Got a bloomin wasps nest in the back of the house. They're getting in under the vertical tiles on the rear face of the house. Being a timber
framed house the cavities are empty and I can imagine the little buggers have got up into the loft too.
Hence I'm terried to go in the loft too! 
So, do I attempt to vanquish them myself or get someone in at £30-£40 (I'd guess)???
I really need to hang out some washing but they're going mental at the moment and I'm scared to go in the back garden!!! lol!
Look on the bright side they're carnivorous and eat lots of pests.
Get someone in to eradicate them. You wouldnt want them to come after you as a swarm!
You can get a spray that you spray into the nest worked for me but make sure you've got your running shoes in when you spray it.
I had a nest in my loft last year - chickened out, called the local council, who linked us up with a local exterminator. Cost roughly £30 - £40, as
you said.
I hugely dislike wasps, so I was more than happy to have someone else do it!
I also had a small nest in my shed, but there I could fling open the door, stand back a few yards, and blast the nest with a long-range spray.
get a big stick and stir the nest, that will be fun 
seriously though, you can get aerosols and things, which can be sprayed onto them but for the love of god do it at night, they are much less agressive
then, also do it now, because in the later months they stop killing insects for thier larvae and start getting pi$$ed on fermented apples and things,
a drunk wasp is a proper angry wasp!
Al
The sadly pathetic thing is that last year an elderly female neighbour of mine climbed up a ladder wearing a carrier bag (with eye holes!) on her head
and on each hand, and blasted her one!
Whilst I'm too chicken!
I'm not sure I can get to it with a can of spray as it's up under the tiles. Be damn hard to get my spray to hit the nest!
I'm also concerned that whilst fighting the voracious hordes I'll fall off the ladder!
Cheers,
James
theres a foam spray you can get, its got a good 7ft range on the spray, means you can take aim from a good distance, cover the nest in foam before they even think about coming out, and it kills them all inside. you can then go at the nest with a hoover. think the spray is about £10 (or it was 2 years ago) its good stuff
Get a friend over, the peer pressure will make you erradicate them yourself!!! Worked for me, although they were in a shed, half diesel, half petrol
mix, couple of matches, few stings, job done.
The above method for you would be useless as its in your house. So get the spray out!
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The above method for you would be useless as its in your house. So get the spray out!
it definitely works lol in my agricultural experience, badgers love wasp nests as they find the larvae tasty, alls you need to do is get a badger up there!!
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Get a friend over, the peer pressure will make you erradicate them yourself!!!
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Originally posted by Jasongray5
Get a friend over, the peer pressure will make you erradicate them yourself!!!
And it works better if that friend is female
Are you really a Soft Southern Jessie!
We had one in the roof cavity a couple of years ago. I just went up the ladder with a can of wasp killer stuff and squirted it in. They didn't
seem to mind too much and were gone the next day.
It was a hot day so my PPE extended to shorts and T shirt!
Stu
What you need is an assistant, with a can of deoderant and a lighter to fight off/distract the more aggressive ones, while you fill their home with the spray?
you wimp,they are only small.
get a rolled up newspaper and swat them like a man
on second thoughts,get the pro,s in,stings can be deadly
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i had one in the shed once.
blocked up the hole they was getting in through then threw a brick at the nest and shut the door.
3 days later no more wasps.
I live out in the sticks and we get many wasp and hornet nests every year. I have already done 3 this year. - one in a horse rug, one in an old
tractor tyre and one above a bedroom window. Get a can of wasp net destroyer and spray into the the gap in the tiles where they are going in/out. I
use Raid wasp nest destroyer which claims to produce a 20ft jet and kills wasps on contact.
Do it late evening when they are all safe in their nest and won't bother you although I did one the other night and a wasp shot straight out at
me! Even if it doesn't contact the nest it kills them in a couple of days as they have to pass through the 'poison' and they carry it
into nest killing the larvae and others in the nest. It might take a couple of goes if they are using more than one entry/exit.
unless you react badly to stings, then there is no reason to whimp out, what an itsy bitsly ickle wasp gonna do?
what about using antkiller - the stuff that comes in a tube that they eat and pass on the theothers?
kills ants and wasps are in the same family so worth a shot.
place a pint of lager in your garden next to the ant killer stuff on a plate, I mean, you wouldn't want to waste good beer.
<jumpers for goal posts>
We used to make a wasp trap as kids.
Jam jar 3/4 full of sugar+honey+water mix, bit of tin foil fixed over the top with an elastic band and a pencil hole n the foil.
Leave it at the end of the garden and a few days later and it would be full of wasp bodies.
</jumpers>
I believe there's another "James" that posts on here.
He's a real tough cookie, fights in some sort of boxing sport or other.
He's well hard. He'll sort 'em out.
Paul G
You can get wasp killer as a squirty powder. If you can see where they are going in, load that area with powder and they track it into the nest.
Yes, ONE sting is nothing but 100? 200 ?
Would spoil your entire day
my advise, just like the 'whats this thing in the groud' thread.............
hit it with a hammer
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<jumpers for goal posts>
We used to make a wasp trap as kids.
Jam jar 3/4 full of sugar+honey+water mix, bit of tin foil fixed over the top with an elastic band and a pencil hole n the foil.
Leave it at the end of the garden and a few days later and it would be full of wasp bodies.
</jumpers>
wasp
If she's coming round I'll help you. Get me a garden hose and I'll suck them out through it, that should impress anyone.
Get some vinegar ready for if you get stung, it takes the pain out of them as they are caustic.
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Get some benefit from your council tax and call the local council. They should have an exterminator on the books or know of someone with appropriate skills to collect & dispose of the critters.
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Originally posted by Peteff
If she's coming round I'll help you. Get me a garden hose and I'll suck them out through it, that should impress anyone.
Get some vinegar ready for if you get stung, it takes the pain out of them as they are caustic.
[Edited on 24/6/09 by Peteff]
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Originally posted by iank
<jumpers for goal posts>
We used to make a wasp trap as kids.
Jam jar 3/4 full of sugar+honey+water mix, bit of tin foil fixed over the top with an elastic band and a pencil hole n the foil.
Leave it at the end of the garden and a few days later and it would be full of wasp bodies.
</jumpers>
dont do this as it can trap honey bee's which are already in very low numbers