vjf1968
Poster Extraordinaire
Anybody out there have any experience in eradicating these pesky buggers. Anything in the DIY category or do I have to call an exterminator?
We gots bed bugs!!!
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Road King
Tele-Holic
Don't let them bite you while your asleep. And that's good advice straight from my Grandma. Every night she would say "night, night..don't let the bedbugs bite". These words have served me well.
Seriously I have no idea. Good luck.
Seriously I have no idea. Good luck.
Justinvs
Poster Extraordinaire
Never had true bed bugs, but when I lived in the bunkhouse I used to get pill bugs in the sheets. I'd just strip the bed, wash all the bedding, then bug bomb the place. If that didn't work, it was time for TNT.
I hate to say it, but I've heard bed bugs are tough to eradicate. Good luck with them.
Justin
I hate to say it, but I've heard bed bugs are tough to eradicate. Good luck with them.
Justin
Slow Reflexes
Poster Extraordinaire
Got any NOS reserves of DDT available?
Jack S
Friend of Leo's
Throw the mattress and bedclothes away and get some more. That is the easiest thing you can do.
Get one of those "flea bomb" things that you let off in the middle of the room and then run. Throw away, or super hot water your clothes and bed clothes. Remove all wall fittings and loose wallpaper - or anywhere in the room they can hide.
Then, get another one, this time taping up the door and windows.
Then, get another one. Do it NOW, not later.
I worked for a pest control company in London. One hotel was so infested that the phone wall plug had probably hundreds of bugs behind it - no amount of pesticides can get them if they are hiding that well.
Most of all - good luck. Hit 'em fast and hard.
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Then, get another one, this time taping up the door and windows.
Then, get another one. Do it NOW, not later.
I worked for a pest control company in London. One hotel was so infested that the phone wall plug had probably hundreds of bugs behind it - no amount of pesticides can get them if they are hiding that well.
Most of all - good luck. Hit 'em fast and hard.
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My wife works over to the nervous hospital in Trenton. And they had a pretty bad bed bug infestation a while back.
I'm happy to say none of them hitched a ride home with her. So I didn't have to deal with them.
I know there's special sprays you can buy at Homers for bed bugs & fleas.
They are only marginally effective at best on fleas. I can't imagine they'd even be that effective on bed bugs. They can find hiding places where it's nearly impossible to hit them with anything.
The pros who treated the nervous hospital had to return several times to retreat the areas. So I'm sure any DIY stuff you can buy wouldn't be of much use if the little bastards are established. If you get them early enough you might get lucky though. So I wish you luck.
I'm happy to say none of them hitched a ride home with her. So I didn't have to deal with them.
I know there's special sprays you can buy at Homers for bed bugs & fleas.
They are only marginally effective at best on fleas. I can't imagine they'd even be that effective on bed bugs. They can find hiding places where it's nearly impossible to hit them with anything.
The pros who treated the nervous hospital had to return several times to retreat the areas. So I'm sure any DIY stuff you can buy wouldn't be of much use if the little bastards are established. If you get them early enough you might get lucky though. So I wish you luck.
How do you feel about new mattresses?
Tim
Tim
chet
Banned
Call an exterminator and...
hope.
hope.
I am a maintenance tech in an apartment complex. We occasionally get them due to an increasing volume of tenants coming from outside the US. You really can't do this yourself. Get an exterminator. Fast. The exterminator has access to non-liquid pesticides which he knows where to place. Flea bombs do little against bed bugs. Super hot washing and super hot drying will be a good way to not have to throw away your clothes. You might have to bag all your stuff in plastic bags and remove them from the bedroom. It can take up to three treatments from your exterminator but they can be dealt with. Throwing away your mattress and bedclothes is not enough. They don't only live in bedding. They will get into the new stuff if you don't exterminate them.Best wishes for a good outcome.
zimbo
Friend of Leo's
If you don't have them too bad yet try rubbing alcohol or steam cleaning. Probably need to throw away couches and chairs and possibly the bed.
robt57
Telefied
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Excerpt:
The most effective treatment for bed bugs is a heat treatment, or thermal remediation. Temperatures are raised to a lethal level and then maintained at that lethal level or higher for a period of time so that the heat can penetrate objects, accomplishing what applications like steam, heat guns, and freezing cannot do as well.
Adams products are expensive, and we used them successfully to eradicate a flea infestation that returned when the eggs hatched we learned.
From bottom of above Adams Link/Page:
Other Bed Bug Resources
Bed Bug Handbook by Rick Cooper
www.BedBugCentral.com
University of Kentucky
Excerpt:
The most effective treatment for bed bugs is a heat treatment, or thermal remediation. Temperatures are raised to a lethal level and then maintained at that lethal level or higher for a period of time so that the heat can penetrate objects, accomplishing what applications like steam, heat guns, and freezing cannot do as well.
Adams products are expensive, and we used them successfully to eradicate a flea infestation that returned when the eggs hatched we learned.
From bottom of above Adams Link/Page:
Other Bed Bug Resources
Bed Bug Handbook by Rick Cooper
www.BedBugCentral.com
University of Kentucky
I am a pest control tech, & they are extremely difficult to eradicate. What I do is inject Drionne dust in all the outlets, then flood the baseboard areas,doorframes,picture frames,drawers,bedframes,etc with Demand CS. Unfortunately,these chemicals are not readily available to the general public. Throw away all matresses,wash clothes & bedding with hot water & bleach, then dry on hot setting. Sometimes it takes up to 5 treatments at $300/treatment. NOT CHEAP! To prevent them--be careful with visiting service personell or visitors from 3rd world countries' luggage-- Avoid checking baggage & try to only take carry on luggage if you go on a flight;especially to 3rd world nations. There has been a resurgance in this pest of late--once thought to be almost eradicated. Look for bloodstains on the walls, & droppings where the wall meets the ceiling. I know it sounds funny, but after a bedbug or flea job, I get undressed down to my skivvies on the side of my house, & throw all my clothes in bleach solution before I even enter the garage. Not Fun!!
Tonemonkey
Poster Extraordinaire
Sometimes you just can't do it in a half-arsed manner, as Nick said "Hit'em hard and Fast":
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sneakyjapan
Poster Extraordinaire
yeah if it were me first thing I`d do is buy a new mattress ... when I saw Mike on Dirty Jobs as a garbage man they picked up a mattress that was wrapped in plastic with a hand written sign for bed bugs on it... I read they are kind of making a come back these days. Think he was working with folks who pick up old mattresses in san Francisco on that particular show.
chet
Banned
There was a good story in a free Washington magazine last year written by a girl who had them in her apartment. She had to call an exterminator and they brought in a dog to sniff the bugs out then sprayed them.
There's also been a few shows about the pests on the Discovery Channel. They're expensive to get rid of.
There's also been a few shows about the pests on the Discovery Channel. They're expensive to get rid of.
