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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I had a tenant midnight move on me and leave a place totally gross. All the drains had flies.
We made apple cider vinegar traps that worked well. Basically just apple cider vinegar in a bowl with some dish soap. Then cover with plastic wrap and poke holes. They can get in but not out, and when they touch the vinegar the soap means they drown.
Combine that with constantly cleaning the drains and you should get them. I'd do baking soda/white vinegar treatments on each drain, then boiling water every day.
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TL;DR - call a pest control pro.
I did all the DIY stuff listed here.
Apple cider vinegar traps are satisfying as the body count piles up... but you never get ahead. Used them for like a year.
Boiling water didn't do anything. I assumed they were coming out of the overflow drains as well which was more difficult to hit, and after you splash yourself with boiling water a couple times, you get tired of it.
Zapper traps - similarly satisfying, but don't get you ahead of the problem.
Covered some drains, never seemed to make any difference. Would have them flying around in rooms with drains that were covered.
Eventually I called a cousin who works for a pest control company, and they came out and sprayed some stuff that required us to be out of the house for a couple hours.
Haven't had a problem since. Cost a couple hundred bucks. Worth it IMO. If I ever have a problem again (outside of the first year which is under "warantee") I'm just calling and getting it handled.