Fighting domestic bugs can be a real problem. These small parasites inhabit not only soft furniture, but also electronics, cracks in the floor and walls and other nooks. In order to remove bedbugs, it may take several treatments of the entire apartment with potent chemicals.
To begin with, find out where the bugs in the apartment appear? Many people think that the appearance of bedbugs is a consequence of the dishonesty of the owners. This is not true! In fact, if the house is old, bedbugs can move from neighbors, they are able to live under wallpaper, in slabs and other places. Only a few insects are enough for their catastrophically rapid breeding and settlement of your home. They can get into the apartment on the clothes of guests, on suitcases or even together with new furniture from the warehouse. It is important, as soon as you notice at least one parasite, to take measures to destroy them, otherwise in a couple of weeks they will become much more.
How to get home bedbugs?
Means of combating bugs are divided into folk methods and chemical preparations. The most convenient option, of course, will be a call to the brigade house of pest control from the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, but this service is not cheap and depends on the area of the apartment. Although it can not be overlooked that professionals often lack one treatment in order to withdraw all insects.
People's methods include treating furniture and things with steam or boiling water, kerosene, turpentine, vinegar and even transformer oil. It is believed that if the furniture is brought out to frost -20 ° C, then the bugs will die out because of the low temperature. It is worth noting that such processing, in addition to the large expenditure of time and effort, may not bring the desired result.
Where chemical products in the form of a spray or a powder are considered to be more reliable and easy to process, for example. The only significant drawback of this type of treatment can be called the need for a respirator and gloves, as well as mandatory removal from the premises of children, domestic animals, as well as dishes and food. Preparations from bedbugs can be bought in any specialized store, before processing it is necessary to carefully study the instruction. It is better to choose the means where the composition will be carbofos. This substance has long been tested and recognized effective in the fight against parasites.
How to carry out the treatment?
The first thing to do is to carefully study the entire apartment in search of a nest of parasites. Examine carefully all furniture, paying attention to seams and hard-to-reach places. All that can be washed at high temperature, it is necessary after handling to send to the laundry. Significant help can be provided by the temperature on the street, in the cold -20 ° C bedbugs die within a day, if things are carried out on the street, and the heat at 40 ° C will do its job in a couple of hours. After releasing the room from food and utensils, pull out all the things from the cabinets and begin a thorough treatment. Pay attention to skirting boards, wallpaper, move all furniture, look into each slot or
After processing, if necessary, you will have to repeat the procedure using another chemical after 2 weeks. The incubation period of the larvae is exactly 14 days, so carefully monitor the condition of the room after treatment in order to notice the surviving bloodsuckers in time.