This home was previously treated multiple times by a local company with chemicals and pesticides only a couple months earlier. This video shows that it wasn’t effective: the results speak volumes. I believe they missed at least one. This customer is now bed-bug free thanks to a successful Thermal Remediation. Heat treatments properly done will kill bed bugs and their eggs without damage to customer’s property or belongings. Again, properly done is key!
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Unlike some other insects, finding you have bed bugs is not a statement on the cleanliness of your home. Bed bugs don’t care if your home is clean or dirty or if you are rich or poor — all they want it to live around you and feed on you for dinner. Discovering you have bed bugs need not induce panic. Follow some simple tips and your experience will be more pleasant than if you ignore your bed bug problem.
Total Shield Bed Bug Treatments offers a free bug identification service. Simply text us a picture of the bug you found to 717-478-4328 and we will help you know what pesters you.
Most importantly, call a professional bed bug exterminator at the first sign of bed bugs. The sooner you contact a professional who can kill all the bed bugs and their eggs in one visit, the sooner you will be bed bug free. Next, realize bed bugs will probably be found throughout your home, so don’t throw away your mattress, bedding, or any other furniture. Thirdly, prepare for a bed bug treatment by eliminating clutter on and around furniture and throughout your home. Lastly, relax (as best you can) and know relief is on the way!
We pride ourselves in the thoroughness of our bed bug heat treatment preparation process. We have developed methods developed through our experiences that ensure that there are no places or cold spots within your home that can allow for bed bugs to evade the lethal temperatures reached during a bed bug heat treatment.
We have a number of detailed checklists that we can provide prior to our arrival, as well as a number of step-by-step procedures that our technicians will use to systematically prep and treat your space to ensure that safe, clean, effective (and most importantly, lethal!) heat reaches in and around the items in your home.
If you need help with preparing your space for a bed bug heat treatment, don’t hesitate to inquire about our reasonably-priced preparation services that can help tackle this process.
We treat every square inch of your home or building regardless of where bed bugs may be hiding. One of the reasons that we chose heat treatment as our method of killing bed bugs is its level of effectiveness. Our signature bed bug heat treatment process completely envelopes and treats every square inch of your home simultaneously—even those elusive areas that may be hiding bed bugs out of sight.
Even though you may not be able to visibly see the tiny eggs that bed bugs lay throughout your space, rest assured that our bed bug heat treatment process will permeate the entirety of the area being treated and will kill bed bugs in 100% of the infestation, even those eggs that may go unseen.
The vast majority of the customers that we treat have tried chemicals and pesticides for months or even years at a time with no success due to their inability to kill the bed bug eggs. Our bed bug heat treatment process can not only kill live bed bugs, but can also kill any bed bug eggs before they hatch.
You can rest assured, knowing that our equipment is 100% safe in its operation, and that we offer a level of treatment that is 100% effective, and one that is both 100% clean, and 100% chemical-free. Our equipment is a first of its kind in the both our electric and our propane systems are equipped with digitally-selectable temperature controls, and possess high temperature cutoff switches that allow for us to precisely dial in the exact temperature for effective treatment, without the risk of damaging heat-sensitive items.
Treat all of your possessions without unnecessarily discarding or removing them.
Our bed bug heat treatment process is unique in that it has the ability to treat all of your furniture, electronics, carpeting, and appliances safely and effectively without unnecessarily discarding or removing these items. All of our propane and electric heaters have digitally-selectable temperature controls and high temperature limit cutoff switches, ensuring that we reach the desired kill temperature for thoroughly eradicating bed bugs, with heat while ensuring that our process does not exceed the safe threshold for any sensitive electronic items, appliances, or plastic Items such vinyl flooring and blinds. Once your home is prepped according to our bed bug heat treatment preparation checklist to account for any flammable or particularly sensitive items, the remainder of your possessions can be treated in place.
We closely monitor all of our chemical-free bed bug heat treatments, adjusting furniture and adapting our approach as often as needed throughout the heat treatment to ensure that there is NO need to discard ANY of your furniture or bedding. With our signature process, we can treat all of your possessions within the safety of your home.
We once had a customer tell us a horror story about how their friends and neighbors discovered they had bed bugs: they had an exterminator show up with a big bed bug on their van! Everyone shunned them and they felt like they had the plague. We respect your situation and treat you with respect and dignity throughout the process. Our staff, vehicles, and equipment would be right at home drying out a burst pipe flood and nothing we do hints of bed bugs.
We treat your house like it is our house. We will walk through your home with you before we start and identify any items that need to be prepped better. Remember prepping is very important to ensure an effective treatment.
One of our favorite questions or concerns we get centers around our vehicles. Let us put your mind at ease by posting a couple of pictures of our van and equipment.
No company logo. No distinct license plate or markings. No giant bug on top of the roof. Very average looking van. When we do smaller jobs employees may drive an unmarked, personal vehicle.
Our technicians wear normal clothes to the job. To help with discretion, we do not wear branded clothing or uniforms. Our team is very professional in how they treat the process, but casual in how we dress as it gets pretty hot doing this work day in and day out.
The day of the chemical-free bed bug heat treatment we ask that you please turn off your air condition 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 can often be up to kill temp in the room that we place our heaters within 30-45 minutes. You read that right! We have a state-of-the-art indoor solutions that have all the safety features available. Your neighbors are not going to see some giant propane tank in the front yard or giant tubes running into your windows.
We use high powered fans to move air throughout your home. We essentially are creating a convection oven and killing the bed bugs 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 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.
While we wait for the temperatures to climb, we are actively vacuuming the bed, bed frames, couches, etc. where bed bugs may have been (and any live ones if we see them). We are also using a steamer on surfaces and areas that are appropriate.
Once we reach lethal temperature we maintain them for at least three hours (it takes 90 minutes at 122 degrees 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 were never there. It never happened and no one knew about it.
Unlike some other insects, finding you have bed bugs is not a statement on the cleanliness of your home. Bed bugs don’t care if your home is clean or dirty or if you are rich or poor — all they want it to live around you and feed on you for dinner. Discovering you have bed bugs need not induce panic. Follow some simple tips and your experience will be more pleasant than if you ignore your bed bug problem.
Total Shield Bed Bug Treatments offers a free bug identification service. Simply text us a picture of the bug you found to 717-478-4328 and we will help you know what pesters you.
Most importantly, call a professional bed bug exterminator at the first sign of bed bugs. The sooner you contact a professional who can kill all the bed bugs and their eggs in one visit, the sooner you will be bed bug free. Next, realize bed bugs will probably be found throughout your home, so don’t throw away your mattress, bedding, or any other furniture. Thirdly, prepare for a bed bug treatment by eliminating clutter on and around furniture and throughout your home. Lastly, relax (as best you can) and know relief is on the way!
Given the increasing chemical resistance of bed bugs, we have chosen 100% chemical-free, safe, clean, and effective heat as our method of choice for getting rid of bed bugs fast. We know just how challenging getting rid of bed bugs can be — we’ve had them! — and have proven time and again that our process works. Our heat technology is safe and accepted by one of the most stringent governmental pest control agencies in America: the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). The technology also has an EPA registration.
If you and your family are struggling with the challenge of bed bugs, we would love the opportunity to help you get your sleep back. Feel free to reach out to us to get rid of bed bugs today.
Call: 717-478-HEAT
Email: thehomelessbug@gmail.com
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