Keeping Bed Bugs Out of Your Home

Metro Orlando FL | Kissimmee - Sanford - Leesburg

Bed bugs are a serious problem that can infest your home quickly without preventative action. The most frightening aspect of these pests is that every home is vulnerable, despite your own efforts to maintain a clean home. Bed bugs spread via exposed luggage, discarded furniture, and transported clothing. It’s completely possible to keep you and your family bed bug-free by staying vigilant about preventing them.

Cleaning Methods to Prevent Bed Bugs

• Vacuum your floor: Bed bugs can live in anything that protects them, such as crevices, cracks in the floor, and carpeting. For this reason, it is helpful to vacuum regularly to prevent an infestation if you do unintentionally bring bed bugs home with you. Pay special attention to where the floor and the wall meet.
• Clean your pet’s bed: Bed bugs will seek seams and crevices in any place in your home, including the beds where your pets sleep. Check their beds just like you’d check your own.
• Clean up clutter: By having clutter in your home, you are essentially providing more hiding space for bed bugs. Keep your home tidy, and be aware of possible living spaces for the bugs as you organize your things.

Preventative Measures for Bed Bugs

• Look for physical signs: Bed bugs leave behind dark fecal spots on mattresses and upholstery, along with shell casings and their white, sticky eggs. Bed bug bites on exposed skin are usually red, itchy, and appear in rows or zigzags.
• Cover power outlets: Because they have small inlets and have very little traffic, it’s common to find bed bugs hiding away in outlets until nighttime.
• Store clothes in vacuum-sealed bags: Vacuum-sealed bags help provide a barrier between your clothing and wandering bed bugs.
• Cover your mattress: An excellent preventative measure is to cover your mattress in a sturdy encasing. Be sure that the material is durable and can withstand tears or holes.
• Second-guess used items: Buying used household items can offer a lot of benefits, but they can also transport bed bugs. Inspect your items before taking them home with you.
• Don’t bring them home from vacations: Travelers unknowingly spread bed bugs as they make contact with infested hotel rooms, contaminating their luggage and clothing.

Professional Bed Bug Prevention

If you discover bed bugs in your home, your first instinct may be to fight them on your own right away. Though there are ways to help rid your home of bed bugs yourself, it can also make matters worse. Oftentimes the home remedies only push the bed bugs away from the treatment and further into your home.

Heron Home & Outdoor will work with you to make sure your needs are taken care of, any problems are addressed, and we won’t stop working until the bed bugs are gone for good. Call Heron today for a free estimate!