Keep an eye out for freecycle and craigslist free stuff. That’s the kind of stuff that has decent turnover and you often are doing someone a favor by taking it.
Be VERY careful about accepting ANY used furniture. This is a good way to get yourself a bedbug infestation. Bedbugs are insidious and can hide in tiny little cracks in furniture, even if there is no upholstery. If you’re going to get used furniture, dust it with diatomaceous earth. Put that shit in every crack you can find. If there is any cloth/upholstery, put a layer on all the cloth. Then when you have the furniture in place, put a circle of diatomaceous earth around each leg of furniture. (Do not put the furniture up against the wall, pull it about a half inch away from the wall.) If bed bugs attempt to emerge and crawl away, they will be dehydrated and die as they walk through the diatomaceous earth. Trust me when I say, you do not want those fuckers in your house. They are incredibly hard to eradicate once there is an infestation.
Eggs visible to the naked eye, but you’re looking for something the size of a pinhead. An adult is about the size of an apple seed. Edit - this site has some good pictures of what they look like I am farsighted, so with my vision I’d never spot them even with my glasses on.
Keep an eye out for freecycle and craigslist free stuff. That’s the kind of stuff that has decent turnover and you often are doing someone a favor by taking it.
Be VERY careful about accepting ANY used furniture. This is a good way to get yourself a bedbug infestation. Bedbugs are insidious and can hide in tiny little cracks in furniture, even if there is no upholstery. If you’re going to get used furniture, dust it with diatomaceous earth. Put that shit in every crack you can find. If there is any cloth/upholstery, put a layer on all the cloth. Then when you have the furniture in place, put a circle of diatomaceous earth around each leg of furniture. (Do not put the furniture up against the wall, pull it about a half inch away from the wall.) If bed bugs attempt to emerge and crawl away, they will be dehydrated and die as they walk through the diatomaceous earth. Trust me when I say, you do not want those fuckers in your house. They are incredibly hard to eradicate once there is an infestation.
I have scavenged furniture for years. Furnished houses and apartments and squats and warehouses and busses.
Have never knock on wood had bedbugs.
Learn what they and their eggs look like and inspect the shit you’re grabbing first.
Once passed on a really nice couch in a nice neighborhood, because I spotted a half of an ass of one.
The stained old victorian style couch in the winco parking lot was fine though, lol
Eggs visible to the naked eye, but you’re looking for something the size of a pinhead. An adult is about the size of an apple seed. Edit - this site has some good pictures of what they look like I am farsighted, so with my vision I’d never spot them even with my glasses on.