The Battle Rages On.

It's true what everyone says - bedbugs are hard to get rid of. Two visits from the pest control people just didn't do it. While I was in California Maryland was having below freezing temperatures. Carl decided to take apart the bed and put it out on the deck for a few days in hopes of freezing them out. (or freezing them to death) He had just the mattresses in the middle of the floor surrounded by a moat of bedbug dust. Unfortunately, no pictures of that.

When I got home we decided to bring in the frame and try to get back to our normal lives. Carl had doused the frame in bedbug dust outside. If the freezing didn't work - hopefully they'd dry out from the dust.

We got a steamer because Carl concluded (and I agreed) that if they didn't actually die in the cold out on the porch, that when we brought them in and steamed every nook and cranny - that for sure the drastic change in temperature would put them to rest. So, we cleaned off the dust, brought each piece inside, and carefully steamed each possible bedbug hiding place.



When all was steamed and cleaned, we put the bed back together. We didn't want to take any chances though so we put a fresh layer of powder all over the place.

Sweet, Sweet Sleep! Keep your fingers crossed that they don't come back!