to flamethrower my house (bedbugs)? HELP

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DD has been getting bitten loads at night, DS who she shares with not at all.

Just went to change their beds (DH normally does it) and noticed blood spots on his bed, which I know to be a bad sign.

Pulled his sheet back and there was one, squished it and it left a blood spot so definitely was.

Can someone explain to me in basic terms what I should do now?

Put everything from their room in bin bags? Boil wash all clothes? Buy new beds, or will getting the place fumigated mean they're salvageable?

DS brought them back from a school trip, three days after he returned we were warned the place had bed bugs and to open luggage outside and boil wash, after we had all merrily unpacked inside

My son brought them home from a hotel stay down south one time. I was HORRIFIED.
I bought one of those bedbug proof mattress covers. Steam cleaned his mattress and put it in the cover.
I stream cleaned his bed frame, it was wood and metal though not fabric. I paid most attention to the joins. Then I sprayed everything with bed bug killer. Sprinkled the whole thing with diatomaceous earth then put the mattress back on. I wrapped the legs of the bed with double sided tape and pulled it out to middle of the room so it wasnt touching anything. The buggers cant fly or jump so need to walk. They get stuck on the tape going up the bed legs to reach the human.
I steamed all along the baseboard and round socket plates. All picture frames and furniture. Them I steam cleaned the hardwood floor. Sprinkled everything with diatomaceous earth.
We dont have a boil wash feature here so I washed his sheets in as hot a wash as I could with colour safe bleach then put in the drier on hot. Then put them in the freezer for 3 weeks. The pillows I threw out after bagging them in the room and tying the bag tight then straight into the outside bin.
Washed his clothes same as the sheets and they went into the freezer too. ( luckily I have a MASSIVE freezer)
I vacuumed and steam cleaned the floor every day for about 2 weeks and sprinkled everything with diatomaceous earth daily.
I never found another, even the tape on the bed legs didnt pick any up. I had gotten them before they got too well established thank god

If you have several hundred pounds to throw at the problem you can get people to come and heat your house up, which we did and works well.

We’ve had them twice, two years apart (joys of living in a tenement), but had little/no cash to throw at the problem—we bought smoke bombs/foggers online, stripped the beds and stood the mattresses up against the walls, same with sofa cushions etc and went out for a couple of hours when we set them off. After a week we did it again (something to do with bed bug lifecycle—this way you get the babies too, apparently).

For clothes etc, we bagged them all up (made sure they were properly sealed) and went through them tumble drying them on hot for an hour/load.

Time-consuming, but it did the trick! Though I’m sure it would absolutely be worth paying someone else to handle it if that’s an option for you.

Contact your local council and see if they treat them, they will sometimes do this for free.
I would put some mattress covers on for now and wash all clothes at 60 you can also tumble dry already dry clothes to kill them.

I wouldn't move furniture about too much or throw mattresses until you have sought advice and it is under control.

Thanks all.

I have just spent £80 on Amazon buying powders, sprays, bombs and zip on mattress protectors. Have stripped beds, emptied drawers and have five bin bags of clothes to wash.

queerfam we are planning exactly as you did, I think it's the stripping it back and repeated treatments that will do it.

I am dreading flipping the divans over, will use the bomb, spray and powder on them.

Luckily we live near an IKEA so will buy them new duvets and pillows, cost the same as using the big machines at the launderette.

If nothing else is an incentive for the kuds to keep the room tidier!

I feel vile though, so itchy and just generally yuck, poor DD (12) is absolutely covered in bites and has been suffering for weeks :(

Hi there, I know its an old thread but I'm really struggling with bed bug issue at the moment, pest control did fumigation twice , which didn't work , me and dh has been doing steaming and hoovering and using bed bug spray but I'm very scared of using more of the insecticide at home as I have 8 months old baby who loves to crowl everywhere. We still seeing 1 or 2 bed bug a day randomly and also dd got a bitten mark on her foot today after 2 weeks of no bite. I'm very tired of all of the situation. If you can kindly help me and tell me how you got rid of the issue.
This is my very first post and I'm hoping to get some answers.
Thankyou.