Itchy welts each morning and small dark specks on your sheets are enough to keep any homeowner up at night, especially once you catch something moving near the mattress. Birmingham’s warm season keeps these pests active, and a few hitchhikers can turn into a room-to-room problem fast.
Red Mountain Pest & Termite delivers bed bug treatment shaped around your home, with licensed technicians who track down every hiding spot before a single room gets treated. Reach out today and we’ll set your inspection for this week.
What Professional Bed Bug Treatment Involves
Bed bugs rarely stay on the bed. They tuck into seams, wood joints, and wall cracks near where you sleep, which makes reaching every one the hard part of any treatment. Our technicians begin with a full walkthrough, mapping active rooms and every likely harborage before treatment starts.
Heat treatment then raises the room to a temperature lethal to bed bugs at every life stage, eggs included.
Once we find where bed bugs are hiding, we treat the room and its harborages, then return for a follow-up to confirm nothing survived.
Birmingham’s Bed Bug Control FAQs
Adult bed bugs are roughly the size of an apple seed, flat and oval, with a reddish-brown shell that darkens and rounds out after feeding. Young nymphs look the same but smaller and paler, sometimes nearly translucent, before their first meal. Eggs are tiny, pearl-white, and easy to miss without a close look. You’ll most often spot them in mattress seams or along the bed frame, where our technicians know to look first.
Start with the bed. Strip the sheets and inspect the mattress seams, box spring, and frame for live bugs, shed skins, dark fecal spots, or small blood smears. Check the headboard, nearby nightstands, and baseboards next, using a flashlight for the cracks. If you find signs in more than one spot, the population has likely grown, and a professional inspection will map how far it reaches.
The earliest sign is usually a bed bug bite: small, itchy welts that show up in a line or cluster after you sleep, often on exposed skin. Watch for tiny dark spots on the sheets and pale shed skins tucked in the mattress seams. A faint musty smell can appear once an infestation grows heavy. Catching these signs early keeps treatment simpler, since the bugs haven’t spread through the rest of the home yet.
A trained bed bug exterminator inspects the home, then applies heat treatment to raise each room to a temperature that kills every life stage at once. Targeted follow-up handles any stragglers. DIY steps like laundering bedding on high heat can help, though they seldom clear an established infestation without professional treatment behind them. Professional bed bug control works best because heat treatment, unlike store-bought sprays, actually reaches eggs and deep harborage.
Bed bug treatment is priced to your home, since no two infestations are the same. The cost depends on the size of your home, how many rooms are affected, and how far the infestation has spread. We treat with heat, raising the space to a temperature that bed bugs can’t survive, which reaches the cracks and seams that sprays miss. Tell us what you’re seeing, and we’ll inspect, then give you a clear price before any treatment begins.
Keep Your Home Protected All Year
Once we’ve cleared the bed bugs, the recurring pests that test your peace of mind are what our pest control plans keep in check year-round. Choose an individual plan for the coverage you need, or step up to one of our 365 Pest Bundles, which pair recurring pest control with termite service, mosquito service, or both. You’ll have the same team every visit, with billing handled automatically.
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Red Mountain treats bed bugs for homeowners across Birmingham, Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, and the rest of the over-the-mountain communities. Get in touch and a real person will call you back to answer any questions and give you a clear timeline.