Re: Maybe you have springtails instead of mites

This makes sense.

Our house is built on a sloping site. It has timber floors with concrete stumps. Underneath the house along the whole area of the kitchen and bathroom, the soil is as close as under a metre from the floor boards and the soil is constantly moist. The house is on high stilts at the front and low stumps at the back where the bathroom and kitchen is.

The soil under the house is full of moisture as it is like a rich chocolate cake. After it rains there is run-off from my neighbour at the back for weeks.

I think I need to have this dug out, right out. I think I also need to buy a dehumidifier. I had one years ago that did a whole top floor of a flat. They are about $600 and suck out about a litre of water a day.

Then I need to pull apart my bathroom which is old, very old and holds moisture.

I know I did not get my parasite here. I know I got it from a verandah of a person I visited in a house that was exposed to the elements and birds and dogs.

But I guess the parasite I started with from somewhere else could have moved into my house on me and then flourished in my house.

Gathered in my timber floorboards or the bathroom.

The other possibility is that I could have got one parasite or springtails at the house I visited and then attracted Springtails to me from underneath my house. I know skin parasites attract each other to the host.

I do know I had jumping all over my legs daily when I sat at my table near the kitchen for about a year in the middle of my infestation time of four years.

I am going to get out the sledge hammer this weekend and bash the surrounds off my old bathtub to pieces and spray.

Then I am going to start on the walls, it needs renovating anyway and I would rather have a bathroom with no walls than the fear these things are in the walls.

My husband can start digging out the soil from under the house. Digging out all the dirt to make a bigger space between the soil and the floor.

I am fkg sick of this s## and I am going to fix it. I dont care how many dollars it takes.

After I post this I will be looking for dehumidifiers online.

Thank you Stillbattling. You're a gem.

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