Finding & Treating Bed Bugs

What to Look for

• Blood spotting on bed linen, mattresses, walls, nearby furnishings or crevices
• Dead bed bug casings
• Colonies of live bed bugs
• Live bed bugs in different life stages:
  • larger adult brown bed bugs 4 – 5 mm long
  • lighter coloured juvenile nymphs
  • cream coloured eggs (1mm long)
• Heavy infestations are accompanied by a distinctive sickly-sweet smell

Where to Look

• Bed bugs generally feed at night and seek shelter during the day in a variety of locations, mostly close to where people sleep:

Under & around mattresses, floorboards, paintings, mirrors & carpets.

• Behind bed heads & skirting boards
• Inside bed bases
• Inside wheels of bed bases
• In cracks & crevices of walls
• Within bed frames & other furniture
• Behind loose wallpaper
• Electrical fittings & appliances
• Guide tracks of closet doors
• Housekeeping carts & rooms
• Storage rooms for mattresses & furniture
• Adjoining rooms – next to, above & below an infested room

What to do

• Isolate the room
• Do not remove anything from the room
• Have room inspected & treated
• All linen, curtains & clothing should be treated as infectious, bagged & removed from the room & hot washed separately from other washing
• After treatment, floors & upholstered furniture should be vacuumed, the vacuum contents bagged & discarded & all signs of infestation removed.

Good Housekeeping Practice

• Regular regimen of vacuuming to all areas of a room, especially around skirtings and under lounges and sofas.
• Contents of the vacuum should be sealed and discarded.
• Vacuum should be confined to one location when not in use.
• Vacuums and cleaning trolleys should be confined to one floor, or to a certain section of a floor.
• A minimum of items should be brought into a room e.g. Cleaning trolleys should be left outside, used sheet and bedding should be sealed in plastic bags before being taken outside and placed in linen hoppers.
• Any crevices on cleaning trolleys should be sealed with a caulking agent.
• Clean and used linen should be kept separated and not be transported to and from rooms via the same trolleys.
• If linen contractors are used, dirty and clean linen should not be carted in the same vehicle.
• Keep clutter in a room to a minimum.

Treatment Options

D-Tec Pest Solutions offers a new non-pesticide treatment for the control of crawling insect pests.  This system called Cryonite is effective against all crawling insect pests, including stored product pests and bed bugs.  It is HACCP Approved and with the absence of pesticides, it allows for treatments that can take place without stopping production or evacuating staff.

The benefits of this treatment includes:

• Pesticide Free treatment
• Save money on reoccupancy time
• Dry Treatment no residues
• Preventative Products available
• Proven results
• No harsh smells
• Bed Bug Audits carried out
• Training Services

Kills all stages of insect life-cycle, adults, larvae, pupae and eggs. This system freezes and kills the insects with carbon dioxide snow at minus 35 degrees

Please note we can also supply bed bug and dust mite mattress protectors.

CALL NOW ON 1300 725 758 FOR YOUR FREE DEMONSTRATION AND BED BUG CHECKLIST

Case Study

(Note: Names not disclosed due to our confidentiality we have with our Clients.)

Housekeeping Manager in Brisbane Hotel - Not only the expense of treating with chemical was higher than Cryonite but the Hotel saved a week of occupancy as the room would have been unoccupied.

Houskeeping Executive in Gold Coast Hotel - Was extremely impressed with D-Tec's response to the bed bug infestation, the room was recoccupied the same day and the bed bug cover's are great to reduce a re-infestation.

Housekeeping Manager Brisbane Hotel - Is impressed with the response time and the cost saved by the Hotel in comparison to a chemical treatment. No smell from where the treatment was carried out and the room was reoccupied that evening.