Have you ever experienced any insect bites at night time? Bed bugs actually like to hide in crevices and seams on your mattress. You must remove these bed bugs from your mattress and all around the house before it becomes a bigger dilemma. Here are some ways and steps on how to deal with the bed bugs from your San Diego mattress.
Getting rid of bed bugs from a mattress
Here’s a step by step directions below to get rid of bed bugs from your mattress.
- Quarantine your bed. Place a bed bug catcher cups under each of the bed’s feet and push it away from the wall. Each cups has insecticide, which kills and traps bed bugs that might try to climb the bed and up to its legs. Make sure that nothing touches the floor, besides the feet in the interceptor cups. Stop using beddings that touch the floor.
- Eliminate any bed bugs on the headboard and bed frame, and also focus carefully on cracks. If you are going to use pesticide sprays, read the whole direction before applying it. Insecticides can be dangerous if misused.
- Eliminate pillowcases, sheets, and every removable cover. Don’t forget to put them in garbage bags to prevent them from spreading going to the washing machine. Wash and clean it all in hot water.
- Throw away your pillow. Then vacuum thoroughly and carefully using the hose attachment. Pay close attention to the indentations, seams, and crevices that bed bugs love to lurk in. Clear the vacuum cleaner bag outdoor and wash the container to be sure no bed bugs are left hiding inside.
- There are very special mattress protectors that go all around the mattress — putting your mattress in a bed bug proof casing. Made of a unique material which bed bugs are helpless to bite through and its zipper made to be so tight, even the tiniest bed bug cannot get out. We need to keep the cover for at least one year. To make sure all the bed bugs and their eggs have been eliminated from the mattress. Keep in mind, a bed bug can last for months without eating.
- Clean and vacuum the carpet and floor completely. Check thoroughly in other locations of your bedroom and all areas of your home for bed bugs. Redo this step regularly, and keep in mind, any laid eggs will be maturing anytime, so you need to stay alert.
Even though it’s time-consuming to remove the bed bugs from your mattress, it’s not easy to get rid of it on your own. You may want to consider contacting a pest control expert who has lots of knowledge exterminating bed bugs.
The best alternative:
Encasing your mattress for a year is a long time, you may want to purchase a new mattress in San Diego. A brand-new mattress will definitely give you peace of mind when you sleep. No bed bugs biting you at night, and just having a good night’s sleep very comfortably. Mattress Sale Liquidators has all kinds of linens and mattresses to recommend and help stop bed bug invasions in the future. Visit the store right away.