Odd situation here - bought a house that was a foreclosure. Obviously lots of work! I got my daughter's new bedroom set up first - painted, new floor, bought cute bunkbeds off Craigslist (OOPS!). We wanted to give her a room to hang out in/play in while we finished the rest of the house. NO other furniture in the house yet and we aren't staying there full time. Put the bunkbeds in the room, had a sleep over a few days later and my daughter and I were both ATE up, head to toe. 3 doctor's appointments later, we decide to call the Orkin man to see what the heck we had. (At this time we thought maybe spiders or insects in the house). NOPE, bed bugs, carried in from my wonderful Craigslist purchase (how someone could sell bedbug infested furniture and sleep at night is another story!!!)
Orkin sales guy said - "oh we can treat" BUT when the guys showed up to do the work, they were very skeptical that the bunkbeds were salvagable. So we pitched them out the window and burned them. Orkin treated the room. At this point, the only room in the house with furniture in it is the one bedroom that we set up so my daughter could have somewhere to play while we worked.
On the advice of Orkin, we have slept in that room a few nights (still living at my rent house until we get this cleared) and no bites - and since my daughter and I both react strongly, I am sure there aren't bites. I am having Orkin come back to re-check.
BUT - Million dollar question here - when can I be confident the little suckers are gone? I need to move from my rent house into this house soon but I DON'T want to infest the rest of my furniture?
Did we catch them soon enough and react quickly enough to have a good shot of getting them gone?