How to Kill Bed Bugs Instantly for Van Life
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- I show you How to Kill Bed Bugs in Van Life Naturally. To get rid of bed bugs, I use a Bed Bug Heat Treatment in a Garage. My Kill Bed Bug Solution works in a Van, RV, or House. Kill Bugs in Van Naturally using a Garage, a propane burner, and safety measures.
Please, be safe! This can be very dangerous if not done as stated in the video. Do not place the burner inside a closed room. The oxygen will be used up causing a burnout, allowing propane to leak out and fill the room, making a very dangerous situation.
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Thanks for the video, much appreciated. I did mine yesterday without a garage in my van. I used a propane camp stove and my installed vent fan. Started at 90 degrees and got it up to 120 in about 2 and a half hours. I actually kept increasing until it got to 135 in the third hour. I maintained this temp until 5 hours was reached. Woke up this morning with no new bites. Gonna do it again today just to be sure.
Hell yeah!
i have a question, what was the outside temperature when you heated van? did you use 1 or 2 stove burners and where did you place stove ? did you crack windows?
Did your heat treatment work?
Shouldn’t have to do the same thing twice
I picked up bedbugs from a hostel in Morocco, I had a severe reaction to them like being stung by 50 bees, they plagued me for two weeks, biting me every night, I just couldn't escape I tried everything. I tried cooking all my gear in black rubbish bags in the Sahara, tried tumble dry everything I owned, after two weeks the only thing that worked was putting everything I had in a chest freezer for 3 days. It was one of the worst experiences of my life and I still have borderline panic attacks whenever I see any insect remotely like a bed bug. I even ended up getting nightmares from them and occasionally up to months after it happened I found myself waking up freaking out in the middle of the night thinking I was getting bitten. I wouldn't wish these insects on anyone, absolute nightmare
Dude, I feel your pain. This doesn't come through in my video, but I don't ever want to see another one of these bugs again.
The nightmares are the worst part... I am lucky I escaped them
Reubs i’m always scared i get them but like you said i will know when i get them right?
i believe a certian species of bedbug is has more severe bites because the first 2 times i had bedbugs i developed itchy red bumps and i got rid of them using ant and roach spray but the 3 rd time i got them i developed much more severe bites where the bites where open wounds and caused 2 secondary infections . abd these bugs were very resistant to bug spray .
Well said. They are a nightmare
I've seen another vanlifer who used the summer heat to get rid of his bug issues. He parked outside in a100 degree heat parking lot, removed all reflective insulation from the windows and windshield, then let the van sit several hrs in high heat parking lot. He had reported that it was a success after few months of no bug infestation.
Yo bro you need to heat to 140 f in order to be 100 percent sure. Tried lower temperatures but after a couple of weeks the bugs were back with a vengeance. This time they were armed with Ak’s and anti aircraft missiles along with law tactical rockets. It was a brutal battle. They had the spartan mentality mixed with the crusaders spirit of “God wills it!”
When I had bed bugs, they hadn't evolved far enough to use the weapons, but god damn did they have them.
The temperature at the bottom of the garage was 120 at points, and the top of the garage was 140. It appeared as though they had all crawled up to the top of the van to escape, but crawled the wrong way and did meet 140 degrees. There are video experiments on CZcams of them dying in a closed chamber at 117 degrees though, so as long as every single crevice hits 117, you will rid yourself of them and win the war. The issue is that it must be kept at this temperature prolonged because the temperature of the air might be 117, but the tiny crevices might not have had a chance to all heat up yet. It's important that it heats up slowly, and not too quickly too. Doing it too fast sends them into a panic and they run to find a cooler spot. Heating slowly keeps them blind and they will stay and die in spot.
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I was assigned a truck with a sleeper birth from the company I was driving for, the first night out after driving I pulled into a rest area and was laying on the bed watching netflix on my my ipad when I felt something biting me. Yep!! that got me up quick and I turned on the light to see bugs crawling all over my sleeping bag, Damn... they gave me an infested truck!! Being a company truck I was limited on what I could do, I let my dispatch know what the problems was and since I was O.T.R I really didn't have many choices so I went to a Menards and in the parking lot I fumigated the entire inside of the truck with bedbug sprays and disinfectant wipes and allot of paper towel, I also bought a mini vacuum. I put the mattress in large plastic bags and taped it up after I spayed the crap out of it with bedbug killer. It was a long day, I also went to a laundry mat to wash all my clothes and gear. after I got back I was issued a new mattress and further clean the truck. Next time I'm assigned a truck to take O.T.R I will inspect it fully so I don't have that problem again. thanks for reading.
Thank you! I work at a hospital and it never fails we get a patient with bb😑 we always run the risk of bringing them home. I can afford this , thank you!
Trip to the Nevada Desert in Summer time, shut all the doors and windows and let Nature kill them, you will have far above 117 degrees in short order.. LOL ....
This works too!
Here in St Louis all through June July and August it'll be well over a hundred and twenty degrees in your car
keep your receipt and you can return that heater
Texas in the summer too lol
@@josephatnip2398 i thought. so to here in south carolina i have been unable to rid bugs from sun alone. the bedbugs have survived the 90 degree days with windows rolled up
Take your rig out to the desert on a really hot day. Lock it up and let the sun rock it at about 120 for a couple hours. I used to kill bugs for 10 years residential and commercial. DO NOT sit inside or keep any critters you love in the van while you do this!
"Do not sit inside your viechle at 120 degrees while your are killing bed bugs". Ok. It's a good thing you warned me. Saved me a lot of suffering and heat stroke.
What about your gas tank with the propane? This seems so dangerous!!
You're not put the plastic bag over your head and tie it either ( ps - you must think the average person is pretty dumb.)
I that visit a friend and didn't tell me until I said I got bit in March all over me they said they had the house professionally done for bed bugs and now every time I get in my truck I'm getting bit so thank you I'm going to try it
Who else is watching this in bed and there feeling a bit uncomfortable
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Even simpler method: Go to Death Valley, palm Springs, or any other hot place, in the summer, check into the hotel, park the car in the sun with the windows closed, point the car south so maximum sunlight will come in through the wind shield, spend the day at the hotel have a luxurious time at the lodge, swiming pool, dining room, spa, napping, etc. Let nature supply all the heat while you stand back and wait for the critters to die.
yhnbgt365 that’s what I was thinking 😂
and you will get another bed bugs in that hotel :D
Bed bugs are so good at surviving that they will chew the wood siding to create hand fans and fan each other to cool themselves off. They will even go Bear Grills and drink their own piss to stay hydrated.
I hate to say it, but obviously you've never been in this situation/tried those things. They just crawl into the crevices where it's cool towards the bottom
Make sure the tires are taken with you or they will melt
We had bed bugs a few years ago. We thought they came from grandpa's care home! If you have elderly in care homes watch out for bugs. Look in drawers and mattresses and chairs. Basically anywhere a person stays the bugs are attracted to your carbon like mosquitoes. They need to get your blood to survive. Nasty right!
We called a pro and they did three treatments over a gew weeks and the bugs were gone. They put sticky traps everywhere. Before they arrived to spray we were told to wash all clothes and sheets, vaccumed all furniture and crevices and base boards.
End of the day....i watched what spray they used...PHANTOM II spray. Costs about $20 for a spray can online. Spray all furniture backs, bottom, and crevices. Sprayed the mattress and all around the bed. They put a mattress cover on the bed. We ended up buying a new mattress anyway just because it was gross. I don't think all the steps were necessary. Basically the bugs were only where we sat or slept. The need a host. They don't generally wonder far. So furniture where you sit most and mattresses are key spots to spray. And all around base boards.
Bottom line PHANTOM II spray killed em all. We could have saved hundreds of dollars if I knew this from the beginning.
You the 🐐 🙏🏼 thank you
This is a really valuable video. These annoying bugs are really hard to get rid of. Anyone can get them.
I don’t even have bed bugs and didn’t search for the video(came up in my recommended). With that being said, very well done video and I’m glad I’ll have a way to solve the problem if it arises.
Right? Thank you for the nice comment!
Thanks for this video.
I am restoring a vintage trailer and learning before the problems arise. I had bed bugs before in Oklahoma. Then I moved back to Oregon (back from college). The bed bugs couldn't survive in this zone 7 area. If I had bed bugs again Maybe I'd park on a ridge or take a vacation or quarantine my trailer in an inhospitable environment.
It sounds ideal, but they are insidious so you would want to make sure you got at them with heat in the crevices they could crawl to for refuge from the heat
Good reason to keep all fabrics sealed/wrapped/enclosed when not in use
High heat kills bed bugs. One hot summer day I saw bed bugs crawling all over in the bedroom as they were searching for cooler temperatures, and realized mosquitos weren't biting me. I had bed bugs!
The hot temperature helped me identify them, but I chose an easier, safer, and less expensive way than heat to kill all of them.
What’s that?
@@glennahuff8233 My reply was deleted.
@@glennahuff8233 My answer to your question was deleted. I did not use a heat treatment to get rid of all my bed bugs.
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I literally just had this thought, what good fortune that I stumble on another video!
Well, when I got bedbugs, I and my dad discovered them very early on so we just killed the ones that we saw on the bed and I no longer saw them. The way I discovered it ( my dad didn't believe me ) is I woke up one night and saw a dark spot on my pillow, and I decided to poke it and it scuddled away, I turned on my light and what did I see on my pillow, a bedbug. Whenever I sleep on a bed now I always think I will get a bedbug infestation.
I never actually knew bed bugs were a real thing, I’m itching all over my body all of a sudden...
Check out a channel called bedbugdude1 . you won't sleep for weeks 😃
Son
"So Dad... I have bedbugs in my van, can I super heat the garage using a flaming heater into the garage?"
Dad
"I'll buy you the freaking boat son."
Lmao
You have such a cool lifestyle
When I was a kid my mom said "sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite", I thought they were not real but now days I make sure all the lights are on because i'm worried about the boogyman :(
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I picked up a few at a library, fortunately it was summer and I was in Reno, NV - I parked my truck ( where I live ) in the sun all day and voila, gone
I don't have bed bug but I have morgellons mites and worms and insect tiny mites and they are coming from my skin and hair we got them from the tree we tream our garden and I will do this heat thing with regular hearter and fan
I did the non garage version on my crv and I got rid of Most of them but about fifty of them hid in my headliner. I have killed most of these because I stayed out of the car 10 days after that and killed most of them as they came out. I will be doing other things to get rid of any others I may find.
By the way I think the sailboat idea is an excellent one I had plans to do the same and anchor for free and be off grid but I figure I’d get an rv first to familiarize myself with these systems. 👍
My name is also Ryan!
We had the same idea more or less.
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on the west coast from san diego to washington state ,the states have shut down free anchorage's, the only one left is in santa barbara ca@@OutdoorsEmbrace
Dude. I randomly found your channel. Which is cool since we were friends in college.
Is this Clay from USC Aiken?
It totally is. Like I said I saw your super popular video showing your whole van, and when I saw you in the mirror a few minutes in I was like "holy shit! I know that guy!" But how have you been man? Last we spoke you were going into the Navy.
The way I got rid of my bed bugs was to use myself as bait. Before I go to bed I would sleep in a small tent for the size of 1 person . Take a bottle of spray alcohol just in case any followed me going inside the tent. I would slees so good knowing that not one bed bug could bite me anymore. I would wake up in the morning to see all the bed bugs on my screen door of the tent wanting to get inside to bite me. I would then spray the screen door come out then zip it up again. In about 4 or 5 days all the bed bugs were gone. I guess they starved themselves. Also make sure you pat on the tent door so that way all the bed bugs fall off the tent before going inside the doorway.
Damn! Great idea!
This looks like a good way to give your house bed bugs
Yes, there is risk.
Mineral spirits kill on contact and keeps killing bugs. But the smell is intense but it's worth it
Use Crossfire bed bug spray.This stuff blows the sprays in the stores away! Amazon and Do my own pest control company. 👍💙💚✌️
I lived in Mexico for a couple of years of my life and to get rid of them we put all of our clothes in a black plastic bag and let it sit in the sun for a whole day and that fried them and we sprayed the outside of the mattress with pesticides cut a hole in the mattress and sprayed the insides with pesticides and sprayed all over the room.
Can’t wait to see this boat!!
Awesome vid man. I’d like to start a van life. Should check out tucker gott. Your cute too
I have to say, very well done using CO to destroy bedbugs. The achilles' heel is that you are not keeping your treatment sealed. It is possible to treat bedbugs with inert gas, but you must suffocate them.
How were your sensitive electronics after this? Not sure if I missed the part where you would have removed them, but it figures that a flat screen, battery, or even adhesives wouldn't do too well.
They are completely fine.
I used extremely high heat adhesives for everything too. All was fine afterwards. Nothing was hurt.
if u un plug eltronics I believe if it was me I would heat in a different manner but for a van I guess this plan was fine does anyone know how to remove them on a boat. in my hole life I have never had them but now I have something. I am trying to identify I am not sure.
Great white
Is a great white shark I see what you did there because it’s it fin
It's been a little while since you posted the vid. Did your treatment do the trick for you? This is a very relatable issue and handy vid for any one with the same issue.
Yes! I honestly had to use two propane tanks in a row to get it to work. I tried two other times beforehand with just one tank and failed. I didn't say this in the video, but I really think I should have now.
@alp I showed a chart towards the end of the video with times and temps. I forget without watching it again, but I think it was at least 3 hours.
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Hopefully you see this and have some insight, but would this method work if the garage is not insulated??
Yes! It will just take longer to heat up.
I think I may have them but in Canada and no garage. Have to wait till warmer weather I guess and try outside ? I got fiotemacious earth on the way try that too first. Just seems like way too many nooks and cranny’s and stuff in my van build for heat to work? Help !
Diatomaceous earth does work, but it needs to go everywhere
Your my hero man...ty
Isnt there some kind of gadget you can buy that attracts them and then zaps them like a mosquito zapper except its not a light or heat device? Or a device that repeals them so they want to leave your house?
How would this treatment impact the electrical wiring in the van including Solar Power systems?
Would you have to remove all batteries in the process?
Just shut down all power, you do not need to remove anything. The temps reached are not too high for batteries, but do not have them running either creating extra heat (possibly could overheat then)
Kinda like burning down the barn to get rid of the rats? Park the van in Phoenix, Az during the summer?
This will work too! haha
I've lived in my van in Phoenix for years and never seen a bed bug 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I have a question I saw someone asked. I'm in a basement. What about the electronics like stereo & tv? I like your video, it's helpful! Please advise !
They can hide anywhere, but prefer to be right next to where you sleep, like around the bed.
Don't worry about electronics around this temperature btw. I'd only start to worry when it gets up to 140 F. Just turn everything off first though before starting.
Too high of a temperature can be bad for your electronics but not sure if 117 is enough to damage electronics, even if it's prolonged.
117 is definitely enough. You only go higher for a house, like 140, because you want to make sure the heat penetrates everywhere over time.
@@OutdoorsEmbrace I meant enough to damage electronics
@@OutdoorsEmbrace But since you already did this I assume all your technology is fine so my theory is probably wrong.
@@jsprunger6246 oh! I read your comment wrong. Yeah! Some people mess their shit up by going in excess of 130.
I literally only hit 117 at the critical spots, so everything is working and no damage was detected still today
Yo bro no way it’s u keep up work and keep grinding bro see ya 👋
Where are you getting this information? Always good to site your source if this information isn’t your own.
I lived in a old wood house that had no insulation so I left the window units in the house off for a couple of days in the 100: plus degree Texas summer and stayed at my girlfriend's house that did the trick.
how about running a hose from your tail pipe to the inside of your van- gassing them this way?
Sounds like a bad idea for my own health. Not sure though.
i had bedbugs for 3 years,i tryed everything to kill all of them rubbibf alcohol will kill thrm on contact,im not sure but i think i got bedbugs from a couch i bought from a gis house mission
If I got the inside of my car up to 140 degrees for 2 hours would that kill them? I pre treated with permethrin and crossfire ? I left the car running on a hot sunny day with the heat on low to raise the temp burned my hand on the back of the seat 😆 raid foaming bedbug spray has the same ingredients as crossfire for 10 USD 👌
Yeah, that would work
Bed bugs will die at temperature below 0F (-17C) after four days so in northern states of US that is an option.
Brrrrrr, cold.
Ahah. I read that too. Should have included it.
Plot twist: he blows up the van and the garage
Worst bed bug ever was my x. Bite Mark's and everything dam u magen
I don't know about that a bed bug problem I've got something eating me alive but it don't look like the sores of a bedbug but I tell you what it's driving me insane
Very entertaining videos you have
I dig your videos. I hope to transition into the van life in the next 5 years.
If your like me I have an adapter for my main propane that I can get what I need when I need it, I think I have a 1000 gallon tank, make life easy
Never had them in Illinois. Maybe freezing would work too for people.
ok nice video but did this kill all the bed bugs honestly? because I hear the heat is supposed to be direct not circulated like you did
It definitely killed them all. A good pile of them were found at the roof of the van on the outside dead. They tried to crawl out of van to get away from heat, but apparently went the wrong way haha
Just park in the Texan summer sun haha.
So you live in a van, but how do you know if you have jury duty or any other legal documents? Do you have a PO box you go to every once in a while, or is there some way to not have an address and not look like you're living in a van?
I'm excused from jury duty with good reason (being out of state). I send everything important to my parents and they tell me if I get something that needs attention.
I had them.... they're fucking awful
Get a centipede but a small one
Thanks. Can this be done in an SUV? Does the door have to be open? And can a paint bake booth work?
Sure it could! Just needs to get hot enough inside and done long enough for the heat to penetrate all areas.
I absolutely hate mites. Do not put rug on the grass thus can transfer into your van. Oh believe me mites made me very mad and very difficulty to remove them completely...
Hmmm, I don't have a garage,wonder if one of those safe propane camping heater's would work in a van
I'd say yes
Do you think an electric heater with the car heater running with the window rolled up would work?
Depending on the heat outside, but most likely no. I tried this myself a few times before putting out the answer in this video. It didn't get hot enough.
How Bout an ozone generator? Theyre 150 bucks, run it for 24 hours.
1000$ to get bugs out of my bed? I can get a van for that money
Bugs moves from van to the garage. Bed bug still alive.
Haha, they all died. Assured
I live in an apartment and ive been having trouble with bed bugs for awhile now did the diatamecous earth thing but im afraid we still have them. I really wanna try this but im afraid that I'll burn down the house 😬
Yes, exactly!
Hotels use use the hot steaming machines.
I bought a portable handheld one and treat cracks and crevices where they can be on and around the bed and bed platform.
I have a wood platform for the mattress.
They can be dormant for 6 months to a year also. So just when you think they’re gone, guess what. They can drive you insane. Look for signs of black tiny spots on bedding in every crease, crack and crevice, hit it all with the steamer.
Those
Omg..been there..5 star hotel.in Atlanta..they refuse to fucking die omg
..The Bugs will drive you to this....no pun intended.
Hey.
We put our car in a painting oven for 2 hours at 70 degrees Celsius. Do you guys thing it was enough to kill.al stages of bed bugs? I'm still scared of driving our car 😭
Yes! As long as it hit that temperature, the bugs die almost instantly around 117 F.
Just hope the heat penetrated all the parts of your car.
Thank you very much for your quick answer! I hope so. Can't guarantee... I helped an old man. I drove him to his doctor. After that I realized that his jacket had dozens of bedbugs on it..... The same day we sprayed our car and the next day we vacuumed it and sprayed again.
After a week we baked the car for 2 hours with open doors. I hope it's fine now. But time will show I think.
Sorry for my bad English 😅
@@WishBridge damn! Yes, english is good! That sucks, helping someone and getting something negative out of it.
@@WishBridge if the heat penetrated to all parts, being that the entire van was at least 117, then they will all be dead. You gotta get back and let me know!
huh.. if you are planing on selling this van i would not mind taking it of your hands :)
You think I can get my house to this temp?
Yes, certain rooms. There are professional heat treatments for houses. I'd call the exterminator if you have the money. They do something very similar though
I slept with then for 8 months didn't know what they were until I saw a bug under me I checked he corner there were a lot I just cleaned my room and swept and swept it worked
You can't get rid of bed bugs by just cleaning and sweeping. These must not have been bed bugs. If you really had bed bugs, you'd have PTSD from them haha.
These things are terrible and super hard to get rid of.
That is unless you didn't swell up from getting bitten. Like the bites didn't affect you. I just ask, are you certain they were bed bugs, because you don't sound scared enough.
Please make a new video please
Wait how are you going to upload when on the boat?
There are ways I'm sure haha. I'll have to come up with something. Others do it already.
I thought freezing would kill them as well?
Yes, but you have to leave them in 0 degs Farenheit for 4 days before they die.
What if you use hair drayer
Won't really work for this.
I have question for you
What your family think about this?
And how was your first day in the van?
They love that I'm doing this. I was that my family's breakfast table when I told my dad that I was going to do this. He immediately said yes.
Also you can write book about life in van... Im just giving you idea
In your research did an ozone machine do the job?
I didn't see anything about that to be honest. I don't know. I was focused on chemical and heat. I would love to know if this works because I have an ozone machine inside my van at all times anyway!
@@OutdoorsEmbrace There are considerations of course. You don't want to breathe the ozonated air. You must let it air out for several hours as part of the procedure. But it kills mold, mildew, funguses, ants and cockroaches too. Bed Bugs would have a hard time living through that. My stepson uses it for cleaning rooms, houses and car interiors. Like I said though you must take your time and let it air out.
Just use an ozone machine.
My dad lives in a RV covered in cockroaches. Like worst infestation ive ever seen. Theyre running on the ceiling on the carpet everywhere. I bring him roach bombs and tell him to remove his stuff into boxes and bomb, but he just watches CNN and screams something about Trump. I mean what do you want me to do go over there and do every thing for you? You're a grown man capable of this project. I`m afraid when he visits me for showers they'll jump off of his clothes into my house. I mean take care of your stuff bro it's not rocket science. We have the technology. It's like he doesn't even care to get rid of them and gets mad about it when I tell him I'm afraid he might infest my house. I think he'd rather have somebody to do every thing for him and doesn't care if it means he has to work. It's tiring to have to sacrifice to help him all the time especially because he doesnt like me and I don't want to hear him freak out about Trump. I don't know why he hates trump so much. Maybe it's because he's mad he's covered in cockroaches.
gantz4u sounds like a true liberal
I need a new video
Oh f' man, this immediately gave me the heebs! You poor dear. Uggggggh!
This was the worst problem I've had to solve yet! Given that, I'm lucky! It was a fun issue to solve even though it sucked and make me want to burn my van down haha.
@@OutdoorsEmbrace oh gawd, I bet! 😆😆😆😳🔥
Why not just close up the van on a hot day and leave it in the sun. Temp would be 120 pretty quickly id think.
I couldn't wait for a day like that. It was pretty cold out still and bed bugs sucked!
What state do you live in ?
I don't live in any one state. I'm traveling. But this video was in NC, and I'm currently in FL.
It distressed me to see photos of the bed bug during the video
I understand that completely
117 degrees all you got to do is Park that van in the sun in the summertime
You have no idea what you're talking about- they just crawl down into crevices where it's cooler & inaccessible. I've heated my van so hot 3x that my heater fan melted, my shoes warped and I cooked ground beef inside with no oven. You need it heated from underneath/like he says in the video.
@@thingsmac I heated my van to 145° + for hours with no circulating air inside while parked against the side of a huge cinder block building on asphalt parked headed South.
Thermometer read 117° an hour afrer sunset still inside.
It was so hot...on another level still..unreal hot.
I got bit again as soon as it was cooled off enough to drive it.
How much does living like this yearly
$500 monthly
Pls pls pls post more vids
I'm working on it actually. Sorry it's taking so long
Mate, we just threw the entire matress away and heated the house something like this
Ahhhhhhhhhh! The people at the dump have bed bugs now! Haha