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I once had a landlady that told me bedbugs in used furniture isn't a problem. You just have to soak the furniture with kerosene and leave it outside for a few months.
She rented out rooms and used the living room for her own bedroom meaning you had to pass through her bedroom to get to the stairs leading to the upstairs bedrooms. That was a wild experience and I left after a month.
Kerosene? Excuse the fuck out of me?!
Short story time...
My late father was very frugal, and would happily pick up used furniture for his place when his old furniture was wearing out. But he never assumed anything about what he picked up, so it didn't go in the house (ok trailer, whatever) immediately.
What he would do is leave the couch/recliner/whatever out in the rain and sunlight for a couple or few weeks. Whatever the rain didn't wash out, the sunlight would basically cook it, those damn bugs don't like either water nor sunlight.
Once the weather was about right and the furniture had been basking and drying in the sun for a few days, that's when he'd swap furniture and move his new find inside. Never once did we ever have bedbugs.
But kerosene? What in the holy fuck?!
You should look up what chemicals are used in dry-cleaning. Its crazy.
Isn't that more or less just straight up carbon dioxide, or is there more to it than that? Either way, yeah dangerous deadly stuff..
Nope, they used to use Kerosene or Gasoline, ow they use Perc which is a neurotoxin and forever chemical iirc.
The professional way to get rid of them is to heat the building and its contents up to 150f for a few hours to kill the bugs and their eggs.
Yep, true that.
And the unprofessional way is to throw out half your furniture and use X-Rid spray, or whatever the fuck they call it, the stuff just works, but is extremely toxic..
That sounds like hell. I'm glad you got out.