Comments for Dallas Apartments Blog http://blog.rent-dallas-apartments.com Enhancing Apartment Living in Dallas Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:25:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on My Dallas apartment has bed bugs by Gus Carey http://blog.rent-dallas-apartments.com/apartment-safety/my-dallas-apartment-has-bed-bugs/comment-page-1/#comment-208 Gus Carey Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:25:47 +0000 http://blog.rent-dallas-apartments.com/dallas-neighborhoods/my-dallas-apartment-has-bed-bugs/#comment-208 The bed bug problem is a growing one and your correctly point out that bed bugs are hard to treat once you have them and that vigilence is the best thing to help prevent infeatations from happenning. Two corrections: Bed bugs are difficult to treat because they live and breed in a variety of places in the room. They can primarily be found not just between mattress and boxspring, but along the edges of beds, behind backboards, on side tables, soft furnishings, behind pictures and even in computers and clock radios. Checking the bedding is a great start, but you may have to look in other places near the bed if you can't find them in their favorite place I would also disagree with your assessment that "you will likely have to toss your mattress and boxspring on the garbage" if you have an infestation. That did used to be the case, but getting rid of bed bugs the first go around is very difficult, if not impossible, and you may end up throwing out your bedding prior to treatment only to get a new infestation on new bedding later. On the East coast, where bed bug treatments have come a long way in the last two years, pest control companies are treating the mattress and box spring with chemicals or heat and then using a mattress cover -- either an encasement (which when properly installed and maintained will fully enclose the entire mattress/boxspring and starve any bed bugs missed in the treatment over the one year or so that adults can live witout a blood meal) or an active liner (a derivative of the bed nets used worldwide, which kill bed bugs left on the bedding and can pick up missed bed bugs from other areas of the room that try to return to he beds. Generally, both types of mattress cover are designed with bed bugs in mind (see Protect-a-bed, Mattress Safe, and National Allergy Elegance) although the newer active liners (ActiveGuard) appear to be easier to install and do have the potential to kill bed bugs being reintroduced to the mattress after treatment is finished. If detection is important for your case, there are things called Climb Ups that you can put under the legs of your bed that may trap some of the bed bugs trying to get to the bed. They will probably not stop all bed bugs from getting up to you, but all you need for proof is just one bug. I recently saw a home bed bug trap using CO2 being touted on the internet, although I'm not sure how easy it is to do. Hope that is helpful. The bed bug problem is a growing one and your correctly point out that bed bugs are hard to treat once you have them and that vigilence is the best thing to help prevent infeatations from happenning.

Two corrections:
Bed bugs are difficult to treat because they live and breed in a variety of places in the room. They can primarily be found not just between mattress and boxspring, but along the edges of beds, behind backboards, on side tables, soft furnishings, behind pictures and even in computers and clock radios. Checking the bedding is a great start, but you may have to look in other places near the bed if you can’t find them in their favorite place
I would also disagree with your assessment that “you will likely have to toss your mattress and boxspring on the garbage” if you have an infestation. That did used to be the case, but getting rid of bed bugs the first go around is very difficult, if not impossible, and you may end up throwing out your bedding prior to treatment only to get a new infestation on new bedding later. On the East coast, where bed bug treatments have come a long way in the last two years, pest control companies are treating the mattress and box spring with chemicals or heat and then using a mattress cover — either an encasement (which when properly installed and maintained will fully enclose the entire mattress/boxspring and starve any bed bugs missed in the treatment over the one year or so that adults can live witout a blood meal) or an active liner (a derivative of the bed nets used worldwide, which kill bed bugs left on the bedding and can pick up missed bed bugs from other areas of the room that try to return to he beds. Generally, both types of mattress cover are designed with bed bugs in mind (see Protect-a-bed, Mattress Safe, and National Allergy Elegance) although the newer active liners (ActiveGuard) appear to be easier to install and do have the potential to kill bed bugs being reintroduced to the mattress after treatment is finished.
If detection is important for your case, there are things called Climb Ups that you can put under the legs of your bed that may trap some of the bed bugs trying to get to the bed. They will probably not stop all bed bugs from getting up to you, but all you need for proof is just one bug. I recently saw a home bed bug trap using CO2 being touted on the internet, although I’m not sure how easy it is to do.
Hope that is helpful.

]]> Comment on Apartment Safety Tips by apartments rent http://blog.rent-dallas-apartments.com/apartment-safety/apartment-safety-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-194 apartments rent Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:01:02 +0000 http://blog.rent-dallas-apartments.com/?p=8#comment-194 There are three things you have to consoder when searching for apartment rent. Location, you have to make sure that the area is close to public transportation and entertainment. Neighbours, you dont want to find yourself with many neighbours from that other noisy sect (you all know what I mean). Gym - I will never consider an apartment rent complex with no place to work out. I hope this is helpful and you never make the mistakes I made. There are three things you have to consoder when searching for apartment rent. Location, you have to make sure that the area is close to public transportation and entertainment. Neighbours, you dont want to find yourself with many neighbours from that other noisy sect (you all know what I mean). Gym – I will never consider an apartment rent complex with no place to work out. I hope this is helpful and you never make the mistakes I made.

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I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. I just added your RSS feed to my Google News Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you.

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