The Process
The day of the chemical-free bed bug heat treatment we ask that you please turn off your air condition and if it is winter crank your furnace heat up. This will allow for a faster treatment and get you back in your house faster.
Once the techs arrive and do an initial walk through, answering any questions you may have, they will give you our treatment forms to complete while they measure the space and go over the forms, answer any remaining questions, take payment, and begin setting up.
Our setups are usually pretty fast. In fact we can often be up to kill temp in the room that we place our heaters within 30-45 minutes. You read that right! We have a state-of-the-art indoor solutions that have all the safety features available. Your neighbors are not going to see some giant propane tank in the front yard or giant tubes running into your windows.
We use high powered fans to move air throughout your home. We essentially are creating a convection oven and killing the bed bugs and eggs with heat. We are able to blow the air around the room and into all of the nooks and crannies other treatments are not able to reach.
We also use two different types of monitoring devices to monitor the temperature of the rooms during a bed bug heat treatment. We have hand-held heat guns that we use to detect potential cold spots as well as stationary sensors that we deploy around the house and monitor.
Once we have everything set up and temperatures start to climb, we then walk back through the space and make sure everything is staged in a manner that it will receive the most airflow as possible. Often times we move and/or flip items in the middle of the treatment to get the most treatment as possible.
While we wait for the temperatures to climb, we are actively vacuuming the bed, bed frames, couches, etc. where bed bugs may have been (and any live ones if we see them). We are also using a steamer on surfaces and areas that are appropriate.
Once we reach lethal temperature we maintain them for at least three hours (it takes 90 minutes at 122 degrees to kill eggs and we exceed both of those to ensure a proper treatment). We will be communicating with you throughout the process (as much as you want).
Near the end of the treatment we will let you know when we will be turning the equipment off. We recommend that you not re-enter your home for two hours from when we shut everything off. When we leave your house you will still be in the kill-zone and letting the heat permeate will only help the treatment.
Our goal: When we leave your house it will be like the bed bugs were never there. It never happened and no one knew about it.
Unlike some other insects, finding you have bed bugs is not a statement on the cleanliness of your home. Bed bugs don’t care if your home is clean or dirty or if you are rich or poor — all they want it to live around you and feed on you for dinner. Discovering you have bed bugs need not induce panic. Follow some simple tips and your experience will be more pleasant than if you ignore your bed bug problem.
Treat all of your possessions without unnecessarily discarding or removing them.
