How To Do A Bedbugs Treatment London

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One of the reasons behind the growing menace of bedbugs is that these creatures are great travellers and get easily transferred from one place to another through luggage, clothes, bedding and furniture. If you feel you have a bedbug infestation, there are numerous ways to get bedbugs treatment London.

The easiest would be to spray the bedbugs with rubbing alcohol. It kills them on the spot and it can also be brushed onto the eggs to stop further infestation. After doing this you can call the exterminator to take care of any further bedbugs treatment London that is required.

If you have items that have been affected by the bedbugs, you can bag and launder (120°F minimum) them. Small items that cannot be washed can be de-infested by heating. Individual items, for instance, can be covered in plastic and positioned in a hot, sunny place for a few days. Bedbugs also die at cold temperatures below freezing, but the chilling period has to be provided for at least two weeks and so this will take very long. Certain items that have been heavily affected may also need to be discarded.

Another way is to point ...
... steam at them. You can get a simple device that generates steam, from your local hardware store. You can also alter an electric kettle into a steaming machine by connecting a flexible tube to it. Steaming will kill all bedbugs and their eggs but make sure that you thoroughly spray it at all the corners and seams.

You can also vacuum your whole house to remove the bugs and eggs from beds, rug, walls and other surfaces. Pay specific attention to cracks, joints, tufts and the edges of mattresses as bedbugs easily hide in these areas. Later, throw away the vacuum contents in a closed garbage bag.

Since bedbugs hide in cracks and small areas, you can also repair any cracks in plaster and glue the loose parts of the wallpaper to remove bedbug harbourage sites. Remove any wild animal roosts and bird nests around your house when possible.

Pesticide application can also be done but it can be harmful to the people living in the house. To get a safe pesticide application done you must enlist the help of a commercial pest control London service. Experienced companies can identify where to look for the pests and have a variety of management tools to use. The occupants may need to help the commercial pest control London service and allow admission for assessment and treatment of the infestation.

You may also use silica gel. You can grind up some crystal silica gel and put it in areas of your bedroom, like around the mattress and the bed and also along the walls. The fine silica gel will get stuck to the bedbugs and it can’t be shaken off. This will cause the bug to dehydrate and slowly die. But before putting it in the room make sure that children and pets do not enter it. It can be extremely harmful when consumed or inhaled. As an alternative, you can also use a natural dehydrating element called Diatomaceous Earth, but make sure you ask for the "Food Grade" variant. It has the same effect as silica gel but is safe and contact with it is not hazardous for your children and pets.

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