3 Responses to Anyone in the Toronto area had luck getting rid of bed bugs?

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   muffett1 on January 27, 2012 at 11:33 pm

   we have never had them but a neighbour of ours had them 2 months ago
   she hired a professional to come & spray the house & they were gone after 2 treatments
   your better to hire cause stuff out in the stores just do not get rid of them

   good luck

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   cinnamon melt on January 28, 2012 at 12:19 am

   dont live in Toronto, but all you have to do is vacuum real real good, then empty out your vacuum bag or cup… also you can get an insecticide spray like the kind they make for headlice….but i don’t think that is necessary at all, and might cause more harm than good. A good vacumming should be sufficient.

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   ghost orchid on January 28, 2012 at 1:04 am

   I had one fumigation treatment, and when I still found fresh bites on my body I decided to wrap my mattresses in two layers of plastic paint dropcloths (from the hardware store), sealing the wrapping with green painter’s tape. I haven’t had a bite since, one year later!

   Because those suckers have a really long lifetime and can reproduce a lot, the challenge is starving them for about nine months, which means not letting them bite anyone. Since they primarily bite people at night, they’re probably finding you in bed, which is why trapping their bed population under plastic works so nicely. I used dropcloths because the plastic is really soft – I didn’t want to hear any crinkling while rolling around on my bed – but you could use anything that can securely wrap the mattresses.

   If you’ve already wrapped your mattresses, washed and dried all your clothes and bedding in hot water and a hot dryer (it’s the heat that kills them, not the water, so you can just use a dryer really) and vaccuumed like crazy and you’re *still* experiencing those nasty pests, I’d move! That, or try different bed bug pest professionals – someone who will turn every piece of furniture on end finding and fumigating those awful insects.

   Good luck!!!

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