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]]> By: Olivia2.0 http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/bed-bug-season-hurrayyyy/#comment-8008 Olivia2.0 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 21:08:43 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=7024#comment-8008 @The Dauphine As someone with a very, very serious allergy to pesticides and herbicides...I can assure you it is almost certainly NOT just fancy rubbing alcohol. That stuff is toxic and if you have kids/pets you might want to have your landlord focus on the common areas of the building and not in your apartment. I've fought a constant battle to have my work places and apartment buildings TELL ME when they put that stuff down, lest all of a sudden I end up with a life-threatening reaction. @The Dauphine As someone with a very, very serious allergy to pesticides and herbicides…I can assure you it is almost certainly NOT just fancy rubbing alcohol. That stuff is toxic and if you have kids/pets you might want to have your landlord focus on the common areas of the building and not in your apartment. I’ve fought a constant battle to have my work places and apartment buildings TELL ME when they put that stuff down, lest all of a sudden I end up with a life-threatening reaction.

]]> By: The Dauphine http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/bed-bug-season-hurrayyyy/#comment-8004 The Dauphine Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:57:30 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=7024#comment-8004 We've never had them, but my landlord really doesn't want to deal with bugs (he lives in the building) so he comes around and sprays our baseboards occasionally with some kind of bug stuff that is probably just fancy rubbing alcohol. We’ve never had them, but my landlord really doesn’t want to deal with bugs (he lives in the building) so he comes around and sprays our baseboards occasionally with some kind of bug stuff that is probably just fancy rubbing alcohol.

]]> By: schmuhl http://thebillfold.com/2012/06/bed-bug-season-hurrayyyy/#comment-7974 schmuhl Mon, 25 Jun 2012 19:38:29 +0000 http://thebillfold.com/?p=7024#comment-7974 Ok, a couple things to note. The steam cleaner is basically useless unless maybe you want to use it on clothes? It will not work on mattresses or upholstered items because the bugs just burrow down where the steam can't touch them. Second, you don't need to, and in fact shouldn't, get rid of your mattress or other belongings, all that does is spread the infestation around to other people. The heat treatment is great, and that's definitely the route I'd go in a single family home, but I'm not sure it would be effective in the long term in an apartment. As with any other treatment the bugs just migrate to other apartments and then come back when your apartment is a safe environment for them again. Treating the whole building is really the best/only way to go. Ok, a couple things to note. The steam cleaner is basically useless unless maybe you want to use it on clothes? It will not work on mattresses or upholstered items because the bugs just burrow down where the steam can’t touch them.

Second, you don’t need to, and in fact shouldn’t, get rid of your mattress or other belongings, all that does is spread the infestation around to other people.

The heat treatment is great, and that’s definitely the route I’d go in a single family home, but I’m not sure it would be effective in the long term in an apartment. As with any other treatment the bugs just migrate to other apartments and then come back when your apartment is a safe environment for them again. Treating the whole building is really the best/only way to go.

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