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Jul 13 2015, 09:37 AM
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QUOTE (CrackerJack @ Jul 13 2015, 10:25 AM) An old long handled brush, a small bucket of water and a large bottle of thin bleach (about 25p from Tesco). Job done
How about double or triple bagging those nappies before you put them in the bin.... That's great, CrackerJack. Could you come today? I'll give you a couple of quid for your trouble. Do you bring your own bleach? Nappies and cat litter are all double bagged and sealed before they go out.
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Jul 13 2015, 03:58 PM
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QUOTE (GMR @ Jul 13 2015, 04:54 PM) I've got somebody, it is called me. I also had maggots crawling in the bin and with some bleach and a drain they soon went. Of course I say me, but nothing really much needs doing to the bin. Personally, I don't have the time or inclination to scrub out a bin crawling with maggots, when someone else is willing to do the job for a little over £3 a go.
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Jul 14 2015, 02:39 PM
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QUOTE (misc @ Jul 13 2015, 04:58 PM) Personally, I don't have the time or inclination to scrub out a bin crawling with maggots, when someone else is willing to do the job for a little over £3 a go. Err, what's wrong with a few maggots?
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Jul 14 2015, 03:08 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Jul 14 2015, 03:39 PM) Err, what's wrong with a few maggots? Seriously? They become flies. Where possible, I do not want flies in my house. QUOTE "The diseases that flies can transmit include enteric infections (such as dysen- tery, diarrhoea, typhoid, cholera and certain helminth infections), eye infections (such as trachoma and epidemic conjunctivitis) (Fig. 6.6), poliomyelitis and certain skin infections (such as yaws, cutaneous diphtheria, some mycoses and leprosy)." Source: WHO - Houseflies (PDF) I have a four month old daughter and a three year old son, and don't want unnecessary germs floating around in my house.
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Jul 14 2015, 04:16 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Jul 14 2015, 03:39 PM) Err, what's wrong with a few maggots? They're making a mess of town planning.
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Jul 14 2015, 04:25 PM
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QUOTE (misc @ Jul 14 2015, 04:08 PM) Seriously? They become flies. Where possible, I do not want flies in my house. Source: WHO - Houseflies (PDF) I have a four month old daughter and a three year old son, and don't want unnecessary germs floating around in my house. But from egg to fly can take up to 42 days, I empty my bins more frequently than that.
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Jul 14 2015, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE (misc @ Jul 13 2015, 04:27 PM) I've just signed up with Thames Valley Bin Hygiene for £39 for 12 monthly cleans. But during the hotter summer months (he says, looking out the window at the pouring summer rain..... ) there will be a FOUR WEEK period of you having a bin infested with maggots. You already complain about the bin not being emptied for a fortnight but the bin won't be properly sluiced out of crawly things for four weeks, so still a bit of a problem with your kitty litter and nappy 'fly bait'? Don't they do an option of cleaning the bin/replacing the bin liner thing after every empty, - ie fortnightly? fly eggs to maggots to fliesQUOTE When it's warm outside, maggots can emerge from eggs laid only eight hours earlier. Maggots eat from the site where they emerged. After three to five days of feeding, maggots squirm up to 50 feet away from the hatching site to a dry area and begin to pupate (but usually staying within the bin). In warm weather, adult flies emerge from the pupal in six days or less Yeah one clean a month isn't going to resolve it really. Suggest you invest in some Marigolds, a bucket and some bleach or bump the clean up to fortnightly during summer... . (I would offer but I already do my own )
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Jul 14 2015, 06:05 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Jul 14 2015, 05:25 PM) But from egg to fly can take up to 42 days, I empty my bins more frequently than that. From egg to fly may take 42 days in early spring/late autumn. In hot sultry weather the process from egg to germ-carrying flying killer thing ready to vomit on your food can take as little as 7 days (8 hours from laid egg to larvae, 3 days of the maggot in a feeding frenzy, 3 days of the pupae metamorphing before emerging and annoying humans)...
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Jul 14 2015, 07:29 PM
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QUOTE (CrackerJack @ Jul 14 2015, 07:05 PM) From egg to fly may take 42 days in early spring/late autumn. In hot sultry weather the process from egg to germ-carrying flying killer thing ready to vomit on your food can take as little as 7 days (8 hours from laid egg to larvae, 3 days of the maggot in a feeding frenzy, 3 days of the pupae metamorphing before emerging and annoying humans)... You must all be imagining things? When this problem was brought up when it was decided, not by ratepayers I must add, to have fortnightly bin collections we were informed that this and other foreseeable problems would not happen by our beloved Mrs Cole?
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Jul 14 2015, 08:04 PM
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QUOTE (CrackerJack @ Jul 14 2015, 08:40 PM) I think most people would be prepared to clean up after themselves and would accept that even if you just bagged up one week's worth of cat poo and put it in your bin and chucked in a few bags of used nappies on top you are going to have to be careful with 'the natural process of decomposition' (which often starts with flies) There is now no choice. Before fortnightly collections we never suffered maggots, but we do now. Does anyone still use those pathetic food baskets?
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Jul 15 2015, 08:21 AM
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QUOTE (Andy Capp @ Jul 14 2015, 09:04 PM) There is now no choice. Before fortnightly collections we never suffered maggots, but we do now. I wholeheartedly agree.
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