Bed Bug Heat Treatment services

[bfishn]

1 hour ago, Phil Lilley said:

Darn... I didn't check them!!

No need, it'll be self-evident after a few flushes if they melted. And if they didn't, it never got hot enough under the toilet to kill the varmints...

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

A buddy here at work got 112 bites from them at a Hilton KC.  He knows he had 112 bites because Hilton wouldn't do anything until he went to the doctor to confirm they were bed bug bites and get a count.  No kidding.  In his case they were in the couch.

[Phil Lilley]

Did you know they can be in movie theaters... old cloth seats.

[Guest]

16 minutes ago, Phil Lilley said:

Did you know they can be in movie theaters... old cloth seats.

they infest the arm rests & ride home with the movie goers

[dprice]

10 hours ago, Phil Lilley said:

OK... gotta tell it now.

It was May/June, our busy season.  After 33 years in the biz, we got our first taste of bed bugs.  The people who reported them said they had experienced them before and took it all well.  Of course they had to go to the extreme to keep from taking them home... take off clothes, put them in a plastic bag with all other belongings to be washed and dried, heat treated.

The local company came in and did a chemical treatment first.  Supposed to come back and treat again after 10 days to kill one that would hatch.  But we had live adults a couple of days later.  So they heat treated.  Still had bugs.  They heat treated again.  Still bugs.... all this within a week or more.  We're still down... losing business.

That's when we found our problem.  They were in and behind the wood panel walls!  So we tore out all the paneling, ready for more heat.  but the company we were dealing with were booked up... bed bug business was booming!  So we went out and bought our own heat source... a couple of butane blowers.

We heated the room up to 150 and put fans all around to distribute the hot air.  For 2 hours we kept it hot, going in every 10 minutes to check everything.  Our fans started to fail... and melt.  We wanted to make sure no bed bug or bed bug egg would survive.  And they didn't.

We've had 2 other incidents of bugs but they were minor compared to this.

Fun times in the lodging business...

Chootem Phil chootem 

[fishinwrench]

I have crashed in some pretty shady digs, I'm really surprised that I have yet to meet my first bed bug.  

I have had to deal with a flea infestation though.  Probably about the same.  

[Gavin]

My hotel owners inspect for that daily. On they room clean checklist. Train the cleaning staff and managers for it. Not fun to clean up.

 

 

[Phil Lilley]

Our cleaning staff check a bed as soon as they walk into a room to clean.

You'll find bed bugs in fine establishments more often than dives... business people who travel all the time are the ones who most times spread them and they tend to stay in nice lodges.

Our pest control people told us not to apologize for bed bugs... because it's not our fault that we get them.  It would be neglectful if we had them, never checked and let them spread, infecting many people.  That's when you find "dives" that have them and don't go to the expense to exterminate them.

[dan hufferd]

This is creeping me out. 

I got into a bunch of seed ticks once, and really bad chiggers on a job site. Nothing like having to go back day after day knowing what will bite you. I used some kind of really strong bug repellent. It worked but I still can't say words with the letter R in them.

I know it's not a bed bug story but it is the best I got. 

Have you ever used diatomaceous earth as a preventive bug killer ? It is cheep harmless to humans but works on anything with an exoskeleton.  You an even eat it, it is in every grain product made in the US.

[aarchdale@coresleep.com]

As im sitting here in a hotel in the middle of Kansas reading this i am starting to itch