Bedbug Heat Treatment City of London

Whose Permission the Day Depends On

The resident books us, but in a block with a managing agent, an estate office or a facilities company, it is the building that decides how and when a contractor comes in. Tell them as soon as the date is fixed. They will usually want the flat number, the date, our company name, roughly how long we will be there, and which rooms are being treated.

Some buildings ask every contractor for a risk assessment and a method statement before they will issue a pass. If yours does, say so when you ring and give us the contact, so the papers go to the building directly and you are not left relaying emails between us.

What happens inside the room once we are there, and why a single visit reaches the eggs, is set out on the London heat treatment page for the full explanation. This page stays with the building side.

Heat Detectors, Sprinklers and the Front Door

A heat detector is designed to react when a room gets hot, and a room being heated on purpose will trigger one unless somebody has planned for it. In many blocks the detectors in each flat are linked to a central panel or a monitoring company, so the resident cannot simply unscrew one and put it in a drawer. How the detector is dealt with for the day is the building’s decision, made by whoever looks after the fire system, and it is their job to put it back into service afterwards.

If the flat has sprinkler heads, mention them when you book and tell the building manager too. We talk it through before the day. If the building will not allow heat treatment in a flat with its sprinklers or detectors as they are, we say so plainly and look at chemical treatment in the City of London instead.

The flat’s entrance door is almost certainly a fire door. It stays closed through the treatment, and the heat stays inside the flat.

Getting the Equipment From the Kerb to the Flat

Heat means cased machines, fans and cables, and more than one trip from the van. Ask the building a few questions ahead of time, so the start of the day is not spent in the lobby:

• Where may a contractor’s van stop to unload, and for how long?
• Is there a goods or service lift, and does it need booking for the arrival and again at the end of the day?
• Do contractors sign in at a desk, and does the desk need our names in advance?
• Can the front desk hold a key if you are not going to be there when we arrive?

Tell us the floor, whether there is a lift, and how many rooms are affected. We plan the kit and the arrival time around that rather than turning up and finding out.

Out of the Flat for the Day

Heat takes most of a day, and the flat is not somewhere to sit while it runs. Take out the heat-sensitive items on the list we send, get any pets out, and make other plans until we ring to say the rooms have cooled. You sleep at home that night.

If leaving for a whole day is the problem, because of your health, your mobility or someone you care for, the Golden Lane page deals with that. If the flat is a weekday base that sits empty at weekends, the Moorgate page explains how that changes the timing.

The Walls You Share

Heat kills what is in the treated rooms and leaves nothing behind once they cool. In a block, where the flat meets other flats through pipes, risers and party walls, we may put a light residual along the room edges afterwards. If we do, we tell you where it went and when it can be touched.

Dealing with the estate office, the neighbours and the shared corridors when one flat among many is affected has its own page: the Barbican page. Buildings converted from offices, with sealed windows and central ventilation, are covered on the Smithfield page.

The Price for a City Flat

Treatments start from £220. Heat costs more than chemical, because of the equipment and the day on site, and the figure rises with the number of rooms. Ring 0800 955 1018 with the room count and the building’s arrangements and you get the price on the phone before anything is booked. If you are not sure it is bedbugs, inspections start from £120. For the wider picture, see the City of London bedbug control page.

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