Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: bliteamite on September 04, 2004, 03:15:17 am
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Can anyone advise on how to get rid of bed bugs.
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My experience was to dismantle the bed. Take the various parts outside and spray lots of bug spray. The bed bugs usually hide around the joints. At the same time, check the mattress thoroughly and spray bug spray along the edges of the mattress.
I have seen other chemicals that can deal with bed bugs but I could not wait.
Good luck.
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Not all bed bugs live full time in the bed, they can live in recesses around the room and the loft, just coming out to feed on the sleeping victims. They can travel across the ceiling and drop (without parachute) directly onto the bed or the victims themselves. Many years ago, my wife and myself bought a cheap little terraced house in Salford near Manchester. We'd just finished decorating right through, when there was a sudden heatwave, which brought out the bugs. We only had lino on the bedroom floor and at night you could hear the bugs landing on it. Needless to say my wife, wouldnt enter the bedroom and slept on the settee downstairs. As she was pregnant at the time and the bug specialists unable to come for two weeks, we handed the keys back and moved out.
Fumigation seems to the long term answer.
Dave.
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Dave,
You have raised a very good point.
These little charmers are beetles, and like all of their kind, can fly. Not having to walk to their next meal means that they can seek out a place of safety some distance away from the bed.
I would not take on this particular eradication, preferring to leave it to a licenced specialist who has access to remedies not available to us.
John.