Comments on: A bed bug advisory board for New York City

By: Renee Corea

Renee Corea — Tue, 05 May 2009 06:16:02 +0000

Thanks so much, that is very encouraging.

I hope all the good people will be persuaded to help despite the significant commitment and, well, red tape.

By: jlg123

jlg123 — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:13:04 +0000

Just a note to say that NYC is in the “interview” process for members of the advisory board. The vetting process is somewhat lengthy, background checks and all.

By: Renee Corea

Renee Corea — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 03:11:29 +0000

I’m sick with a fever so I will reply to these posts tomorrow, but will likely have to delete all the portions that are advertisements. I know you guys want to develop your businesses but it’s inappropriate to advertise products or businesses here in the comments. The way to participate is to write a comment and link your business website to your name in the comment form. If you make it a smart and thoughtful comment, add value to the conversation, people may link on your name to visit your website. That is the way to participate in the community.

If the only purpose of your participation is to advertise your business, your comment is spam. You seem well-intentioned folks, so I am advising you of this here rather than deleting without comment.

Finally, please keep in mind what we are trying to accomplish, namely a city-wide bed bug control policy.

By: catherine hutton

catherine hutton — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:07:59 +0000

I read with interest the various comments and experiences with bedbugs.I had a three bedroom infestation due to the fact that I was unwittingly spreading them.A long story short: A friend who is not having the best time in life would often visit so that I could feed him .He convided late fall that he had the dreaded BB and although sympathetic I lightly told him not to bring them here! For a few months I remained in denial thinking I had flea bites from my cat.It wasn’t until my son suggested that my problems could be more than fleas I investigated.The rest is history…
I did call a pest control company but decided to tackle THE BEAST myself.I spent countless hours on the Net looking for weapons to add to my arsenault.Don’t bother with trying to freeze them out.I sent things outside for weeks and the bugs literally came out of hiding and started to unthaw in front of me.That item I did chuck as that was pre-experiment days.I combined a mixture of colloidal soap,a safe powdered disinfectant (relyon or virkon)that has ovide (egg killing )properties,and rubbing alcohol and sprayed on soft surfaces.Around baseboards (which I personally feel is the where they really hide)I added vegetable oil & DE to keep the mixture hydrated.There was a residual coating but I didn’t care.Now trust me this is a lot of work but it was cheap and non poisonous.It worked 100 %.I still have bug phobia and jump at the tiniest speck .If I read again about how bed bugs are an inconvenience I would like to ask that person to experience them and say that.I have never felt so exposed and helpless as I did then.By the way the bites became infected and I was given oitments for STAPH. [deleted]

By: David Atson

David Atson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:36:54 +0000

To Renee Corea
hello my name is David, from D&Y VApor Cleaning
I posted a comment on this web site two nights ago (3-17-09) about my experience with bed bugs, as well as some information about our company, I hope you recived it.
Anyway I would like to make a comment today to your posted reply on 3-16-09 .
Firist thing is, from all the information I looked up on how to kill Bed bug with out the use of pesticides I found that UVC light does not kill bed bugs on contact. UVC does eradicate dust mites and kills bacteria what it does to bed bug supposedly is breaks up there DNA so they can no longer reproduce. Again this is supposedly and it does not kill them on contact.
Second, I also know that used mattress are a significant problem in New York City, this was the cause of our bed bug problem in our building. A neighbor got a used mattress and before they knew it, bed bugs were all over the place. Anyway, I think that the mayor’s bed bug advisory board first call of duty should be to advies the mayor that stronger regulation needs to be inforced upon these mattress refurbishing facilities. I don’t even know if anyone is over seeing them. These refurbishing facilites should be held accountable for not decontaminating their mattress before selling them to the public. Bed Bugs are hard enough to get rid of once they are in your home, we don’t need to keep sending them back in through contaminated mattresses.
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By: Renee Corea

Renee Corea — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:52:47 +0000

I’ve been wondering how to reply to your comment, Malcolm, and I guess I can only say that it’s not all about mattresses when it comes to bed bugs in our cities, as I hope you know. Also, bed bugs are not mites, as I’m sure you know, but so many seem to not really understand that it’s nearly always worth pointing out.

All that said, used mattresses are a significant problem.

But the kind of mattress sanitization for mattress refurbishing facilities we need is an industrial process, a repeatable and verifiable process. Surface treatments of steam and disinfectant spray are unlikely to be adequate.

As for UVC and bed bugs, I’d really have to see independent research, sorry.

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By: malcolm forster

malcolm forster — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:44:51 +0000

hi just thought i would have a bit say in the debate of bed bugs,in the u.k we are a special (franchise) sole purpose to dispose of and clean all bed bugs in mattress,the process begins with an ultra violet light wich highlights all bugs then useing a steam machine the bed is cleaned,after this we then spray the mattress with a fluid which is a combination of steri-x disinfectant and fire retardant ,the purpose of this is duel,when we clean down the mattress we actually taken out the fire retardant whilst killing the bug,however useing our chemical we not only kill the bed bugs but we also fire retard as well [deleted]