If You Discover You Have Bed Bugs,

Sleep on the floor, they'll infest the rug. But furniture can be treated by an exterminator and saved..Don't toss your furniture out I know some people do, and if you live in New York City, you've probably seen couches and mattresses on the street, thrown away by bed bug victims.If you discover you have bed bugs, here is what to avoid. They will disappear into hallway, adjoining rooms, even inside the walls.What I am saying is that you have to stay in your bed, in your bedroom, in order to keep the infestation concentrated there. The rest will be waiting for you everywhere else.. Sleep in the guest room, and they'll lay eggs in the guest bed. If you start sleeping in front of the TV on the living room couch, they'll follow you there and infest the couch. That means that they will generally stay near the bed, or wherever it is you sleep. Eventually, some will return to your bedroom. Keeping them there means that it will be easier and cheaper for your bed bug exterminator to kill them. But what if the person who takes it lives in your own building? Now you've just spread the bugs to your neighbor's unit.Never use a "bug bomb" to treat bed bugs Bed bugs are very small, and they can run as fast as ants. Considering how expensive new furniture is, treating it will be cheaper than tossing it. Listen, if you don't know what you are doing, you won't kill them. As soon as they sense sense the fumes from the bomb, they will scurry away to escape. It goes for any kind of do-it-yourself pest control plan in which you don't know exactly what the consequences will be. It's often as easy as applying super-high temperature steam.don't sleep anywhere except your bed And don't move your bed out of the bedroom.You're going to hate me for saying this, but.This applies not just to bug bombs.And here's an even better self-serving reason for not tossing your furniture: If you put an infested sofa on the street in front of your building, someone is going to take it. Bed bugs are basically lazy, and they will not stray far from you - their food source - if they can help it. Now you don't just have one room to treat - you have your whole house. And if you live in an apartment or condo, they may invade the your neighbor's place. You'll just wind up chasing them away, and spreading them everywhere.. And from there, they can easily crawl.