Does Windex kill bed bugs? and should I use oil to fill the crevices?
Question by Maru: Does Windex kill bed bugs? and should I use oil to fill the crevices?
I finished vacuuming my whole bed frame, including the screws, holes and crevices. Now I want to reassemble my bed, but I want to put something in the crevices to both kill any bugs that I may have missed and to prevent any from getting in there again.
Can I use Windex to kill bed bugs?
And should I put cooking oil or Vaseline in the crevices to make the surface unaccessible to them?
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Answer by misterlucky_2000
………ew…..um…..if you have bedbugs, you’ll hardly find them living in the bed frame.. More than likely, they’re in the mattress itself, burrowing in the cover and ticking until a warm body comes along and heats up the bed, then they come out to eat.
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i’m guessing you vacuumed your mattress too! i read somewhere that windex doesn’t kill them.. maybe something like raid would!! i would smear some vaseline in the holes though… so the little suckers can’t hide anywhere. also, put little cups or some container under each leg of your bed and smear some more vaseline in there… isolate your bed cuz they don’t fly or jump!!
If you use Windex, you have to spray directly on bed bugs. Most people misunderstand how sprays work.
Also if you use oil or Vaseline, you have to put all over the mattress and sheet, which easily get absorbed and does not prevent bed bugs from reaching you.
I think bed bugs are hiding in the mattress or in the crevices. They are very good at hiding. What you need to do is to use a steam cleaner on the mattress and all the bedding items. They cannot live with the heat over 120 degrees. Then wash all lines with hot water.
what we used when we had a bed bug infestation was BedBugPowder. After using a steam cleaner, we put the powder all over the mattress and floor lightly before you put the sheet on. the stuff worked great, and it did not bother us at all because it is 100% organic. No chemical in it.
You can put oil or vaseline on the frame, but you really need to make a barrier between you and bed bugs with the powder.
Good luck!