Try DIY Bed Bug Extermination

By Adriana Noton


The unfortunate thing is that homes have bed bugs infesting them during the course of time. The main reason for this occurrence is untidiness and having a dirty house. For this reason you will find folks looking for bed bug extermination .

This is not a task that is easy as one may imagine. However homeowners should seek professional services from pest control experts to do this work for them. However, if you hire professionals to do this work for you, be prepared to pay an arm and a leg for the service.

Fortunately, there is a way in which one can save money by exterminating these bugs using DIY techniques. One needs to be prepared to spend some considerable amount of time for this exercise, and a lot of patience is also required of you.

Several methods are used to exterminate these pests from homes, but what is most vital is to sweep and clean infested rooms in a thorough manner. This will go a long way in ensuring that you eliminate the pests completely.

The next thing is to remove all your bed linen and any clutter that is in the room that you want to get rid of the bugs. Once you have done this, put all the bedding in your washing machine and use a hot cycle to clean them.

For those people who do not own a washing machine, the bedding can be washed using very hot and steaming water. The alternative is to boil the linen in metal containers such as washing tubs. Special cleaning agents that are designed to kill bugs can be used when one is washing the linen.

When you are transferring your bedding from the infested room to the washing area, you need to ensure that you carry them in sealed plastic bags so to prevent these pests from spreading all over your house.

One should also look for these blood suckers is hidden places such as in lamp shades, behind picture frames and even on wall clock. The season is because these blood suckers can travel quite some considerable distance.

After you have done this, the next course of action is to decide how you are doing to exterminate the pests from your home. There are many ways that you can use to do this at home. Using a pesticide or an insecticide is an option worth considering. However, one should only use a pesticide or an insecticide if you know that you can be able to use it in a safe and effective manner.

A combination of a vacuum cleaner and a steam cleaner is the other option that people can try. It is a laborious exercise, because the vacuum cleaner has to be used on all the places that have been infested with the pests. Once this is done the steam cleaner can be used for bed bug extermination.




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