Tips For Controlling Bedbugs In A Media Rental Business

If a customer finds bedbugs in a rental item, it could spell disaster for your business. Knowing how to control any pest that comes your way is instrumental in maintaining the care and trust your customers expect.

Have A Plan Of Action

If you find an item with bedbugs on it, do you have a company policy? Many businesses don't and it can allow bedbugs to travel to your customer's homes and lead to their displeasure with your business. A basic plan of action for bedbugs involves:

• Prevention: Preventing means inspecting for bedbugs as each item returns. For video games and movies, bedbugs can hide beneath the media jacket, under the disc, or be pressed into corners.
• Regular Inspections: Schedule inspections as needed to make sure bedbugs haven't taken hold in your business.
• Contacting Affected Customers: Depending on your business needs, you may want to contact customers that brought the items with bedbugs back to your business. This is so you can request they return any items directly to you and bagged so they don't come into contact with your other products.

Bug Sniffing Dogs

It may seem out there, but there are dogs trained to search specifically for bedbugs. It's best to schedule regular searches depending on your business's need. The dog and their handler will come in and search the designated area and the dog will signal if they find any traces of bedbugs. Bed bug sniffing dogs are trained to detect a very small number of bedbugs, sometimes as few as a single bug. This makes bedbug-sniffing dogs a great way to schedule small scale inspections of key areas of your business.

Heat Treatments

If it's determined there are bedbugs present in your business, you may want to look into having heat treatments done for your business. Small-scale heat treatments don't rely on pesticides and are very effective. Heat treatments work by raising the internal temperature of an area above what bedbugs can tolerate.

Heat treatments can happen on a very small scale to treat affected items. This is done by placing the items in a special box and heating it above 117 degrees. Heat treatments can also be performed building-wide. Building-wide heat treatments often are accompanied by the use of pesticides for more reliable pest removal.

If you're having trouble controlling bedbugs in your rental business, reach out to a pest control specialist. They will be able to diagnose your business's problem areas and create a plan of action to eliminate the bedbugs. To learn more, visit https://dontgivepestsachance.com/.