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How To Eradicate Bed Bug From Your Home DIY by onlytiles(m): 9:13am On Mar 13, 2018 |
If you’ve discovered bites on your skin, or
found those pesky little things
crawling around on your bed or
nearby, take action right away!
Don’t live with this stressful
problem, and don’t spend thousands
replacing your mattress or paying
an exterminator to perform a
treatment that you can do yourself
for less. Here’s how you can get rid
of bed bugs in just 4 easy steps:
STOP THE BITING
The first goal in a bed bug
treatment is to stop bed bugs
from biting you while you
sleep. If bed bugs can’t feed,
they can’t breed. If they can’t
breed, then they can’t
reproduce, and the infestation
won’t be able to grow any
further. This means that as
soon as you remove their food
source (your blood), you set a
timer for the infestation to
starve off.
KILL BED BUGS IN YOUR BED
To begin, strip your bed of all
sheets, pillowcases, and other
bedding, and seal them in
plastic garbage bags to keep
bed bugs from escaping and
infesting other parts of your
home. Take the bags straight
to the washing machine, and
wash them using the hot water
setting. Then, dry the bedding
on high heat if their tags allow
it. This heat treatment will kill
any bed bugs or eggs hiding in
your bedding.
While your laundry cycle is
running, use a vacuum cleaner
to remove any bed bugs, shells,
fecal droppings, or eggs that
might be along the seams of
your mattress, pillows, box
spring, and along the cracks
and crevices in the bed frame,
headboard, and footboard.
Follow up the vacuuming with
a high pressure steamer to
penetrate deep inside
mattresses, box springs, bed
frames, headboards, and
footboards to kill bed bugs and
eggs on contact.
While the mattress and box
spring are left to dry, spray
down the joints of the bed
frame, headboard, and
footboard with a contact spray
and residual spray . The
contact spray will kill bed bugs
quickly and then evaporate,
while the residual spray will kill
bed bugs over several weeks.
Remember to follow the
sprays’ product labels and
MSDS for safe and effective
usage.
Once the mattress and box
spring are dry, encase them in
sealed bed bug encasements .
Encasements are crucial, as
they prevent bed bugs from
entering or escaping the
mattress and box spring,
cutting off key hiding places.
Remember to leave the
encasements on for at least 18
months to ensure that any bed
bugs already inside have
starved to death. Once the
encasements have been
applied, you can put your
mattress and box springs back
on your treated bed frame, and
put your laundered bedding
back on your bed.
MAKE YOUR BED BITE PROOF
Now that you’ve killed the bed
bugs hiding in your bed, it’s
time to put up defensive
measures to keep them out.
Remember, bed bugs can be
hiding in all sorts of cracks
and crevices throughout your
bedroom – in furniture, along
baseboards, and inside of the
walls – so you need a way to
keep them out of your freshly
treated bed. By cutting off the
infestation’s food supply (you),
you halt their breeding and
reproductive cycle, making the
treatment a whole lot easier.
Move your bed away from any
other points of contact, like
walls, nightstands, and other
furniture. Tuck in or remove
any hanging skirts or sheets,
and remove any storage under
the bed that is touching any
part of the frame. The only
thing your bed should be
touching is the floor via its
legs. If you don’t have a bed
frame with legs, you should
purchase one to sleep in, at
least until you are bed bug
free.
To complete the isolation,
place ClimbUp Interceptors
under each leg of the bed.
These interceptors will prevent
bed bugs from climbing up
your bed legs, stopping them
from reaching you in your bed.
As bed bugs attempt to get to
you, they will climb up the
edge of the interceptor and fall
into the perimeter pitfall where
they can’t escape.
With the bed now fully isolated
and elevated, bed bugs hiding
elsewhere in the room won’t
be able to feed on you or hide
in your bed. You can also use
the ClimbUps to monitor the
changing population of bed
bugs in your home. Hopefully,
you will see less and less bugs
appear in the traps as you go
through the next steps. Now
that you have created a safe
haven in your bed, you can
move on to treating the rest of
the room.
BED BUG HUNT
STEAM AND CLEAN YOUR ROOM
Bed bugs could be hiding in all
sorts of tight spaces in your
room, like wood cracks, inside
books and furniture, and along
the baseboards and the edges
of the carpet. In this step,
we’re going to clean, vacuum,
and steam those areas that
bed bugs are likely to be. This
will cut down on the bed bug
population while making it
harder for survivors to hide.
Begin by reducing clutter in the
room; things like clothes,
books, and other personal
belongings shouldn’t be left on
the floor, as they make
treatment more difficult and
add hiding places for bed bugs
and eggs. Seal those items in
garbage bags and store them
away from the room. Any
clothing that was picked up or
removed from dresser drawers
should be dried on high heat
for at least 45 minutes. Once
treated, clothing that you don’t
normally wear should be stored
inside garbage bags outside of
the infested room.
Next, vacuum and steam along
baseboards, window sills, and
the edge of the carpet. When
you’re done vacuuming, the
bag or canister should be
cleaned or discarded to limit
exposure of bed bugs to other
parts of the home. The
steamer can also be used to
treat sofas, chairs, furniture,
and cabinets. When applying
steam, remember to move the
nozzle slowly (about one inch
per second) to ensure that all
bed bugs and eggs are killed.
If you suspect that bed bugs
might be hiding in items that
can’t be laundered or steamed,
like books, papers, luggage,
shoes, and dry-clean only
clothing, you can treat those
with a portable bed bug heater.
Heaters are a popular way to
safely heat-treat items during
bed bug treatments, or as a
preventative tool for travelers
who want to ensure that bed
bugs can’t escape from their
luggage to infest their home.
SPRAY AND POWDER CRACKS AND CREVICES
It’s time to finish off any bed
bugs you may have missed,
and to set up a long-lasting
defense for any eggs that
hatch in the coming weeks.
Use a combination of both
contact and residual sprays, as
well as a residual powder, to
ensure that you cut down the
population now and continue
killing bed bugs over time.
First up are the contact sprays,
like STERI-FAB and JT Eaton
Kills Bed Bugs . These will kill
quickly, but evaporate shortly
after, leaving no long-lasting
protection. Spray along
baseboards, below drawers
and on drawer slides, behind
cabinets, and behind night
stands. Follow up with a
residual spray, such as Bedlam
Plus and JT Eaton Kills Bed
Bugs Plus . Residual sprays will
offer long-lasting protection
against bed bugs and
hatchlings. Bedlam Plus is
ideal for cracks and crevices
throughout the room, while JT
Eaton Plus can be used below
the cushions and bases of
sofas, chairs, edges of carpets
and other fabric items.
Remember that sprays
shouldn’t be applied to areas
that you’ll touch, walk on, or
sit on. Sprays are designed to
treat hiding places that bed
bugs are or may be, and bed
bugs tend to not want to hang
out in open areas like the
carpet or the tops of furniture.
Next, apply a bed bug powder
into confined areas where it
won’t be stirred up into the
air. Places like the edges of
carpeting, inside deep cracks
and wall voids, and inside
electrical outlets and light
switches (accessed by
removing the faceplate with a
screwdriver) are good
candidates for powders, as
sprays can’t reach into these
areas quite as well. We
recommend using a
professional powder applicator,
which offers better control
when applying the powder.
To ensure that all bed bugs are
killed, reapply the contact and
residual sprays two weeks
after the initial treatment, then
again two weeks after that, for
a total of three applications.
These reapplications make
sure that any eggs that have
hatched will be killed off so
that they can’t create a new
infestation. Bed bug powders
will not need to be reapplied,
as they work for as long as
they remain dry and
undisturbed. If you followed all of these steps, including the reapplications, you should be bed bug free in a matter of weeks For General fumigation and pest control services, Contact PEST SOLUTIONS INTEGRATED SERVICES on 08169606527(Watsapp enabled) 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: How To Eradicate Bed Bug From Your Home DIY by Ecoscience: 11:27pm On Apr 03, 2022 |
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