Bedbug Heat Treatment Sutton

Two House Shapes, One Day

Much of Sutton is interwar semis and chalet bungalows, and the two are laid out quite differently. In a semi the bedrooms sit round a single landing, one after another, with the smallest often used as a study or a nursery. In a chalet bungalow some bedrooms are on the ground floor beside the living room and one or two are up in the roof, reached by a narrow stair.

Either way, the aim of a whole-house heat treatment is the same: every room where somebody sleeps is brought up to a temperature bedbugs cannot survive during one visit, and checked with the thermal camera before we leave. Treating two bedrooms this week and the third next month gives the bugs in the third room a month to walk across the landing.

How heat works, and why it deals with the eggs, is on the London heat treatment page for the full explanation. Here we stick to the house.

Deciding Which Rooms Go on the List

The quote is built on rooms, so the first job is agreeing which rooms count. The rule we use is simple: any room where somebody has slept since the bites started. That list is often longer than people expect.

• Every bedroom with a bed in use, including the one nobody has reported bites in yet.
• The small bedroom if anyone has been using it as an overflow when they could not sleep.
• The front room if a parent has been dozing on the sofa or a child has been on a sofa bed.
• A guest room that was made up for a visitor in the last few weeks.

Kitchens, bathrooms and hallways are rarely on the list. If you are not sure whether bedbugs have reached a room, an inspection answers it before you pay for heat in a room that does not need it. How they get from the first bedroom to the rest of a family house is covered on our main Sutton page.

The Semi: Working Along the Landing

In a semi the bedrooms are close together and share a landing that everyone crosses at night, which is exactly why they are best done together. The landing itself is not heated as a bedroom, but we look at the carpet edge along it and at any cupboard on it where bedding is kept.

The wall you share with the house next door is the one place heat cannot help after the day. Heat leaves nothing behind, so where a bedroom backs onto the attached house we may put a light residual along that edge. If we do, we tell you where it went and when the surfaces can be touched, and you follow that.

A child moving into the small room for the first time is a separate question with its own page: the Wallington page covers it.

The Chalet Bungalow: Both Floors Together

A chalet bungalow is the case where splitting the job is most tempting and least sensible. The downstairs bedrooms are easy to reach; the roof rooms are warmer, have sloping ceilings and usually have eaves cupboards along one side. We treat both levels in the same visit, because a household moves between them every day.

Bedrooms in the roof, and what is different about them, have their own page for Belmont. If your eaves are full of boxes that come out once a year, read our guide to stored decorations and seasonal boxes before the day.

Getting a Whole House Ready

One bedroom is an evening’s preparation. Four is a weekend, and it goes better if you split it between the adults and do it room by room with our list rather than all at once.

1. Take the heat-sensitive items out of every bedroom on the list: aerosols, candles, medication, vinyl, the electronics we name, and plants. Put them in the kitchen, not on the landing.
2. Strip each bed on the morning, bag the bedding in the room, and tie the bags before they cross the landing.
3. Leave clothes, wardrobes, beds and mattresses where they are. They are being treated in place.
4. Arrange where the family, and every pet, will be for the day. Pets are out of the treated rooms throughout, and with every bedroom being heated that usually means out of the house.
5. Keep a phone on you. We ring when the rooms are cooling, and you can move back in that evening.

What a Whole House Costs

Treatments start from £220. Heat costs more than chemical, and three or four bedrooms cost more than one, so the figure depends on the room list above. Ring 0800 955 1018 with that list and you get the price on the phone before anything is booked.

If it really is one bed in one room, found early, chemical treatment in Sutton may be all you need, and we will say so.

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