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Sofa - Treat or trash?
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We've scheduled for treatment starting friday and are wondering what to do with our sofa.
We're in a one bedroom apartment where we think the infestation is near/in the sofa.
Our bedroom doesn't seem to have a problem, since our bed looks clean (white IKEA mattress, simple frame) and we've never been bitten anywhere.Our worry is that after the 1st treatment (we've got three scheduled by our management co's PCO, separated by a week each), we'll scatter the bugs from the sofa to other uninfected areas.
Our sofa/loveseat is 6 months old at ~$1000 bucks and is upholstered (difficult corner)
Does it make sense to trash the sofa/loveseat BEFORE the treatment begins or do we try and save it through the three treatments?
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spideyjg
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Posted 6 months ago
Wed Apr 29 2009 14:19:22
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Lots of "ifs" but if they were 100%the only infestated items and absolutely no other evidence anywhere else, it is a thought.
Sofas and such can have oodles of harborage locations and be more difficult to treat.
Really is a question to pose to the PCO post inspection.
I know someone who their PCO told them to trash theirs but they have been dealing with them for about a year.
Jim
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The PCO is using residuals (gentrol + kicker + cykick + delta dust), but my concern is that they can escape the sofa and move to other locations without "safely" dying .... have there been cases like that where the bugs avoided residuals to reach safety (and other non-infested locations)?
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begonebedbugs
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Posted 6 months ago
Wed Apr 29 2009 19:15:54
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Just my opinion but I wouldnt trash it just yet - unless like the other poster said your PCO thinks you should. If you guys sit on the sofa at night for hours before bed just change before going to bed and after sleeping put on clean clothes again. Constantly wash your clothes in HOT water and try not to move - sit all over the place in the same clothes.
For me - I'm a stay at home mom and I wouldnt/didnt sit on my furniture all day - I knew the couch had bugs.... at night if I sat there for a few hours before bed I'd just change and put on fresh clean clothes before bed. I constantly washed anything any of us wore on a regualr basis - after it was worn it would go into a ziplock bag and be sealed until I was ready to wash. I think it helped in not spreading the bugs to other areas.
Thats just my opinion though.... cause what if you toss the couch and the bugs are in the walls and floors? by the time you replace the couch the bugs will just work their way into the new one! See what your PCO thinks! And Good luck!
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BugBoy911
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Sun Nov 8 2009 19:58:13
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Delta Dust is by far the most effective pesticide your PCO is using. Ask him to dust the sofa, under the sofa, and within the deep cracks and crevices of the sofa. No dust should be visible to the naked eye. Is the sofa leather or fabric? If its leather the chances of bedbugs being within the leather is minimal, they would be more within the interior of the sofa, within the fabric, or were the fabric meets the leather. Sofa must be flipped over and inspected and every inch treated. Dust is a very effective pesticide able to cover tight difficult area's to spray. Spraying I have found is not a very effective weapon compared to dusts. Dusts make it very very difficult for bedbugs to avoid residual pesticides because dusts really dispurse and cover difficult tight areas. Bedbugs can sometimes walk right residual pyrethroids in spray form, but when it comes to dusts there is no excape for bedbugs. It takes time mabye a few days from the point of contact with the dust for death to occur but it will happen. I"m not big on water suspensions anymore when doing bedbug work. BugBoy911
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