What we do
Whole-home heat
Every room past the egg kill point and held there, measured at the coldest probe, not the thermostat. One day. A residual dust in the voids after.
How it works →Chemical program
Where a single room was caught early or a building is treating in rounds. Non-pyrethroid products, encasements, and the second visit OSU says these jobs “often require.”
Compare →Follow-up, always
Virginia Tech’s heat guide: survivors are “very common,” so the company “needs to provide a follow-up inspection within a week.” Ours is booked before we leave.
After treatment →Ohio law, in one paragraph
Ohio has no bed bug statute for rental housing; the only Ohio law that names bed bugs is the hotel bedding rule (ORC 3731.13). What governs an apartment is the general landlord-tenant chapter: the landlord must “comply with the requirements of all applicable building, housing, health, and safety codes” and “put and keep the premises in a fit and habitable condition” (ORC 5321.04(A)(1)–(2)); the tenant must “keep that part of the premises that he occupies and uses safe and sanitary” (5321.05(A)(1)). Who pays turns on cause, and cause is what an inspection documents. The statute, quoted →
Toledo is two phone numbers
Bed bug questions go to the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department’s Environmental Health Division; property-maintenance code enforcement is the City’s Code Compliance office. They are different agencies with different numbers, and the health department’s handouts are the only local bed bug guidance in print. Who handles what →
What every job leaves behind
- Inspection findings by room, with life stages present
- The probe log (heat) or product-and-location record (chemical)
- The follow-up inspection date, already booked
- A report a landlord, a tenant or an inspector can act on
Guides
The health department’s handouts
What TLCHD tells Toledo residents, quoted.
Hotels and Ohio law
The one statute that says “bedbugs.”
Prep and laundry
120°F or 130°F? Both figures, both sources.
Choosing a company in Ohio
Licence, insurance, bids: OSU’s checklist.