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Seriously bed bugs are a “drop your values” type issue

You can get t-posts for cheap at tractor supply, and use cattle fencing material for the walls, and if you get the ridgid cattle panels you can easily slide a few 2x4s across the panels and make a weather resistant area. You dont say exactly what you want, or the weather the animals will face so it is hard to go further. https://www.instructables.com/Cheap-Easy-Portable-Dog-Run-to-Build/ has a ton of different things all diy.

yeah we tossed out all the sheets we had that time

i meant the bugs she burnt them one by one with a lighter, sorry

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You can also put bed posts in trays of diatomaceous earth instead of water.

I don't know what happened in your life, I wasn't there, but I do know that trying to find and kill bedbugs is the best way to let an infestation spread. They are nearly impossible to find, they reproduce at a very fast rate, and they can lay dormant inside of fabric or mattresses for very long periods of time.

You may not have meant this as advice, but I just want to make sure that nobody reading this takes this as advice.

In apartment it could be building wide problem.

In a house easier to manage.

1. All your bedroom clothes, sheets, everything goes into sealed garbage bags. Wash and dry it all. Wash your laundry daily and keep it bagged in fresh bags. Keep it stored away from where people sleep and relax.

2. Mattress and box spring need to be steamed daily. Flip it over, every crack and seam and corner Use a clothing steamer. Get in the seams, kill the bugs, kill the eggs. Daily for 1-2 weeks.

• Day one under the bed, sweep, mop with bleach, clean slate. Easier to see. Fewer places to hide. Throw out the garbage. If you vacuum get that canister full of eggs away from your house.

3. Change bedding daily. Wash it and DRY ON HIGH HEAT daily.

4. Get bed bug mattress and box spring covers. Amazon sells them, they completely encase the mattress, the material is slippery and they can’t climb it, the zipper is very fine and tight and keeps any remaining bugs or eggs inside.

• douse the box spring in DE powder before you seal it up for good.

5. Clear packing tape the legs of the bed and baseboards around the bed. They can’t climb it.

6. Spray poison, pyrethrine based poison works well.

If you’re in an apartment you may need to invest in some silicone, weatherstripping and gap filler spray foam.—we’re talking baseboard gaps, light fixtures, outlet covers, don’t forget under the sinks in the bathroom and kitchen. Gaps where drain pipes go. Gaps where water lines go. You are in a spaceship. Your job is to seal the air leaks. Seal the hallway door with weatherstripping. Dust outside the door with DE.

Hang garlic on your mantle.

Sacrifice a goat on a 6ft diameter pentagram carved into your dining room floor.

Then burn the house down.

How many houses did your mum have?!

If you've seen any bedbugs, that means there are more you haven't seen. They can hide anywhere, including cracks in your floor and furniture, power outlets, seams of your clothes, etc. Don't try to handle it yourself, get an exterminator ASAP. Seriously, you will regret it if you don't. Having bedbugs messes with your sleep and makes you paranoid for a long time. Do not take any chances.

1. If you can afford professional help, get it.
2. If you get professional help, and you should, listen to every instruction and follow their list of steps exactly.
3. Understand that the nature of bedbugs is different than other infestations. They do not care about your food. Youare the food.
4. Leave your emotions out of this. You are now at war.
5. Declutter your home but do so logically. If they are only seen in one area DO NOT TRACK THEM TO OTHER AREAS. Bag articles of clothing and bedding in study trash bags at least 3 mil thick and tie them with a knot, not a twist tie or drawstring. Do this to every article you don’t need right now.
6. Get a bagged vacuum if you don’t own one and plenty of bags. You are now going to vacuum everyday and throw the bag away immediately.
7. Now is not the time to ignore this.
8. Purchase a quality mattress protector made to keep out bed bugs and in. The will starve in there. Oh did I mention these fuckers can live like a year and half without a meal? The ones you can’t suck up, burn, or crush you’ll have to starve. This is war.
9. The biggest mistake I made was not finding their nest which was in some luggage that my dad had in his trunk. He kept bringing more in.
10. There is hope. Heed the advice of a professional and you might make it out with less PTSD than I did.

• get an exterminator right away.
• bedbugs can lay dormant for about a year.
• put your bed posts in buckets of water if you can
• hopefully you won't have to throw everything out.

I saw that you can line the bed with emeralds (or at least crystals which are green) as the wavelength of green light will instantly vaporize bedbugs, spiders, cockroaches and dogs.

Just make sure your dog can't get into the room, of course.

Nuke it from orbit

LOL when we had bedbugs my mom burnt them all one by one 😭😭😭 it took a week to get rid of all of them

I used crossfire and called orkin.

And how do you know it’s pine? It looks more like a type of oak. The little indents seem to be a lot darker as if the stain set into those parts. I’m no expert but the grain just doesn’t remind me of pine.

It doesn’t look blotchy to me. The darker and lighter shades seem to start and stop with individual boards. If it was a commercially produced table it’s possible not all of the pine came from the same source in which case you can’t really tell how much it will penetrate individual unique boards. I’ve made some basic furniture with pine I’ve bought from a big box store and was able to stain it successful. Likely all the boards came from the same batch.

How much it penetrates depends a lot on which type/brand of stain you bought, how you applied it and how long you waited before wiping it off. With a large piece it can take a bit of practice. If you’re applying it by hand with a brush on a warm day it can start to dry on the parts you started with before you have a chance to come back and wipe it off, hence it comes out too dark. It can also be the opposite. You might brush it on and end up wiping it off before it has time to penetrate hence it ends up too light. The instructions on the can are highly dependent on heat and humidity.

I would try and do another coat and time it so you know if you need to go longer on a third coat.

It's probably not pine and is a hardwood that doesn't need conditioner. Are you sanding higher than 200 grit?

Exterminator that uses dogs. Quicker you do it the cheaper and more effective it is.

You did really well! I would double check if you can if your local jurisdiction takes AAV’s as acceptable method instead a true vent thru roof. Either way, this will likely be very effective code issues aside.

Espresso stain is notorious for being tough to get an even coat with.

Try a water or oil based stain too.... The gel stuff is kind of "gimmicky".

Btw, this is the budget DIY… if it’s in a large area or house wide, look up rental rates for heaters and fans. Need to provide continuous heat above 120F for a few hours.

I had bedbugs for a couple days and got rid of them by trying a couple methods at once. What worked best though was to bring another piece of furniture in my room and sleep on it with the feet in two layers of cups lined with diatomaceous earth. The bugs tried to get to me in my sleep and climbed into the outer cup's DE. Once coated in DE they couldn't climb up another cup to the foot of my fresh bedframe. Try multiple attacks. Don't assume one method will work. Good luck.

Exterminator.