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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23661583 - 09/20/16 12:21 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Just spray DDT around and you'll be fine.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23661592 - 09/20/16 12:24 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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My house is filled with spiders. I don't make a habit of clearing them out (just kill the ones that are bugging my wife). House is old as fuck with plenty of places for them to hang out in and since I don't go out of my way to try and get rid of them, they're more or less free to breed and grow to adulthood. As long as they're not crawling on me (which I just don't like things crawling on me) I'm perfectly fine cohabitating with tons of spiders.
I think we just got lucky. It was only in my son's room and the infestation hadn't gotten out of control in there. We don't have carpet either, just had a giant area rug in there that got thrown out. Even with a healthy spider population I'm pretty sure that if they had spread to other rooms we'd of had a much harder time getting rid of them.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: MushyMatt] 1
#23661702 - 09/20/16 01:08 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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MushyMatt said: I had them last year. Took Orkin 4 times to come and spray to officially kill them all. Nothing was lost or destroyed. Juse a large amount of work. Especially if you have carpets, cause you got to rip the edges of the carpets out, one of bedbugs favorite places is popcorn ceilings, floor trim, and carpet.
carpets? Check. Popcorn ceilings? Check. Floor trim? Check. There is so many fucking hiding places in this room I dont even know where to start.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23661723 - 09/20/16 01:15 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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If professional heat-treatment isn't an option, then the best option will be that diatomaceous earth powder stuff. It can be found at a hardware store since it's used in gardening.
I recommend sterilizing everything that you have, either by putting it in the laundry or wiping it down with isopropyl alcohol if it's a hard surface. After that you should sprinkle diatomaceous earth powder on your carpets.
Your grandma and any other occupants in the house should immediately buy bed-covers for their beds. They seal them in and protect bed bugs from getting in or out. That way their mattresses don't get contaminated with bed bugs. If you're going to sleep in the other room, you have to get a bed cover for that bed too.
That way if the problem spreads, you guys won't have to throw out all your mattresses and buy all new ones, because constantly replacing mattresses will get expensive.
Edited by Crystal G (09/20/16 01:20 PM)
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx]
#23661737 - 09/20/16 01:20 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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MushyMatt said: I had them last year. Took Orkin 4 times to come and spray to officially kill them all. Nothing was lost or destroyed. Juse a large amount of work. Especially if you have carpets, cause you got to rip the edges of the carpets out, one of bedbugs favorite places is popcorn ceilings, floor trim, and carpet.
carpets? Check. Popcorn ceilings? Check. Floor trim? Check. There is so many fucking hiding places in this room I dont even know where to start.

How bad is your bed? Check under the tags, and any folds or tight spaces.
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Bodhi of Ankou said: How bad is your bed? Check under the tags, and any folds or tight spaces.
Yes, a good way to check for bed bugs is to look between the folds of your mattress (see video). If you see any brown staining, that is a sign of bed bug poop.
If you have a strong stomach, check out this video from 1:30. He opens up the seams of his mattress, and finds bed bugs crawling all over in between the seams.
Video of inspection starts at 2:05.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: danielx] 1
#23661775 - 09/20/16 01:31 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23661778 - 09/20/16 01:32 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Crystal G said: If you see any brown staining, that is a sign of bed bug poop.
Don't blame the brown stains on bedbugs. Give these bugs some credit.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23661794 - 09/20/16 01:37 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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ewww, just seeing them again makes my skin crawl. I remember I had PTSD for a while after because the slightest movement on my skin would have me snapping awake and searching my bed for anything. Theyre a fucking nightmare.
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Bodhi of Ankou said: ewww, just seeing them again makes my skin crawl. I remember I had PTSD for a while after because the slightest movement on my skin would have me snapping awake and searching my bed for anything. Theyre a fucking nightmare.
Same here, I lost so much sleep because any time I felt movement or something I'd wake up or slap myself.
I once killed a bedbug that was in the middle of feeding on me. Surprisingly I felt it then. A couple times I would also see one crawling on the bed, usually late at night after I've turned all the lights off but was using the computer in my bed. A lot of times I smashed one, blood came out, which means it had recently bitten one of us.
I didn't immediately figure out what they were until I took a peek between the seams of my mattress, and discovered two full-size adult bed bugs that looked just like this crawling away once I opened the seams. I screamed and fell backwards.
Once I saw the adult ones, I recognized that they were bed bugs. Sometimes the younger ones are oval-shaped instead of round, which makes it harder to identify, because I didn't know bed bugs could be long and oval too.
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Crystal G said: 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:
Well yea, we checked all our furniture, steam cleaned carpet weekly, until they were gone. But no, depending how quickly he caught them heat termination is NOT the only way. An exterminator wanted $3,000 just to treat our one bedroom condo. I said fuck you and did it myself for about $200 and a lot of work, and it has been 3 years and no signs of bug life.
Like I said the Diatomaceous earth is most important product in the process. It may take a week or two before you see them completely gone, but they will be gone. Unless the entire building is infested...
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: RobZombie68]
#23662787 - 09/20/16 07:19 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I had bed bugs earlier this summer. Fucked this girl and unaware that was a problem. Ended up washing everything, buying a steamer that heats to like 200 degrees and treating my room with chemicals.
Live in a trailer and haven't seen them in months. But I also have a pretty healthy slider population under there. Had to go under there to do some work on the water pipes. It was not a pleasant experience.
So that probably helped seeing as how they were pretty much stuck between a rock and a hard place. Good luck op.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Enjoywho] 1
#23662821 - 09/20/16 07:26 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Did you keep the big comfy bed or you had to toss it?
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Shroomslip]
#23662883 - 09/20/16 07:44 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I still got it. Too many sexy memories. Just took about a week of extensive cleaning. The steamer worked wonders as well shit gets scalding hot. But I also nipped it in the bud fairly quickly when 2 days later I was covered in bites and have had to deal with them before.
Crisis avoided
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Enjoywho]
#23662891 - 09/20/16 07:47 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Enjoywho said: I had bed bugs earlier this summer. Fucked this girl and unaware that was a problem. Ended up washing everything, buying a steamer that heats to like 200 degrees and treating my room with chemicals.
OMG where do you get one of those steamers? What are they called and what are they normally used for?
OI OP, I actually found out that you can rent one of those heaters that professionals to heat-treat the entire house, and depending on the size of the area you want to treat, it will only cost $99, or up to $300 a day.
http://rentbedbugheaters.com/pick-your-package/
I wish I had found this service while I was still living there, it would have been a lifesaver.
If you live in a very large house, you might have to rent a couple of these, so you can blast them all at once.
But still, if you calculate in the costs of replacing mattresses, throwing out furniture, buying bed covers, and all that, you would actually save money by doing heat-treatment yourself.
If you do the heat treatment yourself you won't have to replace any mattresses or throw out any furniture at all.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: LobsterSauce] 1
#23662969 - 09/20/16 08:08 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I laughed so fucking hard at this.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: Crystal G]
#23662976 - 09/20/16 08:10 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Enjoywho said: I had bed bugs earlier this summer. Fucked this girl and unaware that was a problem. Ended up washing everything, buying a steamer that heats to like 200 degrees and treating my room with chemicals.
OMG where do you get one of those steamers? What are they called and what are they normally used for?
OI OP, I actually found out that you can rent one of those heaters that professionals to heat-treat the entire house, and depending on the size of the area you want to treat, it will only cost $99, or up to $300 a day.
http://rentbedbugheaters.com/pick-your-package/
I wish I had found this service while I was still living there, it would have been a lifesaver.
If you live in a very large house, you might have to rent a couple of these, so you can blast them all at once.
But still, if you calculate in the costs of replacing mattresses, throwing out furniture, buying bed covers, and all that, you would actually save money by doing heat-treatment yourself.
If you do the heat treatment yourself you won't have to replace any mattresses or throw out any furniture at all.
The heat treatment though isn't the best option. The house has to get very hot and by that point vinyl starts to melt, along with other plastics in the house.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: MushyMatt]
#23663015 - 09/20/16 08:19 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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I dunno I got it online can't remember where it was like 150$ with 2 day shipping. Looks like this however.
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Re: Who has dealt with bedbugs? [Re: MushyMatt]
#23663060 - 09/20/16 08:33 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Welcome to hell, OP. It has been nearly a year since my infestation and I still have nightmares on occasion. I was in a super shady place with three apartments. All of them were infested and the slumlord took his sweet ass time getting Orkin in. I threw out all of my upholstered furniture, mattress, and bed frame. Screwed two large I bolts into the wall in my bedroom and strung up a hammock. ALL towels, curtains, and tapestries were dried on high for at least 45 minutes along with the clothes and blankets I decided to keep. They were then double bagged and kept in my moms garage (it was winter) if I wasn't going to use it in the next month or two. No hardware stores in the area carried DE. I sprayed all books (especially in the spines) with alcohol. I sprayed all furniture with alcohol and (this is important) sprayed the underside of any furniture I kept with alcohol.
Eventully the orkin man came because the tennants were calling him, the health department, and the city housing inspector relentlessly. I still found two bugs after the Orkin man came.
I threw out more and more shit.
Then I got the fuck out of that place as soon as I could. Dried and sprayed everything down once more before getting onto my new place.
I haven't had a problem since, but there were so many cracks and crevices in that old building in the walls, ceilings, and floorboards I wouldn't be surprised if there are still bugs there.
That picture Crystal G posted will probably give me nightmares tonight.
Good luck, OP.
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Raid that shit.
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