Using Heat Treatment To Kill Bed Bugs: What You Should Know

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Using Heat Treatment To Kill Bed Bugs: What You Should Know

1 December 2022
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Bed bugs are a pest that can come into your home and in no time at all, they could take control of your entire home. These pests can be difficult to get rid of, and if you aren't too keen on using a pesticide throughout your house, you may want to consider using heat treatment instead. Heat treatment can be effective in killing these pests, without the need to use a pesticide. This can be a benefit to those that don't want to use a pesticide around small children, or for someone with pets. If you have a problem with bed bugs, read on for some information about using heat treatment to get rid of these pests.

How Does It Work? 

You can use a heat source such as a room heater to heat up the room to a specific temperature. The higher the heat, the more effectively this will work. Heating up the room will help to suffocate and kill these pests, as they cannot withstand the heat. The same can work if you place bedding or other fabric items that may be infested with bed bugs in your dryer at home. If you have bed bugs on your bed, or you have found them on other items around your home such as pillows or blankets, or even clothing, you can put them into the washer and dryer on the hottest setting to kill these pests.

What Are The Pros Of Using Heat?

If you use heat to kill these pests, you can skip leaving your home while a pesticide does the work it has to do in order to kill these pests. It also relieves you of the worry of taking your pets somewhere while a pesticide treatment works, or without the worry of small children being exposed to a pesticide. You can also be present while this type of treatment is being performed. Heat treatments are a safer option than using a pesticide for your entire home.

What Are The Cons Of Using Heat?

Heat treatments do take time to work, and it can take time to go from room to room with this type of treatment. Pesticides usually work all throughout the house at one time, such as using a pesticide bomb, although the heat treatments take time, they are effective, as you know they are going into each room of your home with the heater, and the pesticide bomb may not reach every single room.

If you have bed bugs, there are treatments that can work for you in order to get rid of them. Hire a professional pest control expert and discuss the heat treatment option to get rid of them.

Contact a service to learn more about bed bug heat treatment.

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Do You Have Insects and Critters in Your Home?

Do you have unwanted varmints in your home? My name’s Jason Blaine. We used to have many unwanted, non-rent paying, living creatures in our home. In the spring and summer, it was mostly insects. Come fall when the weather began to cool off, the larger critters made their way to our attic. We would sit in the house and hear them scurrying around above us. Our cats were the only ones that seemed to like the alien invasions. They got to play with the insects and hunt the rodents. I didn’t find it to be the least bit pleasant. I finally called in a pest control service and am I glad I did! I’m going to share about our pest control maintenance service. I’ve learned a great deal about the chemicals and how they are now safe for humans. I hope to provide you with helpful information.