Yes you can certainly kill bed bugs with heat since they cannot stand a certain temperature above 45 Degrees Celsius. This is a popular method to combat cockroaches that have been proven quite successful. With the exclusion of chemicals, this is also an all-natural and environmental-friendly method. Bed bugs are often seen as pesky insects that nobody seems to get rid of with ease, but luckily there has been a success with heat treatments. What a heat treatment entails, in general, is that we use the heat to target the bed bug directly without needing any kind of chemical formulation. This method works best on isolated clothing, sheets, linen, and or bed covers that can be easily put in a black garbage bag.
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To start your heat treatment, it is important that the sun shines. This might sound a bit silly, but in order to have this method work properly, we need the sun. To start you have to sort and separate the infested clothes from untouched clothes. Once you have done that it is very important that no bed bug can escape and infest your untouched clothes. Make sure to double bag and to seal the [plastic bag as tight as possible. Next, what you want to do is literally let the bag soak up the sunlight as the black bag is black, an absorbent color it will increase the heat that is emitted from the sun. It is best to leave the bag for a few hours till the next day to ensure that no other bed bugs are alive when you are ready to take the bag back home. Another more practical method is to use the washing machine by putting the washing machine temperature on its highest setting. Enough to kill the bed bugs and to keep the clothes intact. The key here is not to drown the bed bug, but to kill it.
The third option requires some financial investment and some pre-existing knowledge on how to handle a steamer. Steamers are expensive tools that can be proven effective when used properly and safely. Eradicating bed bugs with steam is highly effective, but it Is best left to the professionals who know everything about bed bug eradication. Steamers can be highly dangerous due to the extreme heat that is released from the equipment. Steamers work best on flat services that have a carpet. Bed bugs are incredibly sneaky and resilient animals and take any crack, crevice, and hole as their cover. Due to the dangers involved with operating a steam cleaner, it is best left to the licensed pest control technicians from Exterminator Cambridge. These individuals are accredited, experienced, and skilled to deal with any type of infestation possible no matter how bad. You can be assured that they will get all the bed bugs out! Call us now for an appointment or to speak to one of our licensed technicians.