All your bedroom clothes, sheets, everything goes into sealed garbage bags. Wash and dry it all. Wash your laundry daily and keep it bagged in fresh bags. Keep it stored away from where people sleep and relax.
Mattress and box spring need to be steamed daily. Flip it over, every crack and seam and corner Use a clothing steamer. Get in the seams, kill the bugs, kill the eggs. Daily for 1-2 weeks.
Day one under the bed, sweep, mop with bleach, clean slate. Easier to see. Fewer places to hide. Throw out the garbage. If you vacuum get that canister full of eggs away from your house.
Change bedding daily. Wash it and DRY ON HIGH HEAT daily.
Get bed bug mattress and box spring covers. Amazon sells them, they completely encase the mattress, the material is slippery and they can’t climb it, the zipper is very fine and tight and keeps any remaining bugs or eggs inside.
douse the box spring in DE powder before you seal it up for good.
Clear packing tape the legs of the bed and baseboards around the bed. They can’t climb it.
Spray poison, pyrethrine based poison works well.
If you’re in an apartment you may need to invest in some silicone, weatherstripping and gap filler spray foam.—we’re talking baseboard gaps, light fixtures, outlet covers, don’t forget under the sinks in the bathroom and kitchen. Gaps where drain pipes go. Gaps where water lines go. You are in a spaceship. Your job is to seal the air leaks. Seal the hallway door with weatherstripping. Dust outside the door with DE.
Hang garlic on your mantle.
Sacrifice a goat on a 6ft diameter pentagram carved into your dining room floor.
Mojomunkey t1_j87ro5e wrote
Reply to How do deal with an early sighting of bedbugs? by CamDaMan100
In apartment it could be building wide problem.
In a house easier to manage.
All your bedroom clothes, sheets, everything goes into sealed garbage bags. Wash and dry it all. Wash your laundry daily and keep it bagged in fresh bags. Keep it stored away from where people sleep and relax.
Mattress and box spring need to be steamed daily. Flip it over, every crack and seam and corner Use a clothing steamer. Get in the seams, kill the bugs, kill the eggs. Daily for 1-2 weeks.
Change bedding daily. Wash it and DRY ON HIGH HEAT daily.
Get bed bug mattress and box spring covers. Amazon sells them, they completely encase the mattress, the material is slippery and they can’t climb it, the zipper is very fine and tight and keeps any remaining bugs or eggs inside.
Clear packing tape the legs of the bed and baseboards around the bed. They can’t climb it.
Spray poison, pyrethrine based poison works well.
If you’re in an apartment you may need to invest in some silicone, weatherstripping and gap filler spray foam.—we’re talking baseboard gaps, light fixtures, outlet covers, don’t forget under the sinks in the bathroom and kitchen. Gaps where drain pipes go. Gaps where water lines go. You are in a spaceship. Your job is to seal the air leaks. Seal the hallway door with weatherstripping. Dust outside the door with DE.
Hang garlic on your mantle.
Sacrifice a goat on a 6ft diameter pentagram carved into your dining room floor.
Then burn the house down.