Thermal Bed Bug Extermination
Serving ALL Northwest Ohio Counties

What To Do

If you know you have bed bugs you need to contact a licensed professional pest control company for a solution. Don't trust do-it-yourself products or self-treat gimics, you will waste your money. Your chances of getting rid of bed bugs improve if you use a professional company. Successful self-treatments are extremely rare, nine out of ten will typically fail, not to mention the health risk from improperly using pesticides. If you are not on identification of the bug, contact us for an inspection immediately, our state certified inspector will respond promptly. The longer you wait, the larger your bed bug population grows, the greater the risk of spreading to others homes, public venues, or your work place.

What Not To Do

What NOT to do can be as important as what to do when dealing with bed bugs. You should not move infected beds and furniture through your home for disposal, this will only scatter the infestation making treatment more difficult. Choosing the correct method of service could actually save you thousands of dollars in replacement costs for those discarded items. BUG BOMBS DON’T WORK ON BED BUGS. Here are the top five (potentially dangerous) misconceptions about pesticide use and bed bugs. (Reminder: working with a licensed pest management professional is the best way to eradicate an infestation.)

Grocery store/Hardware store insect sprays

• They will not eliminate a bed bug infestation.
• To kill bugs, the spray must come into direct contact with them.
• Since most bugs are hiding in nooks and crannies that the spray can’t reach, the majority of them will NOT be killed by the spray.
• Grocery store insect sprays have little or no residual activity (which means that they break down quickly and only last a short time.)

Boric Acid

• Boric acid products do not kill bed bugs.
• Boric acid is a stomach poison that must be eaten by the insect.
• Bed bugs only feed on blood so the boric acid is virtually ineffective.

Garden Pesticides

NEVER USE AGRICULTURAL OR GARDEN PESTICIDES INDOORS!

These products are toxic (poisonous). They can make you or your family very sick!

Bug Bombs

• Household bug bombs that are meant for flying insects will NOT kill bed bugs.
• These insecticides cause bed bugs to scatter because the spray irritates them.
• The scattering effect from bug bombs spreads the infestation to places that may have been bed bug free!

Dr. Susan Jones with The Ohio State University published a paper in June 2012 on the ineffectiveness of bug bombs on bed bugs. For the science behind the warnings, click OSU "bug bomb" button on this page.

Alcohol, Kerosene or Gasoline

Do not use rubbing alcohol, kerosene or gasoline. These chemicals are potentially very dangerous because they are flammable and may cause a fire.

Prevention

• Check secondhand furniture, beds, and couches
• Reduce clutter in your home to reduce hiding places for bed bugs.
• Vacuum frequently to remove any successful hitchhikers.
• Be vigilant when using shared laundry facilities. Transport items to be washed in plastic bags (if you have an active infestation, use a new bag for the journey home). Remove from dryer directly into bag and fold at home. (A dryer on high heat can kill bed bugs.)
• Installing door sweeps on the bottom of doors to discourage movement into hallways.
• Sealing cracks and crevices around baseboards, light sockets, etc., to discourage movement through wall voids.

Bed Bug Treatment Service

We are usually able to complete a full bed bug extermination in two to four treatments. In lighter infestations, we may be able to treat once and then simply do a follow-up visit to ensure that it was successful. For larger ones, we may require 4 or more treatments.

The problem is that, although our sprays will kill every living bed bug, the unhatched ones may survive the first spray. We schedule the second treatment 21 days after to ensure that every egg has hatched. By following the lifecycle of bed bugs, we can provide more efficient and more effective bed bug pest control treatments than the competition.

Call us now and get rid of your bed bugs for good.

The Responsive Bed Bug Exterminator

If you think you have bed bugs, there’s no time to lose. You need to act fast to slow the spread to other households or businesses. You need to call the professionals at Sleeptite Thermal Bed Bug Extermination LLC for an inspection.

We won’t leave you waiting. We respond fast so that you can get the information you need, when you need it. Because we actually need your help to contain the infestation. That’s right, before we even come for the inspection, we will give you a list of things to do first, including:

• DO NOT throw away furniture—we will clean it!
• Wash and dry all clothes, blankets, and other fabrics on high for over 20 minutes
• Place clean and dry clothes, etc., in sealed garbage bags
• Move all furnishings out from the walls
• Inspect and vacuum mattress, furniture, walls, baseboards
• Empty all shelves, cupboards, closets, nightstands
• Place all items in sealed garbage bags
• Discard vacuum bag

Following these steps will help you to stop spreading the infestation to friends and neighbors. This will also reduce the chances of getting them again after the extermination is completed.

Act fast, call us now!