Help with bedbugs!!

[buckley12]

I am new (ish) to this area, and a few months ago I had a problem with bed bugs in our rented apartment. After paying a fortune for a professional company to eradicate the problem, I did seem to bug free. But I have started getting bites again, and have found evidence that the dread bugs are back!! I have noticed that there seem to be a lot of mattresses out on the street of the apartment blocks around SE22, and after doing some research on the internet, found that apparently SE22 is a bed bug hot spot! Has anyone else had a problem with this, and do you have any tips on how to avoid future problems?

[K&O Pest Control]

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[langlounge]

Also hot spot for clothes moths and mice, apparently.

All this cash sloshing about SE22 but we have domestic squalor not seen since "London Labour and the London Poor". (Speaking as one who has had the moths and the mice, but no bugs as yet, happily).

[computedshorty]

How times have changed, years ago if a home had bed bugs they would not make it public.

[signorcrayfish]

I fudging hate bedbugs. New mattress time :/

[PSJ]

It is probably the wealth and associated global travelling of E.D residents that contributes to the spread of bedbugs in the area.

[cosmonaut]

I had a seriously bad case of bedbugs a few years ago. It was sorted thanks to the guys at Bed Bugs Ltd (bed-bugs.co.uk) who were amazing. They really know their stuff and they were really committed to helping us get bug-free.

In any case I recommend going with a company that specialises in bed bugs rather than a catch-all exterminator. Also, you should ask your neighbours if they've had any problems, it's likely the bugs came back because they've infested more than one apt in your building. Unfortunately, if this is the case, unless your neighbours are also willing to pay up for treatment you might find you're getting reinfested all the time...

[hpsaucey]

I'll second this company. They were bloody brilliant about 4 years ago when we had some ... Also agree with cosmonaut's point about maybe being reinfested from another flat.

Good luck

cosmonaut Wrote:

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> I had a seriously bad case of bedbugs a few years

> ago. It was sorted thanks to the guys at Bed Bugs

> Ltd (bed-bugs.co.uk) who were amazing. They really

> know their stuff and they were really committed to

> helping us get bug-free.

>

> In any case I recommend going with a company that

> specialises in bed bugs rather than a catch-all

> exterminator. Also, you should ask your neighbours

> if they've had any problems, it's likely the bugs

> came back because they've infested more than one

> apt in your building. Unfortunately, if this is

> the case, unless your neighbours are also willing

> to pay up for treatment you might find you're

> getting reinfested all the time...

[buckley12]

Yes I had thought about the fact it could be another apartment, but there are so many (8 connecting apartments), that I can't imagine that they would all be prepared to have the treatment. I will certainly give that company a try (thank you cosmonaut and hpsaucy) as I have heard good things about them elsewhere too. It's such a pain and an expensive one too! As for the comment about not making it public, during my research, the incidence of bed bugs has increased dramatically, by 500% over the last 10 years in major cities such as London. Surely by attempting to tackle this very public problem openly is the only way forward?!