This home was previously treated multiple times by a local company with chemicals and pesticides only a couple months earlier. This video shows that it wasn’t effective: the results speak volumes. I believe they missed at least one. This customer is now bed-bug free thanks to a successful Thermal Remediation. Heat treatments properly done will kill bed bugs and their eggs without damage to customer’s property or belongings. Again, properly done is key!
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Total Shield LLC will guide you through the simple and effective process.
If you believe that you have found bed bugs in your home then it is important to have a confirmation completed as soon as possible so that we can identify where they are and if they have spread to any other areas of your home. Please take a photo with your cell phone and text it to us at 717-478-HEAT.
We have a simple preparation checklist that explains how to prepare your home for treatment. Download our bed bug heat treatment preparation sheet here.
We help you every step of the way!
We use only the best products to treat your home. All of our products are EPA approved. Our Integrated Pest Management approach helps to ensure that the bed bugs are eliminated. We stand behind our treatments by warranting our work.
Bed bug infestations can cause major issues — don’t put your family in jeopardy!
Treat all of your possessions without unnecessarily discarding or removing them.
Our bed bug heat treatment process is unique in that it has the ability to treat all of your furniture, electronics, carpeting, and appliances safely and effectively without unnecessarily discarding or removing these items. All of our propane and electric heaters have digitally-selectable temperature controls and high temperature limit cutoff switches, ensuring that we reach the desired kill temperature for thoroughly eradicating bed bugs, with heat while ensuring that our process does not exceed the safe threshold for any sensitive electronic items, appliances, or plastic Items such vinyl flooring and blinds. Once your home is prepped according to our bed bug heat treatment preparation checklist to account for any flammable or particularly sensitive items, the remainder of your possessions can be treated in place.
We closely monitor all of our chemical-free bed bug heat treatments, adjusting furniture and adapting our approach as often as needed throughout the heat treatment to ensure that there is NO need to discard ANY of your furniture or bedding. With our signature process, we can treat all of your possessions within the safety of your home.
We once had a customer tell us a horror story about how their friends and neighbors discovered they had bed bugs: they had an exterminator show up with a big bed bug on their van! Everyone shunned them and they felt like they had the plague. We respect your situation and treat you with respect and dignity throughout the process. Our staff, vehicles, and equipment would be right at home drying out a burst pipe flood and nothing we do hints of bed bugs.
We treat your house like it is our house. We will walk through your home with you before we start and identify any items that need to be prepped better. Remember prepping is very important to ensure an effective treatment.
One of our favorite questions or concerns we get centers around our vehicles. Let us put your mind at ease by posting a couple of pictures of our van and equipment.
No big company logo. No distinct license plate or markings. No giant bug on top of the roof. Very average looking truck and trailer.
Our technicians wear normal clothes to the job. To help with discretion, we do not wear branded clothing or uniforms. Our team is very professional in how they treat the process, but casual in how we dress as it gets pretty hot doing this work day in and day out.
The night before the chemical-free bed bug heat treatment we ask that you please turn off your air conditioner and if it is winter crank your furnace heat up. This will allow for a faster treatment and get you back in your house faster.
Once the techs arrive and do an initial walk through, answering any questions you may have, they will give you our treatment forms to complete while they measure the space and go over the forms, answer any remaining questions, take payment, and begin setting up.
Our setups are usually pretty fast. In fact, we have gotten up to kill temp in the room that we initially direct heat to within 30-45 minutes. You read that right!
We use high powered fans to move air throughout your home. We essentially are creating a convection oven and killing the bed bugs and eggs with heat. We are able to blow the air around the room and into all of the nooks and crannies other treatments are not able to reach.
We also use two different types of monitoring devices to monitor the temperature of the rooms during a bed bug heat treatment. We have hand-held heat guns that we use to detect potential cold spots as well as stationary sensors that we deploy around the house and monitor.
Once we have everything set up and temperatures start to climb, we then walk back through the space and make sure everything is staged in a manner that it will receive the most airflow as possible. Often times we move and/or flip items in the middle of the treatment to get the most treatment as possible.
Once we reach lethal temperature we maintain them for at least four hours (it takes three hours at 130°F to kill eggs and we exceed both of those to ensure a proper treatment). We will be communicating with you throughout the process (as much as you want).
Near the end of the treatment we will let you know when we will be turning the equipment off. We recommend that you not re-enter your home for two hours from when we shut everything off. When we leave your house you will still be in the kill-zone and letting the heat permeate will only help the treatment.
Our goal: When we leave your house - it will be like the bed bugs were never there... like it never happened and no one knew about it.
Unlike some other insects, finding you have bed bugs is not a statement on the cleanliness of your home. Bed bugs don’t care if your home is clean or dirty or if you are rich or poor — all they want it to live around you and feed on you for dinner. Discovering you have bed bugs need not induce panic. Follow some simple tips and your experience will be more pleasant than if you ignore your bed bug problem.
Total Shield Bed Bug Treatments offers a free bug identification service. Simply text us a picture of the bug you found to 717-478-4328 and we will help you know what pesters you.
Most importantly, call a professional bed bug exterminator at the first sign of bed bugs. The sooner you contact a professional who can kill all the bed bugs and their eggs in one visit, the sooner you will be bed bug free. Next, realize bed bugs will probably be found throughout your home, so don’t throw away your mattress, bedding, or any other furniture. Thirdly, prepare for a bed bug treatment by eliminating clutter on and around furniture and throughout your home. Lastly, relax (as best you can) and know relief is on the way!
Given the increasing chemical resistance of bed bugs, we have chosen 100% chemical-free, safe, clean, and effective heat as our method of choice for getting rid of bed bugs fast. We know just how challenging getting rid of bed bugs can be — we’ve had them! — and have proven time and again that our process works. Our heat technology is safe and accepted by one of the most stringent governmental pest control agencies in America: the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). The technology also has an EPA registration.
If you and your family are struggling with the challenge of bed bugs, we would love the opportunity to help you get your sleep back. Feel free to reach out to us to get rid of bed bugs today.
Call: 717-478-HEAT
Email: thehomelessbug@gmail.com
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