Vivien Bed

 Segregating your Vivien bed principally means drawing the bed bugs off your mattress and linens, and also erecting traps that help remaining bed bugs in the room from crawling up the legs of your bed andre-infesting it. Segregating your bed will not get relieve of your bed bug problem, but you'll be suitable to sleep again at night. 

 Before We Get Started. 

Your bed bug exterminator should get involved in this process. Exterminators have chemicals that kill any bed bugs hiding on your mattress, box spring, headboard and frame. So, depending on what your pest control tech tells you, some of these way may not be necessary for you to do on your own. Again, clear the following plan with the expert before you begin. 

What You will Need 

Zippered dust- mite encasements for your mattress, box spring and pillows. These are principally large 

bags that are designed to keep dust diminutives inside the sheath-but they also keep bed bugs outside. Find them at mislike force stores. 

Wide conduit vid. 

Contractor grade trash bags (not field and splint bags, but the thick contractor grade trash bags, at least two or three mils thick). 

Wide double-sided vid. 

Bed lifts to raise your bed off the ground (these are little daises that you set the legs of your bed frame into to raise it off the ground). Find them at your original coverlet/ linen store. Note that if your frame is formerly fairly high off the ground (like a bottom or further), you do not need the bimahs. 

Four essence coliseums large enough to place the bed lifts in ( heavy duty plastic coliseums are fine, too. Either way, they've to be unbreakable). Pet stores have nice essence coliseums that are ideal for this. 

 XXL Ziploc bags 

 Food- grade brackish diatomaceous earth. Also known as DE, diatomaceous earth is an abrasive mineral greasepaint that kills bed bugs and other crawling insects by scratching open their skins, which dehydrates them (they die after a day or two). This stuff is razor line for bed bugs-they will be suitable to crawl through it, but the damage they suffer is deadly. You can get DE everyplace online, your original theater center (gardeners use it to kill pests, occasionally retailed as ant killer), or pet force stores ( food grade stuff is sprinkled on faves to kill fleas). Make sure you do not get swimming pool grade diatomaceous earth-that's the wrong stuff. Also, get a dust mask while you're at Home Depot-you will wear it as you're dusting around your bed. A note about DE While considered generally safe, you need to precisely read the marker and follow all safety instructions. Wear a dust mask or respirator when applying. 

Murphy's Canvas Cleaner. Murphy's is a wood cleanser made by Colgate-Palmolive that also has fungicide parcels. You can find it everyplace. Buy the spray bottle. 

A new set of white wastes, pillowcases and covers. You're going to replace your being coverlet with new white linens, to more spot any fresh bed bug fecal spots or blood. 

 New pillows Your current bones might be overran, so let's start over with new bones. 

Optional Commodity that kills bed bugs on contact. Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle will do it. You can adulterate the alcohol with a bit of water to make it last longer-9 corridor alcohol, 1 part water. 

 What to Do 

Step 1 Clean your Linens and Coverlet 

First you need to pull all the coverlet off your bed- wastes, mattress cover, bedcover, pillows and pillow cases. Everything. These are overran with bed bugs, so you need to incontinently stuff them into the trash bags and tie the bags off. 

Now wash every item in hot water. Do not let those overran linens touch other linens or apparel particulars. Also dry them on high (at least 140 degrees) for 4 hours, or two complete drying cycles. When done, put each item into an XXL Ziploc and seal it. 

 Put your pillows in a contractor bag, seal it, and throw it in the trash. Drawing a pillow completely is tough, so you are better off starting with a new bone. 

Step 2 Vacuum Your Mattress and Box Spring 

You're now going to clean the mattress and box spring of any bed bugs, eggs, or naiads. 

Get out you vacuum cleaner and clean EVERY INCH of your mattress. Scraping the end of the vacuum attachment roundly over the harborage area is better than using a encounter, because the bugs cleave tightly to the face, and the eggs are cemented to it. Clean every inch of the face, the snowbanks along the edges, and the sides of the mattress. Spare it against the wall and vacuum the other side. 

Clean the box spring just as precisely. Tear that flimsy dust cover fabric off the bottom, seal it in a plastic bag and throw it down. Vacuum the inwards, making sure to get every bit of fabric, as well as the rustic frames and support. 

When you're done vacuuming, remove the bag from the vacuum, seal it in a plastic scrap bag, and throw it out. The vacuum bag will have bed bugs in it, and you do not want them to crawl out. 

Step 3 Clean the Bed Frame 

Still, you're in luck, because these are fairly easy to clean, If you have a essence frame. Snare the vacuum and clean all the recesses and cracks. Pay special attention to inside corners, joints, the areas where the bus attach to the frame-any dark little corners where bed bugs might hide. 

 Spray it down with rubbing alcohol to kill anything you missed. Use caulk or conduit vid to fill in any holes or gaps between the essence pieces ( bed bugs hide in the holes and joints). 

Still, the legs are concave), those are perfect places for the bed bugs to hide, If there are any concave areas in your bed frame ( occasionally. Spot the innards with alcohol and vacuum them out. 

Still, you should get relieve of it, If you have a headboard. The headboard is one of the most likely places the bugs will hide and lay eggs, and if you have one, I can enough much guarantee you that it has bed bugs hiding on it. Put it in a plastic bag, carry it to the dumpster, spot paint the words BED BUGS on the package, and throw it in. (It's important to wrap the headboard in plastic before it leaves your bedroom. You do not want any bugs jumping off in the hallway on the way to the door.) 

Still, you need to disassemble it, and wash it down with Murphy's Canvas Cleaner, If you have a rustic bedframe. Once you have the frame disassembled, vacuum it like you did with your mattress and box spring. You may need to use a stiff encounter to dislodge any eggs or bed bugs in the recesses and cracks. Now spot the Murphy's onto the frame, making sure to spot it into every cracks and crack. 

Step 4 Clean and Prepare the Bottom Around Your Bed 

When you assemble the bed, you have to place it down from the walls and cabinetwork, so bed bugs do not have anything to use as a ground to reinfest your bed. Generally, the stylish place is to place the bed toward the center of the room and the night stage or tables down from it. 

 Precisely vacuum the bottom in the area under thebed.However, I suppose you should roll them up, put them in the trash bag, If you have any carpets or hairpieces. But consult with your bed bug exterminator. Hairpieces can be treated by with chemicals, so it's your call as to what to do. 

Sprinkle the bottom you just gutted with a light dusting of DE. Do not make piles, just use a baby greasepaint bottle or some other plastic bottle that can puff out a veritably light subcaste of the stuff. 

Warning DE is nearly lighter than air, and it takes some practice to get used to. As with any pest control product, READ THE Marker AND FOLLOW ALL SAFETY Preventives. Wear a dust mask or respirator when applying. 

Step 5 Assemble the Bed Frame 

Now assemble your bed frame and move it to the middle of the room, over your dust field. Put the legs of the bed frame on the lifters, and put the lifters in the coliseums. In other words, the coliseum is on the bottom, the lifter is in the coliseum, and the bed frame is on the lifter. 

Wrap plastic serape around the legs of your bed ( regular Saran Wrap is fine for this), also wrap double sided vid over the plastic serape to catch any bed bugs crawling up. 

For fresh protection, spread Vaseline on the legs over and below the double sided vid. This is an old trick from the turn of the century, and another handicap to goo up any bed bugs trying to crawl into your bed. 

 Put the sheath over the box spring. Put the box spring on the frame. Make sure you do not tear the sheath! Cover the zippered confluence of the case with conduit vid. Use a lot of vid, and extend it four to six elevation from the end of the zipper. You're taping up the zipper because baby bed bugs are bitsy, and can slip through the teeth of the zipper. 

Gently put the mattress on the box spring. Gently pull the covering over it, and vid the zippers shut.  Now it's time to fill the coliseums with adulatory water. Bed bugs can not cut adulatory water, so this becomes like a little culvert, guarding the legs of your bed. 

Put your new white wastes on the bed, over the encasements. With new wastes, you will be suitable to see any blood spots, fecal stains, or crushed bed bugs that might have entered your defenses. 

Step 6 Securing the Perimeter 

 Put down a three or four inch wide circle of double-sided carpet vid on the bottom around your entire bed ( be sure that you vacuumed within thisarea.However, do it now), If you didn't. This way, any bed bugs crawling from outside of your fort will get caught in the vid. 

 And eventually, be sure you have a dusting of DE extending 12 elevation around the adulatory water- filled coliseums. You want to be sure that any bugs that try to get up those coliseums have to go through the DE first. Again, this should only be a dusting of DE. You shouldn't see important sanguineness at each-thinner is better. Any further than that, and it will not work