[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Bedbugs!! (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 12/29/2016 3:14:37 PM EDT
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So my daughter goes to a youth retreat in Gatlinburg, TN and we get a call from her and her friend that the hotel the church group stayed in has bedbugs. She will be home at 6PM this evening and we are in full assault mode. We have large plastic trash bags for her luggage and we will tie it to the roofrack for the ride home from the church. We will have a full change of clothes for her to get into before we leave the church. The clothes she is wearing will also be tied to the roofrack. The interior of my car (FJ Cruiser) is all plastic, no carpeting anywhere. We live in the country so we will let her get out of the car about 100 yards from the house, drop off all her clothes in the driveway and proceed straight to the shower to use special soap we just bought. We will leave all her belongings in the driveway until they can be separated, checked and washed in the hottest water known to mankind.
Anyone else have experience with this crap? Now i just wish Gatlinburg went ahead and burned completely to the ground last month. It would have been easier. |
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Dryer kills. They don't tend to stay on skin, so she should be fine once cleaned and changed. I would throw everything into the dryer on high. I would double bag everything. Tightly. Get some beg bug spray. Reopen bags, spray, reseal. Let sit until next summer. Set bags in August sunshine. Jan 1 , 2018, unseal, wash and dry on high for an hour. |
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Seriously? Bedbugs and their eggs aren't that hard to kill. Washing clothes and bedding with permethrin added to the wash water will kill them both. for me clothes are not expensive enough to have to make that much of a hassle about it. then again i buy clothes for myself about once every 1-2 years  
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Stayed in a hotel in Illinois once. Found bedbugs. Took all my clothes to a commercial laundry and told them wash in hottest water and dry on hottest cycle they had, then press everything. Threw away suitcases and bought new. Bought new clothes to change into and then threw away the ones I wore that day.
None followed me home, thank God. |
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Just throw everything out. That's the safest bet. Your strategy is sound and I'll add use the dryer first to heat the bugs up and kill them before you wash them. If possible, quarantine her items in sealed bags for a month or so, hell, maybe longer, then dryer, then wash. Those bastards can live a long time without food. |
| You guys are being a little overdramatic about these bedbugs. Special soap? Take all your crap and throw it in garbage bags. Dry it on high, wash then redry. Heat kills them and the eggs. For the big stuff such as luggage etc, you can toss it or you can soak it with rubbing alcohol and leave it in a trash bag for a week or so then let it dry outside in the garage. These things are fairly easy to get rid of, ive treated a friends house with tractor supply concentrated bug spray, dichotomus earth and throwing out the vector couch and never saw a single remaining bug. I personally wouldn't worry much about it. Having your daughter walk naked 100 yards from the house to the house is in my list of top 3 stupidest things ive ever heard another human say. |
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If you get them they are nearly impossible to get rid of. I worked in the hotel industry and we would remove and destroy everything in an affected room.
Carpet out and padding too. Heat and cold kill them. A mattress 'bag' that encloses the bed in a plastic bag basically is a good way to at least save the bed but it has to go on before the bugs arrive. |
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for me clothes are not expensive enough to have to make that much of a hassle about it. then again i buy clothes for myself about once every 1-2 years It's just something I keep on hand, and ordinarily have a hudson sprayer ready to go for any developing pest problem. |
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Those little bastards can hitch a ride on anything, clothes, luggage, etc. Bedbugs in the early nymph stages are almost impossible to see with the naked eye, so it'd be hard to tell if there are any on your stuff. What I would do:
1. Trash bags, lots of them. Double bag everything from the trip. She needs to change before getting in the car. Problem, if she (and others) changes at church, the church could become infested and people will take bugs home with them from church. 2. Everything bagged stays bagged. Launder clothes at laundromat. Wash/dry on hot will kill and get rid of anything. Leave luggage double bagged and sealed. Heat kills bedbugs. It takes over a year for them to starve, so heat first and a lot of time next. 3. Don't panic. Just pretend everything from the trip is contaminated and don't let it touch anything else and you'll be fine. Most likely, the bugs stayed in the hotel, just be careful what touches what. |
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The actual suitcase will be moved to the barn for a long time in a sealed trash bag. It will be 300 yards from the house. The only thing going into the house tonight is my daughter. Everything else stays outside. i like the idea of taking the bagged clothing to a laundrymat. Run it through a commercial dryer on hot for about $10 worth. Then wash it and dry it again. Good suggestion.
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I'd rent a car to get her. Return it to Hertz full of your abandoned shit, shave everyone's heads and strip naked in the lot before getting in the FJ to drive it to death valley to heat it appropriately. I'm dying laughing!! Almost collapsed to the floor I'm laughing so hard. |
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My dad had bedbugs at his apartment. He was whining for weeks about how itchy he was getting in his sleep. So I go over and check his sheets for bedbugs.
It looked like someone had been murdered on his bed, black blood everywhere. When the exterminator showed up he said that he had never seen them that big.  . Funnily enough when I was talking to the exterminator he revealed himself to be an honest to god 22 rim fire hoarding neckbeard who shared his secrets of acquiring absurdly large amounts of 22 with me. 
Double application of exterminator grade poison and scalding hot wash and high temp drying of every shred of cloth in the house. Along with throwing out several peices of furniture. It was a problem we dealt with but ye gods I lost the last shred of respect for my fathers sanity when I saw all that blood on his bed and those dime sized bugs. How the hell could he not notice that!!! He ain't senile yet. |
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I'd rent a car to get her. Return it to Hertz full of your abandoned shit, shave everyone's heads and strip naked in the lot before getting in the FJ to drive it to death valley to heat it appropriately. I think I will do this. This made a crappy situation sound very funny. Thanks |
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In past years when I've traveled a lot, I would put my luggage in a trashbag as soon as I got back to the airport, and keep it in my car, just bringing the clothes in to wash immediately when I walked in the door.
I think EVERY hotel gets them sometimes. They just stay quiet about it. More than once I've seen pest remediation services parked in the back of a hotel, working on a particular room. |
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I don't hear anything. What do they sound like?  Oh the irony... Attached File |
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I was in Salinas Ecuador and they ate me alive the first nite. The only thing I did was the clothes I wore the next morning I zip locked. Hotel came in during day while I was fishing and replaced bed, sheets, and mattress. No problem after that. Hey what would you expect for a 4 star hotel in a third world country. . |
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Bedbugs don't discriminate. They're not limited to infesting the lower-grade hotels. Bedbugs have been found both at the Waldorf=Astoria and The Plaza hotels in NYC.
And yet another reason I love living up north. I can just leave the shit outside, and the little buggers will die after a few Michigan winter nights. |