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Who has dealt with bedbugs?
    #23660854 - 09/20/16 07:08 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Started waking up itching and noticing red stains on my sheets. Finally realizing my matress has a major bed bug infestiation.

Bagged up all my sheets and threw them in the garage, but I see a ton between my matress and my box screen. Can anyone give me tips? Do products work? I've heard it can be a real pain to get rid of.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
    #23660861 - 09/20/16 07:15 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Should probably get into a better bathing routine. It's likely you brought them in from somewhere else.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: 1234go]
    #23660893 - 09/20/16 07:34 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

get a new mattress and box spring. Just chuck them anf sleep on the floor man. Use teatree oil on your skin, alot of insects are turned off by the smell. wash your clothes in extremely hot water with light amounts of bleach.
Bathing has part to do with it as well as how clean your place is and how exposed it is to the outside. Dont leave clothes laying around or shit like that.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
    #23660897 - 09/20/16 07:37 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

In my opinion, all your materials are compromised. You could put everything you own that would melt into some plastic storage tubs, and rent a torpedo heater. Then crank up the temperature in your apartment or house to 'FUCKING HOT', which would kill them all off... but personally, I wouldn't take the risk. I would move out and get all new things.

I've heard things like rubbing fabric softners sheets around the lining of your mattress and shit, but I've also heard myths about smoking bed-bugs and getting reeeeeally high. Both probably don't work in the slightest. haha!


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx] * 1
    #23660898 - 09/20/16 07:39 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

There is a bug called the Reduvius personatus, commonly known as the 'Masked hunter'. They delight in hunting bed bugs at night. You might consider releasing a colony inside your house to help maintain the problem. This is of course presuming that regular changing and washing of your bed sheets is not an option.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: SonicTitan] * 2
    #23660901 - 09/20/16 07:42 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

If they've infected your mattress, the mattress belongs in the trash, preferably with knife gashes in it to prevent pickers from using it without realizing it's bad.

I had a bed bug problem years ago, apartment complex couldn't get rid of them. After 4 months we terminated our lease on the grounds that the place was unlivable, and they paid for our tossed furniture (because we would have taken them to court otherwise).

Exterminators couldn't even get rid of them. Their eggs can survive an attack and repopulate in no time. We just threw our fabric furniture away. Anything that couldn't go in a dryer really.

We had a bunch of Somali refugees in our apartment complex. These guys grabbed our mattress when we threw it away (they were part of the reason the bed bugs were so hard to get rid of too, they refused to let the apartment management bug bomb their apartment to the point that they got evicted for it). That's why I say take a knife to it.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: 1234go]
    #23660919 - 09/20/16 07:55 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)



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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx] * 4
    #23660920 - 09/20/16 07:56 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

It is not a matter of cleanliness, worst places are theaters and hotels to pick them up... with that out of the way.

We had them and beat them on our own.

#1. go get some heavy duty bug resistant zip up mattress covers don't be cheap, get the best they have and wrap mattress and box spring in them, that will confine them. 

#2. Bug bomb your room at least two times a week for at least two weeks.

#3. Wash every bit of clothing you have on hottest settings.

#4. MOST IMPORTANT - Get a sack of diatomaceous earth at any hardware store.  Sprinkle that shit everywhere, mainly carpet.  Leave it and repeat until you no longer see bed bugs.  This product cuts their shells as they travel over it and they dry out and die. 

We beat them with this process.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
    #23661011 - 09/20/16 08:43 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

If you have them, they aren't just in the mattress. They are in other places as well, such as hiding in your curtains.

Unfortunately the only treatment that actually works is professional heat treatment. You have to hire professionals to cover your house and heat your whole house to over 130 degrees, to kill the bugs. It costs between $1500 to $5000+ depending on the size of your house. If your house is small, it'll be on the cheaper side.

Sprays and all those things aren't effective for bed bugs. They are resistant to chemical treatments, which is why they're practically impossible to get rid of. People will bomb their house dozens of times before realizing that the problem is getting WORSE, not better.

They hide in places like inside outlets, places that you can't see, and you have to directly make contact with them with spray in order to kill them. So even "bed bug sprays" or whatever don't work. They simply crawl over the areas you sprayed hours earlier and don't die. They aren't like ants which die easily when coming into contact with sprayed areas.

You will have to take ALL your clothes too, every single one of them, and pull your curtains, take your blankets and sheets, any fabric that you have, and you have to put them in the dryer for at least 15 minutes to kill any bedbugs or bedbug eggs that are on your clothes. You don't have to do this if you get your house heat-treated, but you will have to do this if you move out to another location.

Apparently the East Coast has really bad bed bug problems, especially in Philadelphia and NYC, it is considered to be some of the worst in the country, and I experienced it there.

The people I was living with were too cheap to do the heat treatment for their house (which is crazy to me if you're getting bitten that many times in one night, and for that size of a house it would have only cost $1500). I don't know why we couldn't have just split that between 3 or 4 people and paid a few hundred dollars each, that's fucking nothing if it means avoiding months or years of misery. The house wasn't in my name, so it wasn't my choice to hire professionals or not, it was theirs and they refused to do it.

So I moved out and put all my clean clothes in the dryer for 15 minutes. I also wiped down all my other items such as suitcase and toiletries with alcohol, since alcohol kills any bedbug eggs you might not be able to see. I didn't bring any bed bugs back with me.

You should watch this video, it explains at the end how to kill bed bugs effectively:



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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
    #23661107 - 09/20/16 09:37 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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It is not a matter of cleanliness




LOL. Okay. So he could just skip #3 then?

Why would you confine them in a protected cover, and then do the bug bomb?


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
    #23661165 - 09/20/16 09:59 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

I don't have any personal experience with them, but a friend of mine once moved into a ratty apartment building & a few months later he had bedbugs.  Everyone in the building had them, & it was a big building.  The apartment management tried to fumigate a few times, but the bugs always came back in full force.  The complex had to pay for everyone to move out.  My friend said it was a nightmare.

Bedbugs are something I've been hella concerned about ever since.  The idea of them weirds me out, and doing all the crap you gotta do to be rid of them sounds awful.  But from what I've read, Crystal G has it right; the most certain way to be rid of them is through heat treatment.  If anything else works, it's dumb luck.  Spring for the heat.  Good luck, danielx, I hope it works out for you.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23661196 - 09/20/16 10:13 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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I don't have any personal experience with them, but a friend of mine once moved into a ratty apartment building & a few months later he had bedbugs.  Everyone in the building had them, & it was a big building.  The apartment management tried to fumigate a few times, but the bugs always came back in full force.  The complex had to pay for everyone to move out.  My friend said it was a nightmare.

Bedbugs are something I've been hella concerned about ever since.  The idea of them weirds me out, and doing all the crap you gotta do to be rid of them sounds awful.  But from what I've read, Crystal G has it right; the most certain way to be rid of them is through heat treatment.  If anything else works, it's dumb luck.  Spring for the heat.  Good luck, danielx, I hope it works out for you.




Yeah, I can totally see how it's so easy to spread in urban cities like NYC or Philly. Apparently loose bed bugs will crawl on your clothes, and their legs are evolutionarily designed so we can't feel them on us. So if you are taking public transportation or the train or something, they can crawl on your body from another person's you're sitting next to, and you can get them that way.

I remember putting Icy Hot on my skin all over when I was living through an infestation, it does help temporarily while the Icy Hot is still active on your skin, but once you fall asleep and a couple hours pass they resume biting you again.

I don't know why your friend's landlord didn't just heat-treat the entire building. I mean eventually new tenants will have to move back in, and otherwise it's going to be the exact same problem. It probably would have been cheaper than paying for everybody to move out.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23661227 - 09/20/16 10:20 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

My only experience with them was at ghetto ass apartments when I was young and hanging with crowds, desperate

Woke up to shit crawling on me at this ghetto girls apartment, utterly disgusted,  I would never sleep in a bed or home with them  they are the most disgusting blood sucking and filled  bugs.




My advice is don't let untrustworthy  people sit on your furniture, don't live in apartments or at least shitty ones,    always strip your clothes after returning home in front of the washer



You gotta always be on your toes

I would leave a entire house behind before I lived I  a bed bug infested home

They are disgusting creations




I'm sorry OP, that's a bummer :frown:


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: SunnyD]
    #23661282 - 09/20/16 10:38 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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My advice is don't let untrustworthy  people sit on your furniture,




Haha, Zomed.  I know what you mean, but this conjured up a mental image of you sitting in your house, telling someone you just met, "I don't trust you.  You must stand."

Crystal:  I think they didnt pay for the heat treatment because it was a piece of shit building owned by the absolute worst management company in the city, and they maybe wanted it to be condemned.  Idk.  The building was massive, so it would've cost a fortune, & it just would've been as decrepit as before anyway, just minus the bedbugs.  I lived in that town for 4 years after that, and never saw that building reopened.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Burke Dennings]
    #23661308 - 09/20/16 10:51 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Haha, Zomed.  I know what you mean, but this conjured up a mental image of you sitting in your house, telling someone you just met, "I don't trust you.  You must stand."




Lol, I was once looking at cheap places to stay in Philly. I came across this place called "Liberty Motel," which is this nasty ratchet-ass place where basically vagrants and homeless junkies and prostitutes live. The place has 1 star on Google and Yelp, and the reviews say the place is ridden with roaches and bedbugs.

This place is so infamous it made the news for being so shitty: http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Residents-Say-Troubled-North-Philly-Hotel-Makes-Them-Feel-Like-Hostages-in-Their-Own-Neighborhood-289400341.html

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From 2004 to 2014, police have responded to more than 1800 calls at the motel or within a block of it, made 116 arrests for prostitution, 46 arrests for other crimes and responded to 20 deaths, mostly drug-related, according to documents obtained by NBC10.

“I feel like a hostage,” said Arletha Pickens. “You don’t feel safe.”
Carmen Perez told NBC10 her kids can’t even go out and play due to the fact that they live so close to the motel.

“It’s very dangerous and it’s very unsafe,” she said.
Residents told NBC10 police and lawmakers have frequently clashed with the owners of the motel over drugs and crime in and around the property.




Jesus dude.

So in 3650 days, there were 1800 police calls made to the motel, that's basically one call every other day.

Suffice to say, I didn't stay there. :lol:


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
    #23661319 - 09/20/16 10:59 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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RobZombie68 said:
It is not a matter of cleanliness, worst places are theaters and hotels to pick them up... with that out of the way.

We had them and beat them on our own.

#1. go get some heavy duty bug resistant zip up mattress covers don't be cheap, get the best they have and wrap mattress and box spring in them, that will confine them. 

#2. Bug bomb your room at least two times a week for at least two weeks.

#3. Wash every bit of clothing you have on hottest settings.

#4. MOST IMPORTANT - Get a sack of diatomaceous earth at any hardware store.  Sprinkle that shit everywhere, mainly carpet.  Leave it and repeat until you no longer see bed bugs.  This product cuts their shells as they travel over it and they dry out and die. 

We beat them with this process.




This, unless you wanna shell out for a heat treatment you gotta go all out. Your house will need to be spotless and you will have to put in a considerable amount of effort to eliminate them. Its not easy, at all. They can also survive a year without eating so you can't lay siege and just starve them out either.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23661322 - 09/20/16 11:01 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

OP are you in a house or apartment complex? Id look for a new spot if you can.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Bodhi of Ankou]
    #23661325 - 09/20/16 11:01 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Whether your place is clean or not makes little difference to bedbug infestations. They hide in places you can't see or wouldn't think to look or disinfect, like inside the electrical outlets. In any tiny crack or crevice that you would normally gloss over. They could be hiding underneath or behind your furniture, or between certain folds.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
    #23661332 - 09/20/16 11:05 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

Yeah, I read that they'll live in any tiny crevice or dark spot.  Like, if you've got holes in your wall from where you used penny nails to hang a picture, the bedbugs will be in there.  Or any place that tiny.


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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
    #23661354 - 09/20/16 11:11 AM (7 years, 4 months ago)

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Whether your place is clean or not makes little difference to bedbug infestations. They hide in places you can't see or wouldn't think to look or disinfect, like inside the electrical outlets. In any tiny crack or crevice that you would normally gloss over. They could be hiding underneath or behind your furniture, or between certain folds.




It makes a difference, not directly, but its way harder to treat a place when it's messy.


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