Raid Flea Killer Carpet & Room Spray, Kills hatching eggs for up to 4 months, 16 Oz

It works quickly and leaves the house free of pests
This spray worked for me much better than I expected. I used it on carpets and in some areas where my pets spend time, and it really helped to eliminate fleas quickly. I also noticed fewer bugs in areas where they used to appear frequently.The smell is not as strong as other similar products and dissipates quickly, which is something I appreciate. I feel that it leaves the areas cleaner and more protected, and it gives me a lot of peace of mind to know that it works for both fleas and other insects.If you need an effective spray to keep the house free of pests, this is an excellent option. I did see results.

It worked on dust mites
This worked to kill a dust mite infestation. The coverage was nowhere near what the can said. I sprayed about 90% of an 8×5 low-pile carpet with a can and I needed a second can to do the remaining 10%. Maybe I went too slow but I really wanted to be sure. The smell is tolerable but it almost smells stuffy like mildew or rain or dew or something. It’s been one month since I sprayed and most of the smell is gone but I can still smell some fragrance on things that are left on the carpet.Full story:Sometimes I leave a TV remote, laptop, game controller, etc on this carpet. I noticed at the beginning of the summer that the bottom of anything I left on the carpet was getting covered in what I thought was specks of dust. I would routinely clean. One time a day after cleaning I lifted up the remote and the bottom was covered in tons of specks. Something didn’t seem right. I looked at the remote under a handheld microscope and holy sh__ the specks were mostly crawling mites. I freaked out! Their faces were super scary.So began my war on dust mites.I vacuumed everything in the house. I mean I literally spent all day with earplugs in vacuuming everything. I threw away the vacuum bag and filters and put in new ones. I coated the problem carpet in puffs of boric acid powder that I brushed into the carpet fibers. I figured, everything is vacuumed, dry and the boric acid should make it impossible for the mites to live in the carpet. Didn’t work.Then I figured, well, they must be spreading from the remotes and laptop right? So I tried lysol to saturate the carpet and every surface contacting it. Didn’t work.I used a handheld steamer and steamed the carpet leaving it wet. It was pretty messy and very slow. (I think I needed a special steamer that would put out dry steam.) Didn’t work.I used a hair dryer on the carpet to dry out from the previous day. Also very slow it took hours to really heat it up. I then used the hair dryer on the remotes and laptop. That last one big mistake, I melted some of the laptop keys into a curled up wavy state. Oops. And, agonizingly, didn’t work.At this point I started looking for professional kill formulas instead of any random thing I’d read on google. One thing I read was that dust mite eggs embed themselves deep in carpets past where vacuums can get them. Another thing I read was a patent US5843981A on dust mites with a special formula that killed them and compared its formula to other formulas with higher concentrations that didn’t work as well. Intriguing. The formula matched Raid Flea and Tick Killer Plus. (Note the non-Plus version looks almost exactly the same but doesn’t stop eggs so make sure to get the Plus version).A month later, I still see an occasional specks of dust on things I leave on the carpet. I check with the microscope and it’s actual dust or boric acid powder granules (which, coincidentally, look almost the same as specks of dust) but no mites.I’m sorry to tell you that from what I’ve read you can never fully get rid of dust mites they just live with us off our skin flakes. As long as they have a food source (and by that I mean us) they will always be around. Don’t look under the microscope or you will drive yourself insane.

It works!
Treated my house a couple times after our outdoor cat came home with fleas. Works in conjunction with other flea eradication methods. Has a somewhat pleasant smell but still a good idea to exit treated areas until all the fumes clear out.

Scent is VERY strong, lingers for days, not hours, be careful with pets!
I’ve used this in the summer when I found a random flea on my inside cat from the outside ferals. I am super sensitive to scents, HOWEVER after spraying my house at 8pm on a Monday, I could still smell the lingering fumes at 1 am on Wednesday morning, which seems excessive. My house is open concept so the scent will travel however I also sprayed my car and left the back windows open and 5 hours later I can still smell the fumes, so be careful!! Especially around your cats & birds!! Any review on here who says this has a pleasant scent is jive, it legit just smells like toxic fumes, I’m sure it’s SUPER healthy and safe to breathe in.

Waste of money

This product did not seem to work as well as it did 2 years ago when we used it. It is also extremely smelly/ toxic compared to other products which have proven more effective this time.