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Bedbugs are a pest for any home owner. They usually hide in the seams of the mattresses and come out at night. They situate themselves around the headboard and bed area. They pose a danger to home owners because they bite and spread very easily, making it possible for them to live in more than one bedroom.

With our services we can help you get rid of this nightmare and get a good nights sleep. A technician will come to your home and used methods approved by the Ministry of Environment.

HOW WE TREAT FOR BED BUGS

The steam treatment is used mainly for the mattress, while the others are applied to the bedroom(s) and surrounding areas. The bedroom will be treated with the spray chemicals. They are mostly situated for the baseboards, crack, and crevices etc. This process is very thorough and forces the bugs to come out of their hiding spots and come in contact with the chemicals. Home owners will be asked to vacate their homes for a period of time after the treat for bed bugs. This procedure is very efficient in exterminating the bugs.

Because the process is so thorough and we want to ensure that the bedbugs are gone there is a preparation process that has to be followed. You can find this on our website under the bed bug prep. We look forward in helping you get rid of this nightmare.

Bed bugs are often found in high traffic areas including hotels and hospitals. People often bring bed bugs with them from another area that is already infested. If left untreated, bed bugs can cause tons of problems. In a lifetime, they can lay hundreds of eggs.

We are licensed professionals that deal with bed bugs every single day. We are here to serve you. We have been fighting bed bugs for years.

Call Now 416-628-4803

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I have already lived through a very pricey bed bug infestation in a former apartment, and I have become somewhat of an expert in knowing what to look for. Because of this, I am particularly leery of staying in hotels anywhere. Unfortunately, the Sheraton Centre Toronto seems to have a bed bug problem on its hands.

I did my normal mattress and headboard search in my room and came across numerous black dots on the mattress corners. These are in fact the droppings of blood-fed bed bugs. There was also a discarded skin shell inside the white plastic corner protector of the mattress. Bed bugs shed their skin when they grow after feeding. After having pulled the bed away from the wall, I noticed a fine line of white powder running along the carpet where it meets the wall. This is probably an extermination or containment effort of some kind, perhaps diatomaceous earth. Since I was sharing the room with a friend, we immediately requested another room. The front desk staff was quite accomodating, excusing themselves several times. The second room, on the same floor, had all of the same signs. Exasperated, but late for a dinner appointment, we left, leaving our suitcases in the bathtub of the second room, and explained to the front desk staff that we would be back to discuss the issue.

Upon our return, the lady at the front desk had alerted the manager, who came out quickly to meet us. He was quite friendly, though strangely he refused to admit that the hotel had a problem, even though I am well-versed in the signs of an infestation and asked several times if he was aware of the problem. Could this be for legal reasons? I even offered to show him the proof, but he said it was not necessary. I mentioned several times that I in no way wished to embarrass the hotel or alarm other visitors, but that I was unable to sleep in a room with bed bugs due to my former experience. The manager assured us that "housekeeping" had been made aware of the problem. He moved us to a third room in another (the other?) tower. The beds seemed clear of bed bugs or their droppings and I told the manager this when he called to check up on the situation.

Unfortunately, I later discovered bed bug droppings and blood stains along the edge of the wall where it joins the carpet behind my bed. My collegue noticed more of the white powder behind his bed. Being as it was quite late, we decided to make due with the room since it was already the third that we had tried. At least the signs weren't in the bed, or at least on the exterior of the mattress.

If you have never bed bugs at home, it is pehaps difficult to imagine the scope of the problem and the insuing stress and loss of sleep that follows. To avoid this problem to the best of your ability, I highly recommend keeping everything off of the floor in hotel rooms and for God's sake, don't put anything on the beds! I keep all of my bags closed on the suitcase stand in the bathroom, or even in the shower when not in use. Always pull the bed out from the wall and tuck in any linen that touches the ground. Lift the mattress and look for the bed bug's characteristic droppings: tiny black dots, like those from an ink pen. The black dots are blood from past meals and will smear if on a surface such as baseboards and wooden or metal bed posts. If an infestation is really bad, you might actually find live bed bugs just scurrying around. Upon returning home, one should wash all of one's clothing and store suitcases in large, sealed plastic bags if possible. I found giant Ziploc bags in New York which do the job quite nicely. Don't forget that, depressing as it seems, bed bugs can live for up to 18 months without eating blood. They just wait patiently for their next meal.

I don't blame the hotel for the problem as a bed bug infestation has nothing to do with cleanliness or quality. I still feel obliged, however, to make this problem known to potential future customers so that they can take the appropriate preventive measures. There are several other reviews of this hotel which speak of much more horrific experiences than mine (i.e. live bugs on top of the bed).

The staff was helpful with my complaints, but once a hotel of this size is infected, even on a small scale at first, it seems nearly impossible to fully control the problem without spending hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars. Since the average person is still unaware of bed bugs, or doesn't seem to care until they start biting at night, it is unlikely that many hotel chains can or want to take the costly but necessary steps to eradicate this problem, including educating and advising their guests about safety precautions as well as being upfront about the hotel's bed bug infestation status. Caveat emptor.

This review is the subjective opinion of a TripAdvisor member and not of TripAdvisor LLC.

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Residents at a Toronto Community Housing (TCH) seniors home in Scarborough say their building is infested with bedbugs, cockroaches and an assortment of other unwanted critters that are crushing their collective sanity.

Andrea Hodges says shes been dealing with bedbugs for over a year in her apartment at Brimley Road and St. Clair Avenue East.

I think whats the worst is the psychological damage that it does, she told CityNews. This is a seniors apartment. We are at our most vulnerable. We dont have all the physical strength to do everything.

Hodges says she sees bedbugs out of the corner of her eye when she tries to sleep at night. Needless to say, she doesnt get much rest.

I mean you panic, she adds. You dont want a bug to be beside you in bed. You feel safe in your bed. I dont feel safe, I dont sleep anymore.

More than 100 residents have a signed a petition asking TCH and the government for help.

TCH has brought in pest control numerous times, but many seniors arent able to do the preparations to make the treatments effective.

If somebody is 90 and they are in a walker or a scooter, they cant do anything about their bug problem, said resident Dan Mowers.

When asked what kinds of bugs are infesting the building, he rolls off a skin-crawling list: Cockroaches, bedbugs, earwigs, ants, unidentifiable bugsany bug you can imagine. they are in the apartments here.

Some tenants have tried to ward off the critter invasion by wrapping their bed legs in double-sided tape so they cant crawl up and settle in their sheets. Others have tossed their bedding and thrown items onto their balconies.

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Bedbugs are a pest for any home owner. They usually hide in the seams of the mattresses and come out at night. They situate themselves around the headboard and bed area. They pose a danger to home owners because they bite and spread very easily, making it possible for them to live in more than one bedroom.

With our services we can help you get rid of this nightmare and get a good nights sleep. A technician will come to your home and used methods approved by the Ministry of Environment.

HOW WE TREAT FOR BED BUGS

The steam treatment is used mainly for the mattress, while the others are applied to the bedroom(s) and surrounding areas. The bedroom will be treated with the spray chemicals. They are mostly situated for the baseboards, crack, and crevices etc. This process is very thorough and forces the bugs to come out of their hiding spots and come in contact with the chemicals. Home owners will be asked to vacate their homes for a period of time after the treat for bed bugs. This procedure is very efficient in exterminating the bugs.

Because the process is so thorough and we want to ensure that the bedbugs are gone there is a preparation process that has to be followed. You can find this on our website under the bed bug prep. We look forward in helping you get rid of this nightmare.

Bed bugs are often found in high traffic areas including hotels and hospitals. People often bring bed bugs with them from another area that is already infested. If left untreated, bed bugs can cause tons of problems. In a lifetime, they can lay hundreds of eggs.

We are licensed professionals that deal with bed bugs every single day. We are here to serve you. We have been fighting bed bugs for years.

Call Now 416-628-4803

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Toronto Bed Bugs

WINNIPEG The sniffing service dogs that were stolen Monday in Winnipeg are back at work Tuesday.

Cooper works to sniff out bed bugs at a Manitoba Housing complex but just over 24-hours ago, he was one of 10 bed bug and drug detection dogs that disappeared after someone stole the vehicle they were in.

Theyre from Toronto but were in Winnipeg working for the province when the bright yellow, ambulance-style truck the dogs were in was stolen from a Pembina Highway hotel.

James Artibello, with A-scent K9 Detection Service, says the dogs would have barked non-stop and says the thieves unscrewed one of the kennels from the floor to get the dogs out.

It would take great lengths to get them out, everythings bungee corded together, said Artibello.

Within hours, residents helped police find all 10 dogs, roaming the streets in St. Vital. Artibello was reunited with his pups but it would take longer to find his truck.

At 4:20 p.m. Winnipeg police were patrolling the West End when they spotted Artibellos yellow ambulance-style vehicle in a back lane off Young Street. It had a couple bumps and scrapes but otherwise left in good shape.

They bumped into something there, said Antibello pointing at a new scrape, they could have done worse damage.

Artibello admits his vehicle was running with the doors locked when it was stolen.

I have to leave the dogs, I cant bring 10 dogs into a hotel.

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