Heat Treatment for bed bugs; your best chance

by · March 25, 2021

Hiring a professional to perform a HEAT TREATMENT at your home is your best chance to get rid of bed bugs. Here are a few points that explain why:

  • Bed bugs (as most of life) die at temperatures exceeding 48 degrees celsius
  • If done properly, 95% of the cases are solved in one single treatment
  • It is clean as does not need chemicals and it is a physical way to kill the bed bugs at all stages (from eggs to adults)
  • Bed bugs are rapidly becoming resistant to chemicals….. They will never become resistant to heat

Just, please, don’t look for any company or any guy that offers heat treatment for bed bugs, you may end up regretting very much if you choose the wrong person to do it.  Heat Treatments for bed bugs is an extremely technical procedure, where very  specialized  equipment needs to be used (please do not try to do a heat treatment at home with the usual heaters you can buy in any shop). Also, to make sure a heat treatment works, the temperatures need to be reached at certain speeds, and maintain for several hours. During this time, work need to be done inside the heating area, and many sensors need to be used, so the staff performing it need to have a very special set of skills that are only available to highly trained and highly experienced individuals. Also, working at those temperatures that need to be achieved to kill bed bugs is very dangerous.

Some points that you need to check before you engage any company to perform a heat treatment for bed bugs are:

  • Heat treatments are expensive, if the price is too low, it means they either do not have the skills or the equipment to do it… run away for the cheap options
  • Ask how much experience they have
  • Usually, the best companies are highly recommended, search for them
  • Be aware that heat treatment for bed bugs in not the same as Steam treatment, always ask them if they are doing one or the other as many companies advertise heat treatment when they are actually only offering steam
  • Ask them how hot it will get and if they can provide measurements (it should be around 60 degrees Celsius and they should be capable to provide some photos of thermometer readings)
  • As it will be very hot, be ready to remove all items that are heat sensitive so they don not get damaged
  • Ask for guarantee, the best companies with the biggest success rate will always provide the biggest guarantees
  • Any company that has the skills and experience, will always also use an insecticide to ensure success by over-killing, double check that with them.

Summarizing, heat treatments are your best option if you really want to get rid of bed bugs effectively, just remember to be ready for a price in the bigger range and make sure that you choose the right company and follow their instructions. This will ensure that you sleep bed bug free again.

Example of temperatures reached during a heat treatment: