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- December 1, 2021 at 2:14 pm #5254
  
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  As another data point, I recently have also had some very noticeable success with heat treatment.
  
  Heat is by far the most effective thing I have tried in the last 1.5 years of fighting this. Unlike the OP I haven’t been able to find a pest control company to do the work to heat my entire house (including Orkin) despite having captured mite samples identified by multiple scientists and these companies having no other solutions to suggest.
  
  I bought a 300 sqft 20,000 BTU single room heating unit and have been running it in cycles throughout different rooms my house. After a room heat cycle and a thorough shower I am able to finally sit in peace and sleep undisturbed. However, after a few days the mite activity picks back up again requiring another treatment. I’m looking into solutions that can treat larger areas and am also using a parcel bed bug heating unit to treat clothes and bedding. The hope is if I stay vigilant with the heat cycles to keep knocking down the numbers I can eventually get them to stop reproducing and eliminate them completely.
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