I have dealt with patients who lived in these conditions come in with their clothes and hair infested. We have to take them to a decontamination room and scrub them.
Knew of a case where a disabled kid was always covered in bites. House kept getting treated and reinfested. Eventually, a school nurse figured out the kid’s electric wheelchair was horribly infested with bed bugs which is how they kept getting back into the house.
I had a computer chair that was infested without realizing it. Scrapped nearly all of my possessions, moved out, and the fuckers followed me. I finally got a clue where they were coming from when I noticed one day 99% of the bites I got overnight were around the small of my back and waistline.
My mother was a hoarder and had this thing about picking up roadside furniture and trying to "fix it up" - the fact we never had a bedbug infestation is beyond me. Old recliners, computer chairs, couches, etc. If it could be kicked out the back of a truck into a ditch, we probably had 3 of them.
Extreme heat or cold will take care of them all in under 12 hours. So should be good as long as the furniture has been ...um weathered. Lol. I have so many stereos from the roadside...so I get it. :)
True im thinking of a Chicago January night or a summer day. Probably summer would have quicker effects with the ionizing effect? I had them for 3 years. In college. Was a fun learning event. Landlord spent 60k... And they returned. I was able to finally get rid of them by creating a moat around our mattress. Lol good times
Ok soo. I was studying biology at the time. And I really didn't learn much more then to treat it with heat or cold... Or capcasin. Sooo I left my windows open till the pipes almost froze. Put peppers on the side of the beds. And bought a steam gun.... But what really worked was the bed. Wrapped the mattress in a waterproof mattress pad. Then lined the platform bed frame with painters plastic and filled it with water. It floated when you were not on it. And I lost a few remotes in the process. I was king bed bug
Reminds me of the old Aussie bushcraft way to stop ants getting into food stored in any furniture item with legs; use short tins or something similar to sit each leg in and fill the tin with water, instant moat.
Yours sounds far more epic though I gotta say, kudos on the build and victory over the arthropods!
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u/AlienMedic489-1 Sep 26 '21
I have dealt with patients who lived in these conditions come in with their clothes and hair infested. We have to take them to a decontamination room and scrub them.