Great video Mr. Williams. Thank you for showing economical and practical methods to get rid of bed bugs when you do not have the means to pay for a professional exterminator which is very costly.
I used your video except duck taped around sides and corners with plastic under and sides so your not laying on the plastic. Six months later- no more problems. Bless you!!!!
Thank you, Joel! My husband and I viewed this today. You are a fabulous teacher....we learned a lot, and will implement your advice and steps into our fight against these pests. Thanks again!
Joel....I love your videos. As for this video I want to tell people it's 100% accurate. I was amused to come across this video at first and found that I already learned everything discussed in this video from experience. I suffered for 4 years, thankfully that's all, with bedbugs and can now say I'm bedbug free. People these methods work!!! Be diligent and consistent. I'm an expert with the alcohol and diteamacious earth, consistent vacuuming and cleaning. Good luck to all. Thanks Joel!
Thank you very much Ms. Layne. It really give new victims a shot in the arm when they here positive feedback from real people like yourself. Can't express how powerful that is for someone who is just having to deal with bedbugs for the first time.
@@JoelZWilliams1 You're right about that. We just discovered the bed bugs tonight. My grandson got bit again. At first we thought it was mosquitoes. I've never had to deal with this so I searched RUclips. I believe God led me to your channel. I don't have much money but between your videos and people saying it works helps calm me. I didn't know what we were going to do. But now I have hope and we're gonna get through this. Thank you so much!! 😊🙏🙏🙏
God bless you for helping us. I am 83 yrs. My home is very clean but l have bed bugs. I live in an apartment. A person put a sofa out about 5 ft from my door. Later l was told that it had bed bugs. The office waited about 3 weeks to remove it. Now a few months later l have them on my sofa . I only receive a small SS security check . I am so sad. I can not afford new furniture. I can’t afford an exterminator. I will try some of your remedies. Thank you, thank you. Prayers that these help!
You have really helped me. I have been crying and almost going into a nervous breakdown. I've been so upset didn't jno what to do. No one helps me or even want to listen. Now I have about ten bottles all over the house. I get about 5 a day and now I just made more traps. I still feel like I have a long way to go
Doris Peace continues the fight don’t give up. I believe the environmental get us to get insecticide I saw on the internet EPA has it for years. They does not care for humans we are disposable.😡😡😡😡
this video has actually brought a smile to my face. gave me some reassurance. i thought my bed frame and mattress were goners. that would have been $800 down the toilet.
Thank you much sir for this information it has help me so much I’m going to go home and tackle this problem pray for me and it’s a really scary project
Your advice saved us. I think the most important things we did, on your video advice, was to wrap the mattresses in plastic and to put little plastic containers under all of the bed frame feet. We also cleaned and laundered and got DE to spread around. BUT i think the mattress wrapping and containers saved us. We'll take your advice with us wherever we go from here. Thank you!
Thank you for coming back to report your success. people don't do that enough. and I think it gives great inspiration to others. Please tell all of your friends.
I have just began to work on this problem. In fact I do not visually see any bugs on my mattress or home. But for about a week, I have been bit. I dismissed the first two as spider? First on one arm and then the other. The bites did not wake me but the itching and swelling did. I am really reacting to this. I began to look for insect bits like mine. I recently purchased a chair from a thrift store. Humm? Probably need to really examine that chair and encase it. Last night I surrounded my bed...a big circle of Diatomaceous Earth. It was on thing I had on hand from a while back with fleas. I am happy to report that I was not bitten at all last night, but the war is far from over. I fear they will get to my son's room. Anyway, people like you are rare and I think a great example of what we need in this world. People willing to help their follow man...for free. Very cool of you.
hit them hard and fast people. lets say you have 5 adults. 2 are maybe male, so 3 females-1-5 eggs laid PER DAY. for math purposes we'll say 3 adults laying 3 eggs per day. 63 eggs per week, hatch in 2 weeks. within a month, you are hopelessly infested. don't play. if you see one, treat it like there is already 1,000 of them. they suck so bad.
I bet you were correct about the Thrift Store! We are now fighting the problem ad I am convinced that it originated from some luggage purchased from there.
THANK YOU! Excellent video. If one doesn't have the money there is a way to seal the plastic with a clothes iron using newspaper between the iron and the plastic.
Great idea yes, I used parhment paper for baking. Out on top of plastic to be welded together and press hard on a hard counter ect and it really melts and seals it like a weld. Great ideas brother. It worked for me and lots of others I show it to
Thanks this really helped. I found 2 bed bugs on my mattress yesterday and found out just how expensive treatments are. I will be wrapping furniture for the next couple days with a spray bottle next to me. Hope this works...
You are awesome. Having some affordable methods for folks to get rid of bed bugs is a HUGE DEAL! I work for a local health department, and I will be sending people to your RUclips videos. THANK YOU.
My husband and I threw our sons beds out after learning of bed bugs upstairs in their room. We have purchased new ones, and have even bought bb mattress cases, however only one comes in package for $19.98. I'm so grateful for your video. This is how we're going to encase the box springs, and save some money! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You need to buy the Bed Bug encasements. Walmart.com has it for less than the actual store..you can get it for about the same price as the uhaul plastic..
@@MsJanetLouise Or saturate your mattress with a very strong solution of disinfectant! I used dettol in a spray bottle using one part dettol to two parts water and then thoroughly spray all sides of the mattress until it was saturated. Then waited a whole day for it to dry before using it to sleep on. Dettol is a very strong disinfectant sold here in the UK. But I suppose other disinfectants would also work.
Thank you so much. My family and I am finally free from bloodsuckers, bed bugs. I saw your video a year ago and I did exactly as u instructed. This really works. God bless you brother
End of 2019. Along with your other videos on bedbug traps (CO2 emitters) this is a piece of cake! IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED HIS OTHER VIDEOS ABOUT “CREATE A CO2 BEDBUG TRAP” YOU REALLY NEED TO! Encasing the bed/furnishings is 1/2 of getting rid of the bedbugs. Fortunately my problem is confined to one room that has a hallway wrapped around it and we’ve already quarantined it off & sprayed around it. Bought a headboard & a week later my 15 year old has bites & blood on the sheets. Terminex wants $800 to treat the room & cover mattress/box springs. No way I’m going to pay that huge amount of money (even if I had it that’s outrageous!) for it so I’m off to the stores for Active Yeast & plastic sheeting & duct tape! It’s crazy that these bugs are IN the headboard! Thank the good Lord my daughter spoke up quickly because the bed has hardly any bugs so far. I do have to say the Terminex man did a very thorough inspection. He wanted to treat the house but said because that room has its own hallway that that was a save .. and we knew about it almost right away. I’ve already torn the box spring cover off from the under side - stood the mattress & box spring up & bombed between each.. including the headboard. I’ve bombed the room several times. Bagged up clothing & washed. Hot dryers etc.. My kids been in the living room for a couple weeks now & she’s not allowed to go into her room. I vacuum & carry out the vacuum in a plastic bag each time. I carry the vacuum all the way to the edge of the woods.. lol empty it, spray the chit out of it and then re-bag it. No bedbugs are getting away from me LOL 😂 The bugs that are left - yes I left a few on the headboard bugs to see how long it takes to die- they turned white and they look dehydrated. After bombing some were still barely moving but they didn’t look too good, so I was observing. I had no idea it can take a year!!! Omg that’s insane.. 400 days is more than a year! Without a blood meal you’d think they’d just shrivel & turn to dust. It must be hibernating mode or something. Anyways, Thank you sooo much! I don’t know how you would republish this video but I do know you are 100% right-> it isn’t to be embarrassed about because bedbugs don’t want money or filth - they want blood. Non-discriminate. Bed bugs are the devil!
Yes, I have personally never used Cimexa (Amorphous Silica Gel) , but I did read the study from Dr. Michael Potter at the University of Kentucky Department of Agriculture.. Very encouraging news. I hope you have similar results where you are.
Joel: Thank you for looking out for the less fortunate. My family just experienced a bedbug moment at a hotel. We will incorporate your method when we get home after we inspect and wash up everything. I will tell others about your video and method. The encasement for one mattress can cost 40 = 50 dollars. Thank you and God bless.
Joel I have been battling bed bugs in my apartment since discovering them back in 2009. I've had my landlord's exterminator treat my apartment twice, once in 2010 and again in 2011. They died down each time for 7 months and came back. I have had my mattresses encased along with box springs and I've changed encasements as well as thrown out and bought new sets both in my bedroom and my kids room. The exterminator told me the building is infested and you're right these encasements as far as cost adds up. I now do the 3 treatment method which is the alcohol, steam, and also the bed bug spray. I will try the plastic covering over my mattress encasements. Thanks for all your help.
+imari2305 . Please be sure to include the use of an amorphous silica gel like CimeXa. I'm telling you, it is well worth the $13 dollar investment. Best kill-to-cost ratio in the game.
(Thank you for your help.) l keep telling my boyfriend stop feeling sorry for people and bringing people in the house.he felt sorry for someone and now we're sorry. I hope he learned his lesson this time.
when I incased my bed in plastic I found there was more protection when I took the end put both sides of plastic together put a piece of duct tape on one side all the way across the end and folded it over and pressed it together then I secured it to the bottom of the box spring as you did
I wrapped my bed and threw it out. Now im using an air mattress that i set on top of a cot. Sprinkled Borax around the feet of the cot and that has worked a charm.
You don't have to thrown your mattress just get product called CROSSFIRE and spray on mattrers this product kill them in minute and will work 4 weeks this is new product and is amazing + is no toxic so you can spray and wait when your mattress dry
I have gotten this handled over 95% out of my car by taking it to a body shop for a heat rewarm in their booth and maintain with 1x a week vacuum and lavender scented ant-ibacterial wipes.
You're not the only one being bitten in the house, you're the only one that is being affected by the bites..so your family should be concerned about them too!! I'm so sorry that your being made to feel like it's your fault...their also being bitten!!!!!!
I hate that you're being made to feel bad about this. Family members or anyone else need to do their research because Bed Bugs DO NOT discriminate between clean or unclean. They can be found in 5-Star Hotels! Bed Bugs are only looking for blood! 🙏 God bless you and give you peace. 🙏
I was driven to a breaking point bc of these demons from hell. My mom did not believe me bc she wasn't waking up with bites until one day she decided to take a good look at her mattress and my skin crawled when she showed me. She was in disbelief. I told her they were eating her alive without her knowing (she doesnt seem to react to the bites). We taking it day by day but I gotta say my anxiety has increased through the roof bc of these things. I have changed my way of life practically such as putting my belonging in plastic bags and containers and throwing away couches and bed springs. I pray that we are rid of them some day
+Joel Z Williams ANOTHER great video...I'm glad I found your channel today...I live in South Carolina bed bug free since I moved in 1 1/2 years ago but about 9 months ago my daughter moved from Columbus (Ohio) down here with me and my other daughter, son in law and their 3 kids but for a couple months after moving in I seen no problem till one night my daughter's son was crying so I went to see what was wrong and I about died when I seen what at first I thought was a tick (we live in a wooded area) WAS NOT...that morning I had everyone take everything off their beds and found 3 bugs in the room so I went to Walmart and picked up some bb killer...I didn't see any again and thought I got rid of them...WRONG ANSWER...before I seen your channel I called in a pesticide company and at 1100 bucks a shot times 3 that got out of hand but after watching your videos I shared them with my 6 other daughters in Ohio...thank you for the information that I passed along and so far most of my daughters say it's a success and I could have saved a lot of money if I'd have caught this channel first...great job
I have no idea if I got the bedbugs from the place I bought my sectional sofa bed or my next door neighbor. I noticed the tiniest bug one day... Not realizing it was a baby bedbug. Then a week later there was one which most likely was an adult. This past Monday I showed this bug to the Manager to my apartment complex. He said. Stop going to your neighbors apartment. We all know that she had bed bugs. I had never seen anyone come by her place since I have lived here, 8 Months. Till this past Friday. The bug man came to my apartment, then to her apartment and then all the way down to another apartment. We have an infestation. And who pays for this? We do. We are a 55 and over senior citizen complex. Not everyone can afford what they are charging. $375.00. This has exhausted me. I like your video,, gives a lot of information...
Lord have mercy just found bed bugs. Its late and I gotta get up early for work. Thankful I found your video because every mattress was going get thrown away tomorrow
I had an overnight guest bring these into my apartment over Xmas. It only took me a week to figure it out. I discovered what I believed to be their lair in my box spring and I immediately threw it out and I ordered some eco bed bug killer on Amazon which killed them on contact instantly. I also threw out my mattress and old wooden head and footboard. I also threw away all my bedding. So I started from scratch with an empty room I sprayed the pesticide everywhere. My new mattress uses a metal boxspring that has a cloth cover which hasn’t shown any signs of bed bugs. However I have seen single bedbug just creeping along the wall which I would immediately spray and make sure they were dead and flushed them. The sightings have been very limited and usually on the wall or ceiling. I can’t tell if these are just left over troops from the infestation that I eradicated. I mad your trap and only caught one very very small nymph. I’ve only gotten bitten a few times over the last three weeks. What else should I do. I spray daily around the bedding area and I’ve checked all the small cracks. I was going to get that powder you showed before but without a real sign of multiple bedbugs I’m not sure what I should do
Long time viewer, 1st time commenter. I'd like to say, Awesome job, thank you for helping all these people all over the globe (Shout out from Australia), Keep up the great work :) 6 stars out of 5
i used the plastic mattress covers u-haul sells for my king size; it's like a pillow case; insert and seal one side, then insert the sealed side and seal again, your mattress being like a pillow, get it? It's been working. Had also sprayed them with the product you spray on your shoes to make them water repellent. Worked. We picked these pests up at an apt community NE san antonio, tx!! Glad to say we have seen results with the above mentioned method. Plastic is not 4 mil, but holds up pretty good, just tape it good! Good luck brother, funny i ran into your video after all this time!
After suffering bedbugs for months, I finally found salvation through lightly dusting all their hiding places with diatomaceous earth (non-edible version). It's truly the most effective solution, and cheap too.
I would include to this prevention of bed bugs a healthy amount of diatomaceous earthing idea of the plastic sheathing, for quicker results. thanks for your vids. keep up the good work.
If you can - spraying with vodka or anything 100% alcohol is the best for home remedies. Also, add in essential oils like peppermint or other bug repellent scent like citronella like they use for mosquitoes - add that to the alcohol and spray with it.
Awesome info..thank u.. as I'm dealing with them for the first time ever and I moved into the house that had them.. I am on a fixed income and am tired of spending bookoo bucks on chemicals and washing/drying at the laundromat.
Thanks for all your videos and info on how to control the bed bug problem ! You make it very clear and easy to understand the method to solve the problem . We have started using your strategies and it has been an improvement ! Thanks very much for your help...!!!
Love your videos. Thank you. In '86 I was infected with HIV, been POZ since 2002; and now fighting colo-rectal cancer since '12. Exterminators want an entire months rent, and have only a 30 day guarantee. That's a racket. They're crooks. You are so helpful for someone like myself who due to serious chronic health issues is forced to live on a very meager budget. 5 nights ago I was tossing and flipped my pillow over to find 15 bed bugs on my pillow. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep since, and my apartment looks like a war zone. I've depleted my savings and maxing my credit cards to fight this ($160.00 in chemicals; $140.00 in Box Spring/Mattress and Pillow encasements). I don't tolerate pests, at all. I usually rely on peppermint oil for rodents (safe, effective and friendly) and Diatomaceous Earth for any bug problem. I know DE works on Bed Bugs, but this is not a light case, and I'm using it as well. My hardwood floors are covered in it as are my newly encased box springs and mattresses. Besides DE (diatomaceous earth) I thought I'd share some other things I've come across. Mineral Spirits, and Cold-Pressed Neem oil.
thank you thank you mr. williams on recommending cimexa. it solved all my problems no more problems and it happened really fast. all i recommend is to use cimexa liberally. bb free for four months now with nothing in sight. i also followed your advice on encasing my mattresses and did spend about 80 dollars on that but i didn't want to cut corners. all in all i couldn't be happier thank you so much!!!!!
i bought a commercial encasing for 80 dollars at Target..it was expensive! after about a year,i have no idea what happened..i couldnt find any rips...i turned it over one day and all the edges seams has TONS of bedbugs,i was horrified..i had started getting tichy but thought it was medication i was taking.
You can use Creolina, its a floor desinfectant used in Latin America, Also for sealing the plastic you can use a cooking sheet and iron to seal the plastic together and use tape for extra protection or flat iron work well too. Smoke does affixiate Bed Bugs. CATCH AND TRIAL.
University not, My grandmothers home remedies worked once and never saw one ever again and in a neighboring house the lady could not resist smoke so creolina was used and so did the work. Perhaps you would be happy just researching both? Not just University Researches have all the answers you know. Back in the days the have passion fruit and Lavender by bed to avoid these pesk. Just saying you trying these and see your results.
JimmyLani sounds like you are turning the burden of proving your claim over to me. I can save you the trouble, it doesn't work reliably against all strains of cimex lectularias. Reliability in the pest control world is viewed as 92% kill rate. Smoke may kill some of the bugs but you can rest assured that many of the eggs survived. It's just that some people are less reactive to the bedbug bites than others. Trust me, greater minds than yours our your grandmother are currently working on developing ways to eradicate these pests. Perhaps you should review this link: www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/bedbugs-many-diy-methods-of-getting-rid-of-them-dont-work-but-some-do/2013/11/25/17870956-52bb-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
Sir, not every person that gives their opinion is going to be backed by university, though they research and closely view the changes and effects of thee, perhaps thats how they are still trying to erradicate this, by taking people remedies in consideration. These pest are driven to have a meal all how right, Im guessing if trying does not hurt, Creolina in it concentrate will eliminate this pest, can it be found in US maybe bought over the internet. Maybe can be brought to the universities attention so it could be considered. I have never seen this pest alive while I have seen the neighbor body full off hives and dead bugs, 10 months without incidents, and continue with combo every 3 months. And we know that it could survived certain amount without feeding thanks to university research. I do not know how i got to your channel, I admire the fact that you are helping people and giving them information. And looks like a lot of them do come for advice, I though I offered some of success too.
I did it the cheep way for two weeks and no bites on the bed. I used 70% alcohol, it was all I could find and it worked great. I now have bought four $1 mattress covers with three $1 rolls of duct tape equals $7 total from a dollar store. Plus about $4 for alcohol. It has been about 3 weeks and no bed bugs.I am just wondering Mr. Williams how did you get started in doing this for a living. Did you have a bed bug problem?
After watching this video. I returned my Amazon bedding encasement which was 45+$$ for mattress & box spring. I checked my box spring & i found them, So I bought (one roll) 3.5mm from WalMart for $7.98. It enclosed both my queen size mattress & box spring and had some left over. I sprayed (box spring & mattress with PURE 91% alcohol- Plus adding the Bed bug powder on both B4 i wrapped them).IF U are going to wrap them (don't just do the box spring (like He did) in this video-WRAP/Enclose BOTH of them!! I stapled the box spring and enclosed the rest corners/(like he did with duct tape). I don't plan on taking the plastic off. This is a Good idea for Ppl who's on a fixed income & can't afford a $400 exteriminator fee. It only cost me $7.98 + 2 roll's of 97c duct tape ( i already had the staple gun).
This is great brother 😊 your a good man to share best way to eliminate these little vampires. This way worksnperfectly.and it's simple without paying big bucks. I has estimates of 700 to 1600 to do my small apartment . Big pest control is big buisness. Also a few companies big Orkin and others told me chemical treatment is great we will come back up to 3 times included in the 1300 yes 13 hundred. . Your method cost me under 10.bucks. Awesome and it works. I used parchment bake paper on iron on top of plastic that was to be bonded together and it sealed the plastic perfect. Thank you for sharing the best way and LOWEST cost possible to eliminate these things. Yes 4 mill is nice thick poly as welll
Thank you very much for reporting back with your success story. More people need to hear these. I think a lot of people are very skeptical because I didn't actually use live bugs when I made the trap videos. It's just too risky to have them in your home even experimentally.
sir. thank you for this informative video. unfortunately I found out yesterday that apartment im getting ready to move into.....the previous tenant had bedbugs! *** so I will be applying your methods before I move in and constantly monitoring. I will never let my guard down! id rather deal with roaches than these nasty things.
"would rather deal with roaches then these nasty things"...testament to how terrible these critters are. i swear they are almost mythical in their abilities..
You can also get a hockey of Contractor bags if you are covering a toddler/ crib sized mattress. I covered my son’s mattress to protect against bed wetting.
I had lived in an apartment building That was so Infested that they were crawling up my curtains during the day with the Sun shining through! Also, seen them behind picture frames on walls and nightstand.
I know this may sound bad, but I spay my mattress, around my bed, and under the bed with Raid and let it sit while I'm gone to work, then put the protector on the mattress
Per your article: Bed bugs can go without feeding for 20 to 400 days, depending on temperature and humidity. Older stages of nymphs can survive longer without feeding than younger ones, and adults have survived without food for more than 400 days in the laboratory at low temperatures. Adults may live up to one year or more, and there can be up to four successive generations .This is why all scientists disagree on the time limits and why I err on the side of caution: Diapause allows insects to survive hostile periods, like hibernation. I believe the use of pesticides not only drives them into the walls to diapause, but also promotes the species. Traumatic insemination is said to be helpful in proliferation of the species by causing females to disperse. Pesticides appear to be doing a great job at dispersal. The epidemic only seems to be expanding with this prevalent technology.
@@robertrobski1013 Trust me...they came in a BRAND new couch that wasn't used 13 mths, and now they're 😳all over!!! I'm up all night most nights. Working his ideas NOW
ok, first let start by saying thank you!!!!!!!! i live on a fixed income and absolutely CAN NOT afford to properly treat! so both of you videos, the encasement one and the yeast trap, have been so so helpful! my issue though, how the hell do you cover couches??? my couch is part of a sectional set and is extremely awkward... on one end it has a section that jets out so one person can lay across the couch and another can sit at the end with there feet up and stretched all the way out... its an enormous 3 piece with two full size couches... im throwing out the couch that has no extras and keeping the section that has the extra space at one end.... i'm so overwhelmed with all that has to be done and how little help there is! my daughter is the only in the house who is extremely sensitive to there bites meaning she cant be here at all and i can't get even one person to step foot into my apartment to help so i'm handling this alone... i only mention this because i have to take this into consideration when making a plan to do anything... im hopeful that you might have have other suggestions about covering my couch... and if there are any other suggestions that you might have, i am way open to hearing them! again, thank you so much for posting these videos... making them is time consuming and takes a lot of work! hope to hear from you soon!
There is a thing that is called mattress protectors that are zippered shut and it works, its expesnsive you can even use it on your box spring. they even work for dust mites and moisture, and it is comformfortable to sleep on and you just take it off every now and then and wash it. You can't put it the dryer though. A lot faster.
Thank you so Much! You went the full extent to really help us understand what's best to help ourselves!!! I found they loved the seams of my clothing. Despite heat killing them in both washer and dryer they'd get on me and poke their heads out of the seams and have a snack. Mostly juvenal's. I felt like I was in a race to kill them before they got mature enough to reproduce every few days. I couldn't find signs on anything but the sheets and blanket. If I caught one biting me it was the color of my skin, so small and hard to see. I couldn't find them anywhere but I never looked INSIDE the box spring. You're right about just doing the full 400 days, who wants to go through it over and over. I always had my new mattresses sealed right away. That was the only time I didn't. I honestly felt lazy about it and told myself I worry too much, it won't happen. I keep my mattress covered as soon as I get it from now on and just tell myself it's not a bed for a good night's sleep if it's not covered. Thank you for all you do!!
I just throwaway the bed bug infested mattress with plastic.Before I brought a new one.I had bed bugs professionals come and stray the house.Then I brought and new twin with a plastic encasement for the mattress and pillow.So far so good.Good info anyway gave me idea's.
Yeah, funny that u mentioned that. When I moved to Phoenix I bought a brand new twin mattress and box spring set and it arrived at my apartment covered in thick clear plastic while the apartment maintenance man was fixing my sink. I got a knife and started to remove the plastic and he told me that I should just leave it on. In retrospect I wish I had. I got my first taste of bedbugs just two weeks later!
I first got bedbugs from my dad bringing home a couch from the complex dumpster back in 2011. Had no idea bed bugs even existed. Our rent was $742 utilities included and my dad (diabetic,insulin dependent,not allowed to work) would receive $750 a month from ssi and $150 a month in food stamps for him and us 4 kids.. so he’d have $8 remaining every month to buy us hygiene stuff and house stuff, well that meant getting 10 bucks or even 5 bucks for a can of bed bug spray or anything to help the issue was pretty impossible. So they grew and grew and a few months later we had nests the size of shoe boxes on all sides of our mattresses, our box springs were just engulfed in nests, they’d be running in the bathroom, on the hallway walls, just everywhere. To sleep I’d wait until the sun came up and I’d take my puppy and go sleep in my neighbors car until it got too hot which would be about 6/7am as I live in Arizona. It was miserable. Took us 3 moves and about 4 years to completely get rid of them. In our experience, alcohol was our best friend and deodorant on the bites to relieve the itch was a charm. Well here I am awake at 5am in 2019, a grown ass woman and the bed bugs are back. This time around I already know what to do and I have the means to take action so I’m thankful for that. I only saw 2 so far. Although I don’t see any nests, nor is it even a fraction of what I went thru as a child, I know that where there’s 1, there’s 1000 more hiding so Im prepared to spend the next 2 to 3 years battling this. It takes time and misery to get rid of bedbugs. Encasements here I come. Lord help me.
Wow, that's a horrible story. I really feel bad for having to endure that trauma. Right now my best piece of advice is to hire a pro with the neopyrethrins (professional grade insecticide that requires a license to apply it). As toxic as those chemicals are, they are still the best way of completely eradicating bedbugs in about 3 weeks. However, if you can't afford that then you should really, really, really look into getting some CimeXa powder and applying it to all of your furniture with the upmost haste. (Be sure to use an applicator so that you can really get it into all of the nooks and crannies.)
Joel Z. Williams This time around I’m willing to spend thousands! Although the cheaper I go, the prouder my dad will be. Haha! Thank you for your videos. I’m watching all of them. A huge blessing you are!!!
If you can get your house to a temperature of 120 F or higher ,since they can't survive 120 degrees.I would try to go to 150 though. I would use some sort of big shop heater like a propane etc. That's what the exterminaters use but the heaters are outside and they are hooked to ductwork to carry the heat in the house though the front door with a sheet draped down ,not to let the hot air out.Just don't burn your house down.
Oh my God I can't believe I just saw this comment after 4 years! No! The department of defense commissioned the US army to look into that. I'm not going to bore you with a lot of stats and statistics but suffice it to say they had one battalion of soldiers take bed bug infested bunk mattresses, roll them up, wrap them in thick black plastic bags, zip tie them and then place them near the railroad tracks in El Paso Texas! Long story short... The little bastards survived! Now you know how hot it gets in West Texas, seriously? That's when the DOD decided that the best method was to use chemical sprays like the pros use now. The neopyrethrins that are super toxic to any crawling insect. Even small pets and children! Yet still, spraying with those powerful toxins is still the best way to eradicate bed bugs 100%
I used the Cimexa powder. I found a bed bug crystallized from walking through that stuff. It's not a quick kill, but it works! And will last for ten years if undisturbed. Cimexa is a powder that's puffed into the cracks and crevices you're unable to reach with sprays - the places bugs like to hide. They walk through the powder and it clings to them and drys them up. Almost like mummifying them. Works on other insects too.
I've never been bit on my encased matress. I've checked for bed bugs like crazy but haven't seen them. I'm getting invisible bites too but no mark on my skin so I just don't know. When the AC is on and really cool, I don't feel that way though. I thought it might be bed bugs. This is something I'm willing to try after my dad sprayed the bed with lysol, bed bugs spray and spraying the rug with lysol and flying insect killer. Came home last night and showered n still felt itchy. Then after a while , I didn't and went to sleep. Now I'm feeling like I'm being bitten. I've tried a few things so far. I will try the CO2 method and this one. Hopefully it works. Since I got back home after being away almost 3 mos, I've been having this issue. I'm also pregnant so I hope I can finally deal with it before my baby arrives.
Hey Joel. How u been? I'm still BB Free. Thank God...bed is still encased. It's not bothering me so I just left it there. I would add to your video if u can throw away ur box spring and get a new one it gets rid of thousands of BBs. I got my box spring for under $100. Also, it helps to get rid of a wood headboard. They hide there. This helped me tremendously. Plastic sheeting and duct tape is Awesome!!
I'm good! Thanks for asking. I hope you're doing well too. Glad to hear that you are still without bedbugs. Great job! I'm sure your testimonial will encourage others. thanks!
So thankful for u and Jules. In July my daughter and I were in a bad car accident. I've been out of work since. Thank God the BB situation was resolved before the accident. I've had to spend alot of time in bed. I don't think I could've survived my recuperation if I still had those BBs.
Cherluvsfl67 Wow, sorry to hear about your accident. I hope your daughter is OK too? Anyways, it had been some time since I posted a bedbug video so I decided to post one about mattress encasement. I think most people don't realize that this is probably the most important step in reducing/preventing the bedbug infestation. Get well soon and I wish you and yours a speedy recovery.
I appreciate your videos on eliminating bed bugs. I'm a bit confused and hope you can help. In this video, it appears you are saying that I shouldn't bother with the soda bottle approach using sugar, yeast and lukewarm water described in your other videos. In this video, it appears one need only wrap the box spring mattress and top mattress. Is that correct? If I am supposed use both approaches, are you recommending that I wrap the bed pieces then surround it bed with the soda pop contraption?
Joel what do you think about all the new products at your big box stores, from known pesticide company's, like Black Flag, Ortho etc. Also, I got a bag of pesticide dust with Diatomaceous Earth...it helps a lot but makes a big mess.
Stephanie Moore Personally, I've never had any success over the long haul with them. They seem to be somewhat effective at killing the instar nymphs yet worthless against the eggs. Also, many of the stores you mentioned are starting to sell various brands of a dry, dessicant powder called Amorphous Silica Gels (ASGs) These are a much more effective and cost saving way to kill bedbugs instead of those over-the-counter pyrethryins you mentioned earlier. A 2014 study showed that one brand of ASG in particular (CimeXa from Rockwell Labs) was as much as 85% more effective than diatomaceous earth. You can see the highlights of that study here: www.pctonline.com/pct0814-silica-gel-research-bed-bugs.aspx
I found one on my bed a couple of months ago ,I think it was dead. I sprayed my bed with alcohol and raid but didn't look under box springs I'm pregnant and really don't know what to use but I haven't been bitten lately and I have been in homes where I have and have a bad reaction to them and I just don't let nobody come in and if I do I spray everything with dog shampoo and alcohol but thanks for the video it's very informative and not everyone can afford to replace everything and call orkin man.
For me this guy produces the best videos on RUclips on bed bugs . Thank you ,
danvelgtr
Great video Mr. Williams. Thank you for showing economical and practical methods to get rid of bed bugs when you do not have the means to pay for a professional exterminator which is very costly.
THANKS FOR THIS CLASS, GREAT !
And sometimes that isn't enough
Maaaaaan, I’d be willing to keep a mattress encased FOREVER if it meant not having bed bugs!!!
Clean your damn house thoroughly and you won't have bed bugs
I used your video except duck taped around sides and corners with plastic under and sides so your not laying on the plastic. Six months later- no more problems. Bless you!!!!
Thank you so much for adding your input to this good body of research! I'm glad that method worked for you
Thank you, Joel! My husband and I viewed this today. You are a fabulous teacher....we learned a lot, and will implement your advice and steps into our fight against these pests. Thanks again!
Joel....I love your videos. As for this video I want to tell people it's 100% accurate. I was amused to come across this video at first and found that I already learned everything discussed in this video from experience. I suffered for 4 years, thankfully that's all, with bedbugs and can now say I'm bedbug free. People these methods work!!! Be diligent and consistent. I'm an expert with the alcohol and diteamacious earth, consistent vacuuming and cleaning. Good luck to all. Thanks Joel!
Thank you very much Ms. Layne. It really give new victims a shot in the arm when they here positive feedback from real people like yourself. Can't express how powerful that is for someone who is just having to deal with bedbugs for the first time.
@@JoelZWilliams1 You're right about that. We just discovered the bed bugs tonight. My grandson got bit again. At first we thought it was mosquitoes. I've never had to deal with this so I searched RUclips. I believe God led me to your channel. I don't have much money but between your videos and people saying it works helps calm me. I didn't know what we were going to do. But now I have hope and we're gonna get through this. Thank you so much!! 😊🙏🙏🙏
Thank you @Tia Layne for sharing your experience. 👌😊🙏🙏
God bless you for helping us. I am 83 yrs. My home is very clean but l have bed bugs. I live in an apartment. A person put a sofa out about 5 ft from my door. Later l was told that it had bed bugs. The office waited about 3 weeks to remove it. Now a few months later l have them on my sofa . I only receive a small SS security check . I am so sad. I can not afford new furniture. I can’t afford an exterminator. I will try some of your remedies. Thank you, thank you. Prayers that these help!
thank you so much for your gift of knowledge to others! be blessed in your going out and your coming in, may the Creator give you peace!
Thanks for the blessing!
You have really helped me. I have been crying and almost going into a nervous breakdown. I've been so upset didn't jno what to do. No one helps me or even want to listen. Now I have about ten bottles all over the house. I get about 5 a day and now I just made more traps. I still feel like I have a long way to go
Doris Peace I can RELATE! I'm going nuts over here! Please update me of you don't mind : )
Doris Peace i felt the same way today.
Doris Peace continues the fight don’t give up. I believe the environmental get us to get insecticide I saw on the internet EPA has it for years. They does not care for humans we are disposable.😡😡😡😡
@@JudithSanchez-ht6jn if worse comes to worse throw the matress out. There are ways to sleep on the floor
@@777hasdoneit How can one sleep on the floor without getting bit?
Superman ain't got nothin on you brother! A true hero!!!
HAHAHA!
this video has actually brought a smile to my face. gave me some reassurance. i thought my bed frame and mattress were goners. that would have been $800 down the toilet.
Thank you much sir for this information it has help me so much I’m going to go home and tackle this problem pray for me and it’s a really scary project
Joel Z. Williams, the Poor People's Advocate, you are awesome!
Your advice saved us. I think the most important things we did, on your video advice, was to wrap the mattresses in plastic and to put little plastic containers under all of the bed frame feet. We also cleaned and laundered and got DE to spread around. BUT i think the mattress wrapping and containers saved us. We'll take your advice with us wherever we go from here. Thank you!
Thank you for coming back to report your success. people don't do that enough. and I think it gives great inspiration to others. Please tell all of your friends.
I have just began to work on this problem. In fact I do not visually see any bugs on my mattress or home. But for about a week, I have been bit. I dismissed the first two as spider? First on one arm and then the other. The bites did not wake me but the itching and swelling did. I am really reacting to this. I began to look for insect bits like mine. I recently purchased a chair from a thrift store. Humm? Probably need to really examine that chair and encase it. Last night I surrounded my bed...a big circle of Diatomaceous Earth. It was on thing I had on hand from a while back with fleas. I am happy to report that I was not bitten at all last night, but the war is far from over. I fear they will get to my son's room. Anyway, people like you are rare and I think a great example of what we need in this world. People willing to help their follow man...for free. Very cool of you.
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CIMEXA! Kills 3X FASTER than DE and not as toxic.
hit them hard and fast people. lets say you have 5 adults. 2 are maybe male, so 3 females-1-5 eggs laid PER DAY. for math purposes we'll say 3 adults laying 3 eggs per day. 63 eggs per week, hatch in 2 weeks. within a month, you are hopelessly infested. don't play. if you see one, treat it like there is already 1,000 of them. they suck so bad.
I bet you were correct about the Thrift Store! We are now fighting the problem ad I am convinced that it originated from some luggage purchased from there.
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THANK YOU! Excellent video. If one doesn't have the money there is a way to seal the plastic with a clothes iron using newspaper between the iron and the plastic.
Great idea yes, I used parhment paper for baking. Out on top of plastic to be welded together and press hard on a hard counter ect and it really melts and seals it like a weld. Great ideas brother. It worked for me and lots of others I show it to
Thanks this really helped. I found 2 bed bugs on my mattress yesterday and found out just how expensive treatments are. I will be wrapping furniture for the next couple days with a spray bottle next to me. Hope this works...
You are awesome. Having some affordable methods for folks to get rid of bed bugs is a HUGE DEAL! I work for a local health department, and I will be sending people to your RUclips videos. THANK YOU.
My husband and I threw our sons beds out after learning of bed bugs upstairs in their room. We have purchased new ones, and have even bought bb mattress cases, however only one comes in package for $19.98. I'm so grateful for your video. This is how we're going to encase the box springs, and save some money! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Uhaul sells plastic bed bags for $16.00 for a set. Then all you have to do is duck tape it shut
You need to buy the Bed Bug encasements. Walmart.com has it for less than the actual store..you can get it for about the same price as the uhaul plastic..
@@MsJanetLouise Or saturate your mattress with a very strong solution of disinfectant! I used dettol in a spray bottle using one part dettol to two parts water and then thoroughly spray all sides of the mattress until it was saturated. Then waited a whole day for it to dry before using it to sleep on. Dettol is a very strong disinfectant sold here in the UK. But I suppose other disinfectants would also work.
Thank you for being thorough in educating people on how to eradicate the awful problem of bedbugs. :-) Much love and prosperity!
The man knows what he's talking about. Had them and reinvested my place 8months later from a washed dried blanked in a sealed bag.
+Hali Berri . Thanks for the ringing endorsement!
So clean clothes re infested??
Thank you so much. My family and I am finally free from bloodsuckers, bed bugs. I saw your video a year ago and I did exactly as u instructed. This really works.
God bless you brother
Thank you for coming back and reporting. Your encouragement will help hundreds of others!
End of 2019.
Along with your other videos on bedbug traps (CO2 emitters) this is a piece of cake! IF YOU HAVEN’T WATCHED HIS OTHER VIDEOS ABOUT “CREATE A CO2 BEDBUG TRAP” YOU REALLY NEED TO! Encasing the bed/furnishings is 1/2 of getting rid of the bedbugs.
Fortunately my problem is confined to one room that has a hallway wrapped around it and we’ve already quarantined it off & sprayed around it. Bought a headboard & a week later my 15 year old has bites & blood on the sheets.
Terminex wants $800 to treat the room & cover mattress/box springs. No way I’m going to pay that huge amount of money (even if I had it that’s outrageous!) for it so I’m off to the stores for Active Yeast & plastic sheeting & duct tape!
It’s crazy that these bugs are IN the headboard! Thank the good Lord my daughter spoke up quickly because the bed has hardly any bugs so far.
I do have to say the Terminex man did a very thorough inspection. He wanted to treat the house but said because that room has its own hallway that that was a save .. and we knew about it almost right away. I’ve already torn the box spring cover off from the under side - stood the mattress & box spring up & bombed between each.. including the headboard. I’ve bombed the room several times. Bagged up clothing & washed. Hot dryers etc.. My kids been in the living room for a couple weeks now & she’s not allowed to go into her room.
I vacuum & carry out the vacuum in a plastic bag each time. I carry the vacuum all the way to the edge of the woods.. lol empty it, spray the chit out of it and then re-bag it. No bedbugs are getting away from me LOL 😂
The bugs that are left - yes I left a few on the headboard bugs to see how long it takes to die- they turned white and they look dehydrated.
After bombing some were still barely moving but they didn’t look too good, so I was observing.
I had no idea it can take a year!!! Omg that’s insane.. 400 days is more than a year! Without a blood meal you’d think they’d just shrivel & turn to dust. It must be hibernating mode or something.
Anyways, Thank you sooo much!
I don’t know how you would republish this video but I do know you are 100% right-> it isn’t to be embarrassed about because bedbugs don’t want money or filth - they want blood. Non-discriminate.
Bed bugs are the devil!
Joel answered all my questions. He's very knowledgeable about bedbugs, I will do the mattress encasement with Cimexa and let you you know how it went.
Yes, I have personally never used Cimexa (Amorphous Silica Gel) , but I did read the study from Dr. Michael Potter at the University of Kentucky Department of Agriculture.. Very encouraging news. I hope you have similar results where you are.
Joel: Thank you for looking out for the less fortunate. My family just experienced a bedbug moment at a hotel. We will incorporate your method when we get home after we inspect and wash up everything. I will tell others about your video and method. The encasement for one mattress can cost 40 = 50 dollars. Thank you and God bless.
Tina speight Great. Glad to hear that. Be sure to watch all of the videos. There's a lot of new information on there.
Joel I have been battling bed bugs in my apartment since discovering them back in 2009. I've had my landlord's exterminator treat my apartment twice, once in 2010 and again in 2011. They died down each time for 7 months and came back. I have had my mattresses encased along with box springs and I've changed encasements as well as thrown out and bought new sets both in my bedroom and my kids room. The exterminator told me the building is infested and you're right these encasements as far as cost adds up. I now do the 3 treatment method which is the alcohol, steam, and also the bed bug spray. I will try the plastic covering over my mattress encasements. Thanks for all your help.
+imari2305 . Please be sure to include the use of an amorphous silica gel like CimeXa. I'm telling you, it is well worth the $13 dollar investment. Best kill-to-cost ratio in the game.
Thanks Joel I will be buying both the sheeting and the gel.
Thank you I don't have them but live in a apartment and I'm scared of getting them thank you again you have made my day .✌🙏💜
(Thank you for your help.) l keep telling my boyfriend stop feeling sorry for people and bringing people in the house.he felt sorry for someone and now we're sorry. I hope he learned his lesson this time.
when I incased my bed in plastic I found there was more protection when I took the end put both sides of plastic together put a piece of duct tape on one side all the way across the end and folded it over and pressed it together then I secured it to the bottom of the box spring as you did
Thanks. hopefully others will learn from your experiences.
Thank you Mr. Williams for the great advice.
I wrapped my bed and threw it out. Now im using an air mattress that i set on top of a cot. Sprinkled Borax around the feet of the cot and that has worked a charm.
You don't have to thrown your mattress just get product called CROSSFIRE and spray on mattrers this product kill them in minute and will work 4 weeks this is new product and is amazing + is no toxic so you can spray and wait when your mattress dry
@@robertrobski1013 have you used it before?
I have gotten this handled over 95% out of my car by taking it to a body shop for a heat rewarm in their booth and maintain with 1x a week vacuum and lavender scented ant-ibacterial wipes.
Christopher Tantillo so u take ur car to any body shop and they will hear rewarm ur car how much does that cost?
Thank you so much for helping all of us. You are a saint for helping with these issue. I never imagined this problem coming to our home and it has.
Thank you Ms. Lake!
THANK YOU....On my way to get the plastic sheeting!
Family is your worst enemy in this If. You are the only one bitten. You Are The Problem. I'd rather be homeless
I'm sorry your family is crap. Best of luck to you.
You're not the only one being bitten in the house, you're the only one that is being affected by the bites..so your family should be concerned about them too!! I'm so sorry that your being made to feel like it's your fault...their also being bitten!!!!!!
I hate that you're being made to feel bad about this. Family members or anyone else need to do their research because Bed Bugs DO NOT discriminate between clean or unclean. They can be found in 5-Star Hotels! Bed Bugs are only looking for blood!
🙏 God bless you and give you peace. 🙏
Family can be very shitty forreal
I was driven to a breaking point bc of these demons from hell. My mom did not believe me bc she wasn't waking up with bites until one day she decided to take a good look at her mattress and my skin crawled when she showed me. She was in disbelief. I told her they were eating her alive without her knowing (she doesnt seem to react to the bites). We taking it day by day but I gotta say my anxiety has increased through the roof bc of these things. I have changed my way of life practically such as putting my belonging in plastic bags and containers and throwing away couches and bed springs. I pray that we are rid of them some day
+Joel Z Williams
ANOTHER great video...I'm glad I found your channel today...I live in South Carolina bed bug free since I moved in 1 1/2 years ago but about 9 months ago my daughter moved from Columbus (Ohio) down here with me and my other daughter, son in law and their 3 kids but for a couple months after moving in I seen no problem till one night my daughter's son was crying so I went to see what was wrong and I about died when I seen what at first I thought was a tick (we live in a wooded area) WAS NOT...that morning I had everyone take everything off their beds and found 3 bugs in the room so I went to Walmart and picked up some bb killer...I didn't see any again and thought I got rid of them...WRONG ANSWER...before I seen your channel I called in a pesticide company and at 1100 bucks a shot times 3 that got out of hand but after watching your videos I shared them with my 6 other daughters in Ohio...thank you for the information that I passed along and so far most of my daughters say it's a success and I could have saved a lot of money if I'd have caught this channel first...great job
Thank you, Brother.
MAY GOD BLESS YOU.
Thank you so much for the video I have bed bugs didn't know what to do & have hard time for the professionals to come out thank you becky
I have no idea if I got the bedbugs from the place I bought my sectional sofa bed or my next door neighbor. I noticed the tiniest bug one day... Not realizing it was a baby bedbug. Then a week later there was one which most likely was an adult. This past Monday I showed this bug to the Manager to my apartment complex. He said. Stop going to your neighbors apartment. We all know that she had bed bugs.
I had never seen anyone come by her place since I have lived here, 8 Months. Till this past Friday. The bug man came to my apartment, then to her apartment and then all the way down to another apartment. We have an infestation. And who pays for this? We do. We are a 55 and over senior citizen complex. Not everyone can afford what they are charging. $375.00. This has exhausted me.
I like your video,, gives a lot of information...
Bed bug spray commercial grade shit is $20-$30 do it yourself
Very informative. You also have to b careful of linen hanging and touching the floor cuz the freaks will climb and getcha!😣👹
Lord have mercy just found bed bugs. Its late and I gotta get up early for work. Thankful I found your video because every mattress was going get thrown away tomorrow
Marie throwing out the mattresses is a bad idea. Moving them through the house just spreads the bedbugs.
Ikr! 😂😂 I was ready to throw it all away too! Great help.
I threw them all away already 😪
I had an overnight guest bring these into my apartment over Xmas. It only took me a week to figure it out. I discovered what I believed to be their lair in my box spring and I immediately threw it out and I ordered some eco bed bug killer on Amazon which killed them on contact instantly. I also threw out my mattress and old wooden head and footboard. I also threw away all my bedding. So I started from scratch with an empty room I sprayed the pesticide everywhere. My new mattress uses a metal boxspring that has a cloth cover which hasn’t shown any signs of bed bugs. However I have seen single bedbug just creeping along the wall which I would immediately spray and make sure they were dead and flushed them. The sightings have been very limited and usually on the wall or ceiling. I can’t tell if these are just left over troops from the infestation that I eradicated. I mad your trap and only caught one very very small nymph. I’ve only gotten bitten a few times over the last three weeks. What else should I do. I spray daily around the bedding area and I’ve checked all the small cracks. I was going to get that powder you showed before but without a real sign of multiple bedbugs I’m not sure what I should do
Baking soda works great and very affordable
Long time viewer, 1st time commenter. I'd like to say, Awesome job, thank you for helping all these people all over the globe (Shout out from Australia), Keep up the great work :) 6 stars out of 5
+Moonchild of Orcamoon . Hey, thanks for that!
:)
i used the plastic mattress covers u-haul sells for my king size; it's like a pillow case; insert and seal one side, then insert the sealed side and seal again, your mattress being like a pillow, get it? It's been working. Had also sprayed them with the product you spray on your shoes to make them water repellent. Worked. We picked these pests up at an apt community NE san antonio, tx!! Glad to say we have seen results with the above mentioned method. Plastic is not 4 mil, but holds up pretty good, just tape it good! Good luck brother, funny i ran into your video after all this time!
After suffering bedbugs for months, I finally found salvation through lightly dusting all their hiding places with diatomaceous earth (non-edible version). It's truly the most effective solution, and cheap too.
I would include to this prevention of bed bugs a healthy amount of diatomaceous earthing idea of the plastic sheathing, for quicker results. thanks for your vids. keep up the good work.
If you can - spraying with vodka or anything 100% alcohol is the best for home remedies. Also, add in essential oils like peppermint or other bug repellent scent like citronella like they use for mosquitoes - add that to the alcohol and spray with it.
Awesome info..thank u.. as I'm dealing with them for the first time ever and I moved into the house that had them.. I am on a fixed income and am tired of spending bookoo bucks on chemicals and washing/drying at the laundromat.
Drink the alcohol as you spray it too !!
CROSSFIRE is only product you kill them fast 100% other products worthless
Thanks for all your videos and info on how to control the bed bug problem ! You make it very clear and easy to understand the method to solve the problem . We have started using your strategies and it has been an improvement ! Thanks very much for your help...!!!
movieman44 Awesome! That's what it's all about. I'm glad it's helping!
Thank you so much, I never thought to check underneath my Box Spring and now that I've found them I can exterminate them without a bomb
we need more humans like you, i hope you are happy and well
i'm a french follower btw, and i really appreciate you
Mr Williams you are the man .I have never met a person like you God bless you.if we had have you in Viet Nam we would have won the war
Wow, thanks for that. I appreciate the love.
Thank you mr. Williams for showing us a video it really helped my home
james mccombs . Awesome. I'm glad to help
Love your videos. Thank you. In '86 I was infected with HIV, been POZ since 2002; and now fighting colo-rectal cancer since '12. Exterminators want an entire months rent, and have only a 30 day guarantee. That's a racket. They're crooks. You are so helpful for someone like myself who due to serious chronic health issues is forced to live on a very meager budget. 5 nights ago I was tossing and flipped my pillow over to find 15 bed bugs on my pillow. I haven't gotten a good night's sleep since, and my apartment looks like a war zone.
I've depleted my savings and maxing my credit cards to fight this ($160.00 in chemicals; $140.00 in Box Spring/Mattress and Pillow encasements).
I don't tolerate pests, at all. I usually rely on peppermint oil for rodents (safe, effective and friendly) and Diatomaceous Earth for any bug problem. I know DE works on Bed Bugs, but this is not a light case, and I'm using it as well. My hardwood floors are covered in it as are my newly encased box springs and mattresses.
Besides DE (diatomaceous earth) I thought I'd share some other things I've come across. Mineral Spirits, and Cold-Pressed Neem oil.
How are you doing now 😢
thank you thank you mr. williams on recommending cimexa. it solved all my problems no more problems and it happened really fast. all i recommend is to use cimexa liberally. bb free for four months now with nothing in sight. i also followed your advice on encasing my mattresses and did spend about 80 dollars on that but i didn't want to cut corners. all in all i couldn't be happier thank you so much!!!!!
Hi, how often did you put cimexa down and how long did it take for improvement and eradication?
i bought a commercial encasing for 80 dollars at Target..it was expensive! after about a year,i have no idea what happened..i couldnt find any rips...i turned it over one day and all the edges seams has TONS of bedbugs,i was horrified..i had started getting tichy but thought it was medication i was taking.
You can use Creolina, its a floor desinfectant used in Latin America,
Also for sealing the plastic you can use a cooking sheet and iron to seal the plastic together and use tape for extra protection or flat iron work well too.
Smoke does affixiate Bed Bugs.
CATCH AND TRIAL.
JimmyLani Please enlighten us with a link to a peer-reviewed university study demonstrating the effects of smoke against bedbugs.
University not, My grandmothers home remedies worked once and never saw one ever again and in a neighboring house the lady could not resist smoke so creolina was used and so did the work.
Perhaps you would be happy just researching both? Not just University Researches have all the answers you know.
Back in the days the have passion fruit and Lavender by bed to avoid these pesk. Just saying you trying these and see your results.
JimmyLani sounds like you are turning the burden of proving your claim over to me. I can save you the trouble, it doesn't work reliably against all strains of cimex lectularias. Reliability in the pest control world is viewed as 92% kill rate. Smoke may kill some of the bugs but you can rest assured that many of the eggs survived. It's just that some people are less reactive to the bedbug bites than others.
Trust me, greater minds than yours our your grandmother are currently working on developing ways to eradicate these pests. Perhaps you should review this link: www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/bedbugs-many-diy-methods-of-getting-rid-of-them-dont-work-but-some-do/2013/11/25/17870956-52bb-11e3-9e2c-e1d01116fd98_story.html
Sir, not every person that gives their opinion is going to be backed by university, though they research and closely view the changes and effects of thee, perhaps thats how they are still trying to erradicate this, by taking people remedies in consideration.
These pest are driven to have a meal all how right, Im guessing if trying does not hurt, Creolina in it concentrate will eliminate this pest, can it be found in US maybe bought over the internet. Maybe can be brought to the universities attention so it could be considered.
I have never seen this pest alive while I have seen the neighbor body full off hives and dead bugs, 10 months without incidents, and continue with combo every 3 months. And we know that it could survived certain amount without feeding thanks to university research.
I do not know how i got to your channel, I admire the fact that you are helping people and giving them information.
And looks like a lot of them do come for advice, I though I offered some of success too.
I will save your channel and come back after a year and half of incident and share outcomes.
Respects to you and your work.
I did it the cheep way for two weeks and no bites on the bed. I used 70% alcohol, it was all I could find and it worked great. I now have bought four $1 mattress covers with three $1 rolls of duct tape equals $7 total from a dollar store. Plus about $4 for alcohol. It has been about 3 weeks and no bed bugs.I am just wondering Mr. Williams how did you get started in doing this for a living. Did you have a bed bug problem?
Fat Mann
Where did you purchase mattress covers for $1
Fat Mann
ALCOHOL WORKS BUT IT DOESNT GET TO ALL OF THEM! YOU HAVE TO KEEP SPRAYING THE ROOM AS A FOLLOW UP! I
Carmeleon Pouncey go on dollartree website they have it.
After watching this video. I returned my Amazon bedding encasement which was 45+$$ for mattress & box spring. I checked my box spring & i found them, So I bought (one roll) 3.5mm from WalMart for $7.98. It enclosed both my queen size mattress & box spring and had some left over. I sprayed (box spring & mattress with PURE 91% alcohol- Plus adding the Bed bug powder on both B4 i wrapped them).IF U are going to wrap them (don't just do the box spring (like He did) in this video-WRAP/Enclose BOTH of them!! I stapled the box spring and enclosed the rest corners/(like he did with duct tape). I don't plan on taking the plastic off. This is a Good idea for Ppl who's on a fixed income & can't afford a $400 exteriminator fee. It only cost me $7.98 + 2 roll's of 97c duct tape ( i already had the staple gun).
Yes he mentioned at the end to encase both...
i am soooo glad I found you, I can't thank enough for the great tips you gave out!
myda1984 Cool! Thanks for that.
This is great brother 😊 your a good man to share best way to eliminate these little vampires. This way worksnperfectly.and it's simple without paying big bucks. I has estimates of 700 to 1600 to do my small apartment . Big pest control is big buisness. Also a few companies big Orkin and others told me chemical treatment is great we will come back up to 3 times included in the 1300 yes 13 hundred. . Your method cost me under 10.bucks. Awesome and it works. I used parchment bake paper on iron on top of plastic that was to be bonded together and it sealed the plastic perfect. Thank you for sharing the best way and LOWEST cost possible to eliminate these things. Yes 4 mill is nice thick poly as welll
Thank you very much for reporting back with your success story. More people need to hear these. I think a lot of people are very skeptical because I didn't actually use live bugs when I made the trap videos. It's just too risky to have them in your home even experimentally.
sir. thank you for this informative video. unfortunately I found out yesterday that apartment im getting ready to move into.....the previous tenant had bedbugs! *** so I will be applying your methods before I move in and constantly monitoring. I will never let my guard down! id rather deal with roaches than these nasty things.
shawn west i know your comment is old, but you should just not move into that apartment. How did things turn out?
"would rather deal with roaches then these nasty things"...testament to how terrible these critters are. i swear they are almost mythical in their abilities..
I just found you.. I looked for you on tiktok and requested to follow. You're awesome!
My OCD is coming out. I keep wanting to wrap the mattress as neatly as a present.
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You can also get a hockey of Contractor bags if you are covering a toddler/ crib sized mattress. I covered my son’s mattress to protect against bed wetting.
I had lived in an apartment building That was so Infested that they were crawling up my curtains during the day with the Sun shining through! Also, seen them behind picture frames on walls and nightstand.
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Going to call you Dr. Williams. Thanks.
I know this may sound bad, but I spay my mattress, around my bed, and under the bed with Raid and let it sit while I'm gone to work, then put the protector on the mattress
Very good info. Good video. Joel you are very passionate about what you do. God Bless you. Keep up the good work
Per your article: Bed bugs can go without feeding for 20 to 400 days, depending on temperature and humidity. Older stages of nymphs can survive longer without feeding than younger ones, and adults have survived without food for more than 400 days in the laboratory at low temperatures. Adults may live up to one year or more, and there can be up to four successive generations .This is why all scientists disagree on the time limits and why I err on the side of caution: Diapause allows insects to survive hostile periods, like hibernation. I believe the use of pesticides not only drives them into the walls to diapause, but also promotes the species. Traumatic insemination is said to be helpful in proliferation of the species by causing females to disperse. Pesticides appear to be doing a great job at dispersal. The epidemic only seems to be expanding with this prevalent technology.
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With what i know and experience they live obout 3 to 4 month
So basically incase your furniture indefinitely
@@robertrobski1013 Trust me...they came in a BRAND new couch that wasn't used 13 mths, and now they're 😳all over!!! I'm up all night most nights. Working his ideas NOW
@@lyndagreen2757 i kill them in 3 hours but the way i did you have to be a little careful
You rock you are a great person, good for you helping people. You are a sweetheart.
excellent advice sir. thank you.
Thanks, you explained that in an easy to understand way.
ok, first let start by saying thank you!!!!!!!! i live on a fixed income and absolutely CAN NOT afford to properly treat! so both of you videos, the encasement one and the yeast trap, have been so so helpful! my issue though, how the hell do you cover couches??? my couch is part of a sectional set and is extremely awkward... on one end it has a section that jets out so one person can lay across the couch and another can sit at the end with there feet up and stretched all the way out... its an enormous 3 piece with two full size couches... im throwing out the couch that has no extras and keeping the section that has the extra space at one end.... i'm so overwhelmed with all that has to be done and how little help there is! my daughter is the only in the house who is extremely sensitive to there bites meaning she cant be here at all and i can't get even one person to step foot into my apartment to help so i'm handling this alone... i only mention this because i have to take this into consideration when making a plan to do anything... im hopeful that you might have have other suggestions about covering my couch... and if there are any other suggestions that you might have, i am way open to hearing them! again, thank you so much for posting these videos... making them is time consuming and takes a lot of work! hope to hear from you soon!
There is a thing that is called mattress protectors that are zippered shut and it works, its expesnsive you can even use it on your box spring. they even work for dust mites and moisture, and it is comformfortable to sleep on and you just take it off every now and then and wash it. You can't put it the dryer though. A lot faster.
Thank you so Much! You went the full extent to really help us understand what's best to help ourselves!!! I found they loved the seams of my clothing. Despite heat killing them in both washer and dryer they'd get on me and poke their heads out of the seams and have a snack. Mostly juvenal's. I felt like I was in a race to kill them before they got mature enough to reproduce every few days. I couldn't find signs on anything but the sheets and blanket. If I caught one biting me it was the color of my skin, so small and hard to see. I couldn't find them anywhere but I never looked INSIDE the box spring.
You're right about just doing the full 400 days, who wants to go through it over and over. I always had my new mattresses sealed right away. That was the only time I didn't. I honestly felt lazy about it and told myself I worry too much, it won't happen. I keep my mattress covered as soon as I get it from now on and just tell myself it's not a bed for a good night's sleep if it's not covered.
Thank you for all you do!!
Lol I thought I'd die when he was wrapping the bed but that's a great idea.
what about option C, burning the whole thing down, buying a new mattress and moving out of that apartment
If you smoke and spray too much alcohol you will probably do exactly that
Also you're likely to bring them with you to your new apartment
looooooooooooooooool!
we want simple method
Can't do that if you own the home lol.
Yes you are correct found one at the top of my box spring in the corner. Now its covered with 3 different protective covers.
they were found inside the fire alarms and thermostats on walls
I just throwaway the bed bug infested mattress with plastic.Before I brought a new one.I had bed bugs professionals come and stray the house.Then I brought and new twin with a plastic encasement for the mattress and pillow.So far so good.Good info anyway gave me idea's.
Yeah, funny that u mentioned that. When I moved to Phoenix I bought a brand new twin mattress and box spring set and it arrived at my apartment covered in thick clear plastic while the apartment maintenance man was fixing my sink. I got a knife and started to remove the plastic and he told me that I should just leave it on. In retrospect I wish I had. I got my first taste of bedbugs just two weeks later!
Wow man those doggone bed bugs.Yea you got to leave that plastic as long as possible.
A dusting of baby powder on head ,face back, whole body seems to help get a good nite rest when sleeping in the recliner
Why? What does baby powder do?
I first got bedbugs from my dad bringing home a couch from the complex dumpster back in 2011. Had no idea bed bugs even existed. Our rent was $742 utilities included and my dad (diabetic,insulin dependent,not allowed to work) would receive $750 a month from ssi and $150 a month in food stamps for him and us 4 kids.. so he’d have $8 remaining every month to buy us hygiene stuff and house stuff, well that meant getting 10 bucks or even 5 bucks for a can of bed bug spray or anything to help the issue was pretty impossible. So they grew and grew and a few months later we had nests the size of shoe boxes on all sides of our mattresses, our box springs were just engulfed in nests, they’d be running in the bathroom, on the hallway walls, just everywhere. To sleep I’d wait until the sun came up and I’d take my puppy and go sleep in my neighbors car until it got too hot which would be about 6/7am as I live in Arizona. It was miserable. Took us 3 moves and about 4 years to completely get rid of them. In our experience, alcohol was our best friend and deodorant on the bites to relieve the itch was a charm. Well here I am awake at 5am in 2019, a grown ass woman and the bed bugs are back. This time around I already know what to do and I have the means to take action so I’m thankful for that. I only saw 2 so far. Although I don’t see any nests, nor is it even a fraction of what I went thru as a child, I know that where there’s 1, there’s 1000 more hiding so Im prepared to spend the next 2 to 3 years battling this. It takes time and misery to get rid of bedbugs. Encasements here I come. Lord help me.
Wow, that's a horrible story. I really feel bad for having to endure that trauma. Right now my best piece of advice is to hire a pro with the neopyrethrins (professional grade insecticide that requires a license to apply it). As toxic as those chemicals are, they are still the best way of completely eradicating bedbugs in about 3 weeks. However, if you can't afford that then you should really, really, really look into getting some CimeXa powder and applying it to all of your furniture with the upmost haste. (Be sure to use an applicator so that you can really get it into all of the nooks and crannies.)
Joel Z. Williams This time around I’m willing to spend thousands! Although the cheaper I go, the prouder my dad will be. Haha! Thank you for your videos. I’m watching all of them. A huge blessing you are!!!
Bleach has been my best friend on furniture.
If you can get your house to a temperature of 120 F or higher ,since they can't survive 120 degrees.I would try to go to 150 though. I would use some sort of big shop heater like a propane etc. That's what the exterminaters use but the heaters are outside and they are hooked to ductwork to carry the heat in the house though the front door with a sheet draped down ,not to let the hot air out.Just don't burn your house down.
Oh my God I can't believe I just saw this comment after 4 years! No! The department of defense commissioned the US army to look into that. I'm not going to bore you with a lot of stats and statistics but suffice it to say they had one battalion of soldiers take bed bug infested bunk mattresses, roll them up, wrap them in thick black plastic bags, zip tie them and then place them near the railroad tracks in El Paso Texas! Long story short... The little bastards survived! Now you know how hot it gets in West Texas, seriously? That's when the DOD decided that the best method was to use chemical sprays like the pros use now. The neopyrethrins that are super toxic to any crawling insect. Even small pets and children! Yet still, spraying with those powerful toxins is still the best way to eradicate bed bugs 100%
I used the Cimexa powder. I found a bed bug crystallized from walking through that stuff. It's not a quick kill, but it works! And will last for ten years if undisturbed. Cimexa is a powder that's puffed into the cracks and crevices you're unable to reach with sprays - the places bugs like to hide. They walk through the powder and it clings to them and drys them up. Almost like mummifying them. Works on other insects too.
hey , just woke up to these & I was wondering where I can buy it??
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The information you share is VERY helpful. Thank you for taking the time to create this bedbug series.
+shanitta bingham . Anything to help reduce so much unnecessary suffering.
I've never been bit on my encased matress. I've checked for bed bugs like crazy but haven't seen them. I'm getting invisible bites too but no mark on my skin so I just don't know. When the AC is on and really cool, I don't feel that way though.
I thought it might be bed bugs. This is something I'm willing to try after my dad sprayed the bed with lysol, bed bugs spray and spraying the rug with lysol and flying insect killer. Came home last night and showered n still felt itchy. Then after a while , I didn't and went to sleep. Now I'm feeling like I'm being bitten. I've tried a few things so far. I will try the CO2 method and this one. Hopefully it works.
Since I got back home after being away almost 3 mos, I've been having this issue. I'm also pregnant so I hope I can finally deal with it before my baby arrives.
Sir thanks for this video you are passionate person wanting to help I'm gonna try your methods
I paid $120 for a dedicated encasement. Comfortable like a bed sheet and there is no need to remove it. Simply zip it up.
Hey Joel. How u been? I'm still BB Free. Thank God...bed is still encased. It's not bothering me so I just left it there. I would add to your video if u can throw away ur box spring and get a new one it gets rid of thousands of BBs. I got my box spring for under $100. Also, it helps to get rid of a wood headboard. They hide there. This helped me tremendously. Plastic sheeting and duct tape is Awesome!!
I'm good! Thanks for asking. I hope you're doing well too. Glad to hear that you are still without bedbugs. Great job! I'm sure your testimonial will encourage others. thanks!
So thankful for u and Jules. In July my daughter and I were in a bad car accident. I've been out of work since. Thank God the BB situation was resolved before the accident. I've had to spend alot of time in bed. I don't think I could've survived my recuperation if I still had those BBs.
Cherluvsfl67 Wow, sorry to hear about your accident. I hope your daughter is OK too? Anyways, it had been some time since I posted a bedbug video so I decided to post one about mattress encasement. I think most people don't realize that this is probably the most important step in reducing/preventing the bedbug infestation. Get well soon and I wish you and yours a speedy recovery.
I appreciate your videos on eliminating bed bugs. I'm a bit confused and hope you can help. In this video, it appears you are saying that I shouldn't bother with the soda bottle approach using sugar, yeast and lukewarm water described in your other videos.
In this video, it appears one need only wrap the box spring mattress and top mattress. Is that correct?
If I am supposed use both approaches, are you recommending that I wrap the bed pieces then surround it bed with the soda pop contraption?
Joel what do you think about all the new products at your big box stores, from known pesticide company's, like Black Flag, Ortho etc. Also, I got a bag of pesticide dust with Diatomaceous Earth...it helps a lot but makes a big mess.
Stephanie Moore Personally, I've never had any success over the long haul with them. They seem to be somewhat effective at killing the instar nymphs yet worthless against the eggs. Also, many of the stores you mentioned are starting to sell various brands of a dry, dessicant powder called Amorphous Silica Gels (ASGs) These are a much more effective and cost saving way to kill bedbugs instead of those over-the-counter pyrethryins you mentioned earlier. A 2014 study showed that one brand of ASG in particular (CimeXa from Rockwell Labs) was as much as 85% more effective than diatomaceous earth. You can see the highlights of that study here: www.pctonline.com/pct0814-silica-gel-research-bed-bugs.aspx
I found one on my bed a couple of months ago ,I think it was dead. I sprayed my bed with alcohol and raid but didn't look under box springs I'm pregnant and really don't know what to use but I haven't been bitten lately and I have been in homes where I have and have a bad reaction to them and I just don't let nobody come in and if I do I spray everything with dog shampoo and alcohol but thanks for the video it's very informative and not everyone can afford to replace everything and call orkin man.
God bless you
Sir, you are a blessing ... bedbugs are awful!
tuck tape is the best for sticking. It is red and used on construction.
Thank you for this because the gorilla tape was not working for the plastic wrapping
Honored to know (of) you
GOD Bless you, Sir
You're not allowed to wrap any Christmas presents...EVER! :)
Ha, not very neat huh? Oh well, I hope you got the general idea.
Morning Star 😂😂😂 But it will last over a yr unwrapped
Joel Z. Williams , Hi do you make 🏡 calls, because I can't sleep @ 🌃.
I'm currently in Washington DC. I will come if you supply the transportation and have already purchased the necessary materials.
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Thank you so much, and I love your passion for the issue, Sir!!!
How about hitting them with BOTH alcohol and steam (Conair Extreme Steam hand held streamer . Says on the box "kills mites and bedbugs")?
You can also buy mattress encasements. But they cost .