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Adele
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Posted 8 months ago
Mon Mar 16 2009 13:17:29
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I'm getting ready to move (not for bedbug reasons - I'm over my infestation) but I found a better apartment much cheaper
But I am not taking any chances and have been running my Packtite daily to treat all my stuff just in case
As for weird stuff - I just finished treating my vacuum cleaner - it's one of those compacts that can be taken apart
(i've also successfully treated my printer as well)
this unit is amazing - I think you should be on "The Big Idea" with Donny Deutsch!
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MyWorstFear
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Posted 8 months ago
Mon Mar 16 2009 18:50:38
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Waves to Adele...How have you been? How will you transport all your things? If you use a moving van, won't you have to packtite everything all over again? Not exactly the same subject, but I just spoke to someone who told me despite desperately needing a new mattress, she is terrified of getting a new one because of what it could pick up on the delivery truck. That is from someone who never had bed bugs but knows what I went through.
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Adele
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Mon Mar 16 2009 21:24:20
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Hiya 'Fear!!! I miss our online chats - I've been so busy - so lots of waves and hugs right back attcha
I am very concerned about both the moving truck and the new apartment - as you can imagine I learned the hard way that these things are not picky - they'll be in nice high-rises as well as tenement walk-up buildings
But I've gone through the worst that these creepy monsters can throw and I beat them so I am not scared about ever getting them again since I'll know what to do right away and with my trusty steamer, Packtite and KillerQuees on speed dial I know i will be ok
regarding the move - I spoke at length with Killerqueen and as usual he was very generous with both his time and advice. He said that it's the moving blankets that I need to be concerned with most, but I am talking to a couple of companies about how they treat their truck for bedbugs .
KQ suggested that I buy my own moving blankets and/or use my own blankets to move. as for my stuff it is all being heat treated and then I will pack them in contractor bags before the stuff goes into the boxes
KQ is going to treat the new apartment before I move in and then he wants me to wait a few weeks before I caulk and seal the floor/wall boards
I am determined to live my life normally - well almost - I don't think my bed will ever go up against a wall again and for now I still have it isolated
but it's all I can do
as for your friend - I bought a new mattress from Sleepys and it came completely sealed in heavy guage plastic. I spoke to the delivery guys and they told me that they use a completely different fleet of trucks to deliver mattresses than they do to pick them up
At least with SLeepys - in fact you have to schedule old mattress pickup in advance as it will not be done at time of delivery
also -I had the delivery guys encase my mattress as soon as it was unsealed
if you tell your friend these things she will not have a problem. Actaully the delivery guys were pretty savvy to bedbugs - they told me that they dont even enter into apartment that they are informed may be infested - they leave the bed by the door
I think your friend will be ok
talk soon!!!
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Posted 8 months ago
Mon Mar 16 2009 22:51:12
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Adele,
You are definetly one of our favorite customers. People on this blog will think you are an undercover operative for packtite. Thanks again.
As you and others have probably noticed we now have a banner ad on this site and I encourage all who wish to buy a unit to click through the ad to do so as this gives this great website (bedbugger.com)some operating $$.
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Posted 8 months ago
Mon Mar 16 2009 23:02:38
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Hi Adele,
Thank you for the Sleepy's information. I got my mattress from them 5+ more years ago, but back then bed bugs weren't that common (at least not like on every corner!) and the same guys who delivered, took my old mattress away on the same truck. So, I will definitely pass on the information.
Have you heard that ad for Duxiana? I crack up every time I hear it! For those who haven't, they talk about a woman who's had the same Duxiana bed and mattress for 50 years! How it'll last another gazillion years and how people in Sweden pass their beds on to their relatives when they die! Not if the bed bugs find it first! Do they not have bed bugs in Sweden? -
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Posted 8 months ago
Mon Mar 16 2009 23:47:02
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There are bed bugs in Sweden -- people living in Sweden with bed bugs have come onto the forums.
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Adele
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Posted 8 months ago
Tue Mar 17 2009 0:18:39
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DAvid - this is a shock to me - you mean I'm not an undercover operative for Packtite?!
I've been accused of the same thing for KillerQueen - go figure!I did notice the ad and if I am in the market to buy a new one I will click and buy it through here
'Fear...you're funny - 50 year old beds in Sweden! Passed along by relative no less - that's a little creepy - I can understand jewelry but not beds
anyway gotta go - talk soon
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Posted 8 months ago
Tue Mar 17 2009 15:55:51
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Adele - 15 hours ago »
'Fear...you're funny - 50 year old beds in Sweden! Passed along by relative no less - that's a little creepy - I can understand jewelry but not beds
anyway gotta go - talk soonLOL, that's the way I think too!
NoBugs, I figure there are bed bugs everywhere, Sweden no exception. I don't know what their ad agency is thinking with that ad. Just what I want...a really old bed, that maybe someone died in? No way!
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Good to hear about a mattress company that is enlightened enough to arrange a separate pick up for the used mattress.
I wonder what they do with the used mattress after they pick the it up?
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paulaw0919
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Wed Mar 18 2009 8:58:17
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Yes, they didn't do this last year. I'd love to know if all NY tri-state area Sleepy's are doing this now. When we purchased our mattress over a year ago, I had expressed at time of sale, in writing that I would not accept a mattress if the protecting plastic cover had any tears in it. Even when doing this I had to turn back the first delivery because the plastic was torn with the shuffle of previous deliveries.
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Adele
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Wed Mar 18 2009 13:57:07
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Hi Doug & Paula - actually I did not ask them if this policy is just NYC-are or if it applies elsewhere and I also did not ask what they do with the old mattresses - both are good questions
my old mattress was so infested that I did not want to even put it in the truck I just threw it out with the encasement on it to the sidewalk
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Wed Mar 18 2009 14:12:39
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Y'know, Shakespeare gave his second-best bed to his wife when he died. I think his best-bed went to one of his children.
Not something I'd want to sleep in - Bard or not, especially from that era!
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All this talk of old beds has made me recall a conversation last year.
I had a call from a stately home to tell me that when this were working on a bed that used to accommodate a members of the royal family about 300 years ago had signs of bed bugs in the frame. As I am sure you can imagine the item is priceless and the concern was great.
Having quickly established that the bed was last slept in 150 year ago I think its safe to assume that the bed bugs have long since vacated the area.
Sometimes we all forget that as short a time ago as the 1930's one third of all dwellings in London were infested with bed bugs, this is likely to be a similar figure for all major cities. If you think bed bugs are prevalent now look how mad it used to be.
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JimmyChanga
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Posted 8 months ago
Thu Mar 19 2009 7:58:58
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As for the moving truck... I wonder if you could rent it for an extra day... the first day, just close it up with a No Pest strip in there overnight. And then the second day air it out and start packing things in. Not using the blanket is a good idea too. Do you think the No Pest strip idea is a good one in this case?
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Adele
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Posted 8 months ago
Thu Mar 19 2009 13:05:36
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JimmyChanga - thank you for your response and your suggestion
I am not going to make myself crazy about it - it's just the blankets that I will worry about for now
if I catch them again I will deal with it
so David - you're leaving us hanging here- were the bedbugs in the frame? if so - why would they be there is nobody used the bed?
could the bedbugs signs be from 150 years ago? just a thought- antique bedbugs preserved in a bed frame - wow
or the folks who owned the bed were imaging the signs of bedbugs there?
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Hi Adele,
Although adult bed bugs can live without food for 12 - 18 months they will not usually stay put in a building where they can sense human activity, this is why they spread if a room is not occupied and others in the property are.
Given that the bed is a national treasure and used to be the resting place of one of the Queens of England the bed room is now part of an exhibit for tourists in London.
Faecal traces are detectable for very long periods of time and the signs in the bed are most likely left over from the time when it was routinely used. Unless you remove the marks by hand they will always be there.
If I recall the phone conversation correctly the marks were found during a deep clean shortly after one of my TV appearances and the person doing the cleaning recognised the signs and got in touch.
It is why they are really the gold standard diagnostic of activity, easier to find than live samples and always present when bed bugs are about.
Hope that clarifies.
David
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Thu Mar 19 2009 14:01:08
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bed-bugscouk - 38 minutes ago »
Given that the bed is a national treasure and used to be the resting place of one of the Queens of England the bed room is now part of an exhibit for tourists in London.
Royal bugs? :wink:
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I know, seems somewhat just to have the monarchy parasitised on for a change. I said something similar to a lawyer a few years ago who had a complete sense of humour familiar when I asked "whats it like to be the bitten rather than be the blood sucker".
Seems not everyone shares my sense of humour.
David
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MyWorstFear
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Posted 8 months ago
Thu Mar 19 2009 17:07:50
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David, fear not! When you have completely eradicated all bed bugs in London (I have faith, if anyone can do it, you can) you will still have a livelihood. Comedienne!
I used to think it would have been fun to live in the mid 1750's or so, but then I read about what was REALLY doing in the gilded palace of Versailles, and I changed my mind!
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LOL.
I don't think I will get on top of the London issue that easily and sadly we are now getting more and more reports from the other regional cities, pandora's box is starting to open.
I think I might try and be a comedian but don't think I could cope with the sex change needed to be a comedienne. Those that know me well would see it as very out of character.
I stayed last weekend in a hunting tower built in 1582 and I can tell you even with a sympathetic modern refit you don't half get a draft up the stone spiral staircase. The old man in the gate house was a little shocked when I left adding that the place was checked and all clear for bed bugs.
David
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Adele
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Thu Mar 19 2009 21:49:31
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David - so are you saying that the bedbug traces were from over 100 years ago when the royals actually used the bed?!!!
That stuff stays intack for that long?!!!
if so - it's really sobering to think just how pervasive those things were back then
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Hi Adele,
As I did not inspect at the time of royal occupancy I cant say for certain that the marks relate to the exact time that someone from the then royal house hold slept in it.
But yes I have seen a few antiques with very old faecal traces in them that people have suspected as recent activity. They do stay around for a very long time, partly because blood is such a staining material.
Yes all of the evidence points to this being a problem that affected everyone, the main reason why we need to get public awareness up long before we reach that point again.
David
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Adele
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Fri Mar 20 2009 11:31:42
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That's amazing!!
thanks for the clarification David
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MyWorstFear
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Fri Mar 20 2009 12:50:41
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BBcoukHome - 19 hours ago »
LOL.
I don't think I will get on top of the London issue that easily and sadly we are now getting more and more reports from the other regional cities, pandora's box is starting to open.
I think I might try and be a comedian but don't think I could cope with the sex change needed to be a comedienne. Those that know me well would see it as very out of character.
I stayed last weekend in a hunting tower built in 1582 and I can tell you even with a sympathetic modern refit you don't half get a draft up the stone spiral staircase. The old man in the gate house was a little shocked when I left adding that the place was checked and all clear for bed bugs.
DavidLOL, sorry for my typo! We need you to stay in character! Would have loved to see the expression on the old man too. That's a classic.
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MyWorstFear - 35 minutes ago »
LOL, sorry for my typo! We need you to stay in character! Would have loved to see the expression on the old man too. That's a classic.
Something for you all to try. When you check out of a hotel tell then you inspected the room and its free from bed bugs. If they look puzzled give them an advice sheet about bed bugs.
I may actually do a sheet for bed bug beware (one for the white board) that way you have a very subtle way of letting hotels know that you as a customer are concerned enough to look and then maybe one day they will as well.
David
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Posted 8 months ago
Fri Mar 20 2009 14:24:57
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Great idea, David.
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MyWorstFear
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Posted 8 months ago
Fri Mar 20 2009 17:30:16
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BBcoukHome - 3 hours ago »
MyWorstFear - 35 minutes ago »
LOL, sorry for my typo! We need you to stay in character! Would have loved to see the expression on the old man too. That's a classic.Something for you all to try. When you check out of a hotel tell then you inspected the room and its free from bed bugs. If they look puzzled give them an advice sheet about bed bugs.
I may actually do a sheet for bed bug beware (one for the white board) that way you have a very subtle way of letting hotels know that you as a customer are concerned enough to look and then maybe one day they will as well.
DavidI don't trust MY inspection...I mean it's better than nothing, I suppose. But without opening up the boxspring and flipping the bed upside down (usually impossible to do due to the sheer weight of the things), I'd never give them the "all clear". My luck, the next day I'd wake up all bitten up. :(
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