What a London Bed Bug Booking Buys
What you are booking is treatment of the rooms you tell us are affected, in a home anywhere in the capital. There is no separate survey fee bolted on beforehand and no charge for talking it through on the phone. If you have bites but no physical evidence yet, hold off until you have looked properly: the first signs guide shows what you are hunting for, and the London bed bug advice guide takes you through confirming it step by step. That guide is the how-to; this page is the price and the practicalities.
What Counts as a Room
Every room needing treatment counts once, and nothing else is added. A bedroom is a room. A living room becomes a room when somebody sleeps on the sofa or the sofa bed in it. A studio, where sleeping and living happen in one space, is a single room. Halls, landings, stairs, bathrooms and kitchens are not counted at all, however big the flat or however many floors the house has.
- One bedroom in a one-bedroom flat: the first-room price only
- Two bedrooms in a shared house: the first room plus one additional room
- A studio where the bed and the settee share one space: a single room
- A bedroom plus a front room whose sofa bed is slept on: two rooms
Flats, Conversions and Shared Houses
The building matters more here than the postcode. A purpose-built block, a terrace cut into three flats, a shared house with a bedroom lock on every door and a short let furnished by whoever owned it last all behave differently once bugs are inside, because the routes between rooms differ and so does the number of people who have to agree to anything. Tell us which of those you live in and we can say what to expect.
In converted houses and blocks, the gaps that carry pipes and cables between homes are the same gaps bed bugs use, and belongings carried up a communal stair do the rest. The guide on bed bugs spreading between flats sets out how that movement happens and how to raise it with the people next door.
Neighbours, Landlords and Agents
We treat the home that is booked. We cannot knock on a neighbour's door, let ourselves into a communal area or instruct a freeholder, so where a building is involved the useful step is yours: tell the landlord, agent or housing officer in writing as soon as you are fairly sure, and say plainly which rooms have signs. Where several flats in one building are affected, having them dealt with close together gives a far better result than one flat at a time, and each home is still priced on its own affected rooms.
Preparation, in Outline
Preparation is the part that is genuinely down to you, and it rests on one idea: nothing leaves an affected room unless it is sealed in a bag first. In outline that means bagging bedding and soft items inside the room, washing and drying them as hot as the care labels allow, keeping the clean laundry sealed until after the visit, and clearing the floor and the space under the bed so the edges of the room can be reached. The room preparation guide gives the full order to work in, and we will confirm what applies to your rooms when you book. Carry on sleeping in your own bed unless we tell you otherwise.
Honest Limits
Two things are worth saying before you book rather than after. The first is that an occasional bug in the period following a visit is not automatically a failure, because eggs laid beforehand can still hatch; what is normal afterwards explains how to read it, and how long the job takes covers why the timescale depends on the rooms and how far things had gone. The second is that we are not a removals or clearance service: furniture you want emptied, bagged or taken away is for you to arrange, though it is worth asking us first, because a bed or sofa often does not need to go anywhere.
Booking Bed Bug Treatment Across the Boroughs
All 33 London boroughs are covered at the same room prices, from inner-city conversions to suburban houses with a spare room nobody has slept in for a year. Brent is the borough written up in detail so far: see Bed Bug Control Brent for how a borough page works, or Pest Control Brent for every service there. If the bites turn out to be something else, flea control in London and carpet beetle control are the two that most often get mistaken for this one.
