Service · HEAT TREATMENT
Whole-structure heat at 600,000 BTU/hr kills every life stage including eggs. Paired with our residual spray as the Combination Treatment — one visit, furniture stays.
When the press needs a bed bug expert They call us
Step 1
InspectionWe confirm the species and map harborage before anything is set up.
Step 2
SetupDucts run from the unit outside. Sensors placed in the coldest spots.
Step 3
Heat cycleHeld above lethal temperature and monitored until every sensor reads clear.
Step 4
Residual sprayPerimeter and voids treated to catch anything re-entering.
| Compare on | The usual route Chemical only | What we run, every job Heat + residual |
|---|---|---|
| Kills eggs | No | Yes, with every other stage |
| Visits needed | Two to four, weeks apart | One |
| Your furniture | Often discarded | Treated where it stands |
| Resistance | Populations adapt to the product | Nothing adapts to 122°F |
| Reaches wall voids | Only where the spray lands | Every void the air reaches |
Bed bugs die at 118°F held about 90 minutes; 122°F kills almost instantly. The residual product keeps working for weeks afterwards, so anything that arrives later does not restart the problem.
A rented heater is unlikely to bring a whole home up to a temperature that kills bed bugs, and it gives you heat with nothing left working afterwards.
A standard 15-amp household circuit carries at most about 1,800 watts. That is roughly 6,100 BTU an hour of heat. Our Heat Assault trailer puts out 600,000 BTU an hour, so matching it from wall outlets would take close to a hundred circuits running flat out. A house has a handful, and the bedrooms usually share one or two. Rental units are electric, so one or two heaters on borrowed circuits is all most homes can run.
Bed bugs die at 118°F held for about 90 minutes, or almost instantly at 122°F. On our jobs every room is held at 140–145°F. A rented heater can warm the room it sits in. It cannot raise the walls, the closets and the next room at the same time, and bed bugs move away from rising heat into whatever stays cool: wall voids, outlets, the room next door. Slow, uneven heat is how a DIY job ends up spreading them.
Once the house cools, heat on its own leaves nothing behind. Every BBE treatment pairs the heat with a residual spray applied per its label directions, so a bed bug that sheltered in a cool spot, or one carried in the week after, still meets treated surfaces. A rental has no second half.
The rental looks cheaper on the day. If it fails, you have paid for the rental, lost a weekend preparing the house, and given the infestation more time to reach rooms it had not got to yet. Then you pay for a professional treatment anyway. The price we quote over the phone includes the heat, the residual spray and the 60-day guarantee.
| Equipment | Heat output | What it means in a house |
|---|---|---|
| Electric heater (rental or company) | 36,000–70,000 BTU per unit | One unit takes nearly all of a home's electrical capacity. Slow to reach 120°F, so bed bugs have time to scatter. |
| Indirect-fired propane | About 80,000 BTU per unit | Needs eight or more units and their tanks to come close. Most crews bring three, so the heat is uneven. |
| Direct-fired propane | Very high, concentrated | Puts combustion gases and moisture into the home and can melt plastics or warp floors near the outlet. |
| Heat Assault (what we run) | 600,000 BTU/hr | Trailer-mounted glycol boiler with its own generator. Radiators and air movers in every room bring the whole structure up together. |
Output reaches 600,000 BTU/hr — roughly three times an electric system — which is what makes whole-structure treatment possible in a single appointment rather than room by room. Nothing is plugged into your electrical supply. Over ten years, 98 out of every 100 of our heat-and-residual jobs have finished the bed bugs in one day; the other 2 get a follow-up spray, and the 60-day guarantee means we come back until they are gone. When you hire BBE, your bed bug problem becomes our bed bug problem.
Heat Assault gets the job done right. Our spray/heat combination is 98% effective after a single day's treatment. But BBE has a 100% success rate. Because of our Guarantee, should there be any situation where bed bugs survived the treatment (a rarity!), we will come back out and eliminate the problem for good. We typically only see this happen in a severe infestation or a home with excessive clutter. In all these years, in any severely stubborn infestation, we have always been 100% successful. We know you expect the problem to be solved and we stand by our work. Heat Assault is unique in that it quickly reaches “kill zone” temperatures throughout the house and continues to rise, ensuring the death of all bed bugs and bed bug eggs. One treatment. 100% Success.
Heat transfer fluid is drawn from the unit’s 130-gallon reservoir and pumped through dual coil heaters to 205°F before returning for phase two. Output reaches 600,000 BTU/hr — roughly three times an electric system — which is what makes whole-structure treatment possible in a single appointment rather than room by room. A residual product goes down with it, per its label, on every job.
Heat Assault needs the least preparation of any method: laundry put away, clutter reduced so hoses and manifolds fit, and heat-sensitive items removed. Bedding stays on the bed and furniture is treated in place. The full list is on our pre-treatment checklist.
Live plants, candles, lipstick, crayons and deodorants; wine, chocolate and fresh produce; vinyl records, videos and cassettes; aerosols, propane and other pressurised containers; lithium-ion batteries; irreplaceable oil paintings and family photographs. Small items can go in the refrigerator or oven.
Every person and every animal — including birds, fish and reptiles — leaves for the whole treatment and for two hours afterwards. Fish tanks and caged animals are moved out beforehand. We give you written preparation and re-entry instructions, and products are applied per label directions.
Priced by the size of the property, starting at $1,800, with most homes between $1,800 and $2,800. The number covers inspection, the heat cycle, the residual spray, furniture treated in place and the guarantee. No per-room fees, no return-visit fees, no fuel surcharges. Full detail on the cost page.
Every treatment carries a 60-day written guarantee. If bed bugs are still present inside that window we come back and treat again at no charge.
Whole house in one cycle.
Unit plus adjoining walls.
Room back in service same day.
Up to 12,000 sq ft per job.
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Heat-sensitive items — candles, aerosols, vinyl records, some electronics — are pulled out before the cycle starts and go back afterward. Everything else, including mattresses and upholstery, is treated in place.
Yes. Everyone and every animal leaves for the whole treatment and for two hours afterwards. We call before we leave so you know when you can return.
One appointment, no return trips. The structure has to reach a lethal temperature and hold it, so the time on site depends on the size of the home and how much access we have. We give you the window when we book.
They are out of the property for the whole treatment and two hours after it. Fish tanks and caged animals are moved beforehand. Products are applied per label directions and you get written preparation and re-entry instructions.
Priced by the size of the home, starting at $1,800, with most homes between $1,800 and $2,800. The exact figure is confirmed by phone before any work begins. See the cost page for the full breakdown.
Free phone estimate — exact price, no site visit required.
These are real calls. The answers are what a crew member said on the phone. The questions are ours, written around those answers. A price, a street, or a wrong figure is left out. We never publish a caller's surname, address, phone number or price.
We have a trailer called Heat Assault. It's a 600,000 BTU trailer that's built specifically to do heat treatments for bed bugs. It's a self-contained glycol unit which, for simplicity's sake, just imagine a really big hot water heater out in a trailer. We run that through hoses that go into radiators that are specifically placed throughout your home, and then we use fans.
Answered on a call,
We run the hose from the back of the trailer into your home and distribute heaters and fans into your home, raising the temperatures to about 140 degrees. Reason being is because it's a scientific fact that once the temperatures reach above 122 degrees, all bed bugs, babies and eggs die.
Answered by Charles on a call,
The technician will come into the house and he'll put fans and heaters into the house, and that connects to our trailer. And once that's set up, you will turn the trailer on. It has its own power source, so we don't need to plug into your power.
Answered by Mike on a call,
We bring a trailer to your home. It's unmarked. It doesn't say anything about bedbugs. Most people think we're cleaning carpets.
Answered on a call,
They don't need to wash the clothes that the tenants have. If they're just hanging in closets or in drawers, that's fine. There's no problem there. They don't need to take them out.
Answered by Mike on a call,
We spray the garage for you. We don't heat treat the garage. It's kind of like when your mom used to yell at you, close the front door. You're trying to air condition the outside.
Answered by Dori on a call,
You do not have to be there at the time when they're done. Of course, to let him in, unless you have a door code or a lockbox or a key stash or something. So once you let him in, you're good to go.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Normally what he does is he'll text you when he leaves, and he'll typically say, wait two or three hours before you go back in, because we want that heat to stay in there.
Answered by Mike on a call,
We do a one day and done heat and spray treatment. The spray is the icing on our cake. The cake is the heat treatment.
Answered by Dori on a call,
That typically takes around 10 to 12 hours for us to complete that treatment. What we do is we have a very high-end piece of equipment that was commercially built specifically to destroy bedbugs. This is a trailer that we bring to your house. We tow it to your house with our truck. And this trailer isn't marked or anything.
Answered by Mike on a call,
We have to treat the whole house. The reason for that is because if you have them in one room, you most likely have them in other rooms as well. Even though you can't see them, this is how they spread.
Answered by Mike on a call,
We actually bring a commercially built trailer designed specifically to destroy bed bugs and their eggs, so we don't rent the heaters out.
Answered by Mike on a call,
So our heat assault system raises the heat three times faster than the electric heaters do, and it is easier to regulate the heat with the heat assault system, being that it's made specifically to do this, not just a bunch of heaters somebody's bringing into your house, okay?
Answered by Dori on a call,
If they say 150 degrees or above, that can cause home damage. So be very careful about that. With your size home, we can easily treat you at 145 degrees.
Answered by Dori on a call,
don't ever buy a fabric headboard man it's it's so weird anytime i've ever i do inspections and if people say like hey you know i'm seeing bed bugs and i show up and i see a fabric headboard it's like 98% of the time they do have bed bugs fabric headboards are like their favorite thing in the entire world i guess it's because they want to hide out and nest near people where you're sedentary so couch headboard and uh you know solid wood headboards are not ideal for hiding but man a fabric headboard they just love that um so i mean we can 100 take care of this problem for you
Answered by John on a call,
Okay, vehicles, thankfully, it is Florida. Roll up the windows, park them in the sun. In the middle of the day, it gets well over 122 degrees, so if there are bedbugs or eggs in there, it will kill them or drive them out. They don't want to hang out where there's no food source. Now, if you worked in your vehicle or lived in your vehicle, that's a different story, but people are in and out pretty quickly, you know.
Answered by Dori on a call,
with a smaller home we do the whole thing at the same time with a larger home we would have to do it like one floor at a time
Answered by Dori on a call,
we have a 98% success rate on our one day and done treatment the 2% where we do have to come back out are homes that are cluttered and or cluttered and had a heavier infestation or an infestation that is hung around for a while and when that happens we come back out and we do a respray and that nips the problem in the bud and that is of no additional cost to you
Answered by Dori on a call,
This is our own crew, on recorded calls. Word for word. Each one says who was talking and when.
It saves your mattresses, it saves your furniture, it'll save carpet, carpet pads, it even penetrates your baseboards and your wall outlets.
He will prop up your mattress on some risers that he'll bring, to make sure the heat and the air flows really well all around that area. He'll open up all your cabinets and closet doors. He'll flip up your couch cushions and open recliners. He knows exactly what to do to get that air moving and the heat in every inch.
Then he'll ask you to stay out of the home for another couple of hours. That way the heat will start to naturally dissipate. It's still going to be hot when you guys get home.
We'll spray the perimeter of your home, like your door jams, windowsills, floorboards, and then we come in with a commercial trailer we call heat assault.
It's built on a trailer. It's designed specifically to destroy bed bugs and their eggs by using heat. And that trailer is unmarked. We don't advertise bed bugs or anything like that. But essentially what we do is we heat up the interior of your apartment to about 140 degrees and we leave it there for about five or six hours at that temperature.
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