Bedbug Inspections Bexley

The Question Is the Rest of the House

In a family house, the first room is rarely the hard part. The hard part is knowing whether the bedroom next door, the box room, the landing and the sofa are clean, because a treatment planned for one room fails if a second room was already involved. People are poor judges of this in their own homes: some do not react to bites, and small signs are easy to miss in a room nobody is worried about.

What a professional inspection covers in general, and when one is worth paying for, is set out on our London bedbug inspections page for the full explanation. This page is about the house-wide version: every place a family sleeps or sits.

Every Bedroom, Not Just the One With Bites

We look at every bed in the house, including cots, bunk beds, a guest bed and any mattress stored upright behind a door. In each room we start at the bed and work out to the furniture and the skirting beside it. A room with no signs is recorded as clear, which is as useful to you as a room with them.

A room nobody sleeps in still gets checked. The Sidcup page explains why an empty spare room can hold them, and a loft bedroom or extension gets the same look as the rest; the Blackfen page covers those rooms.

The Landing and the Stairs

The landing is where a house’s bedrooms meet, and it is the place most households never think to look. We check the carpet edge and skirting outside each bedroom door, the airing cupboard if bedding is kept there, and anywhere laundry baskets or bags are put down on the way downstairs.

Finding signs on the landing tells us they are already moving between rooms. Finding none, with only one bedroom affected, is often the evidence that a single-room treatment will do.

The Living Room

Sofas, sofa beds and recliners get checked if anyone has slept or dozed on them since the bites started, and it is worth being honest with us about that. A parent who spent a few nights on the sofa to get away from a bitten bed is the most common reason a living room is involved. The Welling page deals with living room furniture in detail.

Before We Arrive

1. Leave the beds made and the rooms as they are. Stripping everything or hoovering the edges the day before removes what we are looking for.
2. Write down who sleeps where now, and who has moved rooms since the bites began.
3. Keep any bug you caught in a sealed jar or on sticky tape, and any photos on your phone.
4. Make sure we can reach every bedroom, including locked or teenage ones, on the day.
5. Do not use a shop spray or fogger beforehand; it scatters bugs and muddles the picture.

What You Get, and What Happens Next

You get a plain answer on the day and a written report that lists each room: signs found, or clear. That list is what the treatment is chosen from. One room affected and the rest clear usually points to chemical treatment of that room. Several bedrooms, or the landing already involved, usually points to heat across the upstairs.

Inspections start from £120. Treatments start from £220, and the figure depends on the room count the inspection gives us and whether it is heat or chemical. Ring 0800 955 1018 and you get the price on the phone before anything is booked. For the wider picture in a family home, see the Bexley bedbug control page.

If you already have a live bug in a jar and spotting on one mattress, you may not need to pay for confirmation. Tell us that on the phone and we will say so. If you are moving house rather than staying put, the question changes to what might travel with you, and the Crayford page covers that.

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