The Process
The night before the chemical-free bed bug and termite heat treatment we ask that you please turn off your air conditioner and if it is winter crank your furnace heat up. This will allow for a faster treatment and get you back in your house faster.
Once the techs arrive and do an initial walk through, answering any questions you may have, they will give you our treatment forms to complete while they measure the space and go over the forms, answer any remaining questions, take payment, and begin setting up.
Our setups are usually pretty fast. In fact, we have gotten up to kill temp in the room that we initially direct heat to within 30-45 minutes. You read that right!
We use high powered fans to move air throughout your home. We essentially are creating a convection oven and killing the bed bugs, termites and eggs with heat. We are able to blow the air around the room and into all of the nooks and crannies other treatments are not able to reach.
We also use two different types of monitoring devices to monitor the temperature of the rooms during a bed bug and termite heat treatment. We have hand-held heat guns that we use to detect potential cold spots as well as stationary sensors that we deploy around the house and monitor.
Once we have everything set up and temperatures start to climb, we then walk back through the space and make sure everything is staged in a manner that it will receive the most airflow as possible. Often times we move and/or flip items in the middle of the treatment to get the most treatment as possible.
Once we reach lethal temperature we maintain them for at least four hours (it takes three hours at 130°F to kill eggs and we exceed both of those to ensure a proper treatment). We will be communicating with you throughout the process (as much as you want).
Near the end of the treatment we will let you know when we will be turning the equipment off. We recommend that you not re-enter your home for two hours from when we shut everything off. When we leave your house you will still be in the kill-zone and letting the heat permeate will only help the treatment.
Our goal: When we leave your house it will be like the bed bugs and termites were never there... like it never happened and no one knew about it.