Prep for a heat treatment is one laundry basket and a list we send — the week of bagging and boiling that older companies demanded is the method we replaced. Re-entry the same evening: (555) 035-1276.
What we do
Three treatments, honestly ranked
Whole-unit heat — the one we lead with
Hydronic and electric heaters bring the unit past 55°C everywhere at once and sensors hold it there for three hours — lethal to every stage of the bed bug, egg included, which is precisely what most chemistry cannot promise. No residue on a single surface, no mattress thrown out, re-entry the same evening. The unit is the patient, and the whole patient gets treated.
Canine verification — the proof is a nose
Three weeks after any treatment, a certified detection team walks the unit and tells you what no human eye can: nothing, or exactly where the survivors are hiding. A dog’s nose finds live bed bugs and viable eggs behind outlet plates and inside box-spring seams — and a clean canine walk is the certificate that lets a landlord, a tenant and a lawyer all sleep.
Targeted residual — the honest fallback
Some buildings cannot take whole-unit heat — a unit with heat-sensitive contents, an annex with no power headroom. There we place a residual program with real limits stated up front: crack-and-crevice applications, encasements on the bed, monitors at the legs, and follow-ups on a schedule the insect’s life cycle sets. Fewer than one job in five, and never sold as what it is not.
Chemistry has to find every insect. Heat only has to find the room.
An egg survives most treatments and hatches into a re-infestation somebody else gets blamed for. Holding temperature is how a job ends instead of pauses.
The dog’s walk at day twenty-one is the certificate. Until then, we are promising physics — which is a good bet, but not proof.
How it goes
A heat day, hour by hour
The same sequence on every job — the only variable is your project.
Before
The one-basket prep
A short list arrives by email: the laundry basket of truly heat-fragile things out, medications out, one towel per person out. Everything else stays — the furniture, the books, the electronics. The bag-everything era was a different method wearing a worse week.
Hour 0
Sensors placed
Wireless probes into the mattress seams, the box spring, the headboard void, behind the outlet plates and the sofa’s dust cover — the cold spots where bugs survive careless treatments become the readings that govern ours.
Hours 1–2
The climb
Heaters and fans raise the unit past 45°C and on toward the high fifties, air kept moving so no thermal refuge survives behind a dresser or inside a wall cavity. The graph climbs on the monitor where anybody watching can see it.
Hours 3–5
The hold
Every sensor above lethal temperature, held — because an egg at 48°C for ten minutes is a survivor with a schedule, and the hold is what separates a treatment from an inconvenience.
Cool & verify
Re-entry, then the dog
Windows open, the unit cools through the evening, beds are made in the usual way. At day twenty-one the canine team walks the rooms and the certificate — live scent or none — is emailed before they leave the building.
The rail district, 2025 — 2026
Units that went back to being rooms
Six files from last season, closed on a canine walk — the sensitive part of every bed bug story told with the addresses removed.
The company, in figures
We spent five months and three spray appointments on a problem that turned out to be hiding in the box spring the whole time. Whiteheat ran the graph past 60 degrees, held it for an afternoon, and the dog at day twenty-one walked the bedroom like it was furniture. My daughter slept in her own bed that night for the first time since spring — I am not ashamed to say I watched the sensor readout like television.
Fair questions
Asked quietly, answered plainly
The five that come up on every first call — usually in a lowered voice, which is exactly why the answers are on a public page.
Is a heat treatment safe for my electronics and my piano?
Almost always yes — the lethal band for the insect sits below the harm band for the contents, and the prep list names the exceptions: aerosols, candles, stringed instruments we detune and shelter, wine we take to the hallway. The sensors sit beside the sensitive things as well as the hidden ones, so nothing is trusted to luck.
Why three weeks before the dog comes back?
Because eggs are the confounder of this trade — a viable egg at treatment time hatches inside three weeks, and no nose on earth reliably finds an intact egg at day zero. The canine walk at day twenty-one is timed so anything that survived physics has had every chance to become a scent a dog can find. It is the difference between hoping and knowing.
Do I have to throw out my mattress?
Almost never, and we will tell you the rare exception when we see it. The mattress and box spring take probes at the seams and reach killing temperature like everything else in the room; an encasement goes on after as insurance and record. Furniture on the curb is a folk remedy that spreads the problem to the neighbours and buys nothing.
The building next door has them. Will they come back?
Re-introduction is a real risk and we will not pretend otherwise — heat clears your unit completely and says nothing about the wall you share. For attached housing we treat the question as a building question: adjacent units surveyed, landlords engaged, and the canine calendar standing by. A single unit in a shared wall is one act of a play that runs longer.
What does it cost?
Priced by the unit, not the room — studio flats from $780, family units by the square foot at $1.40, verification walk included, because a treatment without the proof is a treatment without an end. The quote is fixed before the heaters roll, and a re-treat inside sixty days for live activity the dog finds is on us.
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Book the heat
What you are seeing, where, and for how long — a photo of a specimen is worth a page of description. Unmarked van by default, the quote fixed before the heaters roll, and the dog comes back on day twenty-one whoever you are. heat@whiteheat.example