Bed bug heat treatment measured at the cold spots

Air temperatures are raised past 130F and held so that cores of mattresses, furniture and wall voids pass the lethal threshold for all bed bug stages, monitored by wireless sensors placed through the treatment zone. The kill is measured at the cold spots, not assumed from the thermostat.

For the heat itself, yes: every stage including eggs dies at lethal core temperature, which is the method's defining advantage over chemistry. The honest asterisk is reintroduction and shared walls, which is why heat jobs close with interceptor monitors, a follow-up inspection, and in apartments, the adjoining-unit conversation.

The prep list handles the short list of true casualties: candles, aerosols, certain medications, vinyl records, musical instruments and similar heat-sensitive items come out or get protected. Electronics, mattresses and ordinary furniture ride through the treatment fine, and the crew stages the room so air moves around everything that stays.

Equipment and hours: industrial heaters, air movers, sensor arrays and a crew on site through the full hold time. You are buying the compression of a multi-week program into one monitored day, which is exactly what heavy infestations, cluttered rooms and hard deadlines need.

Yes, treatment zones scale from one room to a whole unit. Spread is actually the case heat argues for best, because chasing a dispersed infestation chemically across sofas, closets and two bedrooms multiplies visits, while one heat day covers the lot at once.