Moving is one of the stressful enough work already. Packing up all your belongings, dealing with the moving company, planning out the decor of your new place, etc. are a headache on their own. Among all this chaos, you do not want additional trouble such as bed bugs to join your list. If you had bed bugs in your residence (with or without your knowledge), chances are they are coming with you to your new home.
Bed bugs are great hitchhikers. They can latch on to basically everything and travel a great distance. Another thing they are good at is hiding. You won’t know there are hundreds of bed bugs inside your suitcase until there are some obvious signs. To remove them, it is best to hire professional bed bug pest control services in Bangalore. Given the abilities of these pests, they can move with you while you are switching places. Here are few methods to prevent them from bringing with you:
Throw the Mattress or Treat Them
Most bed bugs live inside the mattress so that they can be as close to you during your sleep. Bringing your old mattress to your new place is the best way for them to travel. The best straightforward method is to simply throw away the mattress. But, you also have to be careful while throwing, so that no other person gets the bed bugs from that mattress.
If you want your old mattress to go with you, you can have them treated before you move. There are several treatment methods you can apply to eliminate the bed bugs from the mattress, such as:
· Pesticide: Pesticides having pyrethroids or permethrin can be sprayed on the mattress to kill these pests.
· Heat: You can heat the room where the mattress is or pass heat through the mattress to kill the bed bugs
· Encasing: You can cover the mattress with an encasement to stop the bed bugs from coming out. This will guarantee that the bed bugs hiding in the mattress won’t infest your new home. Also, make sure you brush the surface of the encasement before loading it into the moving vehicle.
Clean your Clothes and Seal Them
Bed bugs can latch on to anything including our clothes. Cleaning or laundering our clothes is the most efficient way to get rid of bed bugs. Water while cleaning and high heat while drying, have been proven to kill bed bugs. Here are the proper steps to do it:
· Make batches of all your clothes so that none of them is left behind
· Clean them with detergent (which also kills bed bugs)
· Use high heat to dry the clothes. If you don’t have a drier, hang the clothes in the sun so far up that bed bugs can’t reach them
· Once dried, use plastic bags or plastic box with lids that click when locked, to seal the clothes
Sealing is very important because if you keep your clothes in a drawer after cleaning them, chances are bed bugs will crawl and lay eggs on them. This goes for a fact that bed bugs also live in furniture. Not only clothes, but you can also use this method to store any material that can be cleaned or laundered. If you want to effectively exterminate bed bugs from your furniture and home, you will have to call techsquadteam for professional bed bug control services in Bangalore.
Treat the Whole House before Moving
If you do not want to take any bed bugs with you to your new home, you have to kill all of them before moving. For quick and effective extermination, you can hire professional pest control services, or, you can try few methods yourself to kill them.
If you are thinking of pesticides, it might not be much suitable, as pesticides take weeks or even months to kill each of those bugs. On the other hand, heat treatment proves to be a more effective and quick way to kill them. If the heat is high enough, it can kill the bed bugs within hours.
One more reason to do the whole house treatment is to get a good resale value. A treated house will fetch more resale value than a regular one. If you are staying in a rented apartment, treating the whole house could get you your deposit back. Nonetheless, treating the whole house before moving is a good thing to do and the new owners will appreciate the effort.