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Used furniture and bedbugs. I don't want bedbugs, I don't want to buy new.

Casually HardcoreCasually Hardcore Once an Asshole. Trying to be better.Registered User regular
edited June 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
So I need some furniture but being the broke cheap ass that I am, I really don't want to buy new furniture.

All I need is a love seat and a couple of chairs.

Is there anyway to minimize the risk of getting a bedbug infection from used furniture? Sometime I really wish they still use DDT.

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  • Pure DinPure Din Boston-areaRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Bedbugs don't like heat. Once you buy your stuff, put it in the garage or something until you get a chance to rent a steamcleaner. Then as you steamclean the heck out of your furniture, check it carefully for dead bugs, living bugs, bug poop, or bug eggs.

    Where are you from, some places you have to worry about it more than others.

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