Bed Bug Treatment Melbourne|Same Day Bed Bug Control

Our chemical treatment starts from $349 per room including the follow-up visit, with each additional room from $249. Heat treatment is from $990 per room and kills every life stage in one application. Melbourne rates run $300-600 per bedroom for chemical and $800-1,500 for heat – always check whether the follow-up is included, because a chemical treatment without one is unfinished.

Usually not, and carrying it out is how a one-room problem becomes a three-room one. Bed bugs live around the bed as much as in it – frame joints, slats, bedhead, skirting and power points – so a new mattress in an untreated room simply gets infested. We will tell you honestly if a mattress is genuinely beyond saving.

Because eggs are not reliably killed by residual products, and they hatch 7 to 14 days later. The second visit lands after that hatch and kills the new generation before it can breed. Heat treatment is the exception – holding the room at 55-60C kills all stages including eggs in one go.

Heat is faster and finishes in one application, which suits hotels, share houses and anyone who cannot be out of the room twice. Chemical costs less and leaves a residual that keeps working, but needs the follow-up. For most Melbourne homes chemical is the sensible choice; for a heavily infested single room on a deadline, heat earns its price.

Luggage and second-hand furniture, overwhelmingly. They hitchhike home from hotels, hostels, planes and other people’s houses, or arrive in a bed frame or couch bought in good faith. It has nothing to do with how clean your home is – five-star hotels deal with them constantly.

We send written instructions when you book. In short: strip the bedding and wash it hot then tumble dry, clear the floor around the bed, empty the bedside drawers, and do not move items to another room – that is exactly how it spreads. Do not spray anything yourself first.

They are not known to transmit disease. The real harm is the itching, the broken sleep and the stress, plus the risk of secondary infection from scratching. Reactions vary hugely – one person can be covered in welts while their partner in the same bed shows nothing.

After chemical treatment you can usually return once surfaces are dry, typically a few hours, and we will tell you exactly what needs to dry. Heat treatment requires the room to be vacated for the day. Either way you can sleep in the bed that night – staying out of the room actually makes it worse, because the bugs disperse to find you.

Yes, and we will tell you plainly when adjoining rooms need doing too. Bed bugs travel through wall cavities and service risers, so treating one room in a block while the neighbouring one is untouched often will not hold.

Yes – written confirmation of the inspection, the treatment and the follow-up, which is what agents and landlords ask for. We can also attend without branded vehicles or uniforms if you would rather the building did not know.