Bed Bugs in Your Furniture

Although their name is Bed Bugs, they will be happy making a home in other pieces of furniture, particularly sofas and Lazy Boy furniture. If you like curling up someplace cozy, bed bugs like to be right alongside of you. If you are a reader and have books on the night table, those bed bugs might just start reading War and Peace with you.

The question is, “Should I throw out my furniture, bedframe and mattress?” It sounds like the easiest way to get rid of the bugs but Heat Treatment s your best defense as I will explain below.

Two things you need to do if you opt to throw your furniture out. First, please, please, please mark it with an X or spray it with paint so that no one else will pick it up thinking that it is a nice piece of furniture. Warn others that the items have bed bugs. Second, try to wrap it up before you drag it through your house as a few bugs may fall off and now your problem is no longer in just one room.

All too often, people have thrown out all their furniture and still have bed bugs. This means that the bed bugs are hiding in the narrow cracks between the baseboard and floor or other tiny spaces where they can lay their eggs and still come out at night to a nice bite to eat.

Fast Action and HEAT are your Best Defense Against Bed Bugs

Now that you believe you have bed bugs, you need to get on top of them before they are on top of you. There are several actions you can take on your own while researching treatments, all of which are laborious and are unlikely to be completely effective.   Take note that bed bugs can settle and live in any part of your home. However, they prefer staying near their host – you. So, if you have any pieces of furniture with these bugs, it is necessary that you immediately take action and prevent these pests from multiplying.

Regardless if your home is clean or cluttered, these bugs will live and build their colony in your home once they get inside. Just like dealing with bed bug-infested mattresses, the following are things you can do to deal with infested pieces of furniture:

• VACUUM: One way to prevent the spread of bed bugs is by capturing them using a HEPA vacuum. These are special vacuums that contain bed bugs and their eggs inside the vacuum and prevent them from spreading across your home. Clean out the filter immediately and dispose of the garbage bag.
• STEAM CLEANER. Using clothes steamer from your local hardware store to kill bed bugs upon contact and sanitize the furniture.
• POWDERS and SPRAYS: Dusting with diatomaceous earth or bed bug spraying can help reduce the bed bug population

Now for the Heat Treatment

This is about the time people call me in a panic. They have been using every trick in the book to try and deal with the bed bugs on their own. They have often read that heat treatment is the most effective and fastest treatment but we under the impression that it would cost thousands of dollars. If you live in an apartment or a condominium, before Bed Bugs Dead Bugs offered heater rental, it was impossible to heat treat apartments above 5 stories.

What Not To Do if You Have Bed Bugs

The University of Minnesota offers a great little video on what not to do when you have a bed bug infestation.