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Originally Posted by pylon
To me it is not that I have anything to hide (except for my collection of rubber fists of course), I am just a very private person, and don't like uninvited guests, touching my stuff.
I just do not like the idea of people spraying toxic fumes, in my home. It would be the last resort for me, as I would look at alternatives first. Perhaps it is the only route, but I would certainly like some input, and adequate time to research alternatives to what is being released in my personal airspace.
This is not like cancer treatment where the risks justify the means. Bedbugs are not lethal, and I am sure there is alternatives to poisons.
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There are alternatives. Heat. Take the whole building to the middle of the Sahara in the middle of summer. It's gotta get up to like 60 or so.
Then there's fire. Fire solves lots of problems, but it also has an unfortunate side affect of indiscriminately burning everything.
Then there's co-existence. Learn to live with disgusting little bugs that hide until you go to sleep. Enjoy having a flashlight on your night table for the next two months so that every time you get the tiniest itch during the night, you'll wake up like someone threw a bucket of water on you, grab the flashlight, and furiously search for the bed bug, until you finally convince yourself that maybe you just had an itch.
Live like that for two months until you want to murder your landlords (or condo board) for being idiots and not taking care of the situation properly, and letting them spread from the second floor allllll the way up to the sixth floor, and then throw out all your furniture and move out of the building, and fight in court over a few thousand dollars.
None of the alternatives are as cost effective as the chemical.
Just so you know, there is lots and lots of info on bedbugs online. In fact, there's even a bedbug registry to alert people of infested buildings with stupid landlords that allow infestations to perpetuate.