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  • Nenya wrote: »
    Do enlighten me about the uses of steamers, please (apart from moth eradication). I borrowed one from a friend once to see how I got on with it and all it seemed to do was make everything wet.

    Someone gave me one - at least it's a really small one - and I have yet to find a use (beyond starting cold diesel engines, which is perhaps more up your husbands street :) ).
  • I'm wondering if you might live in a climate sufficiently extreme (to hot OR cold) that you could bag the whole cat-tree and set it outside to freeze or bake. I suspect the size of the thing is a challenge.
  • It is pretty big @Lamb Chopped . I don't think I could get it out through our sliding glass door, though I might do a quick measure up and check, that's a great suggestion. Had I realised about heat I might have persuaded Cheery husband to help me get it outside during the last few days of heatwave, it would have been perfect out on the concrete patio!

    I will ponder further!!
  • It's a bit brutal, but I had a moth outbreak in the attic where I sleep. I resorted to a cylinder vacuum cleaner with a hose on it, and I sucked them up in flight. It took over a week's worth of once-per-evening hassle, but I got there...nothing else hatched, must have been a small outbreak.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    The female moths don't fly, they just live in undisturbed areas and lay tiny grubs which eat any natural fibre.

    We had to resort to chemicals. It took two treatments.

    I still miss the suede boots they ate!
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