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Bed bugs Bed bugs, what you gonna do when they come for you?

HybridSquirrel

HybridSquirrel

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no seriously, what can I do? Can I get out of my lease? Take them to small claims court?


Apt company not willing to pay for extermination, says its my fault. We just bought all new, $5,000 worth of new furniture from Ikea. Ikea has no bed bugs, and the apartment complex has several other residents complaining about bed bugs.


What do?
 
BoomerD said:
File a complaint with your city/county health department.
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Why does the state health department not consider bed bug infestations a “public health” problem?
Neither the communicable disease division nor the environmental health and sustainability division of the state health department investigates bed bug outbreaks because there is no evidence that bed bugs transmit diseases to humans.
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http://www.cdphe.state.co.us/cp/bedbugfaq.html


bottom of the page.
 
If others weren't complaining, I would ask about the state/age of your mattress. I guess that is part of the Ikea furniture?

Is there a renter's board in the area that you can appeal to? There's a rather serious one here, but then Berzerkeley has always been nazi when it comes to "renter's rights" and terrorizing landlords. lol.
 
zinfamous said:
If others weren't complaining, I would ask about the state/age of your mattress. I guess that is part of the Ikea furniture?

Is there a renter's board in the area that you can appeal to? There's a rather serious one here, but then Berzerkeley has always been nazi when it comes to "renter's rights" and terrorizing landlords. lol.
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ikea: come for meatballs, go home with bed bugs?


nah someone back in january int he same building right below us had bed bugs, apt failed to inform us of it....and i just went and talked to him and he still has them.
 
Good luck getting rid of them. Besides the use of heat treatments for extermination. They are near impossible to get rid of.
 
BoomerD said:
Then you're fucked. Unless the entire apartment complex is treated, the bugs just move from the apartment being treated to a different one...then come back once the spraying is done.

If you move, you'll take them with you and start an infestation in the new place. Fire might be your only option.


http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/ehs/publications/Bed_Bugs_CDC-EPA_Statement.htm
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ive been thinking about taking the apartment to small claims court if they won't pay for the extermination. I am going to plastic bag all of my clothes, wash the shit out of them in hot water and take them to my moms till I figure out what to do
 
lxskllr said:
Seems like that would be easy to do yourself.
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heating it up simply isn't enough...you need a heat vaccuum and run it over every square inch of carpet, you bed, and heat up all the walls, ect....even then there is no guarantee because the bed bugs could simply run away
 
From what I hear they seem really hard to get rid of, but can't you just spray everything with a residual pesticide? Or do they not get affected by that?

A lot of pesticides today are actually human/animal safe. I use this one around the house to ensure I don't have spiders, or any other bugs.

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/cyonara_9.7_insecticide.htm

I have not seen a spider or spider web in my basement since the very start of summer. It kills em really good, and any other bug.

You just need a pump container and you put about one ounce into a gallon of water. The directions say what concentration to use based on what you want to kill. I'd just spray all upholstry with it, carpet, baseboards etc. I can guarantee you wont have any other bugs either.

If heating the room at 50C actually works, just get a couple industrial heaters in there and a thermometer to ensure it will actually get it that hot (aim for like 60C to be safe), and lots of fans. Though I wonder how bad that is for the paint and stuff though, but meh, if they don't want to do anything then take it in your own hands and whatever extreme you have to do.
 
Red Squirrel said:
From what I hear they seem really hard to get rid of, but can't you just spray everything with a residual pesticide? Or do they not get affected by that?

A lot of pesticides today are actually human/animal safe. I use this one around the house to ensure I don't have spiders, or any other bugs.

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/cyonara_9.7_insecticide.htm

I have not seen a spider or spider web in my basement since the very start of summer. It kills em really good, and any other bug.

You just need a pump container and you put about one ounce into a gallon of water. The directions say what concentration to use based on what you want to kill. I'd just spray all upholstry with it, carpet, baseboards etc. I can guarantee you wont have any other bugs either.

If heating the room at 50C actually works, just get a couple industrial heaters in there and a thermometer to ensure it will actually get it that hot (aim for like 60C to be safe), and lots of fans. Though I wonder how bad that is for the paint and stuff though, but meh, if they don't want to do anything then take it in your own hands and whatever extreme you have to do.
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It kind of works. Previous place got some. Sprayed it all over the place with the most toxic residual pesticides possible, some kill on contact, some good for a month, some supposed to take out the eggs. The problem is that the kill rate of the best stuff is only 90-95% even with plastic covers on mattresses, etc. according to some academic studies.

So it did work in the end but they would come back after ~6 months and then it would require spraying the whole place again. In the end, it's just a big pain even if it can be managed so the end effect that your sleep will suck for a while. One of the problems is the incubation periods of bedbugs can approach 2 years so even if you kill the living ones, the baby ones hatch over time it seems.
 
Red Squirrel said:
From what I hear they seem really hard to get rid of, but can't you just spray everything with a residual pesticide? Or do they not get affected by that?

A lot of pesticides today are actually human/animal safe. I use this one around the house to ensure I don't have spiders, or any other bugs.

http://www.doyourownpestcontrol.com/cyonara_9.7_insecticide.htm

I have not seen a spider or spider web in my basement since the very start of summer. It kills em really good, and any other bug.

You just need a pump container and you put about one ounce into a gallon of water. The directions say what concentration to use based on what you want to kill. I'd just spray all upholstry with it, carpet, baseboards etc. I can guarantee you wont have any other bugs either.

If heating the room at 50C actually works, just get a couple industrial heaters in there and a thermometer to ensure it will actually get it that hot (aim for like 60C to be safe), and lots of fans. Though I wonder how bad that is for the paint and stuff though, but meh, if they don't want to do anything then take it in your own hands and whatever extreme you have to do.
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they are immune to almost every form of pesticide, except DDT which is illegal to use in an apartment building.

The temperature kills them, but only if directed in a certain way, idk the exterminator explained it to me.
 
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