Straight answers about bed bugs
We inspect properties across the GTA every week and get asked the same questions. These are the answers, written properly rather than as a sales pitch, including the parts of Ontario tenancy law that most people get told wrong.
Detection Dog or Pest Control Inspection: Which Do You Need?
Most pest control companies will inspect for free. Whether that is enough depends on what you need the answer for.
6 min readHow Do Dogs Detect Bed Bugs? A Complete Guide
How a dog's sense of smell finds live bugs and viable eggs a person cannot see, how training and certification work, and what the accuracy research actually says.
9 min readWho Pays for Bed Bug Treatment in Ontario?
Short answer: the landlord. The longer answer covers what tenants still have to do, and the narrow situation where a tenant can end up paying.
6 min readCan My Landlord Evict Me for Bed Bugs?
Having bed bugs is not a ground for eviction in Ontario. Refusing to let anyone in to deal with them is a different matter.
6 min readWhat Evidence You Need for a Bed Bug Claim at the LTB
Bite photographs are the most common evidence in bed bug cases and among the least persuasive. Here is what actually carries weight.
7 min readYour Tenant Reported Bed Bugs. What to Do First
The first two weeks decide whether this costs you one unit or a floor. A practical sequence for landlords and property managers.
6 min readBed Bugs in an Ontario Condo: Who Is Responsible?
The corporation maintains the common elements and the owner maintains the unit. Bed bugs move through both, which is where most condo disputes start.
9 min readDo Bed Bugs Spread Between Apartment Units?
They do, it has been measured, and the dispersing insect is usually a mated female. The harder problem is that roughly half the people in an infested unit do not know.
11 min readWhat a Bed Bug Dog Inspection Costs in Toronto
Most companies in this business will not put a number on a page. Here is ours, and what moves it.
4 min readWhat Happens During a Canine Bed Bug Inspection
Start to finish, including the preparation people get wrong and what an alert actually means.
5 min readHow to Prepare for a Bed Bug Inspection
Most preparation advice online is written for treatment, not detection. For a canine inspection the instructions are close to the opposite.
5 min readChecking a Unit for Bed Bugs Before You Move In
An empty apartment with no one to feed on is the hardest place to spot bed bugs, and the easiest place to inherit them.
6 min readHeat or Chemical for Bed Bugs? What the Research Says
Every company you call sells one of these two methods and will tell you it is the better one. We sell neither, so here is what the published research actually found.
11 min readCan a Hot Car Kill Bed Bugs?
Bed bugs die at around 45 degrees and a parked car in July can hit 68. The advice still fails, for a reason that has nothing to do with either number.
8 min readHow to Check a Hotel Room for Bed Bugs
The check is worth doing. Just understand what it can and cannot tell you, because the evidence on untrained visual inspection is not flattering.
9 min readStop guessing and get a written answer.
A canine inspection tells you whether bed bugs are present and exactly where, and leaves you with a dated report you can act on or file.