We have heard a lot of reports over the past year or so about the rise of bedbugs and the places that they have been found. France in particular has reportedly had many issues with these tricky biting pests and in London, claims have been made that they have been travelling around the city on the tube!
It is easy to see how they can get out of control and as they are notoriously difficult to get rid of, prevention is the best course of action. This doesn’t mean that you need to seal yourself into your home for fear of coming into contact with them, but by being aware of them and their habits you can mitigate risk and take steps to protect your home from being infested with bedbugs.
The most obvious place that you can get bedbugs is from a hotel. Don’t assume that a more expensive luxury hotel is not going to have them either – bed bugs don’t care about star ratings, they are just after a meal.
When you arrive at a hotel, do not take your luggage into the room to start with. If there is a bathroom, leave bags and suitcases in there, and then you can check out the bed which is the place that you will most likely see signs of them if they are there.
Bedbugs are most active at night in the dark – they are attracted by carbon dioxide that humans breathe out, so it is unlikely that you will actually see a bedbug, but pull the corners of the mattress back and look for small black dots that are the droppings as well as drops of blood on the bed as these are signs that they are biting.
As well as hotels, they can travel person to person and hitch a lift in other ways. Your workplace could be harbouring bedbugs, and making sure that the office is a clean and tidy environment helps to spot signs of pests early on and deal with them fast. Getting a professional like this contract cleaning services Gloucestershire-based company intocleaning.co.uk/contract-cleaning-services to regularly keep the place clean will help to reduce the risk of infestations.
In a workplace, bedbugs will mostly be found in the furniture, particularly chairs, so checking around them regularly will help you to spot them.
