There are Bed Bug Products NYC Homeowners Have Never Heard Of

Most folks that live in urban areas have had at least one experience with bedbugs. It goes with the territory. In a city where the population is in the millions like New York is, there’s almost no chance of getting through life without seeing a significant number of bugs. They go where we go, and where our pets go. Our trash and our bodily fluids provide them the sustenance they need to survive, so they’re dependent on us. Too bad we can’t write them off on our taxes. You can’t, but you might be able to write off some of the materials that you buy to prevent their appearance in our home.

There are bed bug products NYC homeowners have never heard of that could classify as essential health care devices that might possibly fall in the deductible category. We’re exterminators, not accountants, so don’t take our word for it, but ask your tax preparer if you can write off a mattress cover that keeps dangerous allergens and pests away from you while you’re sleeping and you might get lucky. The possibility could be even greater if you actually have allergic reactions to allergens and dust mites. That would make a mattress cover as vital to you as insulin is to a diabetic.

Steam and hot water eliminate bed bugs when you wash your clothes and linens, but how do you prevent eggs from hatching where they’ve been laid? Here at Broadway Exterminating we use cryonite to freeze the bedbugs and their eggs. You can also buy bug resistant laundry bags, clean your floors with cleaners designed to keep bugs out, and have your carpets shampooed with a steamer that will clear out any evidence that bugs ever existed in your home. Once all of that is done, take your pet down to the vet’s office and to have one of the cat or dog inspections for bed bugs NYC has top offer.

Bed bugs sustain themselves on blood. That’s why you wake up with all of those bite marks on you. After you steam clean your mattress, cover it with a mattress cover that doesn’t let any air in or allow bugs out. Any bed bugs that hatch from eggs you might have missed will die from starvation or suffocation in a few weeks. Remove the cover after that, steam clean again, and then put it back on. You don’t want to leave any opportunity for them to gain a foothold in your home again.