Killing Bed Bugs With Heat Yourself Is Always The Way To Go
Travel is back with a vengeance and as most seasoned travelers know by now bed bugs can find you anywhere you might go.
Whether in a 5-star Hotel or Resort, Motel, Inn, Lodge, Retreat Center, Airbnb or a shared room in a youth hostel bed bugs do not discriminate.
Since 2012, when we sold our first electric hotel bed bug heater to the small Lafayette Hotel in Marietta, Ohio, our lodging customers have continued to report back to us that it was one of the best investments they have ever made. Read our customers’ thoughtful reviews here.
Bed bug infestations continue to rise worldwide as reported by almost anyone who touches this issue professionally, like hoteliers, pest control companies, facilities managers, and property managers. Bed bugs continue to develop resistance to pesticides, which actually makes matters worse since pesticide-resistant bed bugs pass this resistance on to their offspring, resulting in pesticides becoming even less effective over time.
Heat has been proven time and again to be the most straightforward, safest, and most effective method for killing bed bugs, nymphs, and eggs in one treatment, averaging 5-7 hours in an average-sized hotel room.
How long it takes for an effective heat treatment depends on room size, how cold or hot it is outside and if you have pre-heated the room using the room heater or PTAC. That means that if you start heat treating a room using a bed bug room heater first thing in the morning it can be occupied by a paying guest that night. No more lost revenue due to ‘Out of Service’ rooms, which is one of the enormous hidden costs of using pesticides that require multiple applications over weeks. What is the lost revenue math on one of your ‘Out of Service’ rooms for 3 weeks?
PestPro Thermal has taken a unique approach in engineering it’s bed bug heaters for lodging establishments. Instead of combining every power source in the room, which creates a hazardous “cord octopus,” we decided to keep things simple and zero in on just one NEMA 14-50R dedicated outlet in the hallway connected to a 50 or 60-amp breaker in your panel.
Your electric bed bug heater working in tandem with the separate high-volume convection air move, turns the room and all of its furniture into a giant "sauna of death" for bed bugs and bed bug eggs. It couldn't be simpler and without needing to spray toxic chemical pesticides, which may have long-term negative health consequences to you, your staff, and your guests.
We also feel strongly given our customer feedback that separate fans, versus built-in fans, give you much more flexibility to direct the super heated air where it needs to go, to more effectively penetrate the items where bed bugs hide. Bed bugs mostly like to hide in mattresses, box springs, side tables, headboards (should be removed from wall for maximum heat penetration) and anything else with fabric and seams.
IF YOU WANT CONTROL OF BED BUG KILLING, HAVING AN ELECTRIC BED BUG HEATER ONSITE AND READY TO GO WHEN NEEDED HAS PROVEN INVALUABLE TO HOTEL OWNERS
For those owning and managing lodging properties the advantages of owning your own bed bug heater are straight forward.
PestPro Thermal customers now consider their bed bug heat equipment like any other mission critical piece of equipment like a Speed Queen washer or dryer. It gives them the control they need to discreetly deal with an unmentionable issue in a quick, simple and cost-effective, discreet way. Owning the best bed bug heater not only allows you to deal with the situation quickly, but it will save you money in the long run, given that bed bug infestations continue to get worse and are here to stay.
Protect your reputation from negative reviews that never go away.
Protect your team members health, your guest’s health and your health from repeated indoor applications of pesticides which by design have residual presence and unknown negative health consequences.
Protect your pocketbook from endless pesticide applications.
Protect your furniture from ever needing to be pre-maturely thrown away.
There is an added benefit of heating your rooms up to 135° F, which is that dry heat kills odor-producing molds and mildews.
Electric bed bug heaters and their trusted sidekicks, the high-volume convection air movers, are used for minor flooding events so you don’t have to call in expensive and time-consuming flood remediation companies.
Call or text 970-443-8119 for meaningful answers to your intelligent questions about our bed bug heat treatment equipment
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