Bedbug Heat Treatment Enfield

Why We Quote for the Floor, Not the Bed

In a typical house of this age, the front bedroom, the back bedroom and the box room all open onto a landing a couple of paces across. Children wander between them at night, a parent ends up in the small bed after a bad dream, and the airing cupboard holds the spare bedding for all three rooms. Bedbugs follow the people and the linen, so a single treated room with an untreated one next door is a poor bet.

That is why, when signs turn up in more than one room, we usually price the upstairs as a whole. If the evidence really is confined to one bed and the household can manage a course of visits, the chemical treatment page for Enfield may suit you better. How the equipment works and why it reaches the eggs is on the London heat treatment page, for the full explanation.

Who Has the Children for the Day

Heat takes most of a day, and nobody should be in the treated rooms while it runs. With children in the house, the first thing to settle is where they will be from the morning until the rooms have cooled. A school or nursery day covers most of it. For younger children, or a treatment in the holidays, a relative or friend usually steps in.

Whoever has them, keep what travels to a minimum. Dress the children in clothes fresh from the washing machine or tumble dryer, and pack a small bag the same way rather than grabbing things from their bedroom floor. If grandparents or another parent will be looking after them, the Southgate page explains how to stop bedbugs moving between the two homes.

• Tell the carer roughly when you expect to collect, and that we ring when the rooms are cooling.
• Pack snacks, medicine and a spare change of clothes, all from clean laundry, not the bedroom.
• Leave favourite soft toys in the bedroom to be treated; a washed one can go in the bag instead.
• If the pushchair or car seat has been upstairs, read about baby gear before you use it for the day.

The Box Room and the Nursery

The smallest bedroom in these houses is often a baby’s room, a study or a place to store things, and each brings its own clear-out before the day. We send a list, but these are the items parents most often forget in a small room:

• Baby medicines and creams: teething gel, nappy cream, children’s paracetamol in a changing unit drawer.
• Monitors and night lights: anything with a battery or a screen. We tell you which electronics must come out.
• Aerosols: baby wipes do not count, but spray starch, air freshener and deodorant do.
• Candles, wax and crayons, and any plants on the windowsill.
• Stored boxes: if the box room is half storage, tell us what is in the boxes rather than carrying them downstairs.

The cot, the mattress, the wardrobe and the clothes in it all stay. They are where the bedbugs are, and moving them through the house is how a downstairs room gets involved.

Downstairs While the Upstairs Is Heated

The ground floor of the house is not normally part of a heat treatment unless it has signs of its own. We tell you on the phone which parts of the house need to be empty and whether anyone can stay in, but a full day beneath a sealed upstairs, with machines running and the stairs out of bounds, is not much fun. Most parents go to work or go out.

Dogs and cats have to be out of the treated rooms throughout, and in practice that usually means out of the house. A hamster or a fish tank upstairs needs discussing when you book.

Bedtime That Evening

Once the rooms have cooled, the family can sleep upstairs that night. Put back what came out, make the beds with washed bedding, and let everyone sleep in their own room. If we have put a light residual at the edges, for instance along a party wall, we tell you where and when it can be touched; follow that. For what the following weeks should look like, read signs bedbug treatment has worked.

What a House Costs

Treatments start from £220. Heat costs more than chemical, and three bedrooms cost more than one. Ring 0800 955 1018 with the number of rooms upstairs and where you have seen signs, and you get the figure before anything is booked. The Enfield bedbug control page covers the wider household picture.

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