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Hauling infested furniture.
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spideyjg
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Posted 11 months ago
Fri Apr 10 2009 14:33:18
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Long story short our infestation came from my wifes son and girlfriend who stayed with us. They are still battling their bugs and my wife wants to use my truck to haul their infested couch and loveseat to the dump.
As you can imagine anytime she goes over there I get the willies and despite all my defenses and prep I really worry about getting reinfested. I'm hesitant about it all around because I don't think they will take sufficient precautions. She is gonna drop off the roll of thing plastic wrap to mummify it.
Anyhow I am debating getting a roll of 10' X 100" 6mil plastic sheeting and making an additional huge "bag" to put the items in or hiring a professional junk hauler but the quandry is this stuff is infested.
I'm really skeeved about handling infested crap but letting someone else do it bothers me too.
Jim
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Posted 11 months ago
Fri Apr 10 2009 16:40:14
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There was a pro junk haulage firm rep 1-800-got-junk who responded in the comments to an item on the blog.
She claimed their workers know how to seal a bed bug infested mattress, so perhaps they also know what to do with a sofa. (And they should then know how to avoid becoming infested themselves, we would hope.) They may even be able to seal it for you. If they're in your area.
If it ultimately ends up that people are salvaging such items at the junkyard, then I don't think there's much you can do.
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allinmyhead
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Posted 11 months ago
Sun Apr 12 2009 8:57:44
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You need to "ruin" the piece of furniture so nobody takes it out of the garbage dump/off your sidewalk garbage pick up.
In other words, pour ketchup on it (a favorite technique of a professional bedbug fighter). Or something else that will stain and smell, and make the mattress/couch so ugly they won't want to take it.
It also helps to break it -- take a chainsaw to it, slash the pillows and armrests, etc. -- again, this will make it undesireable to salvagers.
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