Usually we have a strict rule around here to never pick up used furniture, as it’s entirely possibly infested with bedbugs. But this was a bit different, this was donated from a church school (my bad). It looks basically brand spanking new, save for a small hole in the left arm of it.
Yeah it got half soaked in the rain, but no big deal, it’s at my mom’s place now drying out. Here in a couple or few days whenever she tells me it’s dry enough, we’re gonna haul her old beat up couch away.
Edit: Photo added, cushions are off to the side still drying.
Kerosene? Excuse the fuck out of me?!
Short story time…
My late father was very frugal, and would happily pick up used furniture for his place when his old furniture was wearing out. But he never assumed anything about what he picked up, so it didn’t go in the house (ok trailer, whatever) immediately.
What he would do is leave the couch/recliner/whatever out in the rain and sunlight for a couple or few weeks. Whatever the rain didn’t wash out, the sunlight would basically cook it, those damn bugs don’t like either water nor sunlight.
Once the weather was about right and the furniture had been basking and drying in the sun for a few days, that’s when he’d swap furniture and move his new find inside. Never once did we ever have bedbugs.
But kerosene? What in the holy fuck?!
You should look up what chemicals are used in dry-cleaning. Its crazy.
Isn’t that more or less just straight up carbon dioxide, or is there more to it than that? Either way, yeah dangerous deadly stuff…
The professional way to get rid of them is to heat the building and its contents up to 150f for a few hours to kill the bugs and their eggs.
Yep, true that.
And the unprofessional way is to throw out half your furniture and use X-Rid spray, or whatever the fuck they call it, the stuff just works, but is extremely toxic…
Nope, they used to use Kerosene or Gasoline, ow they use Perc which is a neurotoxin and forever chemical iirc.