sulphur candles

I hope I'm not getting a reputation as someone who asks all the stupid questions, but I'm new to this chicken business, and if you want to learn you got to ask someone who knows more than you, right?

Had The Sun newspaper today and there was this article which recommended fumigating your greenhouses and such with a sulphur candle.  These candles are left for a few hours to smoke away, and because the smoke can get into all the cracks and gaps, it kills all the insects and their eggs.

Was wondering if this sort of thing would be suitable for coops?  obviously while the chickens were out and about in the garden.  Just sounds as if the smoke would find all the little cracks that are easily missed with a regular clean.

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I use one occasionally in a wooden coop I built myself.
After first making sure the chickens are nowhere near the coop, I set the candle (It comes in a tin) on a brick in the centre of the coop alight and give it a half-hour or so.
It can be quite alarming if you've never used one before as it produces prodigious amounts of smoke, but after extinguishing the candle and letting it cool before removal, (without taking a single breath of the stuff), I prop open the coop door and let it air the whole day before re-introducing the hens.
Works for me, and the girls seem unaffected.
Fair warning though, the smoke is what does the killing, and it doesn't care what it kills, so extreme caution is advised. paper masks and the like are simply no good at all...