http://bedbugger.com/forum/ Bed bug support forums en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:00:14 +0000 http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/moved-finger-cross#post-55595 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:08:42 +0000 BuggedInSomerville 55595@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>Yay, gotbugs! Sounds like you did everything as thoroughly as needed. As you may have read elsewhere, 55 days is generally cited as the point at which you can declare victory - but I feel like that applies more to people continuing to live in the originally-infested space. Still, though, to go 2.5 months without any signs... I think you did well. </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/moved-finger-cross#post-55592 Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:51:45 +0000 gotbugs 55592@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>It's been 2 months and 2 weeks since I moved. I haven't got any bites so far &#38; I haven't seen any sight of bed bugs. I'm still a little scared to think that I'm bug free. Is it possible for whatever bedbugs or nymphs to hide for 2 months and then come back? </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/moved-finger-cross#post-52519 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:54:39 +0000 gotbugs 52519@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>2 weeks, no bites, no sight of bugs! </p> http://bedbugger.com/forum/topic/moved-finger-cross#post-51799 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:14:24 +0000 gotbugs 51799@http://bedbugger.com/forum/ <p>So I moved out of the infested place a day after the final extensive spray. The exterminators claimed that the apartment should be fine from now. </p> <p>I did not take anything with me but clothes, kitchen stuffs and my TV. All the clothes I washed, dried for 2 hours. I did that 3 times and bagged them in vacuum bags. I moved one bag of clothes at a time to the new place, i.e. throwing them right away to the washer/dryer &#38; then put freshly dried clothes to the new place in new ziploc bags. Good thing that I didn't have a lot of clothes. </p> <p>I boiled hot water &#38; put all my kitchen stuffs in boiling water. All plastic stuffs I just threw them in the hot bath tub, changing water every 30 mins, for like 2 hours. </p> <p>Oh, I baked my shoes, all including the leather boots. I set the oven temp. at 170F &#38; left them in there for over an hour. One pair was destroyed :( but the rest was fine ... Hopefully. Then I packed them in plastic bin &#38; wrapped plastic bin in bag, sealed. </p> <p>Stuffs I couldn't boil like DVDs, or books I just tried to wipe of the surface &#38; packed them in zip bags. I will just leave them in there for as long as it takes to starve the bugs. </p> <p>Suitcase? I washed them in hot tube &#38; used the heat gun in my lab to dry it. Then bagged it in double bags. The heat gun was really really hot, it could burn your skin easily so I hope it was fine. </p> <p>3 days at the new place so far and no bites. I don't plan on buying any furniture till at least a month later. I'm just living off bags and air mattress right now. Oh I bought the DE also, mixed it w water and filled along the wall with it. </p> <p>Hope it's fine from now. :(</p> <p>BTW my landlord let me break the lease w/o lease breaking fee but they wont ever consider compensation for the loss of all furniture at the infested place. Oh well </p>