Bed bug advice.....EWWWW!!!! - Page 2

mima · ‎03-14-2010

On 4/8/2015 KathyLFan said:
I speak from experience, get an exterminator to look at the place. No OTC spray really kills them, the commercials lie. I had them for months, have no idea how I got them (had lived in my apt 40 yrs at that time, now 46+) & I slept on a cot in the middle of the living room for months afterwards before I could bring myself to sleep in my bed again (had to get all new bed, bedding). It even gave me gray hair. It was a hellish 6 mo. & I examine hotel rooms w/a magnifying glass now, just in case. It cost me about $150 incl a spray he did recommend for the few days following his visit. Never saw them again after that.

The exterminator only cost $150? I thought it was thousands?

YorkieonmyPillow · ‎01-13-2013

I would never buy a home someone is still living in.......learned my lesson on that issue.

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

Not something I'm quick to discuss, but I had bed bugs in my home about 6 years ago. My family and I stayed at a hotel in New York City for a night and about a week later we discovered them in my house so I assume we brought them home from the hotel with us. At any rate, at first they were only in my daughter's bedroom. We had an exterminator come and treat the rooom. We had to launder (in very hot water) every article of her clothing and all bedding, drapes, etc. Two weeks later the exterminator came back and sprayed again. By now, the bugs had traveled through the house. We found them in the other bedrooms and in the living room. It's not easy to spot them sometimes as they only come out at night. We ended up having the whole house exterminated and buying new beds for three bedrooms. It cost us several thousand dollars by the time the whole ordeal was over. At the time, our exterminator was so busy with this bed bug outbreak that he told us to continue treating our house ourselves instead of having him do it. We bought the stuff from him (it's called Invader and comes in a can) and I would go around treating all the hot spots every two weeks. I hate to tell you that this continued for nearly two years. It was a nightmare. If you have any doubts at all about bed bugs, I suggest you get an exterminator.

sophiamarie · ‎08-08-2013

On 4/8/2015 YorkieonmyPillow said:
I would never buy a home someone is still living in.......learned my lesson on that issue.

I don't even know if tenting the home really helps. Those little bugs are in every crack and crevice and I don't know if the stuff they use, even gets to them. It must be a nightmare. I tell my kids, when they travel, to make sure to take a flashlight and inspect their hotel rooms in the dark of night, look under the mattress for "spots", etc..... and not to put their luggage on the floor, etc.....

Ever since this scare began, it has curtailed much of our travelling. Even 5 Star Hotels can't be trusted. They could have "treated" the place the day before and all it takes is one person bringing in one bug and it starts all over again. Ewwwwww Horrible.....

birddrops · ‎07-16-2010

My son and his family went through a bedbug infestation after a visit to a 5 star hotel. It took almost a year to resolve the issue. New carpeting, window coverings, bedding, clothing, etc. It was horrible. I would kill the deal and find another house.

Toppers · ‎01-01-2015

Yeah, the disgusting thing about bedbugs, is how they travel.

We were living in an apt. building years ago,where our downstairs neighbors had them, and their apt. became infested with them.

How they got them was by buying a used piece of bedroom furniture from someone, that was already infested with them, inside of the furniture.

They put the piece of furniture in their bedroom. They didn't know that it was infested. Soon, they had bedbugs all over their bedroom.

They were all over the room. They climbed up the drapes. They were in the crevices of the wall, and then also went in to the electrical outlets, too.

I didn't know that they could to that. I naively thought that they just limited themselves to beds, but that isn't true. They will crawl all over the place. It doesn't matter. They will go everywhere. No place is off-limits. They were just all over the place.

The only way to get rid of them was to treat our whole section of the building, including our apt., too, so that they wouldn't travel through the walls and come up into our place, too, or go into anyone else's, either.

I saw one come up into our apt. to die, and that was in our bathroom at the time. After everyone's place was treated, that was the end of them. The neighbor didn't have them anymore, either.

lizzief · ‎09-27-2011

Wow, I thought fleas were bad! We had a bad flea infestation - I think somebody hitched a ride when one of the dogs was at the vet. The only thing that got rid of them was a repeated sprinkling of 20 Mule Team Borax all over the inside of the house, and Diatomaceous Earth (food grade) in the yard. They both work by dehydrating the pests. I don't know if they would work on bedbugs, but possibly? There was a product sold on Shark Tank called Buggy Beds that they say you should use when you go to hotels. Your stories all scare me!

wildcherry_1 · ‎03-25-2015

I would not want to buy a home or apartment furnished, forget it. It would be a deal breaker for me.

Irshgrl31201 · ‎03-18-2010

You said read the entire OP before commenting get an exterminator and I did.

I would say if there is a possibility of getting bed bugs I would get one. Yes, it would be nice to know with 100% certainty without hiring an exterminator but I would NOT need to know 100% just to get one. There are a lot of things I would risk but that is absolutely not one of them. If you do get an exterminator you will have peace of mind.

Having said that I don't think I would even chance it. I would probably chose another house.

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