Many people wonder if a Bed Bug Mattress Cover works. SafeRest Mattress Encasements The answer is yes they do – if used correctly. You need to make sure that they are rated BedBug proof, fit your bed, and that your bed is properly pre-treated.

How To Find Bed Bugs

It’s important that you make sure to identify what bug it is that is infesting your home. These bugs require different treatment than other bugs. Treating For BedBugs

To look for the signs of these pests it helps to have a flashlight and a magnifying glass. The bugs are really small.

A full-grown adult is a flat oval shape just about the size of an apple seed. Although they have vestiges of wings they get to you by crawling around. This means that you are going to generally find any infestation near the areas where you sleep. Each night they can crawl as much as 20 ft.

What you are looking for is the bugs, shells, fecal droppings, and blood smears from crushed bugs. The bugs hatch from eggs. A female bug can lay a dozen eggs a day or as many as 500 eggs over its lifetime.

Prep Your Bed

Pull off your sheets and check along the seams of your mattress/box spring. Make sure that you put the sheets directly into the washing machine with hot water – then dry on high heat.

Before you put your bed back together you need to treat your bed frame. Pull off the mattress/box springs. Treat your bed frame by paying special attention to any cracks and crevices where the bugs can hide.

Consider putting cups Bed Bug Supply under the feet of your bed. These slick cups make it harder for the bugs to crawl up the legs of your bed. You might also think about pulling your bed away from the wall until you get the infestation killed.

Using A Bed Bug Mattress Cover

Once your frame is treated you are ready to put on a mattress cover. You use a cover for two reasons.

One is that you probably aren’t going to want the chemicals used in treating the bugs to get on your skin. The second is that these bugs can crawl inside through minute rips and tears. Once inside the bulk of the mattress makes it very hard to successfully kill them.

Make sure that any SafeRest Certified Bed Bug Encasements that you used is designed to completely enclose your mattress and is Bed Bug Proof. The enclosure should be the right fit for your bed and zip tightly closed.

Once you have your mattress/box springs in the covers you can put them back on your bed frame and re-make your bed. Just make sure that no sheets or blankets go to the floor. This would just make it easy for the bugs to crawl back on your bed.

Finishing Treating

Once you have done the above work on your bed you have created a bug proof zone. Then you can treat other areas around your bed where the bugs could be hiding. This should include furniture, carpet edges, and even pictures hanging on the walls.

The most important step is re-treating. Bed Bug Eggs are extremely hard to kill. So at least some of them will hatch after you have done your initial treatment and re-infest your home. Re-treat every 7 – 10 days as needed until you can’t find any more bugs!