Help! Bedbugs! How did you get rid of yours?

[Milkandacookie]

I've found out I've been somewhere that had bed bugs and have got quite anxious that I might have them now.

I thought it was unlikely but yesterday I had 4 bites all near each other.

I'm already going quite anxious reading about how hard it is to get rid of them. We have very little money or I'd just give an exterminator my bank card... I'm also aware anyone can buy a spray/heater and set themselves up so if we do have to pay someone it needs to work.

Has anyone ever had bedbugs? How did you get rid of them?

We have a small house and no garage so not a lot of working space.

I'm terrified.

Oh it sounds like heat is the better (but more expensive) option but only if done correctly.

I can't afford anything and am now hoping we don't have them I've just got midge bites and didn't pick them up where I went.... I was there 4 hours.

I've put a bug detector in the bed and no evidence yet....

I do hope nothing else in the house is biting me!!

You say you want a local service, where are you based?

Please don't hope it just goes away - it absolutely doesn't and every day you wait there is a good chance you'll tread the eggs into another room. And the eggs can be dormant for months, even half a year. We were required to have someone sleep in the infested room every night to keep activating all the eggs post fumigation.

Bur you can't treat without evidence and I don't have any! They might need to reporidve a bit (shudder) as I've likely just brought 1or 2 in.

@Milkandacookie Have you find any bugs by now? I'm very worried as my family has came back from a hotel that has bed bugs.

Oh no Nets 😔.

I've reread my thread and I can feel the panic in my messages and remember that sense of going round in circles and not being sure who to trust.

Thankfully we didn't have them. The house I'd visited was very infested and I couldn't believe we didn't have them as I'd had bites. I got some detectors from a London site that looks the most reputable le and Id have used if I'd been in London and we have those in the bed and under the sofa.

Apparently it's not uncommon for people to be sure they've got bugs when they haven't and many places will come out and spray but this london place won't until there's evidence - they show you how to find evidence (if there's bugs there's poo basically) and these detectors make a little home for some and you'd see their poo.

However I am worried as that person I visited went to hospital for some time and in the mean time their house sorted but having recently come home still has bugs. The people the housing ass have used for her are coming back today....

But I think it was so infested she's fighting a losing battle. The pest control person showed her bugs and eggs...

And she's coming over Xmas 😬. I am so nervous she will bring them with her and not too sure how to handle that. She won't come in the living room, just the kitchen as its just for the meal and we can clean but it only takes one...

https://www.bed-bugs.co.uk/product/passive-bed-bug-monitors/

This is the site I quite liked and these are the monitors I got. A lady who used to work here runs a fb group and spent quite a bit of time with me helping me wrt my relative which was kind of her.

@Milkandacookie I was reading up on these monitors yesterday but not sure how it works. How do you use it? So you didn't get anyone out yet because you didn't find any evidence?

Regarding your relative, I would like uncomfortable too for her to visit.

I used a company called ThermoPest based in London, they were great from start to finish and got the job done in a day.