Heat treatment is a hazardous thing to try to do. It takes skilled and knowledgeable people to handle doing a heat treatment and even then there may be mistakes that could cost you your house. Heat treatments are not recommended by most pest control technicians because there are processes for dealing with anything and everything you could have from pests to disinfections.
Heat treatment dangers
Heat treatments are dangerous. While it’s unlikely to damage your home in rare cases it can cause severe damage and even cause a fire or worse. One of the dangers is doing a heat treatment without turning off the electrical which can lead to a house fire. Doing a heat treatment in a home that has a boiler that is on and active can cause an explosion. This is a severe and dangerous situation as most insurance plans do not cover things like heat treatments. The main danger is to various objects in your home that cannot survive a heat treatment.
Electronics, art and heat treatments
That is all electronics like computers, TVs, stereos and other devices like cell phones which are designed to function within a reasonable temperature limit can be destroyed. Forgetting to take your cell phone or laptop out of the house will result in a destroyed and melted laptop. That is not all. Do you collect vinyl records? If you have a large collection it will all have to go along with all the related technology. Painting and drawings newspapers and magazines. Oil paintings are especially at risk of even small temperature changes, so it is important not to hang them on exterior walls. The reality is you will have to empty your home of just about everything including any furniture made of materials that could be damaged by heat. This is anything with plastic in it, anything with non-tempered glass and anything that is painted with oil paint which could rapidly catch fire.
Heat treatment and pest control
While heat treatments are dangerous and require excessive preparation they are incredibly effective. Unlike pest treatments, heat treatment will kill everything in your home. From cockroaches to ants to bed bugs to termites and more. Nothing can survive a heat treatment. This is why it is often used when treating bed bugs and other severe infestations of insects. Pesticide treatment is effective it allows you to have the pests exterminated without the danger of a chemical being sprayed in your home.
Heat treatment and disinfection
On that note, it’s not just insects that will die. Bacteria and viruses also cannot handle excessive heat. Even covid will be killed off by heat treatment and that is not all. Any possible bacteria of any kind will be killed by heat treatment. In the same way that dental offices and surgeries use heat to sterilize equipment, your home will be sterilized by the heat in a way that nothing else can do. No sterilizing agent or cleaner can compare to the power of raw heat in killing absolutely everything from pests to bacteria to viruses.