The common indoor bugs we see anywhere in the world are flies, spiders, fleas and beetles. No-one likes to have insects indoors, so most people go to just about any extremes to eradicate these common indoor bugs. Less common indoor bugs may be woodlice, earwigs, scorpions and millipedes or centipedes, although they are no less unwelcome.

No matter where you are in the world, it can be very difficult to keep these common indoor bugs outside, unless you go to the extremes of keeping all your windows and doors closed at all times, which is obviously impossible. I live in Thailand and I know that this is not an option.

So, just what can you do about it? Well, let’s deal with all the flying bugs first, because of all the common indoor bugs, I think they are the most unpleasant indoor bug. They are very irritating, buzzing around your head and mosquitoes and other flies can produce painful sores and besides that, all flies carry disease. I cannot bear to see them strutting about on food, knowing that they have more than likely just come off some dog’s muck somewhere and now they are spitting on my food to taste it with their dirty feet!

My first line of defence is fine-mesh door and widow screens. They are not expensive and can be fitted retrospectively to any window. My window meshes slide, so they can cover only one half of a window at a time, but I do not think that’s a problem. You can still set up cross-winds, by opening two or more windows at opposite 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 attract these common indoor insects.

My second line of defence is natural predators – lizards, like Geckos (Jin Jok, in Thai). Some people don’t like them in the house much either and I can’t say that I’m all that keen on them indoors myself, but they are hard to keep outside and they do eat hundreds, if not thousands, of indoor bugs every day. I particularly 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. They are fantastic at trapping and destroying any flying indoor bug. The bug 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 keep our house pretty 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 fairly 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 a treat on spiders too.

Fleas can sometimes be a problem, if you have 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 use. Every 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 an insect 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 follow these methods, you should be able to keep your home or office quite free of the most common indoor bugs and any less common indoor bug too.

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If you aren’t already familiar with the hand held insect zapper, 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 friend! The handheld bug killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really effectively.

Any bug that comes into contact with the handheld bug killer is electrocuted. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are disintegrated with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.

Think about it, how many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise lovely 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 dozens and dozens of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get your revenge with the hand held insect killer.

I don’t like killing things without just cause – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the electronic insect killer does it without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one swish of the electric bug zapper and the mosie’s gone and you can hear whether you killed her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females – honest, I wasn’t being sexist).

There are two basic types of electronic bug killer. There’s the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both work on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable type, although I guess you could use rechargeable batteries too. (I bet they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place). Anyway, I have had a electric insect killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.

Nowadays, I spend a lot of time in Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my electronic bug zapper 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 handheld bug killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.

The hand held bug zapper seems to get better every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I bought four or five years ago, often failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge was less after four or five months.

However, the new handheld bug zapper will last 9-12 months and still be formidable 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 attract mosquitoes with it and then zap them with your electric bug zapper.

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It appears that there has been a wane in consumer trust in the building and construction industry of late. This may be because of the scams shown 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 doing 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.

As a result, homeowners are finding that the jobs are not being finished to their liking. At times they are even pre-paying for services that do not get done or were not part of the arrangement.

You do not have to trust and pay someone to enhance 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 popular for coloring concrete surfaces. They chemically react with the cement to produce permanent color with a variegated or mottled appearance like that of marble. This results in a natural, stylish looking exterior.

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 venture beyond the basic staining of your concrete, think about using some scoring techniques to create patterns on the surface.

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

The important 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 permanent.

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

In recent years, however, it has become very popular for residential use with the availability of an growing number of different colors. This is not a complicated job, but the key to successful application is surface preparation.

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 floor, you’ll spend about $200 for the materials required for this project.

So, 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 boring concrete into a work of art of their own.

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The electric bug killer is the best way of clearing the area around you of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The indoor insect zapper vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a pleasingly loud, electrical ‘crack’!

However, this is not to say that the indoor insect zapper cannot be operated outdoors, as long as it is not too wet. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the hand held bug zapper dry and please do not use it while you are standing in the pool!

Models vary greatly, but there are basically only two types of electric insect killer: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at killing bugs and employ the same principle.

The hand held bug killer looks like a ‘kids’ tennis racquet, but with three sets of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central grid of wires becomes live at the push of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are harmless earths.

When an insect is trapped between the wires of the hand held insect zapper, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantaneously with a loud crack. The electric bug zapper will kill other bugs too, but they tend to fry rather than just disappear.

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

The battery recharge pack 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 shines when it is live (the brightness of this light also gives an indication of the battery’s strength) and a light that comes on when the zapper is plugged in on recharge.

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

The latest model I’ve used also comes with a strong beam called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very handy when out in the garden, but I’m unsure whether it’s supposed to attract the flies in the dark so that you can kill them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive, rather like an Anglerfish.

I’ve used the headlamp on my hand held insect killer for that reason too, but the beam uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the electric insect zapper is a big asset to any outdoor event. The electric insect zapper is useful for ‘clearing’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unbeatable for killing evening mosquitoes and it will eradicate wasps at a lunch table as well.