How to Get Rid of Bed Bugs - Bed Bug Control Products

• Reduce clutter to make bed bug inspection easier. Be
  careful when removing items from the infested area to other areas
  because you may transfer the bed bugs.
• Personal items (stuffed animals, soft toys, blankets) should
  be removed, cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, and bagged in plastic for a
  couple of days with Nuvan Strips.
  You can also bag laptops, phones and radios as well. The insecticide in
  Nuvan strips will not harm these items, and is non-residual, so you
  don't have to launder them after using the Nuvan strips
• Dismantling bed frames in infested areas may expose additional bedbug hiding sites.
• Remove drawers from desks and dressers, and turn furniture over
  to inspect and clean all hiding spots. All furniture should be pulled
  away from the walls.
• Stand up the box spring and shine a flashlight through the
  gauze fabric to expose bed bugs. If the fabric is torn (possible hiding
  place), remove fabric to prepare for spraying. If the mattress and or
  box springs are infested, you may want to consider Bed Bug Certified Encasements by Mattress Safe.
  Once covered with these encasements, bed bugs can not enter or exit.
  There is no need to treat the mattress or box spring when using these
  encasements. Keep them on for a year.
• Caulk and seal all holes where pipes and wires penetrate walls
  and floor, and fill cracks around baseboards and molding to further
  reduce harboring areas.
• Since infested garments and bed linen can't be treated with
  insecticide they will need to be laundered in hot water (120 degrees
  fahrenheit minimum). If washing is not available, sometimes heating the
  garments or bed linens for several minutes in a clothes dryer may work.
• Thoroughly clean the infested rooms. Scrub infested surfaces with a stiff brush to dislodge eggs.
• Vacuum areas of bed bug infestation with a vacuum attachment.
  Vacuum along baseboards, furniture, bed stands, rails, headboards, foot
  boards, bed seams, tufts, buttons, edges of the bedding, as well as the
  edges of the carpets (particularly along the tack strips). A good vacuum
  cleaning job may remove particles from cracks and crevices to encourage
  greater insecticide penetration. Bed bugs cling tightly to surfaces, so
  it is best to repeat vacuuming by scraping the end of the vacuum
  attachment over the infested areas to pull out the bed bugs. It is not
  good to use a bristle attachment, because you may transfer bed bugs to
  other areas since they cling to the brush. Dispose of vacuum cleaner
  bags after you are finished.
• Caulk cracks and crevices in the infested building exterior,
  and also repair openings to exclude birds, bats, and rodents that can
  serve as alternate hosts for bed bugs.
• Monitoring devices such as the BDS bed bug detection system
  should be placed around the infested area to help determine where the
  bed buge population resides. It is important to know that these devices
  are for monitoring only. Lack of trapped bed bugs does not necessarily
  mean that you are bed bug free.