Bed Bug Infested Mattress Removal in Toronto

Mattress Covers for Bed Bugs

One of the first steps in getting rid of bed bugs in your is to sanitize and isolate your bedding area from further infestation.  To properly prevent the bugs from infiltrating your mattress and box spring, or to prevent remaining bugs from escaping to other parts of the home, it is crucial to encase your mattress and box spring in bed bug resistant covers.

Why Do We Need Mattress Covers for Bed Bugs?

Bed bugs typically live within 5 feet of their human hosts, and prefer dark close spaces where they can hide during most of the day and night.  Mattresses and box springs provide the ideal environment for them – there are numerous cracks and crevices in a mattress and box spring, and the  recommended bed bug exterminators toronto’ favorite feast is almost always available when they are ready to feed.  Bed bugs are very small, especially immediately after hatching from their eggs.  They can climb walls and rough surfaces and can easily move from the interior of a mattress or box spring to the human host and back for their nightly feeding.  The mattress encasement is designed to remove those cracks and crevices and completely shut out bed bugs from a safe retreat after they feed.

Doesn’t Treating the Bedding Destroy the Bugs?

It’s true that a chemical application is crucial for killing off as much of the infestation as possible, but these treatments can only reach bed bugs and eggs at or near the point of application.  Mattresses, especially if they have any wear and tear to their outer fabric, will have many interior surfaces that chemical and steam applications cannot reach.  As a result, you think you’ve killed the  best bed bug exterminators toronto in your home but within a few weeks they have reestablished themselves in full force.  This wastes the time and effort of your initial treatment and means additional exposure to insecticides.  (The insecticides are safe for humans when used as directed, but limiting your overall exposure is still desireable.)

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How Long to Leave a Mattress Encasement on Your Bed?

Toronto bed bug exterminators using heat are nearly as hardy as cockroaches – they can live for long periods of time without feeding and will simply go dormant until a new host presents the opportunity for a tasty blood meal.  To ensure the death of any bugs trapped within the encasement you should leave it on your mattress for at least 18 months.

Important Quality Considerations

Considering this item will be under your sheets for over a year, it is important that you get a high quality encasement that is made of a soft terry cloth material.  Plastic encasements, while effective, will be noisy whenever you move around in the bed.  Additionally, they will not absorb moisture as you sleep and may cause an uncomfortable sleeping environment.
Construction of the encasement needs to make use of a micro zipper technology.  Stage 1 nymphs are so small that they can actually crawl through the spaces between the teeth of a normal zipper, so you need one that is specifically designed to prevent entry by even the smallest pests.
Finally, you will want to make sure that the area at the end of the zipper can be completely covered by an impenetrable flap of fabric.  The end of a zipper where the travel completes the seal will have unavoidable spaces and gaps, so this area should be covered with a Velcro or similar barrier.

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