We’ve had them thanks to the cunt bitch who sold her house to us, fucking infested with the things. Incredibly stressful BUT not that expensive to deal with (maybe now with the cost of electricity in terms of all the boil washing). Don’t get a smoke bomb type company to fumigate, it just spreads them. Don’t drag your mattress out of the room: it’s all about containment. Need to wee in the night? Strip off your pyjamas and go naked, they travel on clothes. If you’re moving clothes and bedding to the washing machine, stuff it all in a bin bag, including what you’re wearing, while inside the room, and take it to the machine: you can buy dissolving bags so then you don’t have to empty the bin bag and risk one getting loose, you just put the whole thing in the machine. Boil wash. Tumble dry. Fuck the environment, this is war.
Pull the bed away from the wall: they don’t fly, they CLIMB the walls and drop on your face in the night. They like the CO2 you emit when breathing. You want them to climb the bed instead (well, “want”). You spread a ring of diatomaceous earth around the bed, around the bed frame, all over it, and you are now the bait: they’ll crawl and climb through it to get to you, and get desiccated by the diatomaceous earth.
The eggs can also be destroyed by heat, so before you put the earth on it, go over your whole bed frame and mattress carefully with a hairdryer on very hot. Remember to strip before leaving the room after you do this.
Basically heat, containment, human bait, diatomaceous earth, regular nudity. Cheap but stressful. Never sit on the tube again.