Bedbugs do not go away on their own and they do not stay in one room. We treat them across all 33 London boroughs — in flats and houses, in hotels and serviced apartments, and in the kind of building where the neighbours must not notice anyone came.
Heat treatment takes the whole room past the temperature bedbugs survive and finishes the job in one visit, eggs included. Chemical treatment costs less and works in stages. Both are explained in full below, side by side, so you can see the difference before you ring.
Every bedbug job goes one of two ways. They are not the same price, they do not take the same time, and they do not ask the same things of you. Here is what each one actually involves.
A residual insecticide is worked into the places bedbugs actually live — mattress seams and piping, bed frame joints, behind the headboard, along skirtings and into furniture. It kills the bugs that are there and keeps working as the ones you cannot see walk over it.
What it does not do is kill the eggs. That is not a shortcoming to hide, it is simply how the products work, and it is why a chemical treatment is a course rather than a single appointment: we come back about ten days to a fortnight later, once the eggs have hatched and the young bedbugs are out on the treated surfaces.
The room itself becomes the treatment. Heaters and circulation fans bring the whole space — air, mattress, frame, carpet, the gap behind the skirting — up past the temperature bedbugs can survive, and hold it there. A thermal camera is used throughout, because the job is not finished when the room feels hot, it is finished when the cold spots have come up too.
Because heat reaches everything at once it kills every life stage in the same pass, eggs included. That is the whole reason it usually only needs one visit, and why it is the sensible answer when bedbugs have spread beyond one room or when a hotel room has to go back into use.
Neither one is better in the abstract. They suit different problems, and the honest answer depends on how far it has spread, how fast you need the room back, and what you want to spend.
| Chemical treatment | Heat treatment | |
|---|---|---|
| How it works | A residual insecticide is worked into the places they harbour — mattress seams, bed frames, headboards, skirtings and furniture joints. | The whole room is raised to a temperature bedbugs cannot survive and held there, monitored on a thermal camera until the cold spots come up too. |
| Does it kill the eggs? | Not reliably. Most products do not penetrate the egg, which is why a follow-up visit is part of the job rather than a sign something went wrong. | Yes — heat reaches every life stage at once, eggs included, which is what lets it finish in a single visit. |
| Visits needed | Usually two, sometimes three, about 10–14 days apart so the newly hatched ones meet the residue. | Usually one. |
| Time on site | One to two hours a visit. | Most of a day, depending on the size of the room and how long the cold spots take to come up. |
| Back in the room | A few hours, once the treated surfaces are dry. | The same day, once it has cooled. |
| What you do beforehand | Strip and hot-wash bedding, bag it, clear clutter from the floor and leave the furniture where it is so we can treat behind it. | Take out anything heat will damage — aerosols, candles, medication, vinyl, some electronics. We give you the list before the day. |
| Chemical left in the room | Yes. A residue is the point — it keeps working after we leave. | None, or a light residual at the edges if the spread warrants it. |
| Suits | A single room, a contained problem, or where cost is the deciding factor. | Heavy or spread-out infestations, hotels and lettings that need the room back, and anyone who would rather it was dealt with in one go. |
| Cost | The lower of the two. Treatments start at £220. | More, because of the equipment and the day on site. Quoted on the room count when you ring. |
Not sure which you need? Ring 0800 955 1018 and describe the room. It is a two-minute conversation and it is free.
If it is one bedroom, caught early, and nothing has been dragged around the flat, chemical treatment is usually the proportionate answer and we will say so rather than sell you the bigger job.
If it has reached a second room, if the bed has already been moved, if it is a hotel room losing money every night it stays shut, or if there have been previous treatments that did not hold, heat is what we will point you at.
Treatments from £220Homes, hotels, serviced apartments, student halls and commercial buildings, on the same two treatment routes.
The whole room taken up to a lethal temperature and held there. Kills every life stage, eggs included, usually in a single visit.
Bedbug Heat Treatment London →Residual insecticide worked into the seams, frames and skirtings where they harbour, with follow-up visits as the eggs hatch.
Bedbug Chemical Treatment London →
Discreet, unmarked and worked round your occupancy, so a room is back in service the same day wherever possible.
Hotel Bedbug Treatment London →
Serviced apartments, student halls, care homes, HMOs and offices, with the paperwork your management company will ask for.
Commercial Bedbug Treatment →
Not sure it is bedbugs? An inspection confirms it, finds how far it has spread and tells you which treatment the room actually needs.
Bedbug Inspections London →Bites on their own prove nothing — people react very differently and some do not react at all. These are the things that do confirm it.
Send us a photograph on WhatsApp if you are not sure. It is usually obvious from a picture of the seam.
Bedbug treatments start at £220. Where a particular job lands above that depends on three things and nothing else: how many rooms are involved, whether you go chemical or heat, and how far it has already spread through the property.
You get the figure on the phone, before anything is booked. We would rather quote you honestly and lose the job than turn up and revise it on the doorstep, which is the single most common complaint people have about the trade.
All 33 boroughs, on the same treatments and the same prices. The individual borough pages are being written now — until they are live, ring or use the form and tell us where you are.
From the centre out to the edge of the M25, north and south of the river.
Treatments start at £220. The final figure depends on how many rooms are involved and whether you go for chemical or heat, and you get it on the phone before anyone is booked in.
Neither is better in the abstract. Heat finishes it in one visit and kills the eggs, which matters when the problem has spread or when a room has to go back into use. Chemical costs less and works well on a single contained room, as long as you are willing to have us back for the follow-up. We will tell you which one your situation actually calls for.
Usually not. A mattress can be treated, and throwing one out before treatment often makes things worse — dragging it through the flat spreads them, and the new one gets infested by whatever is left in the frame and the skirting.
Most household contents are fine. Aerosols, candles, medication, vinyl records and some electronics are not, and we give you the list to remove before the day.
Yes. Unmarked arrival matters to hotels and to anyone in a block of flats, and it is how we work by default rather than something you have to ask for.
Ring 0800 955 1018 and we will tell you the first slot we actually have rather than a headline response time. Bedbugs get worse week on week, so the sooner it is looked at the smaller the job.
We cover all 33 London boroughs. The individual borough pages are being written now; until they are live, ring or use the form and say where you are.
The more you can say about where you have seen them and how long it has been going on, the closer the quote will be.
