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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes. We had bbs in our rowhouse. We discovered them early, and we were able to get rid of them. My advice for you:

1. Do not try to eradicate them yourself. Spraying on your own can drive them into your walls and worsen the problem. Call an exterminator. (We used Western Pest)

2. Follow your exterminator's advice to a T. If he says put all your stuff in bags and wash everything in hot water, do it.

3. Be prepared to live in bags for about a month.

4. Be prepared to throw out things if need be. We ditched a rug that had been in our bedroom.

5. If you don't want to throw out your mattress, buy an encasement that will seal the bbs in.

6. Don't be too disheartened by what you read on Bedbugger.com. I actually had to stop reading that site because it freaked me out too much. You can get rid of bbs. We did.

7. Good luck and big hugs.  [/quote]

I wholeheartedly agree with everything above.  DH brought them home from a business trip to NYC (we assume).  We dried then bagged every.single article of clothing, ours and the children's.  Once those items were bagged, we either left them on our back deck (we found the large ziplocs to be great, in case we needed to see in to get something), or on tables in the bedrooms.  We ended up tossing our mattress, as it was 10 years old, and our room was the only one where there had been evidence (DH and I bitten, exterminator found live ones).  We got new covers for all mattresses and box springs. (our pest control company had much better prices on these.  They treated, then put the covers on for us.  We had one treatment.  Then had to wait 3-4 weeks before unpacking the bagged stuff.  They found minimal evidence on the first treatment (only in our room), and none on the second.  This was almost 2 years ago.  We went with American Pest Control as they had a 1 year warranty.  All others I called, only warrantied a month, saying it was too easy to reinfest.  Awful experience, but we got through it.  We paid about $900 for the treatment and covers.  This was for 4 BR and one living room (we decided to treat the sofa area too) SFH.
 
GL!!!![/quote]

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