Bedbug Control Tolworth

Why This Room Is Different

A converted living room is often the largest room in the house and the one nearest the front door. Every tenant passes it, coats and bags land in the hall outside it, and the old double doors or a gap under a single door leave it open to the rest of the ground floor.

It also tends to keep furniture that was never meant for a bedroom. The sofa stays, a bed goes in beside it, and the person living there ends up sleeping on one and sitting on the other. Bedbugs will use both.

Who Sorts It Out

In a shared house, who arranges and pays for treatment depends on the tenancy and on the cause. Report it to the landlord or agent in writing as soon as you find signs, with photos and the date. We are pest controllers, not legal advisers, but we can give you a written note of what we find.

It is worth telling the other tenants too, because the rooms either side and the one above are the ones to check next. Asking them to look along their own mattress seams costs nothing and shows quickly whether it is one room or a house. If the house has a shared sofa in the kitchen or a second lounge, look at that too.

Treating a Former Living Room

Heat treatment suits a room that holds both a bed and a sofa, because it reaches every life stage in the upholstery as well as the mattress in one visit. The TV, games console, any aerosols and candles and any medication come out first; we give you the full list before the day. Because heat leaves nothing behind, a light residual may be put along the skirting and door frame nearest the hallway.

Chemical treatment costs less and is usually two, sometimes three visits about 10–14 days apart. It works in a converted living room as long as the sofa can be treated properly and the floor is cleared for each visit.

What the Tenant Can Do Now

• Keep sleeping in your own bed rather than moving onto the sofa or into a friend’s room.
• Strip and hot-wash the bedding, and bag it in the room before it goes to the shared machine.
• Keep coats and bags on a hook inside your room rather than on the pile in the hall.
• Do not drag the sofa or the bed out of the room; they can be treated where they stand.

For the wider picture on shared homes in the borough, see the Kingston page.

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