foggers or sprays, it’s a light pleasant smell that dissipates fairly quickly. Would recommend.

Super effective, just remember it’s a pesticide, and you better only use it in highly ventilated areas, with no humans or pets around for a few hours. It will definitely eradicate every flea in the house (you’ll only be vacuuming up dead bodies in the hours and days following use), so I’d use it in conjunction with Advantage 2, or your favorite topical treatment, by treating the animals first, then a few days later when the fleas start hopping off, flood the zone with Raid (likely need 2+ canisters), even hitting the bed sheets, but especially pet beds and spots they typically spend a lot of time.Last time I did this, probably a year later I still see zero fleas in the vacuum canister, and after giving cats a bath, only 2 adult fleas were seen between 2 cats.It may seem obvious, but do not leave your pets in the room where this is sprayed. It’s very strong, and only a few seconds of exposure with have you in distress.

This worked to kill a dust mite infestation. The coverage was nowhere near what the can said. I sprayed about 90% of an 8x5 low-pile carpet with a can and I needed a second can to do the remaining 10%. Maybe I went too slow but I really wanted to be sure. The smell is tolerable but it almost smells stuffy like mildew or rain or dew or something. It's been one month since I sprayed and most of the smell is gone but I can still smell some fragrance on things that are left on the carpet.Full story:Sometimes I leave a TV remote, laptop, game controller, etc on this carpet. I noticed at the beginning of the summer that the bottom of anything I left on the carpet was getting covered in what I thought was specks of dust. I would routinely clean. One time a day after cleaning I lifted up the remote and the bottom was covered in tons of specks. Something didn't seem right. I looked at the remote under a handheld microscope and holy sh__ the specks were mostly crawling mites. I freaked out! Their faces were super scary.So began my war on dust mites.I vacuumed everything in the house. I mean I literally spent all day with earplugs in vacuuming everything. I threw away the vacuum bag and filters and put in new ones. I coated the problem carpet in puffs of boric acid powder that I brushed into the carpet fibers. I figured, everything is vacuumed, dry and the boric acid should make it impossible for the mites to live in the carpet. Didn't work.Then I figured, well, they must be spreading from the remotes and laptop right? So I tried lysol to saturate the carpet and every surface contacting it. Didn't work.I used a handheld steamer and steamed the carpet leaving it wet. It was pretty messy and very slow. (I think I needed a special steamer that would put out dry steam.) Didn't work.I used a hair dryer on the carpet to dry out from the previous day. Also very slow it took hours to really heat it up. I then used the hair dryer on the remotes and laptop. That last one big mistake, I melted some of the laptop keys into a curled up wavy state. Oops. And, agonizingly, didn't work.At this point I started looking for professional kill formulas instead of any random thing I'd read on google. One thing I read was that dust mite eggs embed themselves deep in carpets past where vacuums can get them. Another thing I read was a patent US5843981A on dust mites with a special formula that killed them and compared its formula to other formulas with higher concentrations that didn't work as well. Intriguing. The formula matched Raid Flea and Tick Killer Plus. (Note the non-Plus version looks almost exactly the same but doesn't stop eggs so make sure to get the Plus version).A month later, I still see an occasional specks of dust on things I leave on the carpet. I check with the microscope and it's actual dust or boric acid powder granules (which, coincidentally, look almost the same as specks of dust) but no mites.I'm sorry to tell you that from what I've read you can never fully get rid of dust mites they just live with us off our skin flakes. As long as they have a food source (and by that I mean us) they will always be around. Don't look under the microscope or you will drive yourself insane.

Keeps fleas away as well as all other bugs.

Works well, & the smell isn’t really over bearing compared to other products I’ve used in the past.

I’ve been fighting fleas on and off for the past two months after my dog’s topical preventative stopped working. I have used this spray twice, always spraying all furniture and rugs and locking the room for at least 12h to allow the smell to air out.On the first occasion, when I returned to my living room after the 12h, I was playing with my dog and looked down and saw a big fat flea on MY ARM. I had never seen a single flea on furniture or anywhere else besides on my dog. What I think happened this time is, the flea was likely on my dog and since the furniture and rugs were saturated with the raid spray, I was the only “safe” place it could jump to.A week later, I repeated the treatment. In between, I made sure to vacuum every day, wash linens, bathe my dog, even gave her a capstar. I was still finding a few little fleas on her when I bathed her, but that’s not entirely raid’s fault as I can only treat one room at the time and they probably jump and move with my dog as I do so.Last night I repeated the treatment. This time I locked my dog in my room and sprayed the rest of the apartment to let it sit overnight. When I got in bed, about an hour later, I was super itchy and when I looked down I realized I had two flea bites on my legs. I suppose there’s a small possibility the flea was in my bed, but I have white linens and could not find a single flea or flea dirt, so my guess is when I was spraying a flea (or fleas) jumped on my feet and climbed up my leg and bit me as I was spraying since I was getting rid of their safe space and my dog was locked away, they didn’t have anywhere else to go.I never found the guilty flea(s) so I don’t know if they died or where they went, but my conclusion is while this product might work to some degree, I believe it makes the fleas jump for their lives first and that means likely jump on (and bite!) you, so be mindful of that.I put my dog on a new medication today and praying it works and we’re done with this nightmare.

Bueno espero y funcione para matar las pulgas