If you recently discovered that your home is infected with bed bugs, you should call a professional pest control company to come and assist you with the removal of bed bugs from your home. Here are three strategies that you can use to help assist the professional pest company with ridding your home of bed begs.

Bag Up All Cloth Into Dissolvable Laundry Bags

Anything inside of your home that is made out of cloth needs to be washed. Washing is one of the best ways to kill bed bugs since they can't handle extremely high temperatures like those found in your washer and dryer.

Everything that is made out of cloth and can be wash needs to be washed. That includes but is not limited to your clothing, bedding, throw blankets, pillows, shoes, kitchen and bathroom towels, kitchen mitts, rugs and curtains.

Instead of washing a single load at a time, and risking the clothing that you have not washed becoming infested with bed bugs from the unwashed clothing, you should take your clothing to a laundry mat.

However, you don't want to spread the bed bugs into your vehicle or to other individuals at the laundry mat. The best way to prevent that from happens is to purchase dissolvable laundry bags. These bags will allow you to pack up everything in your home that needs to be washed and seal them off so that bed bugs don't get out while transporting them. When you get to the laundry mat, you will not have to take your clothes out of the bags or containers that you transported them in and risk spreading them to others and transferring them onto yourself. With disposable bags, you can just put the entire bag of laundry straight into the washer. Be sure to use hot water when washing your clothes and high heat when drying your clothes to ensure that any bed bugs and eggs present are killed.

Remove Clutter From Your Home

If your home is really cluttered, it may be hard for bed bug professionals to treat your home without a little extra assistance from you. When your home is really cluttered, bed bugs have numerous places where they can hide out from you, which makes it really hard to target and treat the infestation.

Before you have your home treated, you need to work to reduce the clutter. Bag up all of your laundry in dissolvable laundry bags. Bag up and immediately throw in the trash anything that you don't really need and doesn't need to be treated either, such as old magazines, junk mail, old broken electronics and other similar junk or clutter.

Vacuum Up

Finally, vacuum your house. Use the attachments that came with your vacuum cleaner to clean around the edge of the room and in hard to reach places. Vacuuming will not kill or end the bed bug infestation in your home, but it will help you get it more under control. Bed bugs leave behind their molted skin, feces, hatched egg shells and dead carcasses in your home. Vacuuming will help you get rid of all the debris that comes with bed bugs and more easily identify if there are still any live bed bugs or eggs in your home that need to be treated. Vacuuming before your home is professionally treated will cut down on the work that the professionals need to do when they arrive. 

For bed bug treatment, contact a company such as Godfather's Exterminating Inc.