Bed Bug Inspection Toronto Canine Bed Bug Detection How Much Does A Bed Bug Inspection Cost?
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BED BUG INSPECTION TORONTO - CANINE BED BUG INSPECTION - MUCH DOES A BED BUG INSPECTION COST
Do you live in the Toronto area? Are you waking up with unexplained bites? Have you seen a strange bug crawling on your bed? You need a bed bug inspection!
There are essentially two ways to inspect for bed bugs...A manual inspection and a K9 bed bug inspection.
A manual inspection is simply when a technician comes into your home with a flashlight and inspects those places that bed bugs are often found. The technician is obviously looking for the actual bugs themselves but he’s also searching for signs that they’re there!
The headboard and surrounding furniture should be thoroughly checked for bed bugs and their eggs.
Now, a technician, even an experienced one, can only do so much with a flashlight. Bed bugs are very good at hiding and in the case of a newer problem it can be very difficult for even the most experienced person to find and detect them, and therein lies the problem.
If you have only a manual inspection and the problem is a new one, there is a very small chance of the bed bugs being found. By waiting until the problem has grown you have just made it significantly harder to fix!
That brings us to the second type of bed bug inspection...The K9 bed bug inspection...
That’s right... I team consisting of a handler and a specially trained dog come into your home and detect the bed bugs or eggs using scent.
The benefits of the K9 inspection over the manual kind are many!
Properly trained bed bug detection dog teams can easily find even the smallest bed bug problem. The dog is trained to alert to even just one live bed bug or one viable bed bug egg. I emphasis LIVE bug and VIABLE egg because the dog will NOT alert to dead ones... this is important in mitigating false positive alerts and, frankly wouldn’t do much good if inspecting a home post-treatment where there are dead bugs throughout. Obviously dead is good. We only want to know about live bugs or eggs.
Here’s what to look for when selecting a K9 bed bug detection team...
Only hire a NESDCA trained and certified team
Only hire a NESDCA trained and certified team
Only hire a NESDCA trained and certified team
Why? Because the industry is NOT regulated by any government agency – anywhere!
There are more than a few operators in the Toronto area that are doing K9 bed bug inspections for people that have no training whatsoever. They literally made it up as they went along – No training and No certification! Yet these unscrupulous operators are not being held to account because there is simply no oversight! That means that YOU, the consumer, must educate yourself to avoid being taken advantage of!
Now, no bed bug detection method is perfect or 100% and if anyone tries to convince you otherwise, show them the door! The K9 method conducted by a real and certified team is head and shoulders more accurate than the manual method but it’s NOT 100%!
NESDCA certified K9 teams must pass a rigorous testing regimen and only after demonstrating their ability to a third party examiner are they given their certification. In addition, these teams must pass this testing every year!
NESDCA certification is the most recognized body in the world and only the very best get to display their seal on the company website.
When hiring a K9 bed bug detection company only hire a NESDCA certified team! If they are accredited by NESDCA it will be clearly shown on the NESDCA website so make sure to check BEFORE you call them!
So using a certified team gives you the following advantages over the other methods...
It’s much more accurate than any other method of inspection
It’s more efficient in that it takes much less time to check your home with much greater accuracy and frankly it’s fund to watch.
One thing to really watch out for!!!...
Don’t go for those companies that offer free bed bug inspections. Operators who do this are notorious for nefarious practices. Now, I’m not saying they all do this but you hear over and over again about guys coming into “inspect” and miraculously find bed bugs – even though there were none there when they arrived and then offer to perform the extermination – get the drift here? A professional does not offer his time for free. By paying for the inspection you should expect an honest answer – either positive or negative .
The cost of a manual inspection should run you around two hundred bucks, for a K9 inspection somewhere between three and four hundred depending on where you live and how big your home is.
Catching a bed bug problem in the early stages is really important and by doing so can save you thousands of dollars so if you suspect that you may have bed bugs, do your research and hire someone to come in and take a look.