Bed Bug Removal Service

A single bedroom usually runs two to three hours once inspection, extraction, harborage treatment and the Aprehend barrier are all done. A whole apartment is closer to half a day. We would rather take the extra hour than miss a harborage and have you calling us back in a month.

Most jobs need one or two. The number is driven by what the interceptors show, not by a package we sold you up front. Because the Aprehend barrier stays active between visits for up to three months, follow-ups are about confirming the treatment worked rather than repeating it from scratch.

Often yes, at least partially. Bed bugs feed wherever people stay still for long periods, so living room sofas and recliners are the second most common harborage after the bed. We treat what the inspection justifies and nothing more, and we will explain why any given room is on the list.

Occasionally, if you catch a handful of insects in the first week. Beyond that it rarely works, and the common DIY tools actively make professional treatment harder. Foggers and store-bought sprays are repellent, so they scatter an infestation into wall voids and adjacent rooms instead of killing it. Almost every difficult job we take on was treated by someone at home first.

We tell you, in writing, and we tell you what treating your unit alone is likely to achieve, which is usually a temporary result. In a rental you can take that documentation to the building manager. If we are engaged by the landlord or management company, we treat the affected units together, which is the only approach that actually holds in multi-family buildings.

Someone needs to let us in and walk us through where people have been sleeping, but you do not need to stay for the whole appointment. Your technician gives you the re-entry interval before starting, in line with the product label, so you know when everyone can be back in the treated rooms.

Eggs are the reason bed bug jobs are measured in weeks. They are glued into seams and cracks and resist most products, which is why we vacuum them out physically wherever we can reach them. For the ones we cannot, the answer is the residual barrier: eggs that hatch weeks later still have to cross treated ground to reach a host.

Applications are made to structure, frames, seams and baseboards rather than to visible upholstered faces, and everything is applied to label. If you have antiques, delicate finishes or unusual fabrics, point them out at the inspection and we will plan around them or use a different approach on those pieces.

Keep the interceptors under the bed legs after we finish, because they turn a reintroduction into something you spot in week one rather than month three. Check luggage after travel and inspect secondhand furniture before it comes through the door. For buildings that keep getting hit, a quarterly Aprehend program keeps a live barrier in place year round.