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[quote=Anonymous]I'm looking for some ideas. We recently discovered we had bed bugs. It is a brand new issue, two weeks ago. We have also determined that our neighbor has had them for a long time (they told us). In the the opinion of the exterminator, evidence suggests we have individuals wandering over from the neighbor.

We are ready to perform a whole house heat treatment, which can be very effective and knocking out our problem...in isolation. However, this can easily be a wasted $1500 if the source of the issue isn't addressed. We don't yet know if our neighbor can be brought on board.

I am wondering if anyone has suggestions or experience with improving our protection against penetration of pests from one rowhouse to the next. We have a shared solid brick wall, which is solid but also old so there could be vulnerabilities in the old and rather soft brick. I assume there's some kind of shared space whatever void is between ceilings and the roofs (flat).

I'm having thoughts along the line of adding a layer of drywall on the "party wall" and trying to redo the ancient and not-tight closets that sit up against that well. That doesn't address roof space or floors, however - would redoing the floor to hardwood help?

Has anyone dealt with this or had a client who did? Any thoughts?

I'm sorry for my imprecise question. I owe it to myself to try and figure this out ... and for the next person, if there is a next person. I feel like we're finally up against a systemic issue we have to address.[/quote]

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