Keep sleeping where you are
It's tempting to move to another room the moment you find a bed bug, but doing so usually spreads the problem rather than escaping it. Stay in the same bed for now, and don't carry loose bedding, cushions or clothes between rooms while you work out how far things have gone.
Confirm what you're looking at
A fed bed bug is flattish, reddish-brown and roughly the size of an apple pip, and it walks rather than jumps or flies. Bites alone aren't proof, since reactions vary enormously between people, so the real evidence is the insect itself, a shed skin, or the small dark spotting it leaves along a seam or a mattress edge.
Shared houses and high tenant turnover
Because Newham has one of the fastest-changing rental populations in London, a bed bug problem in a shared or multi-let house is more often traced to a new arrival's belongings than to anything already in the building. That's worth knowing before anyone assumes the flat itself is somehow at fault.
Checking every bed in the property
Work from the mattress seams outward to the frame, the headboard and the nearest skirting board, and do this in every bedroom, not just the one where bites started. A spare bed or an unused sofa-bed is often skipped and shouldn't be.
Who to tell
Renters should tell a landlord or letting agent without delay, and check the tenancy agreement for what it says about pest problems. In a shared house, telling the other tenants early gives everyone the best chance of dealing with it before it spreads room to room.
Booking bed bug treatment in Newham
Bed bug treatment in Newham runs £220 for the first room and £120 for each additional room, and because around West Ham, where terraced streets close to West Ham Park, it is worth mentioning which rooms you have checked when you book bed bug treatment, with what a visit involves set out on the Newham bed bug treatment page.
