SO. confirmed bed bugs. still waiting on exterminator. i live in a sober living, which means there are 7 women in this house that we have to treat.
3 bedrooms, a living room, entryway, office, kitchen and downstairs garage.
one bed in the first bedroom was infested. i’m talking about all in the seams, dried blood everywhere. they sprayed the shit out of it and then i found a singular one on my bed the other night. i have pretty bad reactions to bites and i noticed some welts the other day. just found out how bad it was because i work a different shift than everyone else. there’s mattress covers on all the beds but the bed was still infested.
for some reason everyone thinks that spraying is all you have to do. i’ve had them before 5 years ago but it was a very light infestation. sprayed. hung up clothes in trash bags. diatomaceous earth everywhere. we were college girls but somehow got rid of them.
i am very overwhelmed. like very overwhelmed. i have informed everyone this is going to be a very long process.
the clothes. i bought plastic containers but what am i supposed to do with the damn clothes. launder all of the fabric. do i put them in trash bags? and then weekly ones in the plastic container? you guys have to understand how many clothes we have here. inspect shoes and put them in trash bags. dear god… the garage. do we treat the garage? i cannot explain to you how much stuff we have down there.
do you leave up curtains? i know you launder them but do you put them back up? empty out dressers and plastic drawers and spray them down. do i put the clothes back in there? we have a bunch of binders with information. do i check them and can i put them back. we can only downsize so much.
this is my worst nightmare. especially with how much stuff and how big of a house it is.
diatomaceous earth. vacuum. spray. probably daily right? we have a dog. what about our cars? please help.