Ortho Home Defense MAX Insect Killer for Indoor & Perimeter1 with Comfort Wand - Kills Ants, Cockroaches, Spiders, Fleas, Ticks & Other Listed Bugs, Creates a Bug Barrier, 1.1 gal.

I sprayed this inside and outside last spring and it did make a notable difference vs before. Way less spiders inside the house, and when I do find something it’s already dead. It does smell a bit when just applied but it goes away after a little while and did not smell nearly as bad as other brands. It didn’t do much for the porch since a few spiders did make their homes on the corners all summer but it does rain some here and I would expect the outside needs reapplying much more often.As for the effectiveness of the automatic spray wand I was so happy when I first received it because it made the application fast, seamless, effortless, it was spraying the product pretty evenly and that made for no puddles like I see when I use the manual sprayer. That said, when I reached for it to spray a section outside that I had left for later, just after three weeks of using it for the first time, the sprayer no longer worked, for the money I paid just because of the automatic wand it is not worth it in my opinion, I ended up having to pour from this big bottle into the almost empty manual one I had… I did try to rinse/clean the nozzle and even change batteries but nothing got it working again.Also worth mentioning it came in just a plain box with no bubble wrap or any warning that a liquid pesticide was inside, box was leaking and bottle was about 1/3 less full.

Dealt with a flea infestation in my backyard, the parameters of my mobile home, and every little nook they could hide or burrow in throughout the insulation. They hid up in the ceiling window screens.They hid in every bit of fabric I had in the house too, so I had to gather it all in air tight Tupperware containers and wash + high heat dry it for weeks. The positive benefit that came out of this is my clothing storage is much more organized into clear bins!My two cats brought in the little buggers. They of course had to be treated as well.But this stuff. This stuff.After weeding, spreading diatomaceous earth all around my backyard and around the home, spreading baking soda & salt everywhere indoors & out, after spraying clove bud and other dilute essential oils all around for just a couple hours of protective effects. After spreading upholstery flea powder around the home with only so so results, mainly from the combo of vacuuming it some time after brushing it in.Black flag was potent, & did reasonably well with the first round of fleas but noticed was coughing a lot during it's application and broke out in hives from it later. Also the fleas seemed to return after a week or two.But this Ortho home defense.I sprayed it around the edges of the parameters outdoors, indoors in all the cracks and corners, and yes try to get even the heater vents if you can as the buggers hide in there! The edges of windows/sills where they may jump in, the bottoms of doors. The corners of stairs. Behind large appliances.Then make sure to keep the treated areas cleared of human or pet foot traffic for a good portion of the day until it safely dries. That way can avoid the initial freakouts of the fleas jumping onto you or pets for non-sprayed hiding places as they die off, too.After doing this, finally the fleas are no more.Occasionally very small ones will drift over from neighboring yards, but the spray in combo with flea treating pets and upholstery appears to prevent them from growing into the big biting jerks that I'm allergic to, and prevents them from multiplying like mad as per their usual.Finally a lot less itching.

Good value

Every single day there is a large bug on one of my bedroom walls. It's about four times longer than it is wide and every day there's one of them just sitting randomly on one of my walls. Every day I wrap it up in a napkin and flush it down the toilet and every day another one takes its place in a random spot on a random wall. There's never more than one present at a time, and I have no idea where they're coming from. I drew the line two nights ago when I sat up to plug in a charger and found a massive spider literally in the process of building a web from my bed to the wall. I went to smack it but the movement of the mattress broke the web and it fell between the bed and the wall and disappeared. I grabbed my cat and my charger and we both slept on the living room couch for the last two nights.I just received this about two hours ago, and after making sure my cat was not present I applied this to the perimeter of the room as directed. All of a sudden out of nowhere that same spider appeared and crawled right across my bed, where it was promptly snatched up with a napkin and flushed down the toilet.The spray is definitely not odorless, but the odor it does have isn't offensive at all. I'm not sure if the odor will dissipate once it dries or not but if it doesn't I honestly wouldn't mind. So far so good though, I'll update my review later on with more information once I get an idea of how effective this stuff is.Edit: Not a bug in sight and it's been about a month now. I definitely recommend this. I watched a carpenter ant I'd accidentally brought in on my pant leg crawl across the carpet and randomly die when it reached the perimeter that had been treated an entire month ago. I'm not sure how it's doing it, but it's definitely working.Update:Four months later and I think its effect is dying out. Over the last four months I've seen and killed only three bugs in my bedroom whereas I used to find at least one a day before using this. A week ago a fly found its way into my room and promptly died on my windowsill, so it's still working strong there. However in my bathroom I've been noticing spiders appearing in the corners quite a bit recently. It could be due to the cleaners used in that room, bleach etc, wiping away the repellant. I'll be reapplying it to my bathroom tonight but overall I am extremely satisfied with this product.

Must have at my house, anything Ortho works amazing and I dont have to re-apply it every month it actually last at the least 4-5 months before I re apply it. Works great and dont have hardly any insects coming in other than the lady bugs, but this spray also helps with those if you get the right areas. All in all, great product!!