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ants in my dishwasher...

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mommy2be716
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ants in my dishwasher...

Dh sprayed all around the outside perimeter of the kitchen, including where the dishwasher connects to the outside. Everytime i open the diswasher, i see ants all inside of it. How do we get rid of them???

edited because i wrote aunts instead of ants LOL. I'm very distraught over this and can't spell apparently

Message edited 8/15/2017 9:34:37 PM.

Posted 8/15/17 9:30 PM
 
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PhyllisNJoe
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Re: ants in my dishwasher...

I had this problem and it was more than DH could handle.
It was my dishwasher and the cabinet next to it

I now have terminix. When they inspected the house - there were thousands of them in the basement under the floorboards along the perimeter of the house. Especially under the kitchen where I was seeing them.

They come every 2 months. It took a few weeks to fully kick in and now I can't live without the service lol. I never want to go back to those days of ants all the time.

I feel your pain. I wish I had a magic answer but exterminator was the only thing that worked long term. I used to use the Terri traps. Which "seemed" to help here and there but in the end - I had to call for help

Posted 8/15/17 9:55 PM
 

NYCGirl80
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Re: ants in my dishwasher...

I'd get an exterminator. Ants are VERY tricky to get rid of.

Posted 8/18/17 2:39 PM
 

hidingin1516
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ants in my dishwasher...

they like water so that will be hard to get rid of without professionals I think. Just had my guy here b/c we are seeing them randomly in the house.

Posted 8/22/17 9:41 AM
 

SLPRunner
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ants in my dishwasher...

Just call an exterminator. We had the worst ant problem this year. I thought we'd come back from vacation with our house over run by ants! I also had them in the dishwasher. But turns out there were two huge ant hills right outside my house, behind the dishwasher, and that's where they were coming from. Took a few days after the guy sprayed to really work. I've had call him about once a month since.

Posted 8/29/17 7:34 AM
 

mommy2be716
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Re: ants in my dishwasher...

Posted by SLPRunner

Just call an exterminator. We had the worst ant problem this year. I thought we'd come back from vacation with our house over run by ants! I also had them in the dishwasher. But turns out there were two huge ant hills right outside my house, behind the dishwasher, and that's where they were coming from. Took a few days after the guy sprayed to really work. I've had call him about once a month since.



who did you use? and how expensive was it if you don't mind me asking

Posted 8/29/17 8:57 AM
 

SLPRunner
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Re: ants in my dishwasher...

Posted by mommy2be716

Posted by SLPRunner

Just call an exterminator. We had the worst ant problem this year. I thought we'd come back from vacation with our house over run by ants! I also had them in the dishwasher. But turns out there were two huge ant hills right outside my house, behind the dishwasher, and that's where they were coming from. Took a few days after the guy sprayed to really work. I've had call him about once a month since.



who did you use? and how expensive was it if you don't mind me asking



He's local to Merrick area. His name is Brian Schloss. I believe it was 100 for the initial visit and 35 for each additional call. I called him back a bunch of times and he didn't charge me 2x when the calls were close together and it took him a few tries to get rid of the problem. Even came at 6am once before we left for work.

Posted 8/29/17 9:23 AM
 
 

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