Checking into a hotel is a usual practice for certain people who are travel for business or other holiday purposes. Having an overnight stay in a hotel may be both enjoyable and stressful at the same time. An encounter with bed bugs is a holiday gift that no one wants to receive during their vacation.
Bed bugs are one of our most common pest issues. They are wonderful hitchhikers and can come home with you from public transit, hotels, movie theatres, restaurants, airlines, and a variety of other public venues. Since the early 2000s, there has been a significant increase in the number of bed bug infestations around the world, the overnight accommodation facilities play an important part in the spread of these bed bugs.
However, if bed bugs are found on your bed, you will need to treat your box spring as well. A small number of bed bugs can become a very large infestation in just a few days. Below are some steps that you can follow to treat your box spring cover for bed bugs.
- Make sure to not put your belongings on the box spring.
- The box spring bed skirt should be removed and dried on high heat.
- Examine the seams on the box spring’s top side. Remove any bed bugs that are present using a vacuum. Use an insecticide with the proper labeling on the top side of the box spring as well. Make sure to treat all seams, tuff, and cracks.
- Raise the box spring so that the backside may be seen.
- Vacuum or remove any live bed bugs along with the staples, then use a marked insecticide. Carefully remove the box spring skirting once the entire seam (where the staples hold the dust cover in place) has been treated.
- For removal from the site, the dust cloth must be treated, folded, and placed in a rubbish bag.
- Use a properly labelled pesticide along with the wood voids, fabric area, and other areas where bed bugs and bed bug eggs may be present once the dust cloth has been removed.
- Make sure the box spring’s plastic ends are bent back and handled similarly to the previous procedures.
Here are a few more points to look out for bed bugs to be sure:
- Scratch areas of your body that weren’t there before you went to bed.
- Bloodstains on your hotel supplies.
- Dark spots on your mattress or pillowcases — may be bed bug excrement.
- Eggshells or shredded skin in areas they may be hiding.
- A mildewed odor around your bed Living or dead bed bugs.
- Pull the bed sheets, blankets, or the box spring wrap and properly inspect the head of the bed. You can also use some tools, a key, or a credit card to inspect the mattress.
- Consider buying a customized mattress cover and box spring cover if you’ve determined that getting a new mattress is too pricey and DIYing your extermination is too unsafe. Bed bugs are extremely impossible to escape from these very virtually important.
- Bed bugs don’t require soft, warm environments to find a home. They could be hiding in your closet.
- Examine the intersections of the floor planks with the wall. These little places are ideal for bed bugs to grow. Check the seals on the doors and drawers, as well as the joints and corners of the closet. Bed bugs can be found almost anywhere there is a spider web.