Night Watch Monitor - Review

The Monitor ran successfully for 5 nights.
I ran it in 3 different rooms. Ideally, I should have moved it around every 4 days, but I knew I was running out of CO2 based on reviews I had read.


The CO2 bottle - 20 OZ ran out on the 5th night.

I paid $40 for it, a bit much.
But, any place that refills your fire extinguisher or Paint ball store, will refill it for $5.
I plan to purchase a few more empty cylinders from them and fill it up.
Have  a stock at home.

Day 31 - Bed bugs Are gone??

I know they are truly not gone yet.
But they are not eating into our brains the way there were before. The first 2 weeks were of nightmarish proportion, but remember you will get through it, just like I did. Take it as a learning experience. I did have to cast everything else aside and focus upon the bed bugs and figure out what I needed to do to eradicate them. It sucked away a lot of time, but look at it this way - happened after the summer blast was done and over with. I could face some real world problems, couldn't I?

We are no longer getting bitten by bed bugs - here is a quick summary of what we did

- Pushing the beds away from the walls and putting vaseline laced  containers underneath the bed posts helped.  This is probably the first thing I should have done. Did this for all other bedroom furniture as far as feasible
- PROTECT A BED Mattress and pillow encasement - an absolute must
- My night clothes stay in my bed when I wake up in the morning. The day clothes never makes contact with the bed or my night clothes. Bed is pretty much quarantined.
- Placing DE all over the house was another critical step - mostly by the baseboards. They will remain there for the next year perhaps. I didn't use any chemicals and seems like there may not be any need for it. Time will tell! From time to time, I see dead bugs by the DE. We have a couple carpets interspersed all over the house over the hardwood, and I sprinkled DE over these carpets as well. There are dead bugs underneath these carpets as well.

It was too bad I had to deal with these bed bugs, but seems like I discovered it in time before they became rampant invaders of the house - hard to get rid off. I think I discovered them as they were just beginning to spread themselves into other areas.
- Running our bed sheets every week through the washer dryer was helpful too. The first couple times I did it, I found a couple sleepy bed bugs stuck somewhere in the sheets. Don't bring anything into your sleeping area that has not gone through the dryer.
-Bought new furniture, keeping bed bugs in perspective. The living room set with fabric cushions is gone now and in place a leather sofa set. The furniture we bought for the bedrooms were chosen to prevent too many hiding areas for the bed bugs.
- Laundry away all your clothes, more so from the room that had the most bugs.
- The NightWatch Monitor was good for peace of mind