Find dark skin flakes and brownish-black droppings in your bed? This indicates bedbugs. In addition, you probably suffer from bites that lead to itching and swelling. On this page you will find information on the costs of bedbug control, read more about pesticides and find tips on how to save money.
What are the costs of bedbug control?
The costs of bedbug control are on average between £ 300 and £ 1,500, depending on the number of bedbugs and the spread through the house. Bedbugs suck themselves full of blood after being bitten in humans or pets. After feeding, the bedbug turns dark red. After this, the tiny animal retreats to its hiding place. Check out the average cost below.
| Type of bedbug control | Average costs (incl. inspection, pesticides, call-out charges and VAT). |
|---|---|
| Per room | £ 300 – £ 500 |
| Per floor | £ 750 – £ 1,500 |
| Per house | £ 3,500 – £ 6.000 |
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What are bedbugs?
Bed bugs are small insects that live off the blood of humans and animals. They have six legs and a flat oval body. Their colour can range from white to reddish-brown and they are about 6 mm in size. Bedbugs like to lurk in skirting boards of your bedroom, the casing of beds and edges of mattresses. They prefer to stay in bedrooms. They like heat and exhaled air and dark places. They are mainly active in the evening and at night. They spread easily through cracks, seams and pipes to other bedrooms, but they also get into other environments through luggage.
You can be bitten by bedbugs if you sleep somewhere where they are present. Their flat and small bodies allow them to hide well. When you suffer from bedbugs, you have small bite marks that can itch for days. After a few weeks, they disappear and leave no scars.
To get rid of bedbugs as soon as possible, you can hire a professional pest control specialist. Pest control does cost, but fighting bedbugs yourself is very difficult. This is because bedbugs can become insensitive to the pesticides you can buy yourself.
Price examples of bed bug control
Check out the price examples below to get a better idea of bed bug control costs. Curious about the exact prices for your situation? Then request free and no-obligation pest quotes.
Costliest bedbug control
In the cheapest situation, the bedbugs are located in one bedroom and have not yet spread to other rooms on the same floor. Control costs in this situation average £300.
Most common bedbug control
The bedbugs reproduce incredibly quickly. They often spread to several bedrooms on a floor. The average control costs in this situation are around £750 and £900.
Comprehensive bedbug control
Have you not controlled the bedbugs immediately after discovery? Then an infestation has developed and they are throughout the house. In this situation, the average control costs come down to £3,500 to £6,000.
Price structure of bedbug control
Tips for bedbug control
Do you suffer from bedbugs? It is advisable to hire a professional to fight all bedbugs. A bed bug lives for one year on average and lays up to 150 eggs. Try the following tips to stop expansion as soon as possible, before the specialist has to come by.
| Tips for bedbugs | The action |
|---|---|
| Don’t move stuff | The bedbugs hide in many items in the bedroom. Moving things to another room will spread the bedbugs further across the floor. |
| 2. Wash clothes at 60°C or take them to the dry cleaners | Heat kills the bedbugs. |
| 3. Provide plenty of light | Bed bugs hate light and prefer to move to their dark hiding place immediately after their food intake. |
Pesticides for bedbugs
Bedbugs feed on blood, but can go up to 6 months without it. So it is important to control the pest completely. See the chart below for the different pesticides.
| Type of bedbug control agent | The action |
|---|---|
| Bedbug spray | This is often the first pesticide people buy to control bedbugs themselves. It is a temporary solution and kills the bedbugs in the spots where it is sprayed. It often happens that not all the spots are dealt with, causing the bedbugs to return. |
| Bed bug tracking dog and poison | The dogs are trained to find bedbugs in the house, even if they are only a few. Because of the tracking dog, the specialist knows how to find the specific location, which makes it easy to spread poison in the right place. The poison is thus used efficiently and effectively. |
| Hot the whole house | Bed bugs consist mainly of proteins. Heat coagulates vital proteins and hence the bedbugs and their eggs die out. This is the most expensive method of bedbug control. Therefore, this form of control is the least frequently used. |
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