Bedbug Control Golden Lane

Why It Matters Which Treatment You Pick

Heat needs most of a day, and nobody can stay in a room while it is being heated. Pets have to be out too. For many households that is fine, but if the person in the bedroom cannot leave it, or needs the equipment in it, heating that room means finding somewhere else for them for the whole visit.

Chemical treatment is built differently. Each visit takes one to two hours, and you can go back into the room once the treated surfaces are dry. Because it does not reliably kill eggs, it means two and sometimes three visits, about 10 to 14 days apart. For someone who can manage a couple of hours in the kitchen or a neighbour's flat, but not a day, that is often the practical choice.

When Heat Can Still Work

Heat is not ruled out. If the flat has more than one room and only one is affected, the person can sometimes stay in another part of the home while that room is done, provided the rooms can be kept apart. If a relative or carer can take them out for the day, one visit instead of several may be easier overall. We talk it through on the phone so you can weigh up a long day once against shorter visits spread over a month. The heat treatment page for the City of London explains how a day is planned in a managed block.

What to Tell Us When You Ring

Nothing here is about judging your home in Golden Lane. It is about planning a visit that works. The more we know, the better:

• Who sleeps in the affected room and whether they can move to another room
• Medication, oxygen, dressings or powered equipment kept near the bed
• Whether a pressure mattress, riser chair or hospital-type bed is involved
• When carers visit, so we do not arrive in the middle of a care call
• Who else is in the flat, including pets

Medication and anything heat can damage must come out of a room before heat treatment. With chemical treatment you follow the instructions given on the day about when people can go back in.

Preparation When You Have Help, or None

The preparation for chemical treatment is mostly bedding and floors: strip the bed, hot-wash and bag the bedding, and clear what is on the floor so the skirtings can be reached. If that is beyond you on your own, say so. It is better to tell us what can and cannot be done than to struggle and leave the furniture half moved.

Please do not drag the mattress out of the flat to make things easier. Moving it spreads bedbugs along the corridor and into the lift. If a mattress does need to go, we will say so.

If you rent your Golden Lane flat, report the problem to your landlord in writing and mention any health or mobility needs at the same time, so that whoever arranges the treatment knows what the visit has to allow for.

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