Hotel Bedbug Treatment Merton

Before the Championships: Checking the Rooms

The quiet weeks beforehand are the time to find anything that is already there. A booked-out fortnight is a poor moment to discover a room with old spotting on the headboard. We can inspect rooms ahead of the busy period, and inspections start from £120; inspections in Merton sets out what that involves.

Alongside that, it is worth giving housekeeping a refresher. Staff who strip beds every day are the people most likely to spot the first sign, provided they know what spotting on a seam or a cast skin in a headboard joint looks like and whom to tell.

• Walk each room with the head of housekeeping and agree who records a sighting and where.
• Check headboards that are fixed to the wall, since they are seldom moved during normal cleaning.
• Look at luggage racks and the chairs guests drop bags on, as well as the bed.
• Make sure a room can be taken out of sale quickly, and that everybody on shift knows how.

A Report in the Middle of a Full Week

If a guest reports bites or a bug while you are full, the aim is to keep one room from becoming several. Move the guest to another room with only freshly laundered belongings where you can, bag their clothing for washing, and close the reported room. Do not have housekeeping strip it and carry the bedding through the corridor unbagged.

1. Take the room out of sale and keep the door shut.
2. Keep any bug the guest has found, in a sealed bag or container, for us to see.
3. Note the neighbouring rooms, including above and below, and hold them if you can.
4. Ring 0800 955 1018 with the room numbers and how many beds are involved.

Reception staff often take the first report, sometimes late in the evening. Give them a short written note of these steps so the response does not depend on who is on shift, and ask them to log the time, the room and what the guest described. A calm, practical reply at the desk usually matters more to the guest than anything said later.

We then agree with you which rooms to inspect and when, so that the work fits around arrivals and departures. The London hotel bedbug treatment page gives the full explanation of how we handle rooms in a working hotel.

Getting the Room Back Into Use

During a busy period the question is usually how soon a room can be sold again. Heat usually treats a room in one visit, taking most of a day, and the room is back once it has cooled. Chemical treatment is quicker on the day, but needs a second and sometimes a third visit about ten to fourteen days apart. Which suits depends on the room, what is found next door and how full you are. The heat treatment page for Merton and the chemical treatment page cover each route.

Short Lets and Rooms in Private Houses

Plenty of Merton homes are let out for the championships, whole or a room at a time. A host has no housekeeping team, so the checks fall on you, between guests.

• At each changeover, lift the mattress and look along the seams and the base before you make the bed.
• Keep the guest luggage stand away from the bed and off upholstered chairs.
• Give the room a proper look the day after the last guest leaves, before your own family uses it again.
• If you let a room in the house you live in, remember your own bedroom is along the same landing.

If you find signs after guests have gone, do not start throwing out the bed. Ring us first; the Merton bedbug control page covers the first few days calmly.

How Hotel Work Is Priced

Hotel and short-let work is quoted on the rooms involved, which usually includes rooms next to the one that was reported. Treatments start from £220 and inspections from £120. We give you the figure on the phone before anything is booked, and can arrange work around your arrivals.

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