Bed Bug Heat Treatment for a Safer Alternative to Chemicals

Bed bugs can be the most difficult insect to eradicate from your home. Because of their size and their ability to rapidly reproduce, a handful of bugs brought into your home can spread throughout your entire house in a short period of time. They permeate your bed, furniture, clothes, curtains, rugs, and more.

Bed bug treatments can be damaging to your home. Although chemical bombs can kill bed bugs, this rarely solves the core problem, which is killing the eggs. If this cannot be accomplished, you will have to get rid of a lot of what you own to prevent the infestation from coming back. Not only that, but the chemicals could affect the health of your family and your pets. This treatment also requires you leave your home for several days as it takes effect.

In recent years, pest control companies have created new solutions to help treat the problem more thoroughly. Bed bug heat treatment is a new method that has been highly effective in getting rid of both bed bugs and their eggs, too. Because the method uses heat and not chemicals, there is no health risk, no damage to your home goods, and no reason to leave your home for more than the time it takes to administer the treatment.

During bed bug heat treatment, electrical heaters raise the temperature of your house to 120 Fahrenheit, also known as “the kill zone” for bed bugs. To get a sense of how hot this is, it’s about the temperature of your car’s dashboard on a hot day. This temperature is hot enough to kill both the bugs and their eggs completely.

When you arrange to have a bed bug heat treatment provider take care of your infestations you must prepare your home by properly sealing it so that the treatment is most effective. Otherwise, your home may release too much hot air for it to reach the proper temperature. Items that might be affected by extreme heat like fruits or candles should be properly stored or removed from your home for the treatment as well so they are not damaged. After a heat treatment is performed, you are encouraged to launder all of your soft goods and get your furniture professionally cleaned so your home can return back to its normal, bed bug-free state.

Do not let bed bugs get the best of you. Bed bug heat treatment is effective at getting rid of the infestation without the harmful effects of chemicals.