Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

We have multiple indoor cats, and after years of no major issues, suddenly we had FLEAS, like jumping on you walking in the door fleas, and the cats were scratching themselves silly. Our cats go onto a screened in porch at will, but don't go out in the yard, and we'd never seen this happen. Still don't know what caused the explosion, all we wanted was to kill the fleas... If this happens to you, don't despair. THIS. STUFF. WORKS. Fleacide Battle Plan: 1. Vacuum the heck out of your house, and immediately remove vac bag or empty bagless bin to outside trash. Not only are you not going to vacuum for awhile after, but vacuuming before will remove some of the fleas. 2. Plan on doing your house in 2 sections, unless you have somewhere offsite to keep your animals for hours. 3. Remove all critters to a second area to be treated. We actually taped around the door, stuffed bags under the door, closed the A/C vent to that room and opened the windows to keep the stuff out of there. It may have been a bit much, but it made it us feel safer for them. To me, this stuff is one step below fogging and you would not do that with anything alive in the house. 4. Follow the spraying directions, ending with you at a door with your keys to leave the area for awhile. Make sure you get furniture surfaces and under it, and all hard floors and good on the baseboard cracks. I used gloves, an N95 mask and goggles to make sure it did not get inhaled or absorb in eyes. It says right on the can not to let humans or animals contact while wet. We waited a couple hours and when we returned, it was dry. No odor, not sticky anywhere. We went into the room where the cats were, treated all with Revolution (captive audience, lol), and turned them loose in the house. Then we did the last room and closed it up to dry with windows open and taped door/bags under. A couple more hours and it was done. Observations: 1. The can says it covers 2100 square feet. Well... maybe it does, and maybe we were heavy-handed on spraying, but we used 2 cans on about 1500 sq feet. Don't forget to count furniture surface sq ft. We did not want to have to do this twice. 2. We did have to do it twice. Not really, just the kitchen/dining area again, around the baseboard/cracks (hence the hard floor/baseboard warning above). Evidently we didn't get those areas hit hard enough on round 1. 3. Plan on this being an all day affair. Between prepping and spraying X2 and moving and treating animals and waiting, it was pretty much all day. Round 2 of the hard floor baseboards was much shorter, though. Although the can says you can vacuum after it's dry, we waited several days. We really wanted to make sure all fleas were dead. 4. Did it kill the fleas immediately? A lot of them! Guesstimating 75-80% that day, into the next day. The cats were much happier by the next day, as well. I would say within a few days, there was not a live flea to be seen anywhere, including on the cats. We knew we got the baseboards well when we found dead fleas on the tile by the baseboards, where they had come out from hiding and died. You may see the animals continue to scratch for awhile - even if the fleas are gone, the bites they have will itch for days... 5. Does it last? YES. We have not sprayed again, but have been keeping Revolution on the cats, and have not seen fleas in almost 7 months, nor any kitty scratching. They have been absolutely fine. In fact, the reason I came back to Amazon was to get the link for a friend of a family member, who is going through a flea explosion. I realized it has been almost 7 months... And ordered more! I don't ever want to worry about it again. Bottom line - if you have a fleafest going on, this works. Definitely plan to spend a good day into a weekend doing this, and plan to treat the animal(s) as well, with Revolution or your favorite flea treatment safe for them (not this!). Make sure you have enough to treat furniture and all floor surfaces and baseboards/cracks. Protect all living things from the spray and wet product and get those $%&*#) fleas!