New flat was infested. 4 treatments later they’re still here. Please help.
Hi all,
Me and two friends moved into a new flat in London in May. The first night we arrived, we found a live bedbug on the mattress of my room. Nothing had been moved into that room yet.
We immediately notified the landlord and the next day we had a pest control guy come and replace the bedframe, mattress and perform an insecticide spray in the room. They were gone for a week before I started being bit every night. We had to wait 3 weeks before he came and sprayed again. Even though I was being bit every day.
It has now been 4 months. We’ve effectively had one treatment a month. The bugs have moved to my flatmates room. And I found a live one in my room the other day. We believe they are in the walls or floorboards of our rooms. The hallway has carpet.
Our landlord has been booking the pest control, performing treatments and paying for them (as he is supposed to) and we get a 3 week period of waiting and hoping that they’re actually gone. They always come back.
The landlord is arranging a specialist to come inspect the flat. But we’re going to be pushing for a serious, more aggressive treatment like a fumigation or heat treatment. But it’s expensive and no landlord wants to spend that money.
He just suggested to us that if we want to move out we won’t have to pay rent while we look for a new place. We don’t want to do this, we have lucked out with the flat in price, location and a nice landlord. We don’t want to move, we want to get rid of the infestation.
What can we do?