Insulating a bed basically means cleaning the bed bugs from the mattress and bed linen, and then creating traps that prevent the rest of the bed in the room from crawling over the legs of your bed and re-infection. Isolating your bed will not spare you the problem with the mistake of your bed, but you can sleep again at night.
Before we begin ...
Fighter bugs in bed should be involved in this process. Fighters have chemicals that kill any bugs hidden on your mattress, box spring, headboard and frame. Thus, depending on what your technical pest control authority says, some of these steps may not be necessary for you. Again, before starting, clean up the next plan with an expert.
What you need
- A zipper with a zipper for your mattress, box springs and pillows. They are mostly big
- bags designed to hold dust mites inside the shell - but they also contain errors in bed. Find them at the allergy supply stores.
- Wide adhesive tape.
- Contractor's pallets trash bags (not lawn and leaf bags, but thick garbage calipers, at least two or three mil).
- Wide double-sided tape.
- A bed of lifts to lift your bed from the ground (these are small stands that you set up for the legs of your bed to lift it from the ground). Find them at your local bed and linen store. Note that if your frame is already high enough from the ground (for example, a foot or more), you do not need risers.
- Four metal bowls, large enough to accommodate bed lifts (in heavy plastic bowls are also good. In any case, they must be indestructible). Pet shops have nice metal bowls that are perfect for this.
- XXL Ziploc Bags
- Edible freshwater diatomaceous earth. Also known as DE, diatomaceous earth is an abrasive mineral powder that kills bugs and other insect horses, scratching their skins that dehydrate them (they die in a day or two). This material - the razor wire for bed bugs - they can crawl through it, but the damage they suffer is fatal. You can get DE everywhere: on the Internet, at your local garden center (gardeners use it to kill pests, sometimes labeled ant killer), or pet supply stores (food products scatter on pets to kill fleas). Make sure you don't get plastic in the form of diatomaceous earth - this is the wrong material. Also, take a dust mask when you are at Home Depot - you wear it when you spray around your bed. Note about DE: Considering it is generally safe, you need to carefully read the label and follow all safety instructions. Wear a dust mask or respirator when applying.
- Soap Murphy. Murphy is a wood cleaner made by Colgate-Palmolive, which also has pesticide properties. You can find it everywhere. Buy a spray bottle.
- New set of white sheets, pillowcases and covers. You are going to replace your existing bedding with new white bedding to better identify any fresh stains from fecal stains or blood.
- New pillows: your current may be infected, so let's start with new ones.
- Optional: something that kills mistakes in bed on contact. Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle will do this. You can dilute the alcohol a little to make it last longer - 9 parts alcohol, 1 part water.
Step 1: Clean Bed Linen and Bed Linen
First you need to get all the bedding out of bed — sheets, mattress, blanket, pillows, and pillowcases. All. They are infected with bugs in bed, so you need to immediately pour them into garbage bags and tie bags.
Now wash each item in hot water. Do not allow infected linens to touch other items of clothing or garments. Then dry them on a high (at least 140 degrees) for 4 hours or two complete drying cycles. When done, place each item in ZLLL XXL and seal it.
Put the cushions in the contractor’s bag, seal it and throw it in the trash. The cushion cleaning is thoroughly tough, so you better start with a new one.
Step 2: Vacuum mattress and box spring
Now you are going to clean the mattress and box spring from any bugs, eggs or larvae.
Take out the vacuum cleaner and clean the EACH INCH of your mattress. The gnash of the end of the vacuum mount is energetically above the harbor area better than using a brush, because the beetles are firmly pressed to the surface, and the eggs stick to it. Clean every inch of the surface, tufts around the edges and sides of the mattress. Lay it on the wall and vacuum the other side.
Clean the box spring as thoroughly. Spend this fake dust cloth on the bottom, seal it in a plastic bag and throw it away. Evacuate the insides, taking care to get each piece of cloth, as well as wooden frames and a support.
When you are done vacuuming, take the bag out of the vacuum, seal it in a plastic garbage bag and discard it. The vacuum bag will contain bugs in the bed and you do not want them to crawl.
Step 3: Clean the bed frame
If you have a metal frame, you are lucky because they are pretty easy to clean. Take the vacuum and clean all the corners and cracks. Pay special attention to internal corners, joints, areas where wheels are attached to the frame - any dark little corners where bugs can be hidden.
Spray it with alcohol to kill anything you missed. Use a caulk or adhesive tape to fill any holes or gaps between metal parts (folds in the seams in the holes and joints).
If your bed has some kind of hollow area (sometimes the legs are hollow), these are the ideal places to cross the beds. Spray the interior with alcohol and dry them.
If you have a headboard, you should get rid of it. The headboard is one of the most likely places where mistakes will hide and lay eggs, and if you have them, I can pretty much guarantee you that there are bugs on it. Put it in a plastic bag, put it in a trash can, put the paint on the bag with the words BED BUGS and insert it. (It is important to wrap the headboard in plastic before it leaves your bedroom. You don't need any mistakes by jumping in the corridor on the way to the door.)
If you have a wooden frame, you need to disassemble it and wash it with Murphy soap oil. Once you have disassembled the frame, dry it in the same way as with the mattress and the box spring. You may have to use a stiff brush to knock any eggs or bed bugs into corners and cracks. Now spray Murphy on the frame, making sure to spray it on all the cracks and crevices.
Step 4: Clean and prepare the floor around your bed.
When you reassemble the bed, you must place it away from the walls and furniture, so bed bugs have nothing to use as a bridge to re-lay your bed. As a rule, the best place is to position the bed towards the center of the room, the night stand, or the tables from it.
Gently dry the floor in the area under the bed. If you have carpets or rugs, I think you should drill them, put them in a garbage bag, close the bag tightly and put them in the garage or in storage for the next 18 months. But consult your fighter. Rugs can be evaluated using chemicals, so your call is about what to do.
Sprinkle over the floor that you just cleaned with a light DE spray. Do not pile, just use a baby powder bottle or some other plastic bottle that can fill a very light layer of material.
Warning: DE is almost lighter than air, and some practice is required to get used to. As with any pest control product, READ THE LABEL AND FOLLOW THE SAFETY MEASURES. Wear a dust mask or respirator when applying.
Step 5: Assemble the frame
Now assemble your bed frame and move it to the middle of the room, above the dusty field. Place the frame legs on the lifters and place the lifters in the bowls. In other words, the bowl is on the floor, the lift is in the bowl, and the bed frame is on the lift.
Wrap the plastic wrap around the legs of your bed (regular Saran Wrap fits this), then wrap the double-sided tape over the plastic wrap to catch all the broken bugs.
For extra protection, apply Vaseline on the legs above and below the double-sided tape. This is an old trick from the turn of the century, and another obstacle in order to dry up any bugs trying to get into your bed.
Place the case on the box spring. Place the spring box on the frame. Make sure you don’t tear up the room! Put the zipper on the case with duct tape. Use a lot of tape and stretch it four to six inches from the end of the zipper. You click on the zipper because the cribs are tiny and can slip through the zipper teeth.
Carefully place the mattress on the box spring. Gently pull on the case and seal it with a zipper.
Now it’s time to fill the bowls with soapy water. Bloody mistakes can not move through the soapy water, so it becomes like a smooth moat, protecting the legs of your bed.
Put your new white sheets on the bed, on top of the rooms. With the new sheets, you can see blood stains, fecal stains or ground bugs that could penetrate your defense.
Step 6: Perimeter Protection
Put three or four inches wide floor on the floor around the entire three-ply tape (make sure you vacuum in this area. So any bed traps crawling from outside your fortress will fall on the tape,
And finally, make sure you have DE dust that extends 12 inches around soapy water-filled bowls. You want to be sure that any mistakes that try to stand on these bowls must first go through the DE. Again, this should only be dust de. You should not see a lot of whiteness at all - thinner, better. More than that, and it will not work.
And you did! Feels good when offensive, right? If everything works as planned, you have cleaned the bed bugs from the bed, all that you missed is encased in ticks and shreds. Finally, a chance to sleep!
