Baking soda
I second what everyone else said.
1. It's corrosive,
2. It can damage plastic and metal
It is also a very effective deoderizer.
We get a lot of calls in our housing department regarding apartments and bed bugs/fleas etc. Baking soda along with it's cousin Borax is very effective in flea control in carpeting. They dehydrate the critters and they die. Somewhat effective with bedbugs as well.
Though I am drifting, want to add the best flea/bedbug control, vacuuming. Vacuuming often reduced the population, as well as leads to the little buggers demise through dehydration from the strong air flow and losening of their cuitical layer.
It is recommended that you dispose of the bag after each session of critter removal. I can see a Rainbow very helpful, but the people in Section 8 housing probably won't have access to a $2,000 vacuum .
