Heat Assault needs the least prep of any method. Tick these off and you are ready.
Please Ensure All Boxes Are Checked For Maximum Success In The Eradication Process:
Myth: bagging everything after a hot dryer cycle. Not needed with Heat Assault — heat penetrates fabric where it hangs.
**A SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT RELIES NOT ONLY ON THE DURATION AND TEMPERATURE OF THE TREATMENT BUT THE PREPARATION OF THE RESIDENCE AS WELL!!
Should you have questions about preparation, please reach out via email at info@bedbugexterminator.org or call us at 727-353-2240.
Everyone and every animal is out for the whole treatment and two hours after. We call before we leave.
Do not wipe down baseboards, headboards, door jambs or window sills for three to four weeks. Sweeping is fine.
Call and ask before you move it — one minute saves a mistake.
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Your dryer and your vacuum cleaner are your best weapons. Any soft textile items you have around the living rooms, the bedrooms, so bedding, any clothing laying around, stuffed animals, throw blankets, throw pillows, run them through a high heat dryer for at least 40 minutes. It will kill any bed bugs or eggs that are on them. And then y'all need to think about vacuuming as your new cardio program for the next couple of days.
Answered by Dori on a call,
All clothing we want hanging up in the closet or folded up in the dressers, so no piles of clothing anywhere. We don't even want clothes in the dirty clothes hamper. Dirty clothes and dirty bedding attract bed bugs more than clean ones.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Any clothes that you and your family are going to wear, run it through a high heat dryer, hang them right up in the bathroom so they're ready for you when you get out of the shower. And as soon as you get ready in the morning, do not sit down on any furniture in the house. Just as soon as you're ready, grab the dog, grab your keys and come straight outside.
Answered by Dori on a call,
If it's any cat toys, anything that they may put in their mouth, make sure it's not anywhere near baseboards. Make sure it's a good foot or two away from baseboards. Pick them up, put them on coffee tables, end tables, whatever, just to keep them up off the floor.
Answered by Dori on a call,
When you get home, all you need to do is crack open some windows, maybe open the back and the front door, let some of that hot air exhaust, because it's going to be hot and miserable inside the home. Exhaust that hot air, turn the air conditioning back on, and that'll get your house back down to a comfortable temperature.
Answered by Mike on a call,
Aerosol cans, fire extinguishers, oxygen tanks, lighters, vapes, propane tanks, anything like that, and can just be set right outside.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Some people think it's hard, but I think it's really simple as far as the prep. Our main three Ps for prep is people, pets, and plants.
Answered by Chase on a call,
They usually can live about a month with no food. But in your situation, with the infestation that you had, I wouldn't take any chances.
Answered by Mike on a call,
Basically what we ask is that there is a floor throughout the house free of clutter. So no piles of stuff on the floor. We want all laundry hanging up in the closets or folded up in the dressers.
Answered by Dori on a call,
We do have to have pets out of the house and plants as well, because the plants can basically succumb to the heat. Now that process takes about 10 hours.
Answered by Mike on a call,
When you come home, the sheets and blankets are going to be piled up on your bed. They want you to leave those on there.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Your sensitive electronics, your TVs, computers, gaming stations, those are built to withstand the heat. So we just ask that you unplug them during the day of treatment.
Answered by Dori on a call,
The floor cushions, they can stay and they'll get a really good heat treatment, just like any throw rugs, any rugs that you have down. They can stay.
Answered by Dori on a call,
The heat normally penetrates through a lot of the vents in the walls and mattresses, but when it's a lot of cluttered, it's kind of hard, because these bugs will start moving.
Answered by Chase on a call,
We have never once, not a single time, and we have handled thousands of customers, never once have we told them that they need to remove their TV.
Answered by Mike on a call,
This is our own crew, on recorded calls. Word for word. Each one says who was talking and when.
The things that I point out are those half inch or quarter inch vinyl blinds. Those will warp. The horizontal ones, they're thin, they're flimsy, they will warp in the heat. We suggest those are pulled up tight, popped off their hooks and laid flat on a bathroom floor, and they're fine when they're flat.
You can take pictures of the rooms that you're still working on, make sure you include the floor. You can text them to us and I can look at them and go, this room's ready for treatment, or this room needs a little organization over here.
I would just throw it into a high heat dryer. Don't stuff the dryer full. You need those clothes to aerate. In that dryer, you put it on a high heat dryer for at least 40 minutes. It's going to kill the bed bugs and eggs.
If it's clean, you don't need to wash it again. Just run it through a high heat dryer.
Do not wipe down or mop the baseboards, headboards, door jams or windowsills for at least three to four weeks.
Just want to make sure that the clothes get shuffled around, and the highest heat setting on the dryer is hot enough to kill the bed bugs. So it's hotter than 122 degrees.
Boxes are fine. If you have shoes in boxes, like if one of those boxes in the closet is shoes, just open the box and the heat will penetrate in there.
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