Bed bugs are miserable pests; and, they’re bad for business. When these bugs appear in your Fort Worth business, you might consider DIY bed bug treatment ideas. We understand why you might choose to go this route. It can seem like a smart financial decision. But attempting to address bed bugs on your own can actually end up costing you more.
Some business owners do this, yet it rarely has any impact at all. Bed bugs don’t just live in beds. Throwing mattresses, box springs, and bed frames out is not a guarantee that you’ll arrest a bed bug infestation. These bugs can live in other furniture items, electronics, boxes, luggage, pocketbooks, duffel bags, book bags, and more. They can also be in the structure of your property, such as behind baseboard and crown molding, or inside the walls.
Throwing furniture out has an immediate impact on your finances, but the greater cost will be the loss of a tenant, guest, or customer.
Bed bugs are no big deal, right? All you have to do is find them and spray them. Unfortunately, bed bugs live in tight spaces and voids. Not only are they difficult to find, but these areas are difficult or impossible to treat. These are not the only challenges. Here are a few more to consider:
The cost of sprays isn’t a lot of money, but if you use them and fail to get control of the bed bugs in your business, it can lead to a loss of revenue.
A bed bug infestation is no big deal, right? You can just buy some space heaters and kill them with heat… right? That’s what professionals do, isn’t it? Well, not exactly. While it is true that professionals use heat to effectively exterminate bed bugs in all stages of development, they have training, experience, and appropriate equipment. It isn’t easy to raise the temperature of a structure to a level that is sufficient to exterminate bed bugs. In best-case scenarios, the placement of space heaters will work to drive bed bugs into cold spots where they hide from the heat. But, in rare cases, improper heat treatments have led to a loss of property and a loss of human life because of fire.
The cost of a DIY heat treatment can be astronomical if it leads to property loss or a loss of human life.
We could add many more examples of what doesn’t work, but we’ve specifically provided the examples above so that we can better explain what does work.
If bed bugs are in your Fort Worth business, contact Bullseye K-9 Detection. There is no better way to get rid of bed bugs. When it comes to bed bugs, it pays to hire a professional.
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