Discreet service
Unmarked vehicles and personnel
No logos, and no mention of bed bugs on trucks, equipment or uniforms. Neighbours see a van; they do not see why it is there.
Service area · PALM HARBOR, FL · PINELLAS COUNTY
Combination treatment — a residual spray plus Heat Assault thermal heat — kills bed bugs and eggs in a single visit. Homes and businesses across Palm Harbor, quoted over the phone before anything is booked.
When the press needs a bed bug expert They call us
Local record
Bed Bug Exterminator is active in Palm Harbor, with 22 written quotes and 6 completed jobs on the local record.
The page also includes 10 questions answered on recorded calls and 20 crew call excerpts.
Reaches into mattress seams, bed frames and wall voids a spray cannot. Kills every stage, eggs included.
Keeps working for weeks after we leave, so anything that survives or arrives later does not restart the problem.
Bed bugs die at 118°F held about 90 minutes; 122°F kills almost instantly. We hold lethal temperature throughout the home.
You get the prep list and an arrival window. Anything you are unsure about, we answer on the phone first.
Quoted over the phone before anything is booked, so there is no site visit and no surprise on the day.
A full heat cycle takes the whole home to lethal temperature, then a residual product goes down per its label.
Eight to eleven hours on site, depending on the size of the property and how much is in it.
We walk you through what we found and what to watch for, and the home is yours again the same day.
If bed bugs come back inside sixty days we return and treat again at no cost.
Why choose us
We kill bed bugs. Only bed bugs. One method, done right, in a single visit — heat and a residual product together, on every job we run.
Unmarked vehicles and personnel
No logos, and no mention of bed bugs on trucks, equipment or uniforms. Neighbours see a van; they do not see why it is there.
Total peace of mind
Sixty days of cover on every job. Should bed bugs survive the treatment, which is rare, we come back out and eliminate the problem for good at no cost.
No other pests, ever
One method, done right, in a single visit. It is the only approach we sell, which is the reason we are good at it.
Quoted as bed bug experts
Reporters do not find us in a directory; they come looking for someone who does this all day. CNN introduces Allan as the operations expert at Bed Bug Exterminator, and he has been quoted by name in thirty articles across fifteen national outlets.
Community-focused service
Seven offices across Florida and Maryland, each with its own locally staffed crew. The office that quotes your job is the one that turns up to it.
Affordable, high-quality heat solution
Priced by the size of the home rather than by the room, and quoted over the phone before anything is booked. No site visit, and no per-room upcharges.
Experienced, dedicated team
As Allan puts it: once we take on your project, your bed bug problem becomes my bed bug problem. If it turns out not to be bed bugs, we say so and cancel the contract. That has happened.
The single best solution — Heat Assault
Heat Assault reaches kill-zone temperature throughout the house and keeps climbing, which is what takes out the eggs as well as the adults. Paired with a residual spray on every job.
Call 727-591-4417 Quoted over the phone before anything is booked.
“My experience with BBE (Bed Bug Exterminator) was very smooth. Dori explained everything clearly on the phone and booked me quickly. The technician Chase came and did a full spray and heat treatment in one day, from morning to evening. The process was well organized and I felt relief after.”
“If you want your bed bugs gone CALL THEM!! Their team is top notch and truly care about what they do. Huge shout out to Dori and Victor, they took such great care of my home and killed every last bloodsucker! Thee best company for bed bug treatment hands down! Thanks”
“Kendall is extremely knowledgeable, professional and patient. She walked me through the process on the phone assessing for bed bugs as well as treatment options. She was interested in me FIRST and my needs, not just making a buck! The tech arrived on time and treated our entire home, 100% bed bug free for 3 months.”
“My experience with Bed Bug Exterminator was very positive. Chase handled the inspection professionally and didn’t miss any areas. Before that, Kendall had helped me book the appointment smoothly and answered all my questions. Everything felt organized and well-managed from start to finish.”
Heat only works if the whole structure gets past lethal temperature and stays there. That is a question of output, and output is a number.
| Heat only | Chemical | Combination | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kills eggs | Yes | Often misses | Yes |
| Residual protection | None | A few weeks | Weeks |
| Reaches hidden voids | Bugs flee deeper | Limited | Yes |
| Visits needed | 1 (with gaps) | 2–4 | Usually 1 |
| Guaranteed | — | — | Yes |
Bed bugs die at 118°F held around 90 minutes, and 122°F kills almost instantly. We hold lethal temperature throughout the home.
Most recent job
26 Mar 2026
34684
Senior living facility — 500 sq ft — full heat cycle
Measured across 6 call-backs where a caller in Palm Harbor did not reach us first time. Counts come from our own phone record. No caller is identified.
Every question below was asked by a real caller on a recorded call, 5 of them from Palm Harbor and the area we cover from here, and every answer is what one of our crew said back on the phone, word for word. We give the caller's first name, or their postcode where we do not have one, and never their surname, address or phone number.
Ma'am. We are bed bug exterminators. So all we do is focus on the elimination of bed bugs. We're not a general pest control company.
Answered by Mike on a call,
Sometimes, I mean, bedbugs, now I would hope, especially that your in-laws have gone through this, that they're being vigilant, okay? I would hope they're being very, very careful about leaving the house, making sure they're bedbug free now that they've gone through it.
Answered by Dori on a call,
There's a chance if you're washing everything on cold water that, yeah, you know, you could have cross contaminated.
Answered by Dori on a call,
If most of the time they will come out at night only. They're more nocturnal. Okay.
Answered by Dori on a call,
Until they realize okay there's not a food source here so if somebody hangs out on the couch or the recliner or the chairs in the living room for a few hours a day then yeah they're going to hang there if not they're going to pick up on on your carbon dioxide in another bedroom and slowly make their way to you they want to be close to their food source and they're not going to go all the way back out out to the living room to a nest they're
Answered by Dori on a call,
We are booked through the holiday. I have technicians doing all-day treatment today and tomorrow and Tuesday, I think. Let me check the calendar real quick here.
Answered by Dori on a call,
All right. I am so sorry to hear that. Can you get us pictures of the bugs that you're seeing just so we can confirm that it is maybe some, they're probably slowly dying.
Answered on a call,
You're fine. So we can get into your home for $1,700. That would include a $200 deposit to get you on the calendar, but then that $200 is going to go towards the full price, and that will be due on the day that we come out.
Answered on a call,
I'm doing okay. I just don't know why I lost Bluetooth connection. So sorry I've got you on speakerphone now. It just kind of went quiet.
Answered by Dori on a call,
You tell me there's a bug and I'm out of there. Okay.
Answered by Dori on a call,
This is our own crew, on recorded calls about jobs in Palm Harbor and nearby. Word for word. Each one says who was talking and when.
Or treatments. It has its own power source, so we don't need to plug into your power or anything like that. We don't use your electricity. And then we put heaters inside your house, and then we connect those heaters to our trailer that we brought to your home. That trailer will then start pumping out a ton of heat. And we've...
If you do buy secondhand furniture, I mean, secondhand, you know, textile items, fabric, then use that high heat dryer. That will save you a whole bunch of money, frustration, overwhelm, you know. And if you're ever going to buy used furniture.
What they need to do is they need to make sure... make sure if they use the same bags they honestly need to be treated again and They need to keep the items separate of what they've already treated to what they haven't run through the dryer yet. You don't want to mix those piles up.
Pets have to be gone as well. We heat the home up to 140 degrees and hold it for hours so no one and no pets would be able to survive the heat.
Say a thorough cleaning is in order. Take anything that's fabric, you know the drill, anything that's fabric, high heat dryer for at least 40 minutes.
It's an understandable reaction. And a lot of people have that same reaction. What I thought I could do is, yeah, just give you some information about how we at Bed Bug Exterminator treat bed bugs.
Great place to put those items in. Okay, to get them out of the heat treatment or on the back porch, what have you.
We do a whole home treatment. So that means we treat the whole home, even if you're having problems in just one room. The reason why we do that is because they do hitchhike, they cling on to clothing, blankets, things like that. You could be moving them around the house and don't even know, okay?
Let me reach out to our Tampa Bay tech, see if I can get someone in there over maybe even tomorrow. Okay, doubtful, but I'm going to try. So if you have to put her up in a hotel for the night, just say we're having work done on the home.
Of course you want to do that after the treatment, um, unless you want to do it before that if you want to do it before then you'd want to after you dry the the bedding you'd want to take that and put it into like a like a garbage bag or something like that and cinch it all the way up and label it bed bug bed bug free once it goes through the dryer on high heat there's no chance any bugs will be alive uh that the
The combination of heat and pesticide in a one-and-done treatment, so the home will have to be vacant for 10 to 12 hours, so we just say from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the very latest. The technician does let you know when he's finishing it up exactly when you can get back into the home. And then for preparation, I can send you over the prep checklist. But what we ask is that the home is clean and clutter-free with no piles of dirty laundry, but the clothing hanging up in the closet and dresser are totally fine to stay. We do ask that you remove combustible items, so things like aerosol cans, butane lighters, and fire extinguisher.
Deal with this. The EPA and the state health departments, they generally view pest control as a property owner's responsibility. But let me ask you a question, though, and I know that you don't want to let the owner know that there are bedbugs there.
Dresser drawers. If you have tightly packed closets full of clothes, it'll penetrate through those clothes. So, but yeah, to answer your question, if the technician sees something in a room that he thinks, well, it would be better if I just.
The inspection, yes. He can still do the inspection when he gets there, even if he's in the unit.
That's exactly what we do. If you continue, if you find more live bedbugs in your house after that treatment is done within that first 60 days.
It doesn't have to be perfect. We have done homes that have, you know, a moderate amount of clutter in it. But as long as, you know, things are in boxes and they're sort of put away, just not like chaotic, I think, you know, you understand what I'm saying.
It depends on the, well, one, we don't just treat one room. I do apologize for that, sir.
We will have the cabinets open. Now, foods that you will want to like put in the refrigerator or anything like chocolate that may melt. Okay, bread will get hard and dry. So bread can go in the fridge, but any other bagged boxed canned goods are fine to stay.
Sadly, if you brought something home from the Caribbean with you, it's going to be, unless you are incredibly lucky, it's going to be way too early to see any kind of evidence unless you come across it in your suitcase or stuck on the outside of your suitcase or in your clothing that was in the suitcase.
You've got a lot ahead of you, all right? You need to declutter your space as much as possible. Get rid of as much as possible, okay? You know, are you friends with the maintenance man there?
Every Palm Harbor job we quote and complete is logged with a date, zip and crew note. The counts and notes below come from that record — this is the real work history for the city, not a claim.
| Date | Zip | Job note | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 26 | 34684 | Senior living facility — 500 sq ft — full heat cycle | Completed |
| Jul 25 | 34685 | 1,700 sq ft — residual spray | Completed |
| Apr 7 | 34684 | Single family home — 1,600 sq ft | Completed |
| Dec 9 | 34683 | Apartment — 900 sq ft | Completed |
Older housing stock means more cracks and crevices for bed bugs to harbour in.
Driving distance from Palm Harbor. Routed by proximity — cities closer to another BBE office are served from there.
Outside these zips? Our Palm Harbor routes reach well past the city line — call anyway.
34668346833468434685
Yes. Palm Harbor is inside our service area, worked out of our Clearwater office, about a 23-minute drive away. We treat homes and businesses there, and the treatment is the same combination of Heat Assault thermal heat and a residual spray we run everywhere else.
Same-week appointments are usual. Because Palm Harbor sits roughly 23 minutes from our Clearwater office, a crew can normally be with you within a few days of the call, and the whole job is one visit rather than a course of return trips.
Treatment starts at an $1,800 minimum and is priced by the size of the home, with most homes landing between about $1,800 and $2,800. There are no per-room upcharges. We give you the exact number over the phone before anything is booked.
Almost never. Furniture is treated where it stands: heat reaches inside mattresses, frames and upholstery where a spray cannot, so it does not need to be discarded or replaced. We will tell you plainly if a piece is genuinely beyond saving.
Free phone estimate — exact price, no site visit required.
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