Category: laundry
By nobugsonme on Apr 4, 2008 in bed bugs, bedbugs, dissolving laundry bags, laundry, useful stuff | 9 Comments
This post mentions a product — Green Clean Dissolvable Laundry Bags — currently only available to the public via one supplier (Cooper Pest’s Bed Bug Central, which will be obvious from the URL included in the video).
I have not actually tried this product, though it does look like fun! Apparently, you seal your […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 16, 2008 in bed bugs, bedbugs, laundry, photos | 0 Comments
my lovely bedroom
Originally uploaded by mangy_cur
Scene’s from a Bedbugger’s life: the bedroom of bags.
By nobugsonme on Jan 10, 2008 in affordable housing, bed bug spread, bed bug treatment, cincinnati, cincinnati department of public health, city policies, elderly, eliminate bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, joyce jones, laundry, low-income housing, northern kentucky, ohio, puclic health, senior apartments, seniors, smuel blackmon, stanley rowe | 2 Comments
Cincinnati held a meeting yesterday about bed bugs. Channel 9 (ABC) said yesterday:
The Cincinnati Metropolitan Housing Authority will show the Health, Environment and Education Committee a presentation on the pests.
Officials said bed bugs are a big problem in the city’s public housing, which is overseen by the Housing Authority.
According to Channel 12, Cincinnati politicians […]
By nobugsonme on Jan 6, 2008 in 2010 Winter Olympics, Bloor Street, Paula Fletcher, The Star, Toronto City Council, bed bug dog, bed bug protocol, bed bug task force, bed bugs, bed bugs and health, bed bugs and public health, bedbugs, boston, canada, cincinnati, downtown eastside, get rid of bed bugs, getting rid of bed bugs, health, health department, laundry, london, new york city, notifying tenants, nyc, ontario, politicians, purity pest control, san francisco, south of bloor, toronto, vancouver | 0 Comments
Jennifer Brown of The Star reports that Toronto politician Paula Fletcher is agitated about bed bugs–and trying to do something about them.
She wants the health department to investigate whether they’re a health hazard:
Toronto Councillor Paula Fletcher (Ward 30, Toronto-Danforth) has received so many calls from constituents she’s asked the health department to declare them a […]
By nobugsonme on Nov 2, 2007 in Huffington Post, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, bloggers, dealing with bed bugs, exterminator, how to get rid of bed bugs, how to kill bed bugs, humor, laundry, living with bed bugs, media, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, pest control, prep, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, signs and symptoms, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 3 Comments
Somehow I got behind on Nicholas Brown’s bed bug saga; two more installments have appeared.
He posted volume 3 last week, which chronicles the “laundry and first treatment” phase. Somewhat unconventionally, Brown as his roommates Katherine and Jihad had not done much prep before their PCO showed up. He was kind enough […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 12, 2007 in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, chairs, clothing, dry cleaning, dryer, laundry, mattresses, sofas, spread, tips, workplace | 11 Comments
A reader writes,
Hello,
I found your site and wanted to ask a question. I rent an NYC apartment and it has been confirmed by an exterminator that we have bed bugs. I am wondering about the transportation of bed bugs. For example, I work in a corporate office…What are the odds that I’ve […]
By nobugsonme on Oct 9, 2007 in EMTS, Rentokil, bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, england, firefighters, furniture, hospitals, journalist, laundry, london, mattresses, northern ireland, ohio, police, scotland, spread, tips, tossing stuff out, treatment, uk, usa, used furniture, wales, workplace | 1 Comment
Monday’s Daily Telegraph featured a long article on bed bugs in the UK. Overall it was a typical story of the spread of bed bugs in Britain, and coming as it does from a well-respected source, it is a good thing. I was, however, disappointed in some of the information provided.
First, the journalist […]
By nobugsonme on Aug 1, 2007 in apartmenttherapy, bed bugs, bedbugs, clothing, cooper, laundry, multi-unit buildings, new york, nyc, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, treatment | 1 Comment
Apartment Therapy has ended the suspense with the seventh installment of their “Bed bugs Take Manhattan” report on Amanda’s bed bug saga.
Amanda has now had (apparently) one treatment and one follow-up treatment from Metro Pest. (Their protocol is listed here.)
Apartment therapy’s Maxwell has the idea that “you have to keep the clothing out” of […]
By nobugsonme on Jul 23, 2007 in bed bug dog, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, connecticut, furniture, government, laundry, low-income housing, multi-unit buildings, new haven, news, prevention, professional pest-control services: reviews, suggestion, public education, public housing, treatment, treatment preparations, usa | 0 Comments
More on the New Haven case described here on Friday.
A more recent article from News 8 in New Haven suggests that the
The infestation started in one unit and moved to 14 other apartments. The city paid for hotel rooms so the professionals could come in and steam clean room by room, bed by […]
By nobugsonme on Jun 26, 2007 in PERC, bagging, bed bug prep, bed bugs, bedbugs, clothing, dry cleaning, green dry cleaners, laundry, treatment | 20 Comments
Experts recommend washing and drying clothes on hot or dry cleaning them, and keeping them sealed in bags for the duration of treatment. The dry cleaning idea brings up a problem: you must tell the dry cleaners about the bed bugs before giving them your sealed-in-a-bag clothes.
A reader asked,
Did you have problems […]
By nobugsonme on May 18, 2007 in backpacking, bed bugs, bedbugs, books, clothing, consumer, eggs, heat, ice, information and help, laundry, mattresses, multi-unit buildings, reader questions, research, technological advances, thermal, tools and weapons, treatment, treatment preparations | 54 Comments
Subtitle: killing the little b@#$%^&s
Laundry
This FAQ started out with the title: “Heat and bed bugs: 5 minutes in a dryer– really? Say it’s so!” The first part outlines my reaction to a brief article, and the second answers many of my questions with a more detailed article. I realize this is kind […]