Why It's Crucial to Treat an Entire Home for Bed Bugs and Not Just One Room
Once they have infested a home, bed bugs are challenging to eliminate.
Bed bugs are a common problem in both residential and commercial settings. These small, wingless, invasive insects feed on blood and have existed for thousands of years. Bed bugs cannot fly or jump but only crawl. They are primarily active at night, and at day, they hide in bed frames, mattress seams, box springs, headboards, and cracks and crevices in the floors, furniture, and walls.
Bed bugs are great hitchhikers and can enter homes by hitching a ride on clothing, bedding, luggage, boxes, or furniture from other infested areas. Once they have infested a home, bed bugs are challenging to eliminate. They can easily travel from one room to another and infest the entire house.
Signs of bed bugs in the home
Some prominent signs indicating that there is a bed bug infestation include:
Live bed bugs
Blood stains and fecal marks on the bedsheet and other hiding spots
Bed bug bites or welts on the body
A musty odor
Eggs
Exoskeletons
Why avoid spot treatment for bed bugs?
The only efficient way to treat a bed bug infestation is to hire a professional. However, not all bed bug exterminators are honest and reliable. Inexperienced or dubious bed bug control companies claim to treat bed bugs efficiently. However, they will charge a hefty amount (about $200 to $300) to treat a single room and will mislead the customers that spot-treating bed bugs will help eliminate them. This way, the homeowners lose money, and the bed bug problem remains the same.
Several people make the mistake of treating only a particular room or specific furniture pieces to save money. But, unfortunately, spot treatment of bed bugs is only a temporary solution. After entering the home, bed bugs will travel from one room to another via baseboards, blankets, and clothing. So, before a noticeable infestation, they might be all over the place.
If the bed bugs have infested the entire home, opting for spot treatment would be ineffective. Instead, the homeowner will have to spend more money treating infestations in other home areas every few days. While the treatment may eliminate bed bugs in a particular room, they will continue to live unchecked and feed on human blood.
The importance of treating the whole house if there is a bed bug infestation
A professional exterminator will never indicate that whole-house treatment is optional in eliminating bed bugs. Therefore, treating the entire house is crucial as it will destroy all the bed bugs and their eggs in different home areas. An experienced bed bug exterminator will use chemicals and other treatment methods to treat the bed bug problem from its root. The treatment may require multiple visits based on the extent of the infestation. When done correctly, the bed bugs are unlikely to survive the professional extermination process.
Get rid of bed bugs!
Consider the option that covers the whole house, even if it means spending some extra money. It will ensure protection from bed bugs for longer and prevent costly recurring issues.
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