Watch how our combination treatment works — Heat Assault thermal heat paired with a residual spray that kills bed bugs and their eggs at every life stage, guaranteed in a single visit.
Killing Bed Bugs with Heat — Guaranteed Results
Commercial Heat Treatment — 12,000 sq ft Job
Our Combination Treatment System in Action
Learn how different treatment options work depending on the size of your home or rental unit.
TREATMENT OPTION
How do you know if you have bed bugs? Learn more about clues to look for to determine if you've got an infestation.
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS
Take a look at the steps involved in preparing your house for a Heat Assault treatment.
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Bed Bug Exterminator750 4th Ave S Unit 304, St. Petersburg
BBE – Your Go-To for Reliable Bed Bug Extermination
At BBE, we understand the stress and discomfort that bed bugs can bring into your life, and we are here to provide swift, reliable, and discreet solutions to put your mind at ease.
Our combination heat and spray treatment is the only way to kill all bed bugs and eggs wherever they are in your home or place of business.
Customer service is key. Every single person on our team values our customers and is empathetic to the trauma that bed bugs can cause.
We value your privacy and are discreet, with no logos or mentions of bed bugs on our trucks or equipment.
HEAT ASSAULT: ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SOLUTION CREATED EXCLUSIVELY FOR KILLING BED BUGS
The first loop takes place inside the Heat Assault unit itself. First, the 100% environmentally-friendly heat transfer fluid (HTF) is drawn from the unit’s reservoir and pumped through dual coil heaters (rugged coil piping heated by oil fired burners) to a temperature of 205°F (96°C). Once the HTF is heated, it is returned to the 130 gallon (492 litre) reservoir where it is held prior to phase two of the process. This first loop results in a 600,000 BTU/Hr. generation of heat, making Heat Assault the most powerful bed bug heating equipment on the market. Period.
600,000 BTU/hr
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Don’t Panic: A Guide to Handling Bed Bugs
Finding bed bugs can be distressing, but don’t freak out. Here’s what you can do to confirm their presence, choose the right treatment, and effectively address the issue:
Bed bugs have small, flat, oval-shaped bodies and are roughly the size of an apple seed. They are reddish-brown and can be squished fairly easily. Bed Bug Nymphs (babies that have not fed yet) are a lighter, more translucent yellow in color and are slightly smaller. If you find a bug, compare it to our pictures and when in doubt, find a pest control company using our postal/zip code lookup tool and they should be able to help you identify it.
Short answer: it varies a lot by person and some people have a very minimal visible reaction. Some things to look for:
Bed bugs typically stay out of the light which means they can be difficult to find. Lift up the seams of your mattress, between the mattress and box spring, and behind the headboard. Look closely in any crevasses; this is where you most likely find them if you have them. Look for reddish-brown stains on your mattress around where you sleep as well as old exoskeleton shells. Since bed bugs are fairly soft, you might squish some rolling around at night. Bed bugs often will leave tiny brown or black spots (excrement) in the areas where they feed. This could be on your mattress or around the seams.
There are a number of different treatment options available, however the only sure-fire way is to find a pest control company that uses the Heat Assault system.
While there are a lot of websites out there saying you can take care of a bed bug infestation on your own, it is very unlikely that you will succeed. Even many pest control companies have difficulty eliminating bed bugs after several visits to your home. The most effective proven way to kill bed bugs is with our combination heat and spray treatment.
There are three main options for bed bug treatment: electric or propane powered heating units, chemicals and Heat Assault.
Pesticides that are used to treat bed bugs will only affect bed bugs that are exposed to it. Chemicals do not kill eggs. Since eggs are not killed by chemicals, pest management professionals that choose this method must return to the property many times, waiting for eggs to hatch, to repeat the insecticide treatment. Sometimes even live bed bugs may not come into contact with the spray for a variety of reasons, such as taking a route out of a unknown nesting area that was missed, or ‘piggy backing’ over a bug or other surface. It is unknown ahead of time how many spray treatments it will take to eventually kill all of the bed bugs, sometimes never. We’ve had customers call us after 4, 5, even as many as 8 sprays and thousands of dollars spent and still fighting bed bugs. Recent academic studies have proven that bed bugs are becoming resistant to pesticides, meaning that more chemicals are required to be sprayed in a treatment to have the same effectiveness as they used to. This is why we use a combination spray and heat treatment – because the heat is the main method of attack and kills bugs and eggs wherever they are hiding, we perform a basic spray treatment as a secondary measure. This combination is why we are confident to guarantee our services.
Electric heating equipment runs inside the residence off of the resident’s power. Electric heaters are somewhat under powered and usually cap out at around 130°F. This temperature may not be hot enough to permeate through walls and kill the bed bugs that are hiding in hard to reach places. Electric heat often takes too long to reach the “kill zone” temperatures which gives bed bugs time to escape.
Heat Assault is a machine that uses a completely safe food-grade thermal fluid, which is heated in a machine outside of the dwelling. The heated fluid then runs through industrial hoses to unit heaters, which transform the heated fluid into hot air. Strong heat is an extremely efficient way of killing bed bugs. Bed bugs and bed bug eggs are killed when exposed to the kill zone temperature of 122°F. Heat Assault is 100% people and pet friendly and is capable of reaching fully controllable temperatures of 140°F if required, making it the most powerful and effective bed bug heating equipment on the market. This type of power ensures that there is only one treatment required. Our carefully monitored full day of treatment ensures that the heat will reach ANY hiding spot that bed bugs are living and nesting, even behind baseboards, in vents, or any crevice they’ve chosen to hide.
Heat Assault has the least pre-treatment preparation required of any bed bug extermination method due to the power of the system.
You may have read that you should dry your clothes on high heat and pack them into bags? This is not typically necessary with Heat Assault. Follow these simple steps to ensure that the heat penetrates your clothing!
Advanced Heat Assault System: Our Heat Assault system gives us reliable, whole-home eradication, raising temperatures to a lethal 140°F to eliminate all bed bugs, which die at 122°F when exposed for an extended period.
Dual-Action Approach Heat Treatment & Pesticide Spray: We combine high-temperature heat treatment with effective pesticide spraying for guaranteed 100% eradication every time.
Absolute Discretion Guaranteed No Logos, No Mention: We prioritize your privacy. Our services are discreet with no visible logos or mentions of bed bugs on our trucks or equipment.
Our eradication methods are effective, and they are safe for your home environment as well.
Our fast and effective treatment process ensures minimal disruption to your daily life.
Our technicians handle bed bug eradication every day, and the training and experience show in the results.
Bed Bug Exterminator is a locally owned company that treats bed bugs and only bed bugs, serving much of Florida and select communities in Maryland. We are licensed in Florida (license number JB347927) and we are members of the National Pest Management Association (NPMA) and the Florida Pest Management Association (FPMA). Our method is a combination treatment. We pair a proprietary residual spray with our Heat Assault thermal heat, which kills bed bugs and their eggs at every life stage in a single visit, while the spray keeps working for weeks afterward to catch anything that survives. We treat homes and apartments, along with Airbnb and VRBO rentals, hotels and motels, retirement and nursing homes, and properties that are managed on behalf of others. Treatment starts at an $1,800 minimum, is priced by the size of the home, and is confirmed by phone before we begin. Our vehicles and equipment are unmarked, and every treatment we perform is backed by our 60-day guarantee.
A few things people ask us most often about our bed bug service, our pricing, and the areas we cover. If your question is not here, please give us a call and we will walk through it with you.
Yes, we do. We treat retirement and nursing homes, and we understand that each resident of your property has to feel like they are living in a safe and sanitized environment. We plan the work with you, including the movement of residents and which areas will need to be vacated, and we have even helped facilitate the logistics of moving residents during a treatment. When residents cannot be moved, or for units higher than the seventh floor, we will craft a spray-only treatment plan instead. Our crew arrives discreetly and professionally, so the treatment is delivered quickly and quietly.
Bed bug heat treatment starts at an $1,800 minimum and is priced by the size of your home. Most homes run somewhere between about $1,800 and $2,800. There are no per-room upcharges and no surprises, and homes larger than roughly 2,800 square feet pay a reduced per-foot rate.
The $1,800 is a starting minimum rather than a locked final price. Because the cost depends on the square footage, the access, and the conditions we find on site, we confirm your exact price over the phone, up front, before any work begins. Once that number is set there are no per-room upcharges and no surprises.
We serve much of Florida, from Tampa and the wider Tampa Bay area down to Fort Lauderdale, along with select communities throughout Maryland such as Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, and Germantown. Every treatment we perform in either state is backed by our guarantee.
Every treatment is backed by our 60-day guarantee, which means we promise a minimum of 60 days of freedom from bed bugs in your property once we have treated it. Because our combination method pairs a residual spray with Heat Assault thermal heat, and the spray keeps working for weeks after the heat has done its part, we are confident enough to stand behind the result for at least that long.
Yes, Heat Assault is the thermal heat system we use. At 600,000 BTU per hour it is among the most powerful bed bug heating equipment available, and we pair it with a residual spray so that the heat kills bed bugs and their eggs at every life stage during the visit, while the spray keeps working for weeks afterward to stop any survivors.
Yes, we value your privacy. Our vehicles and equipment carry no logos and no mention of bed bugs, and our personnel arrive unmarked. Finding bed bugs is stressful enough on its own, and we would rather your neighbors, your guests, or your residents did not have to know why we are there.
