The problem with fleas (I don't know if bedbugs are similar) was that all our treatments were effective against adults but the eggs are immune and survive to hatch out when you think you're clear. We basically did all those things cyclically for a month (in a house with two small kids, a whiney exchange student, two dogs and a cat).
Well, what I am seeing is that both the bugs and the eggs will be killed almost immediately by temperatures over 115 or so. So my hot wash has water coming out at about 190, and the dryer is probably about 120 (est.)--so stick it in there for an hour or so and we should kill everything.
The steamer I'm renting, well I'm going to get the highest temp one I can find--hopefully an industrial one that heats to over 175.
I had read that it took 140° .. but regardless … heat seems to be the answer .. there are chemicals … my pest control friend said Phantom from BASF is what he used
Kenny_McCormic wrote: Hence the actual solution being to tent and cook the whole house a few days.
Did someone say cook?
KyAllroad wrote: The problem with fleas (I don't know if bedbugs are similar) was that all our treatments were effective against adults but the eggs are immune and survive to hatch out when you think you're clear. We basically did all those things cyclically for a month (in a house with two small kids, a whiney exchange student, two dogs and a cat).
There are pesticides (IGRs) that work on eggs or lavrae. Used to be a flea job required two treatments about 30 days apart.
Uh, we're currently,having fun with them here at work. Made worse by management that trying to minimize the issue instead of dealing with it fully and directly.
Slippery wrote: The best (and I think only way) is to tent the house. Make sure you specify it is for bed bugs. Leave everything inside, including your car.
The best way is heat. It is expensive but works great, heat house to 140 for a few hours no more bedbugs. I am an exterminator.
Going through the same thing in my apartment right now. Told them I hadn't brought them in (as far as I knew, but there was a new family that moved into the apartment next door). Landlord told me it was my responsibility to pay for their exterminator.
Had only one experience with those bastards - in an airport hotel. Was just drifting off to sleep when I felt a tickle on my arm. You'd better believe I shot right the berkeley out of that bed. For days afterwards, my skin would shiver like a dog with a fly... even now it gives me the creeps.
Tossed my pyjamas, wrapped my suitcase in a garbage bag for the drive home, and went directly to a laundromat before even thinking of going in my house.
Kenny_McCormic wrote: Burn the house down.
x2. no accelerants though. or if you do make sure you use a solvent that is used in carpet manufacturing
z31maniac wrote: This thread terrifies me. Since my wife travels for work now and is in a different city/hotel every week.
Tell her not to sleep with any whores that have been in the hospital.
Now we're wondering if she hasn't been getting the bites at the hospital, or else they're some other kind of bite (possibly spider bites?).
I've only found one skin of a bed-bug at all during my entire search, and that was a fairly crushed example. In any case, there are no new bites and we've at least protected the bed for now.
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