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I don't want to broadcast to my neighbors that I'm using your service. Can I count on a discrete experience?
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Prep 4 Bed Bugs vehicles are unmarked, our technicians do not wear uniforms bearing our name and our
equipment is carried in concealed plastic bags. Your neighbors would only know why we’re in your home if you choose to tell them.
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Do I have to throw bed bug infested furniture away?
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No, don’t panic! Although bed bugs are annoying, you can get rid of them. In the majority of cases, it is not necessary to dispose of furniture,
prior to treatment. Throwing furniture away and buying new mattresses won’t solve the problem. Most infested furniture can be cleaned and treated.
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Do I have to wrap furniture/mattress prior to disposing of them?
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Yes, you should first vacuum the items in question. Then you should deface it-making it less attractive for others to pick up.
Finally, to prevent bed bugs and/or their eggs from being knocked off the furniture in uninfested areas, the items that your are discarding
must be wrapped in plastic or placed in impenetrable encasements prior to removing anything from your apartment.
This will prevent bed bugs from spreading into other homes. Best if you hire professionals to do it for you.
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What are the legal repercussions of bed bugs?
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Landlords and property owners have a legal obligation to provide safe and habitable accommodations for tenants.
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Who is responsible for preparing my apartment so that pest management professionals could inspect and treat for bed bugs if necessary?
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Tenants have an obligation to cooperate with owners and landlords. It is the tenant’s responsibility to thoroughly prepare their
apartment prior to treatment.
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What Do Bed Bugs Look Like?
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Adult bed bugs are reddish-brown, flightless insects around 1/4" long. They’re flat when unfed and football-shaped when engorged with blood.
Nymphs (babies) have similar heads, mouthparts and bodies as adult bed bugs, but their coloration is very different. They’re tan in color and
bodies translucent. When a bed bug molt to adult stage, they are sometimes waxy in appearance and more orange in color.
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How Do Bed Bugs Get Into A Home?
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Bed bugs wander between adjoining apartments through voids in the walls and through holes around shared conduits. Bed bugs are easily
carried by humans from place to place because they “hitchhike” on personal belongings such as luggage, furniture and
mattresses, sometimes even clothes. Bedbugs do not normally travel on a person’s body.
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What Should I Do If I Have Bedbugs In My Home?
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Once a home is infested with bed bugs, treatment is expensive, difficult and time-consuming and should be done by a pest control specialist.
Call Prep 4 Bed Bugs, LLC to help you prep your apartment properly. If an apartment isn’t prepared properly, it reduces the effectiveness
of the treatment by 75%-regardless of the treatment method used. Then call a reputable pest control specialist who is experienced, knowledgeable
and committed to eradicating bed bugs safely and effectively--one who minimizes the use of chemicals while maintaining an effective, diligent
pest management program.
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FACTS:
- Bed bugs infestations occur worldwide. They became relatively scarce during the latter part of the 20th century, but their population
has resurged in recent years throughout the United States, Canada, parts of Europe, Australia, even Africa to epidemic proportions.
- Bed bugs don’t prefer locations based on sanitation or hygiene. They can be found in the cleanest places, but clutter makes it
harder to get rid of them.
- Bed bugs can be found in hotels, motels, airports and resorts, apartments, barracks, buses, cabins, churches, community centers, cruise ships,
homes, hospitals, laundromats, moving vans and trucks, nursing homes, office buildings, restaurants, schools, public transportation, theatres,
subway stations, used furniture stores and any other public place.
- Bed bugs travel on clothing and things such as luggage and furniture we bring into our homes. Avoid purchasing and/or picking up used furniture.
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