With the unusually warm fall and winter this year, gnats have been an issue and I am sure I am not alone in dealing with them. I stumbled across a solution that really caught me off guard. I was building int he shop and had gnats and went about my business of applying finish and then turning out the lights and leaving the room totally dark. I turned on another light away from the rods turning in the lathe and left as I usually did. I came back the next day and everything was fine and I went about my business. I really didn't even give it a second thought. I was applying finish the next day and after applying the finish, I took a dish and poured in some denatured alcohol as I have done thousands of times before. This time, I had left the top off of the jug of alcohol and when I poured it into the dish, it was laden with dead gnats! After Christmas, the wife was taking down the decorations and it was unseasonably warm outside. Little did we know, but she brought another whole colony of gnats into the house that had taken up home in the garland on the porch. I put out a dish if DNA and sure enough, it was chock full the next day. I don't know if this is a freak thing that I have experienced here, but its certainly worth a try to rid your rod room of gnats!

Good luck.

Kevin

Take a used water or soda bottle, fill one third the way with fruit juice (I use cran-apple) and add a drop of dish soap. Leave it open and in the area of the problem. They will fly in to get a drink and with the meniscus broken by the soap they will drown.

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Super Tight Lines......Don

Living in south Georgia, I've dealt with the plaque that are gnats all my life.
Thanks for the tips.

Living in south Georgia, I've dealt with the plaque that are gnats all my life.
Thanks for the tips.

I don't have a gnat problem just a dog hair problem.
Will this work with dogs too? :D

Regards
Dave

Fishing is Life the rest is just Details

Dave Orr Wrote:
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> I don't have a gnat problem just a dog hair
> problem.
> Will this work with dogs too? :D


Buy a vacuum cleaner. And also place diverters on your air ducts to keep them from blowing hair into the air. And Also keep the dogs out of the shop!

In addition, once a week, open all of the windows in your shop after you have really vacuumed out the shop.
Then, bring in an electric leaf blower, and blow out every nook and corner of the shop and continue blowing until everything has been blown out the window.

It works even better if you can put 20 inch window fans near each window facing so that the moving air is directing the air out of doors.

Also, if you have dogs, frequently change the filter in your furnace, and when you change the filter, also use your shop vac - with a long slim Before and after using the vac, empty the vac and clean the vac filter, or replace the vac filter.

It is amazing how much "junk" can get blown out the window every week with an electric leaf blower.

Good luck
Roger