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Thread Number: 78476
/ Tag: Detergents and Additives
BED BUGS!! |
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Post# 1024981 , Reply# 1 2/18/2019 at 02:20 (1,887 days old) by DADoES  (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 1024983 , Reply# 2 2/18/2019 at 02:48 (1,887 days old) by countryford (Austin, MN) |
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Several years back, we dealt with it at our house. While it was bad, it wasn't quite as bad as your friend's. It started in our bedroom. I think I brought it home from work. The locker I was using at work, had been someone else's a month prior and he had bedbugs at his house. I think he brought it into work and into his locker. When he left and I got there, I was given his old locker. After that incident, I never used it again.
We almost went with the heat option but ended up not needing to. We spoke with an exterminator. It isn't cheap hiring them to do it. They also told us that the RAID just drives the bedbugs further into the wall. He suggested we get rubbing alcohol, the 91% and spray that all around the place. We got quite a bit of that and sprayed it everywhere. We also got rid of our old box-spring and mattress as well as the living-room couch and chair. We also re-washed all of the clothes. Anything that would fit in the dryer, went through that. If it was larger, we stuck it in the car and left the car out in the sun for the day(Lots of heat in Arizona). We were able to take care of it, by doing all that. Other than the rubbing alcohol we didn't use any special product. | ||
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Post# 1024989 , Reply# 3 2/18/2019 at 05:55 (1,887 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Sadly when things have gotten to that state
Best thing your friend can do is call in a competent and highly rated exterminator.
Like roaches, bedbugs are very difficult to eradiate totally once they have infested a home to such an extent. It is going to require a prolonged and multi faceted attack/plan of action. Long as any survive they will simply multiply and infest the home again. A homeowner on their own armed with enough information, time, money and energy *may* be able to get the job done as a DIY project. But don't think this is something for an elderly person alone to handle. One of best DIY pest control recourses IMHO: store.doyourownpestcontrol.com/c... | ||
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Post# 1024999 , Reply# 4 2/18/2019 at 10:08 (1,887 days old) by philcobendixduo (San Jose) |
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Happened to Me.....
......in 2007 after a visit from some overseas visitors who had stayed at a "low budget" hotel at the airport before departing for the U.S.
My exterminator advised that the only sure way to get rid of all the bugs and their eggs was to fumigate the entire house. So, the house was tented and fumigated. They use extra strength fumigant and leave it in place for 3 days. It did the trick. No more bedbugs (or ANY bugs!). Yes - it was expensive and inconvenient but I wanted to be 100% sure of complete bedbug eradication! Bedbugs can survive up to a year "in hiding" without feeding so, if you think they're all gone, think again... | ||
| Post# 1025013 , Reply# 6 2/18/2019 at 13:54 (1,887 days old) by Oliger (Indianapolis, Indiana) | ||
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Oh and mothballs! Yes strong stench, but they work wonders. | ||
| Post# 1025017 , Reply# 7 2/18/2019 at 14:47 (1,887 days old) by good-shepherd (New Jersey) | ||
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fumigate the entire house. Yeah, with an infestation that bad fumigation is the way to go and get it over with. Of course if DDT was still allowed we wouldn't be having this conversation to begin with.. | ||
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Post# 1025038 , Reply# 8 2/18/2019 at 17:17 (1,887 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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 The only dealings I've had with them are with patients at the hospital and last year on one trip to Chattanooga we stayed at a HOJO near Lookout Mountain and I found some when we were leaving. I was careful when we got back home to wash EVERYTHING that had been in that hotel room in hot water and dried in gas dryer on high heat. Bedbugs are like fleas...they can survive for a long time without feeding. | ||
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Post# 1025081 , Reply# 10 2/19/2019 at 03:22 (1,886 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Post# 1025107 , Reply# 11 2/19/2019 at 16:05 (1,886 days old) by GusHerb (Chicago/NWI) |
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My brother just found bedbugs in his bed recently after trying a new gym... He did all the stuff mentioned above and kept finding one here and there so he called an exterminator and they used a neonicotinoid to treat the room which is like a synthetic nicotine. He said he hasn't seen any bed bugs since. | ||
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Post# 1025132 , Reply# 13 2/19/2019 at 19:28 (1,886 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Post# 1025319 , Reply# 18 2/22/2019 at 00:27 (1,883 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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I've seen this advertised at our local Co-Op pfharris.com/products/bed-bugs/... I know one remedy is diatomaceous earth (which also can help rid of fleas). I wonder if a steamer would help the situation. Steam the baseboards and mattresses. I know at work when we have a patient and family with bedbug issues, the room has to be quarantined until professionally treated by Orkin, then sealed for 24 hours before we can reopen it to new patients. | ||
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