Heat treatment

[Buggy]

Has anyone tried to heat the house like they do to kill bed bugs?

[AdamMPhilly]

I’m gonna try it myself
Today. I’ll update results

[annacarter478]

No I never tried it before, well it is working?

[BuggedOutFLA]

I did it. Heated the entire house to 150+ degrees for 6 hours. Mites were back the same night

[killmenow]

I’ve got a homemade torch I use for smelting metal. It runs on a propane tank. It is very dangerous to run something like this indoors, and I normally would not. But I am losing hope faster than I can find it, so I’m sure I will try it soon.

I’ll report back my results.

[Bruce33]

Hi I was wondering if anyone tried the heat treatment, and if it worked? Please share your experience. Also please explain exactly how you did it!!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by Bruce33.

[Itchy]

Don’t do heat! They love heat! I made that mistake before I realized what they were. I put a forced air heater on my night table thinking I was going to cook the mites, and it actually attracted them to the heat! Also, my iPhone and iPad are like magnets to them, because they enjoy the heat emanating from the devices.

[CNDNGirl]

I have used a handheld steamer for the past while now. I steam the floor, the bed, the pillows, the chairs. The steamer can reach over 200 degrees and I think it’s been helpful in killing them. It’s important to hold it over areas long enough for the heat to penetrate and kill. So hard to tell as my family house’s infestation is now just affecting me and my room, but my number of bites has reduced.

If you have the time to use it and the money to spend on it, a decently-priced steamer can make a huge difference (at least in my experience).

[johndoe]

There was a poster back and I think 2009 they heat-treated their house with turbo heaters in the windows with cutouts from duraroc they stood the heaters saw horses and a heat-treated every Saturday to 200 degrees with thermometers in the inside of the window pointing outward. They had good luck they did it three times three different Saturdays. Maybe you can search the word zooks heat treating in the Forum search

I had good luck just burying the whole house and baking soda Lake Carpet Fresh and then throwing out everything I did need then sweep all the baking soda to the floor and vacuum it up. Eventually I had stopped them they kept coming up from underneath in the crawl space though. I should have powdered the crawl space Also I ended up moving and now I have no problem at all. I did the same to the cars and then wash them with 1 cup borax and one cup Arm & Hammer laundry soap in a 1 gallon sprayer from Ace Hardware with one gallon of water by the way. I soaked everything and then wet back to dry especially the seats of the car in the carpeting and upholstery. It worked well for my skin I poured it over my head 3 tablespoons borax 3 tablespoons Arm & Hammer laundry soap in 32 oz of water I would pour it over my head as I had my letter for my shampoo already on my head. It work better that way I would leave it on 3 to 8 minutes then rinse it off and it would clear my skin. If I had problems I would use Ted’s mange cure which is one 16 oz bottle of peroxide to 16 oz bottles of water and three tablespoons of borax. It stops the itch in 3 minutes if it doesn’t try it again in 20 minutes that usually works every time. If Ever I ran into deep trouble and I couldn’t get rid of them in an area I would use benzoyl peroxide 2.5% most all of the posters used benzoyl peroxide and got cured years ago. It’s painless and has no smell and it’s for sale on the internet everywhere and for sale in the dollar store also. It’s also Clearasil but Clearasil 10% benzoyl peroxide so you can cut it with two tablespoons of hand cream in 1 tbsp of Clearasil and you would have 2.5% benzoyl peroxide which is very effective on this bug when it’s spreading on your skin. It is painless God bless you I hope this helps I have been fine for a long time now but I still once in a while walking to a tree or a bush or a strange house and I can pick them up I immediately know what to do which is go home take off my clothes put them in a 5 gallon bucket in the shower put a cup of Arm & Hammer laundry soap in the bucket stuff my clothes in it take a shower and put on the solution is described above 3 tablespoons borax 3 tablespoons Arm & Hammer powdered laundry soap only never the liquid only powder because it has sodium carbonate the active ingredient. The water amount was 32 oz of by the way I put it in an old shampoo bottle with a rubber band around it so I can tell which one it is. I leave it on for 3 to 8 minutes and they’re gone. By the way I feel that the baking soda burns the bugs I took the baking soda and put it on my air mattress that I was sleeping on and I laid on it and it end up burning my back after 30 minutes because I had a moist compress of it so it does burn its caustic it dries out bugs baking soda is very effective with this bug that’s how you stop them instantly throw the baking soda at the ceiling let it come down over the room leave it on for a while then Dust it all off and vacuum it up and repeat as needed. It works

[johndoe]

By the way in the above article I meant to say I threw out everything I didn’t need. So that I didn’t have to keep washing things that I really didn’t need that was very helpful. I reduce my clothes down to a smaller amount so I can control them and keep washing them. And whenever I wash my upholstery in my car is our house I would soak it very well and draw it out with a wet vac vacuum cleaner. And then I would place a hair dryer in the car on medium and move it around every 6 hours to try the car even in the winter it would work. It would dry it out and not get smelly. The Borax in the Arm & Hammer laundry soap in beds into the fibers and leaves it so that the bugs can’t live. I would still throw baking soda over the inside of the car from the ceiling down to the ground and then blow it out with the leaf blower it was very effective. In fact if I was driving and they were crawling on me and driving me nuts I would just pull over grab a boxer to a baking soda and just blow the whole car out with baking soda on the inside. Then I drive around like that for an hour or so then I blow it out the leaf blower I was okay for quite a while sometimes I had to repeat daily sometimes I didn’t repeat for a month for me now it’s been about seven to nine months since I threw baking soda in the car. The last time I did it was for mold another problem that came after the bugs. Many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord delivers them of them all I prayed so hard he would heal me and he did. I would say the greatest thing and I ever learned was to take a tablespoon of coconut oil and put it in 32 oz of water and pour it over my head after my shower. It made so the bugs didn’t even like me anymore it’s not 100% but at least 95% effective that was great praise God you know it’s my head with oil my cup runneth over

Jesus is the Healer pray hard God bless you, Bill

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