Travel in luggage, hide within a few metres of where you sleep, and restart from a single missed batch of eggs.
They feed at night and spend the day hidden in seams, joints and cracks close to the bed — mattress piping, headboard fixings, bedside furniture and skirting. They do not live on people or pets; they travel in luggage, bedding and second-hand furniture.
Bites, disturbed sleep and considerable stress. Infestations spread between rooms and between neighbouring units quickly, and moving mattresses or furniture around the property spreads them faster.
Heat treatment combined with residual products, because eggs survive many chemical treatments on their own. Every life stage has to be dealt with in the same program, followed by a verification re-inspection.
Practical steps that make a repeat infestation far less likely after treatment.
Inspect luggage and unpack it away from the bedroom after travelling
Check mattress seams and the bed frame whenever you change the linen
Treat second-hand furniture and mattresses as suspect until inspected
Use a zipped mattress encasement — it traps anything already inside and makes new arrivals visible
The things people ask us most before booking this treatment.
Usually not. Heat and residual treatment reach the seams and the frame where they actually live, and a zipped encasement afterwards traps anything missed. Throwing a mattress out without treating the room just moves the problem onto the new one.
No. Bed bugs feed on blood, not food waste, and arrive in luggage, second-hand furniture or from an adjoining flat. We treat spotless homes and hotels regularly — it's a travel and proximity problem, not a hygiene one.
The programme is designed to cover every life stage in one treatment, and we re-inspect afterwards to confirm nothing has hatched since. If the re-inspection finds activity, we deal with it — that check is part of the job, not an extra.
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