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gotbugs
newbite
Joined: Jun '09
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Posted 4 months ago
Wed Jun 24 2009 12:14:24
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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.
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 & then put freshly dried clothes to the new place in new ziploc bags. Good thing that I didn't have a lot of clothes.
I boiled hot water & 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.
Oh, I baked my shoes, all including the leather boots. I set the oven temp. at 170F & 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 & wrapped plastic bin in bag, sealed.
Stuffs I couldn't boil like DVDs, or books I just tried to wipe of the surface & packed them in zip bags. I will just leave them in there for as long as it takes to starve the bugs.
Suitcase? I washed them in hot tube & 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.
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.
Hope it's fine from now. :(
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
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gotbugs
newbite
Joined: Jun '09
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Posted 4 months ago
Fri Jul 3 2009 11:54:39
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2 weeks, no bites, no sight of bugs!
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gotbugs
newbite
Joined: Jun '09
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Posted 2 months ago
Wed Aug 12 2009 13:51:45
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It's been 2 months and 2 weeks since I moved. I haven't got any bites so far & 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?
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BuggedInSomerville
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Joined: Aug '09
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Posted 2 months ago
Wed Aug 12 2009 14:08:42
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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.
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