Holiday Tips On Bed Bug Problem
Looking for a Bed Bugs pest treatment when travelling is becoming a very real problem worldwide as people pack their bags and travel around the world and go on what should be a carefree holiday.
This is sometimes spoilt by being bitten by bed bugs that have managed to move into hotels of all standards.
Ring Bob from A1 Pest Control Canberra 0407 065 413 he is a Bed Bug expert for either your home or business. Bob@a1pestcontrolcanberra.com.au
No hotel regardless of star ratings is protected from bed bugs as travelers choose all sorts of accommodation when they travel and you see bed bugs can hitch a ride and travel with you on or in your luggage to your next destination.
Many a reputation of a hotel is left in tatters when word gets out that people are being bitten by bed bugs.
I know of one particular 5 star hotel that had a professional pest control service called in to eradicate bed bugs the manager advised him only to treat the one room instead of the whole floor.
This was entirely a wasted exercise as within days the pest control company was called back as the bed bugs had moved across the hall into several other rooms!
Bed Bugs Pest Treatment Tips – When Travelling
- Keep your luggage away from your bed and in another room all together
- When you go to your room pull back the linen and take particular notice of the mattress especially around the joins.
- Look at and around the bed head including the side tables.
If you do discover bed bugs on your clothing place them in a plastic bag and place in the freezer compartment for an hour or two this should kill them.
A portable hair dryer is the perfect tool against bed bugs in your hotel room; turn it on high and blast your mattress and the other areas mentioned above with the heat from the hair dryer would kill the bed bugs instantly.
Bed Bugs Pest Treatment Tips – Hotel owners
If you get contacted in the middle of the night by guests being bitten, please act quickly not only to treat the room when the bed bugs are active but the rooms for the whole floor should be treated at the same time.
If you only treat the one room you will not have beaten the problem. After treating your hotel rooms you really should consider bed bugs mattress encasement for further protection for your hotel and its future reputation.
Interestingly enough I read a comment on Yahoo answers about bed bugs and it brings home a valid point about inheriting someone else’s problems – sometimes it is better to look a gift horse in the mouth and then refuse the gift altogether!
“About a year ago one of my tenants decided to bring a sofa he had found in the alley into his apartment. I found out later that it was infested with bedbugs.
Within 2 months every apartment in the building was infested. Getting rid of them turned out to be an absolute nightmare.
First, every tenant had to wash every piece of clothing and bedding in HOT water.
Then everything in each apartment had to be packed, moved, and inspected. It was like moving without going anywhere.
We called in professional exterminators to spray everything at a cost of $3000. Even then I had to go back and inspect and spray over and over again.
All in all it took 8 months and $5000 to get rid of those little monsters. Bedbug infestations are becoming epidemic.”
You really can see why the sofa was left outside and the poor people who thought they got the bargain of the season ending up costing them dearly.
Bed Bugs might follow you home:
The holiday is over and you head for home sweet home you throw the bags on the bed as you unpack and the bed bugs move from your luggage and into your bed!
They are feeling exhausted after their long day and when you finally are tired enough to go to bed and drop off to sleep the bed bugs come out to feast on you.
When you wake in the morning you may have a few raised lumps and don’t worry too much but this routine is repeated until you finally aware that you have bought more home from your trip other than souvenirs you now have unwanted house guests that are prolific breeders.
Act Quickly with your Bed Bug Pest Control:
I have read that people treat the problem themselves but there are a couple of reasons why this doesn’t work.
Firstly, if you are using chemicals there is always a danger of using too much or saturating a mattress with the chemical and it then you come in contact with the skin causing further irritation.
A licensed pest controller is an expert with the treatments he uses and an experience technician only uses low-non toxic preparations when treating different pests.
Not being a professional pest control agent you do not know that you have successfully beaten the bed bug problem even after hot washing your clothes thorough vacuuming etc until you again get bitten during the night.
If other people in your home or apartment are also getting bitten you have now got an infestation and it is quickly becoming out of control.
What you saved through only buying a few cans of chemicals, powder and your time you now need professional help.
Ring Bob from A1 Pest Control Canberra 0407 065 413 he is a Bed Bug expert for either your home or business. Bob@a1pestcontrolcanberra.com.au
For other up to date information with hints and tips please be sure that you visit A1 Pest Control Canberra’s Face Book page you are sure to find out the latest information about pest Control. Make sure that you get to like us too!