Unfit Student Housing

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I wish I hadn't read this thread..I'm itching

lynzpower

geekgirl wrote: »

Yes same here, it is a specialist subject that I am not interested in! The landlord is getting £1500 from these students a month, he needs to sort something out. It gives me the blinking creeps!

The problem is, no matter how much money the LL has, it is not going to get dealt with any quicker. You can spend all the money in the world to try and eradicate this, there is a set treatment that can take some time, A single one that escapes can start the process all over again. I once knew of a case in a student house where the bedbugs seemingly surviving a wash as the student had not put it on a hot enough wash adn the property was reinfected.

It is a growing public health problem that we seem slow to be cottoning onto in the UK. I could go on all day but fascinating to see what is happening in new york...where people seem a lot more agitated and affected by it.

geekgirl

lynzpower wrote: »

The problem is, no matter how much money the LL has, it is not going to get dealt with any quicker. You can spend all the money in the world to try and eradicate this, there is a set treatment that can take some time, A single one that escapes can start the process all over again. I once knew of a case in a student house where the bedbugs seemingly surviving a wash as the student had not put it on a hot enough wash adn the property was reinfected.

It is a growing public health problem that we seem slow to be cottoning onto in the UK. I could go on all day but fascinating to see what is happening in new york...where people seem a lot more agitated and affected by it.

It's amazing that a bed bug mates once and lays eggs for the rest of it's life dirty little gits!
The situation in New York is the very reason we must take it seriously in the UK or we are going to be in a horrible situation.

lynzpower

Wish me luck, I think Im going to do my dissertation on it :eek:

Keep me posted, Id like to hear how he gets on