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Will renters have to declare their crotch crickets in return?
Now I'm scratching!
Will renters have to declare their crotch crickets in return?
That's a newer building is it not?My condo at Yonge and Carlton was infested, something we didn't realize upon moving in earlier this summer. Already the exterminators have been in, and since we followed their instructions on vacuuming, laundering and bagging clothes, etc., the problem is gone.
That's a newer building is it not?
That's a newer building is it not?
And here I was thinking that bedbugs are only a problem in rundown old buildings. This is news to me.
The decreasing effectiveness of pesticides has meant that, while Toronto is experiencing a surge in bedbug infestations, the apple seed-sized pest is harder than ever to kill. But as a California company called ThermaPureHeat discovered, heat kills bugs and their eggs, often in one go.
“At about 110 degrees (Fahrenheit, 43C), they start coming out of the woodwork,” said Mark Joseph, owner of Magical Pest Control, a Toronto business recently certified to use the technique. “Then they start doing the death dance, just going crazy.”
If high temperature actually works what owners of infested buildings should do while we are still in the warm summer months is arrange a day for residents to evacuate their building for about 10 hours and then fire up the boilers and turn on the heating. They should be able get an entire building over 43 degrees without have to use special space heaters and the cost per unit would be minimal - probably less then using chemicals.