Home and Garden Guide Online is on yet another quest to find out if the “water in a plastic bag – hung above an entry door,” really works.

We’re testing it out and we’d love to hear your feed back on whether this works and how effective you think it is so please make a comment.

The idea to test this theory came about as we ventured into another home project.

We are in the process of Installing a wood burning stove which requires many trips in and out of the house. Opening and shutting the doors…sometimes, LEAVING THE DOORS WIDE OPEN!

Although it IS November and SHOULD be cold…we are experiencing high temperatures in the high 70′s which mean that flying insects are in flight!

So I thought, what a great time to test this idea for repelling these pests.

This first post will cover what we learned while preparing for this test.

Hope you enjoy!

Questions:

* What kind and size of bag is the best to use?
* How much water is really needed to make this idea work?
* Where is the best place to position these bags?
* Does the effect just work on flies or any “flying pests?”
* What is the best method of hanging these bags?

First, we found out that even a good ziplock bag is NOT air and water tight.

We chose to use the expandable bottom type gallon size bags for our test. Bigger seemed better. We decided to fill the bags to a little below half full.

Then we decided to find out what this much water weighs. Can you believe that this bag weighed almost 4 lbs. !!

NOTE: Better be careful where you hang this! Who wants 4 lbs. of water hitting them in the head!

We positioned two bags, one on the upstairs entry and one on the downstairs entry doors. We decided for safety purposes to hang the bags to the extreme right of entry.

We decided to use standard thumbtacks to hang these bags and made sure they were fully inserted in the door trim also making sure that we caught the bags below the zipper portion of the bags which is the strongest point of support.

So with he bags installed, it’s time to test them out!

We’ll be back to let you know what we think. Meanwhile let us know if you’ve tried this and what your thoughts are. If you know first hand that this works and know how and why please let us all know.

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