Bed bug heat treatment costs can be kept quite low in most cases when taking all factors into account. In fact, the overall investment when you add up your personal time, dry cleaning expenses of suits and dresses, replacing items that are infested such as box springs and couches make the use of heat treatment to get rid of bed bugs a much more attractive and less expensive option than a traditional chemical program. 

Now not all homes qualify for this type of service. If there are surrounding units that are infested or if you have someone that stays at your residence that is coming from an infested area the use of heat may not be the best option. But at least you have a choice between heat and chemical. In some cases, you are better off leaving behind a chemical residual if there is the probability of further bed bug exposure. This is because although residual products do have limited uptake due to the tight exoskeleton of Cimex Lectularius heat provides no residual protection. We can if the client wishes chemically pre-treat or provides a chemical application after the program if there is a concern about the possibility of becoming re-infested. 

We recommend checking all possible exposure sources prior to bed bug thermal and this will include surrounding units, staff, places of work, vehicles, gym or personal lockers, friends, childcare and nurseries, schools etc. This bug is a hitchhiker and travels with us. It also moves easily from one unit to the next via hallways, pipe chases, electrical conduits, cable wire channels, etc. All avenues of infestation possibilities must be explored so that they can be ruled out. We only want to treat you once. 

Bed Bug heat treatment generally takes about a day to complete depending on the size of the unit. Providing heat treatments for bed bugs in multiple units at once takes a lot of coordination between the treating company, the management company, and the landlord or building owner. One of the most important things is to ensure we have people complying with the preparation and not taking too many items with them on the day of treatment. When using heat to kill bed bugs you don’t want to carry out insects and then bring them right back after we are done. That is a monumental waste of time, fuel, money, and energy.

Providing Bed Bug Heat Treatment to private homes is much easier. When you are helping a family recover from an infestation you have a good idea where the bed bugs came from, there are fewer individuals so there is less opportunity to re-infest with bedbugs, and it’s usually a cooperative effort to exterminate the population in one treatment. 

We provided one heat treatment to a family after Christmas. Unfortunately, they had about 20 family members over for the Holiday. Guess where everyone put their coats? That’s right on the bed in the master bedroom right where the bed bugs had been reproducing for several months. We ended up having to  Heat treat three other homes. Everyone cooperated, all homes were inspected by canine and we had climb-ups installed, and everyone’s home had the bed bugs eliminated through the use of our bed bug heat treatment program. Thermal Treatments Work! You just have to know how to do it right, make sure you are taking into account all the possibilities of spread, eliminate any possibility of reinfestation (as humanly possible), and treat it properly. Bed Bug Heat Treatment is the best way to kill Bed Bugs quickly.