I have a sofa like this one, sides and arm rest are wood it's hand crafted and mediocre quality, bed bugs are in the sofa, I want to douse everything with very hot water, I have a big balcony I can move the sofa to dry, is that okay? Climate is pretty hot rn and sunny, 300 if I leave it out for a day or two will it be safe and completely dry out? Or is soaking it in 600+ water going to do irreperabale damage
30 degrees Celsius, 60 degrees*
take ivermectin every 3 days for 2 weeks and vacuum
>>2994943Empty one room of the house and put the sofa in there. Open it all up exposing as much surface to the air as possible.Then put a bunch of heaters with a thermostat and ramp up the temperature to 50-60 celsius in the room and maintain it for 24 hours.100% of the bugs and their eggs will be fucking dead by the end. Idk what fabric that sofa has, but normally it should be able to withstand 50-60 celsius.
Can't OP just salt it with diacotimus earth or whatever it's actually called?
>>2994943Wrap in plastic. Seal seams well with tape. Get CO2 tank and fill plastic bag. Let sit long enough to kill occupants.But they will be back if they are into carpeting or other nearby items.
if theyre in the sofa, theyre very likely in other furniture as well as in your walls. get your whole house treated. are you in a townhouse/apartment or a building you share with others? if so, you need to notify them.
>>2994943Congrats on the new roommates! Hope you've learned a valuable lesson from taking furniture from the trash. You now have to get your whole residence treated by an exterminator, sleep with diaceametous earth around your bed and start storing all belongings in plastic bags and freezing them overnight, including clothes and books.
>>2994974>>2994999>>2995016i used a french thing called Enviroscab, claims to kill them on touch, i just ordered some of this diacemous earth, i also cleaned all my clothes and bedsheets and pillows at 70°, i think my bed is safe because i've been sleeping on the sofa a lot, i sleep on the bed and nothing happens now, if they come out they should touch the enviroscab thing, and soon i'll get the diacemetous earth and should hopefully kill them within a few weeks, i live in a small apt so it's just the living room and the bedroom that need to be safe, i'm hopeful for now, i'll be able to spray this diacemtous earth pretty much around the entire house and from what i read in theory should fuck them up pretty well, thanks anons
my plan is simple : always shower hot water + soap before sleeping on bednever sleep on sofa for now i skipped like 2 days and should be like 2 days before i get the diacetmeous earthonce i get diacemetous earth, spray that shit all over the house, then sleep on the sofa, whenever the bugs come out they die on the diacetemous earthsleep on the sofa exclusively for like a couple weeks because theres probably eggs, and that should hopefully be it, i'll spray the earth on the bed anyways just in case, i feel like this problem will last a month at worst, maybe even two i'll keep sleeping on the sofa exclusively for the summer and see
you should pack a couple changes of clothes from closet and a variety of drawers and go stay at a friends house but make sure to not overstay your welcome and stay at a few different friends houses
>>2995054 i live in a small apt so it's just the living room and the bedroom that need to be safe,you need to inform the other tenants in the building, you dum fuck. post pics of bed bug stains
>>2994943either raise the temperature in the room to about 120 degrees f, or spray it with temprid, or write bedbugs on it and dump it, then spray everything with temprid.wash all your clothes and beddings with hot water and tumble dry them. keep the lights on in any room in the house that had them and don't sleep in those rooms for a week or so.lastly ignore everything I said and hire someone who has experience with getting rid of them.
>>2995121It's not that badThe Damascus earth got here today, I think this might be the most cosmically karmic thing god brought onto this earth, I spent the entire day just spraying this shit all over the sofa and the carpet and the house and the vicinity, apparently it's completely harmless to humans and will kill bedbugs by leeching off them until they die of starvation, I fuckin love this shit, I've been sleeping on the bed for the past week and no new bites, I'll start sleeping on the sofa again after putting this powder all over the living room and hopefully eradicate their entire progeny within the next 2 weeks
>>2994974>diacotimuskek
>>2995054>>2995016>>2994974>>2995058>>2995298>diacotimus>diaceametous>diacemous>diacemetous>diacemtous>diacetmeous>diacemetous>DamascusYou fags crack me up
>>2995298I'm interested in this as I've been getting bitten by something. Not sure if bed bugs though.How many bites you get per night? And what do they look like? Is it just a red bump or does it have a little wound at the middle where the bug pierced the skin?Can you see red or brown spots on the sheets?
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>>2995593i don't have bite pics anymore, i first got them from a hotel like a month and a half ago, it's very obvious you'll either get bites in a straight line, or bites in groups, like 3 or 4 close bites to each other, it looks like a mosquito or any other bite but the placement is what usually gives it awayalso here's a vid of one of them fuckers strolling around the Diatomaceous earth (i googled it now), i've never seen one during the day i've seen one at night before, idk if this is a good or bad thing lol
>>2994943I seriously doubt that soaking a sofa in water won't damage it. And even if it doesn't, the sofa will not dry in one afternoon
Diatomaceous earth doesn't affect them as much as you'd believe, I dealt with bed bugs over a year ago and captured one and put it in a container with a layer of D. Earth in the bottom and that thing survived for 3 days.If you're dead set on saving your furniture, look into MGK Crossfire, I ran some controlled experiments and it killed them in minutes. You can get it in either a concentrated form that you mix yourself or premixed. I mixed my own for a minute but the premixed foaming type made a noticeable difference in just a couple weeks and killed all my holdouts. Raid makes a version too now that I can't speak to but the formula looks the same.Freezing is bullshit for saving loose items, it can also take days to kill them and has to be colder than most people keep food freezers, the only guarantee is heat, something like 125° F for an hour or two will kill them, items that won't/can't go in a dryer got bagged/zipped in semiclear trash bags and sat in my backyard during several 90°F days.
>>2996138Doesn't do much to the eggs, either. Wrap that shit in plastic, anon, and get a good heater to raise the temperate in the bag to 200F+. Let it sit for about an hour or more. It'll cook them all. The issue you're fighting is the padding acts as insulation for the little fuckers.
Beauveria bassianaIt will kill them all and every other bug in the house in about 10 days.
>>2996138>and captured oneHonest question here -- when you're infested with bedbugs, can you actually see them? I've had persistent paranoia about having an infestation for a while now, my skin's constantly itchy, I do have marks on me that could be bites, I do sometimes see tiny brown spots on my sheets that wash out, but I've never actually seen a bed bug and I can't tell if it's all in my head. I've gone looking, too, I own a DIY mattress so I can take it apart and I flipped through the whole thing and still didn't see any anywhere -- but maybe they weren't in the mattress, I don't know.
>>2996409>DIY mattressNta, but what is a diy mattress?
>>2996631None of the mattress makers actually manufacture the individual components of their mattresses, they just buy the components and sew it all together in their factory. You can buy those components too, at nearly wholesale price, mostly because they're still small enough to ship normally when compressed. Then you buy a special made DIY mattress cover that is basically just a giant zipper bag, and stack the components together and zip it all up. You end up with an incredibly nice mattress for very cheap -- I paid $1k for mine, but if I wanted to buy a premade mattress with the same or similar components I'd be looking at $4k-$5k. Only downside is that since it isn't sewn together moving it is a bitch, it's all floppy and shit, so if you ever want to move houses you'll need to disassemble it and then reassemble it.
>>2996639Is it a foam or spring mattress? If I wanted a foam one, what should I look for? Foam for mattress? What if I want it to be anti-mite?
>>2996409They can hide in baseboards and the little nymphs are really hard to see. They sell bedbug traps you can buy. They're worthless for getting rid of them, but they can prove you have a problem.
>>2996753Yeah, the baseboards would check out. My home is older construction with solid wood floors, traditional style, and there's way more than enough room down there for them to live without ever being able to see them.I'll look into the traps, thanks, good idea. Will be good to have peace of mind at least.>>2996750I went with a spring support layer and a thick latex comfort layer on top. You can do various kinds of foam and memory foam for either as well if you'd like. There's a whole subreddit with details if you can stand to visit it, there's a whole community of folks who try DIY mattresses like this with varying levels of success. I guess the biggest thing is just do your research before you buy -- in addition to being the one putting it together you also are the one who designs it, so you need to learn how mattresses work inside out and what elements you like before you start buying if you want to have any chance of actually liking the mattress you make.
>>2996409>tiny brown spots on my sheets that wash outyou can actually clean out the brown spots, so if you see new ones, then you're not paranoidi kind of understand where you're coming from, but no they're not invisible, they're just very sneaky and fast crawlers, one day i felt the creepy crawlies and i hit the lights at night and i only saw one because i checked under the fold of one of the sofas, i don't think they're devious or anything of the sort though, in theory as long as i keep sleeping on the sofa they will come from wherever they're hiding, and so far i haven't been bitten for 2 weeks so i'm really only hoping the eggs hatch and eventually die, i might sleep on the sofa for at least 4 to 6 months just in caseyou can see an adult one in the video here, >>2995824 i think i saw a dead body of one of the smaller larvaes that just hatched, it's around 1/3rd the size of the adult one
just scrub daily with diecotemous earth and youll be god
if you have an infestation it should be obvious shouldn't it ? you would have to see them around in the night wouldn't you
>>2997018Problem is the fuckers are tiny and sneaky as fuck. For context and scale, one of the more common home locations for bed bugs in a house is behind a wall socket. They're so small and especially so thin that they can squeeze behind the plate of an electrical socket and then just chill in there out of sight. They typically don't come out unless they can smell a human and are hungry, so they just stay in their home area until they go to feed and if you don't catch them on one of those trips then you can only guess at their existence through indirect signs.I guess one upside is they don't spread disease, unlike other bloodsucking parasites. Still gross though.
>>2994943bottle of everclear works better
