Where Should You Check for Bed Bugs Before Calling a Pest Controller in Great Shelford?

In a family home, check every bed and every place where someone dozes, not only the room where the bites were noticed. Bed bugs follow sleepers, and a household with several bedrooms, a sofa and a few children's beds gives them more places to be found than a single flat does.

Great Shelford has plenty of larger family houses, and many people commute from the village by train. Bags and coats that go on trains, into offices and onto hotel racks are one of the ordinary ways bed bugs get around. That is simply how they travel, and it says nothing about housekeeping.

Start With the Bedroom Where Bites Began

Lift the bedding and examine mattress piping, label tags and the headboard joint with a torch. You are looking for dark ink-like spots, pale shed skins, eggs and reddish-brown, oval insects about the size of an apple pip.

Then Each Other Bed

• Children's beds, including bunks and cabin beds, where slats and ladder joints are a favourite hiding place
• Spare room and any guest bed
• Cots and travel cots, checking seams and the underside of the base

Soft Furnishings People Forget

• The sofa where someone naps, along the seams and under the cushions
• Soft toys kept on beds, and the baskets they live in
• Bean bags and upholstered storage seats

Do not start bagging toys or moving cushions between rooms. Handle things where they are, so you do not carry bugs into a clear room.

What Not to Do

Resist the urge to put the whole family in one clear room. It tends to move the bugs with you. Do not throw out the mattress either, because bugs are usually in the frame and around it, not just in the mattress itself.

Getting a Clear Picture

Write down every room where you found a sign, and where in the room. A pest inspection and survey is a fixed £120 and confirms what the pest is and which rooms are involved.

For confirmed bed bugs, our Great Shelford service costs £220 for the first room and £80 for each extra room, with the total agreed up front. You can work out your own number from the cost guide. If bugs return within 14 days, we come back free.

Keep a Simple Map

In a bigger house in Great Shelford, sketch a quick plan of the bedrooms and tick off each bed as you check it, writing down what you find. With four or five sleeping places it is easy to lose track. Our inspector will find it very useful, and it reduces the chance of treating one room and missing the next, which is the usual reason jobs need repeating.

Call or WhatsApp 01223 902388 and tell us what you have found and how many beds are involved.