When you find bed bugs in your home, the first step is always to contact a professional and schedule your bed bug treatment as soon as possible. But once the appointment is booked, many wonder what they should be doing next. Do you need to do any prep work, and if so, how should you prepare for your upcoming bed bug treatment?
The answer to these questions is that, in most cases, there will be at least some preparation that you should be doing beforehand. However, the things you need to do to prepare your home can vary drastically depending on the method of treatment. For example, traditional chemical treatments tend to require a lot more prep work than methods like heat treatment.
At EasyPM, we rely solely on heat treatments as they are simply much more effective and convenient than relying on harmful chemicals. This also means that when you choose EasyPM, you’ll be in for a lot less prep work than you otherwise would.
Still, that doesn’t mean that there is nothing for you to do, so if you’re getting ready for your extermination, here is everything you need to know about how to prepare for heat treatment of bed bugs.
Why Does Preparation Matter Before Bed Bug Treatment?
Proper preparation is essential for two main reasons, the first of which is keeping you and your stuff safe. Both chemical and heat treatments have the potential to damage specific belongings, so spending the time to prepare vulnerable items is crucial.
Preparation before treatments is also important for improving extermination results and allowing technicians easy access to every part of the home. The easier it is for the removal team to move around freely, the easier it will be for them to reach all of the places where bed bugs like to hide.
How Does Heat Treatment Work?
At EasyPM, we use eco-friendly heat treatment technology that raises temperatures high enough to eliminate bed bugs all throughout your home or business. This heat reaches deep into furniture, mattresses, baseboards, and difficult hiding spots that traditional methods often miss.
Another major advantage of heat treatment is that the process is discreet and typically only takes a single day. This means that, though the process isn’t completely free of inconvenience, it is by far the fastest, most effective, and least intrusive method of bed bug removal available.
How to Prepare For Bed Bug Heat Treatment
The good news is that heat treatment is also one of the easiest bed bug treatments to prepare for. You won’t have to remove all your furniture or completely rearrange your entire home. You’ll just need to do a few other things to ensure that your bed bug heat treatment goes off without a hitch.
Remove Items Sensitive to Heat
Certain items handle heat better than others, so you will need to remove any particularly heat-sensitive items from your home. Candles, aerosol cans, medications, plants, and vinyl records are some of the most common examples, but even some modern electronics may not be completely safe to keep around.
If you are unsure about a particular item, our team at EasyPM can help identify which items in your home can stay and which ones you should remove.
Move Furniture
Even though you won’t need to move all of your furniture, some of it may need slight repositioning before your treatment begins. This usually just includes pulling furniture slightly out from the wall to improve airflow and allow easier access to technicians if need be.
Wash Bedding and Clothing
You should also wash linens, blankets, pillowcases, and clothing using high heat before your treatment begins. Though the heat during treatment can penetrate deep into every inch of your home, tightly packed clothing and piles of blankets can sometimes provide enough insulation to keep heat levels low enough for bed bugs to survive.
By washing and drying these items on high heat and then sealing them away somewhere safe, you can ensure that all the live bed bugs that may have been hiding in them will be gone before the heat treatment takes care of all the rest.
Clean Up Clutter
Though it most likely won’t make or break the success of your bed bug treatment, the less clutter there is lying around your home, the better. Clutter can sometimes get in a technician’s way and even provide additional spaces for bed bugs to hide in. Just make sure that you don’t accidentally help them spread by moving the clutter into unaffected rooms.
What Can You Expect on Treatment Day?
It’s completely normal to feel a bit nervous when treatment day arrives, but in reality, there’s really nothing to worry about. Once you, your family, and your pets are out of the house, we’ll use our professional heating equipment to gradually raise the temperature inside your home to levels that are simply not survivable for bed bugs.
Our technicians will continuously monitor the temperatures during the process, ensuring that they stay high enough for long enough to exterminate every bug in your home. Then, once the day is over, and your heat treatment is complete, you can move right back in as if nothing ever happened.
Contact EasyPM Today
Are you dealing with bed bug problems? Give us a call.
Our team of local bed bug experts is always happy to help you schedule your removal appointment and will take the time to explain exactly how to best prepare your space for your upcoming bed bug heat treatment. We even offer free estimates so that you have all the information you need to work your bed bug extermination into your budget.
Dealing with a bed bug infestation can be scary, but with EasyPM on your side, it doesn’t have to be. Contact EasyPM and take your home back from bed bugs today.
