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Some of the commonest bugs we encounter indoors anywhere in the world are flies, spiders, fleas and beetles. Nobody likes to have insects indoors, so most people will go to almost any lengths to eradicate these common indoor bugs. The less common indoor bugs may be woodlice, earwigs, scorpions and millipedes or centipedes, although they are not less unwelcome.

No matter where you are in the world, it is very difficult to keep these common indoor bugs outside, unless you go to the extremes of keeping all your windows and doors closed all of the time, which is obviously impossible. I now live in Thailand and I know for sure that this is not possible.

So, just what can you do about it? Well, let’s sort out all the flying insects first, because of all the common indoor bugs, I think they are the most obnoxious indoor bug. They are very irritating, buzzing around your head and mosquitoes and other flies can create painful sores and besides that, all flies carry disease. I hate to see them walking on food, knowing that they have probably just come off some dung heap somewhere and now they are spitting on my food in order to taste it with their grubby feet!

My first line of defence is fine-mesh door and widow screens. They are not dear and can be fitted retrospectively to any window. My window meshes slide, so they will cover only one half of the window at a time, but I do not think that’s a problem. You can still create cross-winds, by opening two or more windows at opposing sides of a room. I just love to see the flies on the mesh trying to get in by day and the mosquitoes doing the same by night. At night, it is wise to burn as little light indoors as possible in order not to draw these common indoor bugs.

My second line of defence is natural predators - lizards, like Geckos (Jin Jok, in Thai). Some people don’t like them in the house either. I can’t say I’m all that keen on them indoors myself, but they are hard to keep out and they do consume hundreds, if not thousands, of indoor bugs every day. I like to see them lying in wait on the outside of the mesh, ready to pounce on any bug trying to wriggle its way through the wires.

My third line of defence is a handheld bug zapper. You know, the electric, handheld bug zapper that looks like a child’s tennis racquet. The come in two forms: battery and rechargeable kinds. They are brilliant at catching and annihilating any flying bug. The inset literally explodes and vaporizes on contact with the fully-charged wires of the indoor bug zapper. If you haven’t tried using one, you really should. They are most gratifying. These three defences will keep your house quite much free of flies.

The crawling common indoor bugs are less of a problem really. Door screens on springs will keep 95% of them out and the Geckos will help too. Spiders can get in pretty easily, but then, I don’t mind them too much as long as they keep out of my way, as they consume other insects too. They are on our side to be honest. However, for those who can not bear to catch them and throw them outside, the handheld indoor bug zapper works well on spiders too.

Fleas can sometimes be a problem, if you keep cats or dogs, but then if you wash or dust the animal once a month, you should be able to keep these common indoor bugs under control fairly easily. However, there are two final measures that we employ. Once a week, before we go out for the day, we spray every room with fly killer and every six-months we spray any rugs or carpets with a bug killer containing permethrin, which will survive washing and vacuuming for that long without losing its ability to kill common indoor bugs on contact. If you stick with these methods, you should be able to keep your home or office quite free of the most common indoor bugs and the less common indoor bug as well.

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I don’t know whether you have ever used a handheld, indoor bug zapper, but I think that they are marvelous. I?m talking about the handheld type that looks like a child’s plastic, toy tennis racquet. They come in two basic kinds. I prefer the rechargeable bug zapper, because batteries end up up costing more than the indoor bug zapper itself, although you could always buy rechargeable batteries, but then they are dear as well.

My wife and I like to pass time in the garden. We meet friends there, lunch there and generally loaf about outdoors, as do most folks around here, when they are not working. What’s more, it’s much cooler outdoors than indoors. A comfy chair, a few snacks, a cool drink and a book or a friend and life does not get much better. In fact, it?s heavenly.

That is until about six or seven o’clock when the first squadron of mosquitoes have judged that the sun’s rays have lost enough strength that they will not evaporate and they come out searching for blood. Some evenings are worse than others, of course. More often than not, the mosquitoes are pretty bearable, particularly given that I have discovered the indoor bug zapper. (I don’t know why it is referred to as an ‘indoor bug zapper’, it is just as useful outdoors as in)..

It’s not that I want to kill things, but I find it hard to have sympathy for mosquitoes. Nonetheless, I do get a certain amount of enjoyment from seeing and hearing mosquitoes and other bugs literally explode with a flash and a spark as they come into connection with the electric and earth wires of the indoor bug zapper. These electric bug zappers are capable of packing quite a charge, especially if the batteries are new or the pack is fully charged.

The other day, I found a new use for my handheld, indoor bug zapper. I’ll tell you how it came about. I was in the garden, as normal, and my bug zapper was close at hand as the first squadron of mosquitoes was expected. I had my book in one hand and the bug zapper on my knees, when my wife asked me to go to the store for her. No problem, therefore, I set off on the five minute walk.

I was half-way there when I noticed that I had the indoor bug zapper in my hand, but it was not worth taking it home and beginning the trip again. Anyway, on my return trip, I had my small bag of provisions in one hand and the indoor bug zapper in the other, when a local bully of a dog came running out of a garden straight for me. This has occurred often and, although he has never bitten me yet, it is somewhat menacing. He stood there glaring at me with teeth bared and his ‘pack’ of miscellaneous local pals came out to encircle me and join in.

I don’t actually know what the best course of action is in this situation. I have tried holding my ground, but the intimidation just continues and I have tried to continue walking, but he gets worryingly close sometimes. This time, I suddenly lashed out with the indoor bug zapper and just hit him on the snout. Well, I’m not sure whether it hurt him, it did not appear to too much, but it gave him a very nasty shock in more ways than one, I can tell you! He leapt about four feet into the air as if he were on a pogo stick and then fled for all he was worth with all his friends behind him. It was very gratifying after six months of persecution from this dog.

Anyway, I don’t take my indoor bug zapper everywhere with me, but I will in future, if any further local dogs bother me. I know it works a treat. I have seen that one since, but he stays far away from me and doesn’t utter a squeak. I think I would take my indoor bug zapper with me, if I were wandering in an strange part of town or the park nevertheless.

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The electric bug killer is the best way of clearing the space around you of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The electric insect killer evaporates any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantaneously on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘crack’!

However, this is not to say that the electric insect killer cannot be used outdoors, so long as it is not raining. It should be handled just like any other high voltage electrical item. Keep the electric insect killer dry and please do not use it when you are standing in water!

Models do vary a lot, but there are basically only two kinds of hand held insect zapper: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric insect zapper. Both models are equally effective at killing bugs and work on the same principle.

The indoor bug zapper looks like a ‘kids’ tennis racket, but with three sets of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central grid of wires becomes live at the touch of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are only earths.

When a bug is trapped between the wires of the electric bug zapper, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The electric insect killer will kill other insects too, but they tend to fry rather than explode.

I have been using the rechargeable sort for five years and am extremely satisfied with the electric bug killer. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged hand held bug zapper is powerful enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, if unused, for weeks without any appreciable discharge.

The battery recharge unit will take intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for a few weeks gradually diminishes after six or seven months.

The most recent indoor insect killer I’ve used has a main on/off switch, an LED that comes on when it is activated (the brightness of this light also indicates the battery’s strength) and an LED that comes on when the zapper is on recharge.

The instructions suggest that the bug zapper should be (re)charged for about sixteen hours. However, I usually put mine on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the electric insect zapper shows a large increase in performance with only a few hours recharging.

The latest model I’ve seen also comes with a powerful light called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when walking in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s supposed to lure the mosquitoes in the dark so that you can zap them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive. You know, a bit like an Anglerfish.

I’ve used the headlamp on my hand held insect killer for that too, but the light uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug zapper is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held insect killer is useful to ‘clean out’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unequalled for evening mosquitoes and it will clear a lunch table of wasps as well.

Have you ever heard of an indoor bug zapper? If not, or if you want to get an electronic insect killer, just click one of the hyperlinks to our website or blog.

If you aren’t already familiar with the electric bug killer, you are really going to like it and if you have used one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old pal! The electric insect killer does just what it says: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.

Any insect that comes into contact with the electronic insect zapper is fried. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.

How many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise enjoyable evening in the garden? Or how many times have you not been able to get a decent night’s sleep, because you know there’s at least one mosquito in the bedroom. It has happened to me hundreds of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get your own back with the hand held insect killer.

I don’t like killing anything unnecessarily - I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the handheld insect killer does it without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electric insect zapper and the mosie’s gone and you can hear whether you got her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females - I assure you, I wasn’t being sexist).

Basically, there are two kinds of electronic bug killer. There is the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both operate on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable type, although I suppose you could use rechargeable batteries too. However, I think that they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place. Anyway, I have had a electric bug zapper of the rechargeable sort for five years and I am ecstatic about them.

These days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that my electric bug killer gets a good work-out practically every evening. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the rural areas, where we live, so it comes in real handy. I also use my hand held bug zapper to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.

The handheld insect zapper just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I had four or five years ago, sometimes failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.

However, the new handheld insect killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest model even has a powerful light called a headlamp incorporated into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you feel that vengeance is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then zap them with your electronic insect killer.

Have you ever heard of a handheld bug zapper? If not, or if you want to get a handheld bug zapper, just click one of the links to our website or blog.

It appears that there has been a decline in consumer confidence in the building and construction industry of late. This may be because of the scams highlighted on television or the bribery and corruption endemic in the corporate sector, but it is almost certainly the same motivation why so many are now carrying out home improvements by themselves.

And why shouldn’t they? A little knowledge of the technical aspects combined with an eye for creativity is often enough to complete the home improvement on your own.

Why are people turning to DIY home improvements?

There are many people attempting to pass themselves off as construction workers, although they do not have a lot of experience in construction or home maintenance and they are literally are out there right now practising, learning their trades on homes like yours and mine around the country.

Not surprisingly, homeowners are finding that the jobs are not being completed to their liking. Sometimes they are even pre-paying for services that do not get done or were not part of the plan.

You do not have to rely on and pay someone to improve your home. Why not try to do it yourself?

You can enhance your home?s existing concrete surfaces using acid stains, acrylic paints, epoxy paints, and scoring techniques.

If you are tired of looking at drab gray concrete, there are some easy projects if you are sincere about having a go at home improvement DIY, you can easily give your patio, driveway or garage a revitalizing new look.

Attractive concrete work costs about double that of standard concrete, which is why many people cannot afford it.

However, there are inexpensive methods to beautify concrete after it has cured, without having to pay skilled tradesmen.

Acid-based concrete stains are becoming more and more fashionable for coloring concrete surfaces. They chemically react with the cement to generate permanent color with a variegated or mottled appearance similar to that of marble. This results in a natural, stylish looking surface.

Water-based concrete stains are an alternative to acid stains but are much more user friendly because they are so much less toxic. These stains do not chemically react with the concrete; they are absorbed into the porous surface and act like a colorant. The big advantage of water based stains is the wide range of colors on hand.

If you want to risk going beyond the basic staining of your concrete, consider using some scoring techniques to create patterns on the surface.

You could make your concrete resemble a tiled floor for example. It is just up to your imagination. A mini angle grinder with a 4 inch grinding wheel is the perfect device for this.

The key thing to bear in mind when scoring is to draw the pattern on the concrete first and make sure you are satisfied with the way it looks because scoring is irreversible.

Epoxy paints make an outstanding coating for garage floors and cellar floors. Many commercial floors have epoxy coatings because of their hardiness and resistance to chemical spills as well as their appearance.

In recent years, however, it has become very fashionable for residential use with the availability of an increasing quantity of different colors. This is not a tricky job, but the key to successful application is surface groundwork.

Epoxy paints have also become available in a water based form making it safe for the DIY’er and perfect for indoor jobs. They cost a little more than stains. For a 400 square foot area, you’ll spend about $200 for the materials required for this project.

You see? You do not have to spend big money to improve your home. You have the capacity to do it yourself. With some instructions and a little bit of work, anyone can turn dull concrete into a masterpiece of their own.

Owen Jones, the author of this article writes on several subjects, but is currently involved with Flowtron Bug Zapper devices. If you would like to know more, please go to our website at Indoor Bug Zapper

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