Best household flea killer?

A question about : Best household flea killer?

I am not talking about flea killer for putting on cats, but can anyone recommend a good flea killer for the house. We dont seem to have many but just one flea on my son makes him look like he has some spotty disease as each hop of the flea is a massive red blistering mark and then a huge scab.He looks like a dot to dot puzzle!

I have shampooed my carpets, de fleaed my cats , hoovered from top to bottom regularly and unfortunately we are decorating so floorboards exposed so this is probably causing a problem. Anyway, i know i had some amazing stuff before that you spray on carpets and it kills everything for months after(it was great , found dead spiders on the floor for ages which never usually happens.) I have forgotten the name but if anyone has had a similar problem and found a good house flea killer that they could recommed it would be great.

Best answers:

• Your best bet would be to get something from a vet - most supermarket products are ineffective.
  We use Acclaim.
• Thanks. How do bob martin products kill your cat? I hought that they were pretty rubbish products and i used frontline but it makes one of my cats quite ill.
• I recommend getting the council to do it. They use a water based spray and it is very effective, even kills fleas on the cat too. It' s quick and easy and there is no fumes. Once is enough and it lasts a very long time, much longer than any flea spray. I think the council may charge a fee, but it's worth it.
• boots have acclaim flea spray for Ј12.99. mine has lasted a year....very good stuff as i have 2 cats and 2 dogs
• I would use RIP Fleas, Acclaim or Skoosh - ask your vet - we spend a lot of time killing fleas!!
• I have used Accliam for years. One can lasts a year and does my house twice. I do it on return from holiday after the house has been shut up for a while and the fleas are hungry! Very quick and easy. I didn't realise the formula has changed.
• Indorex works nicely in the same way Arsenal play football. Works well but wouldn't be my choice as #1. Staykill is a bit sticky and seems to leave a residue, RIP Fleas smells the nicest and comes in a big can. The market has shrunk a lot as the EU has banned certain products on safety grounds (like Nuvan Top) and other products have been reformulated. The one I use at the surgery is RIP Fleas Extra.
  The biggest secret to success is to be thorough. Vacuum everywhere first, wash any bedding that is washable, then make sure you spray in all the cracks and crevices that often get missed.
• Just a warning that RIP Fleas is RUBBISH do not bother using it at all. We've been tackling a flea infestation for years now, tried Frontline on the cats and RIP on the carpets, neither did a thing. Frontline is another BIG waste of time. Advocate on the other hand has proven far more successful so we have switched to that and are now switching the flea spray too. Not sure what to switch it to though. Thinking this 'Acclaim' might work. Any advice?
  I'm honestly at my wits end with this- the fleas seem to be resistant to everything. I've got laminate wood flooring and mopped it and flea sprayed it and still, fleas everywhere. I've been using these products thinking there was just some user error (maybe I wasn't thorough enough etc.) before resolving to stop beating myself up and get something else. It's just so expensive though to keep buying these useless things only to have to throw them away and buy a different thing. Thinking of getting the council in for this one now. Nightmare.
  ** Oh yeah, just to explain with the RIP fleas, we treated most rooms in the house, save one or two, one of which was the kitchen (I know, should have done all the rooms but it wasn't possible) and whilst RIP fleas states it will treat a problem for up to 1 year, the cat re-entered one of the treated rooms and must have dropped some fleas there. A few days later, we went in there to check and were literally crawling in fleas it was horrendous. I know the cat had fleas at the time, but the claim that this thing kills fleas for up to a year I would have expected they should have died after jumping off the cat onto the floor. However, they seem to have multiplied in their millions and have now infested that room. This was an EMPTY room as well, so only flooring and flea spray in there- it wasn't like they were living in something like a sofa). I sprayed it again with what was left in the can, but don't expect anything of it. So yeah, that is one of the reasons I say it doesn't work. The other being we treated our last flat with it and treated the cat as well with a spot on and there was still fleas all the time. Someone correct me if I'm doing something wrong lol!**
• I recommend fiprospot for killing fleas on your pet, I used this the last time my cats & dogs had fleas (5 cats + 2 dogs ) as u can imagine if 1 gets fleas they all have to be treated, its also cheaper then frontline and very effective, i bought it from petmeds online.
• as long as the flea spray has IGR as an active ingredient johnsons is a good on i have used it and havent seen any since, it should kill the flea's in the home not spray on the pet!!!. allot of people only treat the pets beds their beds and carpets, but fleas will haunt any crack and crevis, so if you have laminate flooring, odds on larvea is being pupulated inbtween the cracks where all dead skin and furr has collected and inbetween the skirting boards.
  another tip if you have carpets, get a dog flea collar, place in the hoover bag or the cyclone bin, any sucked up will be killed in the hoover with the precence of the collar,
• I use Acclaim in the house and Advantage on the cats and dogs, both bought online as you no longer need a prescription for Advantage. I gave up with Frontline as it has seemed less and less effective over the last couple of years.
  I got mine from G W Titmuss, with cashback from TCB.
  Bob Martin stuff should have been withdrawn following so much bad publicity. I wouldn't risk it on my furbabies.
• Slight hi-jack here, forgive me. Has anyone ever tried those flea-attractor sticky disk contraptions???? I used to see them in various catalogues and still wonder if they work at all. It was basically a small heating (I think it lit up, too) type element on a little base, that warmed up and had a round sticky cardboard disk on top, which the fleas were supposed to be drawn to, they'd hop on it and get stuck...??? I know, even typing it up is seems unlikely, but just thought I'd ask!
• oh your poor kitty hope he is feeling better now , we bought 3 of the flea catchers and put them in bedrooms after using flea treatments and we found they worked great only problem we had was if they got moved even slightly it would blow the bulb