Bed Bugs Treatment

A bed bug infestation in your house is just about the worst bug infestation you can get. On a par with termite trouble. If you detect a bed bug you need to commence a bed bugs treatment in the affected areas immediately. It is not easy to kill bed bugs: it either takes a long time or lots of money.

Bed Bugs Treatment

A professional bed bugs treatment will cure the problem in a day or two, whereas doing it yourself could take a month or more.

Bed bugs are tough creatures that live in cracks and crevices in the wall, floor and ceiling, in furniture, clothing, bedding and furnishings in areas where people sleep.

Bed bugs can survive most chemical sprays because they have a waxy coat which prevents the pesticide from actually contacting the insect's skin and killing it.

Once you are sure that you have to carry out treatment for bed bugs, you have to formulate a plan. Firstly, you pack all your clothing, bedding and towels - all your stuff and take it to the dry cleaners or laundrette. Get them to wash everything at as high a temperature as the fabric will withstand and put them in sealed plastic bags.

Clean up all the clutter you have lying around - books, magazines and newspapers. Put the ironing away and buy a laundry basket that you can seal tight. Be prepared to put things away in future because bed bugs love clutter where they can hide out during daylight.

Meanwhile, prepare to redecorate. Strip the wallpaper and roll up the carpets. Squash any bed bugs you see. Remove the skirting boards and architraves and spray diatomaceous earth or a substitute (powdered glass) into your furniture, bed frame, box spring and behind everything.

Then refix the woodwork and seal it shut with mastic or silicone. Fill all the cracks and crevices in the plasterwork and redecorate. Relay the carpets and use a steam cleaner to provide a heat treatment on them. Spray permethrin or another bed bug spray onto the carpets and skirtings.

Continue your bed bugs treatment by sealing your mattress in a mattress cover. Stand the legs of your bed in small cups and put a little oil in each to catch any surviving bed bugs and do not let your bed clothes drape on the floor.

Your bedroom should now be free of bed bugs, but you will have to do this in every room and you will have to monitor the situation because bed bugs can survive six months without eating and so can their eggs.

The diatomaceous earth is a rough and will scrape the way off the bed bugs allowing insecticide to kill the bugs, but it takes a while - days or weeks. Steam is the best way of killing bed bugs and their eggs, but sealing up the woodwork and plasterwork will stop the bugs getting out anyway.

When exercising bed bugs treatment techniques, you cannot cut corners because one insect can lay hundreds of eggs and you will soon have the problem back again, but you must remain vigilant, because the prevention of bed bugs is easier than pest control.

Continue exercising your bed bugs treatment techniques by putting diatomaceous earth down every week or two, because it is safe for pets and for you (whereas powdered glass is not).