Bedbug Control Raynes Park

Find Out Before Anything Leaves

If there has been any suspicion of bedbugs, settle it before the first car is loaded. An inspection starts at £120 and tells you which rooms, if any, are affected. That one answer decides what can be moved freely and what needs treating first, and it takes one argument off the table.

If the answer is no, you can divide things as planned. If it is yes, the order of events matters more than who gets which chair.

Which Items Carry the Risk

Not everything in the house is equal. The pieces most likely to carry bedbugs are the ones that sat in or near an affected bedroom:

• Beds, bed frames and headboards, especially with joints or slats
• Bedside tables and chests of drawers from the same room
• Upholstered chairs and sofas where anyone regularly slept or dozed
• Boxes, bags and suitcases stored under the bed or in the wardrobe
• Books, frames and small items kept by the bed

Clothes are easier than furniture, because a hot wash and a hot tumble-dry deal with them. Hard items such as lamps, frames and small electricals can be wiped over and checked with a torch along every seam and screw hole before they are packed. It is the large, jointed pieces from the bedroom that are hardest to check by eye, so those are the ones to hold back until the room has been treated.

Kitchen things, garden furniture and items from rooms nobody sleeps in are much lower risk. If the loft holds stored bags from an affected room, see whether bedbugs can live in the loft.

Treat, Then Divide

The simplest route is to treat the house first and split the contents afterwards. Heat treatment is usually one visit and treats furniture where it stands, which suits a household that wants to move on quickly; it costs more than chemical. Chemical treatment takes two, sometimes three visits about 10–14 days apart, so the furniture has to stay put for several weeks.

If one person has to leave before treatment can finish, they should take as little as possible from the affected rooms: clothes hot-washed, dried and sealed in new bags, and furniture from those rooms left behind until it has been treated. Arranging and paying for treatment between two people is something you will need to agree; we can only tell you what the job involves.

Children Moving Between Two Homes

Where children will spend time in both homes, their bags go back and forth every week. Until treatment is finished, keep a set of clothes and a comfort toy at each address rather than packing a bag each time, and wash whatever does travel on arrival. Check their beds in both homes for the first month.

For the first week and the decisions that come with it, the Merton page is a calmer place to start. When you ring about a home in Raynes Park, tell us the moving dates and roughly what is going where, and we will plan around them.

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