Bed Bug Treatment Cost & Pricing Guide (2026)

As a home or business owner dealing with bed bugs, the first thing you probably want to know is what getting rid of them is going to cost you. For most of the homes we treat, the answer is somewhere between $1,800 and $2,800, with the treatment done in a single day and covered by our 60-day written guarantee. If all you wanted was a ballpark figure, there it is. Still, we are asked all the time why one customer paid $1,800 while their neighbor paid closer to $3,000, and the answer usually has to do with the home itself rather than the bugs. So we want to run through our pricing with you properly on this page. We will cover the starting prices at different home sizes first, and after that the handful of things about your particular home that can move the number in one direction or the other. A few of them, such as fire sprinklers, or the question of where our trailer is able to park, are things most people have never had any reason to think about before. That is quite normal, and it is part of why we wrote this page.

Why Do We Price By Square Footage?

Some pest control companies price bed bug work by the room. We have never really understood that approach, because the number of rooms is not what the job actually costs. For a heat treatment to work at all, the entire home has to be brought up to a lethal temperature and held there. Bed bugs and their eggs die once the air around them stays at 122°F for around 20 minutes, and our Heat Assault system takes the home up to 140°F so that the heat gets inside the walls, into the mattress seams, and into the middle of the furniture where the bugs actually hide. The amount of propane this takes, the number of heaters we set up, and the hours our crew spends on site all follow from the size of the space. That is the reason the price follows from it as well.

The other benefit of pricing this way is that the number does not move on you. We confirm your square footage, we give you one firm, all-in price, and that is the price.

How Much Does Bed Bug Treatment Cost In 2026?

The table below shows our starting prices for a single-story home with straightforward access. If you have a finished basement that you live in, include it when you are working out your square footage.

If you would rather not do the math yourself, our free cost calculator works it out in a few seconds, including the adjustments we cover below.

What Can Change The Price?

In practice, there are six of them. We go through each one with you on the phone before anything is booked, which is why nothing on this list should ever appear on your invoice as a surprise.

How Many Stories Is Your Home?

Each story above ground level adds $100 to the price. The reason has to do with the way heat behaves inside a building. Heat rises, and once it has risen it tends to stay where it is. Getting the ground floor of a two- or three-story home just as hot as the top floor means placing additional heaters and fans on every level, and then balancing them against each other throughout the day. A single-story ranch is the simplest kind of home we treat. A three-story townhome, even at exactly the same square footage, is quite a bit more work for us.

Do Condos And Apartments Cost Less? And Does The Floor Matter?

Usually, yes. Most condos and apartments come in under 1,100 square feet, which puts them at our flat $1,800 minimum, and the price is the same whether you own the unit or rent it. As for the floor question, which we hear constantly, being on the third or fourth floor does not make a unit any harder to heat. If anything, the upper units come up to temperature a little quicker. Where the floor does matter is access. If the building has no elevator, our crew ends up carrying heaters and generators up several flights of stairs, and that extra labor can be reflected in the quote. It is the carrying that costs, in other words, and not the treating.

There is one more thing we want to mention about condos and apartments, and it matters more than the price does. Bed bugs are able to travel between units through shared walls, electrical outlets, and baseboards. This means you can have your own unit treated perfectly and still find bed bugs again a few weeks later, simply because the unit next door was never dealt with. When we believe this is what is going on, we will tell you so. In most of these cases the right way forward is a coordinated treatment arranged through the HOA or the management company, and our property manager service was set up for exactly these situations.

What About Parking?

This is the one that seems to surprise people the most. All of the heat we use comes from a truck and trailer parked outside of your home, with hoses and power lines running from the trailer into the house. If you have a driveway, there is nothing to think about here at all. Where it becomes a consideration is in places like downtown high-rises, or gated communities where the visitor parking sits a long way from the unit itself. The hose and cable runs get long, the setup takes considerably more time, and occasionally that has to be reflected in the price. All we ask is that you let us know what the parking situation looks like when you call. An access problem we know about in advance is simply part of the planning. One that we find out about on the morning of the treatment is another matter.

Why Do Fire Sprinklers Add To The Price?

If your home has a fire sprinkler system with 10 or more heads, the price goes up by $200 to $400 depending on how many heads there are. Most residential sprinkler heads are designed to activate once the air around them reaches somewhere in the region of 155°F. That is a problem for us, because the whole point of a heat treatment is to make your rooms hot. So before the temperature starts climbing, our technicians go around and protect every individual sprinkler head, and they keep watch on them for the whole treatment. The home still reaches a temperature that is lethal for bed bugs, and the sprinkler system never comes close to going off. It is slow and careful work. Considering what a triggered sprinkler head would do to your living room, we think it is money well spent.

How Far Are You From Us?

If your home is more than about an hour and a half from our nearest office, we add $200 for travel. In practice, most of Tampa Bay, the Orlando area, Bradenton, and our Maryland territory around Bethesda fall comfortably inside that range, so the majority of our customers never see this charge at all.

How Bad Is The Infestation?

A severe infestation, or a home with heavy clutter, adds $200 to $300 to the price. Clutter is usually the real issue of the two. Every stacked box and every pile of belongings acts as a kind of insulation, sheltering the bed bugs from the heat, and each one gives them another place to hide in. To deal with this we bring additional sensors, we move more air around the home, and we spend more time confirming that every last pocket of the house actually reached a lethal temperature. Homes with hoarding conditions are at the far end of this scale, and we want to say clearly that we treat them all the time, without any judgment. To us it is a job like any other.

There is one last thing we would rather say plainly than bury in fine print. When our calendar is very full, quotes can move a little with demand. Whatever price we confirm with you before the work begins, though, is the price you will pay.

How Does This Compare To Other Treatment Options?

To put our pricing in some context, it helps to look at what the alternatives tend to cost. A chemical-only service will often quote you a lower price than ours to begin with. The difficulty with chemical treatments is that sprays are quite poor at killing bed bug eggs. Because of this, chemical programs are usually built around two, three, or even four visits, spread out over several weeks, and the infestation carries on in your home between the appointments. Once all of the visits are added together, the cheaper option is usually not very much cheaper at all.

Whole-structure fumigation is a different story. It does kill everything, but it will generally cost somewhere between $4,000 and $6,000 or more, you will be out of your home for several days, and there is nothing left behind afterward to stop bed bugs from being carried back in. Across the country, professional bed bug work tends to fall somewhere between $1,500 and $5,000. Our pricing sits near the lower end of that range, and the work is finished in a day. We would also ask you to read the truth about DIY bed bug treatments before spending money on a store-bought fogger. Foggers tend to scatter bed bugs deeper into the walls, and the job we eventually treat ends up being larger than the one you started with.

What Is Included In The Price?

• The complete combination treatment, done in one visit. This is the Heat Assault thermal heat through the whole treated space, together with our residual spray.
• Every life stage of the bed bug, including the eggs, which are the stage that other methods tend to miss. The residual spray keeps working for weeks after we have left.
• Our pre-treatment checklist, which tells you exactly what needs doing before we arrive. It is a shorter list than most people expect it to be.
• The 60-day guarantee, in writing, on every job. You can read why the guarantee is 60 days rather than a year on our warranties page.

What About Hotels, Apartment Buildings, And Businesses?

Commercial work is quoted job by job. Square footage and layout simply vary too much from one building to the next for a flat rate to be an honest one. The equipment itself has no trouble scaling up. Running two Heat Assault units together, we have brought a 12,000 square foot building up to a lethal temperature in a single day. We also work discreetly, with unmarked trucks and no bed bug logos on anything, which our commercial clients tend to appreciate. We serve hotels and motels, Airbnb and VRBO hosts, retirement and nursing homes, and commercial properties of all kinds.

How Do I Get My Exact Price?

Two ways, and both of them are free. You can run your square footage through the instant cost calculator, or you can call us at (727) 591-4417 and we will work it out with you over the phone — no obligation, and no pressure. We serve the Tampa Bay area, Orlando, Bradenton, and the surrounding Florida communities, along with Bethesda and Montgomery County in Maryland.