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Postcode 2046 covers Canada Bay and the streets immediately around it. At about 8.8 km west of the CBD it falls in the Inner West, where we have vans out daily. Our technicians are through Canada Bay most days, so same-day attendance is usually available.
If you are near Westfield Burwood, Massey Park Golf Course or Burwood station, that is ground we cover constantly - it is the busiest part of Canada Bay for us.
We work under the Inner West, Burwood, Strathfield and Canada Bay area here, and Concord, Five Dock and Croydon are all on the same route, which matters when bed bug problems are moving between adjoining properties. Most of the housing here shares a wall, a roof void or a sub-floor with something else, so we check what adjoins the property rather than treating it in isolation.
Most Canada Bay bookings come in as terraces and semis where the problem has come through a shared wall. Say which one applies when you call 1300 313 373 and the technician will have the right products on the van.
Cintra Park Tennis and Sports Centre and Five Dock Leisure Centre are on the same round, which means every part of 2046 is within our area.
The 2046 run is set the day before and you are given an arrival time. Where Concord and Five Dock fall on the same round, we can usually bring the visit forward.
Any Canada Bay operator quoting a single visit for an established infestation is either very optimistic or not telling you the whole story.
Expect two to three weeks end to end. The gap between visits is deliberate - it is timed to the hatch, not to our schedule.
The one-metre rule is a good guide: bedside tables, a chair beside the bed, the carpet edge. Beyond that is less common but not impossible in a heavy Canada Bay infestation.
Each stage hides in the same places but reacts to treatment differently. That is what shapes the program.
| Stage | What it looks like | How it behaves | What it means for treatment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egg | Pearly white and about a millimetre, glued into cracks and seams | Neither moves nor feeds; the shell shields it | More resistant than active stages, so the follow-up is aimed at the hatch |
| Young nymph | Minute and pale, taking on a reddish colour once fed | Needs blood before each moult, and there are several nymph stages | Any route to you crosses treated surfaces - which is the point of the residual |
| Older nymph | Larger and darker, often mistaken for a full adult | Uses the same cracks as adults, always close to the bed | Located by inspecting the frame's seams, joints and screw holes |
| Adult | About 6 mm, flat and oval, rusty brown in colour | Takes a meal every few days to a week, surviving months without | Do not assume an empty room is clear, and do not try to starve them out |
Healthdirect notes that bed bugs feed every 5 to 10 days but can survive for months without feeding, and that eggs are around 1 mm long.
Use a torch and a card edge. Look before you move anything, so bugs are not spread to other rooms.
Lift the mattress corners and inspect along seams, piping and labels for live bugs, pale eggs or the skins they have cast.
If small dark spots smear like ink, they are droppings. Pinhead blood marks on the sheets are the other thing to look for.
Check where the frame joints meet, inside screw holes, and behind the headboard. Upholstered and slatted bases are the worst.
Anything within two metres - bedside drawers, skirting, curtains, power points, picture frames - is worth inspecting.
Healthdirect notes that about 1 in 5 people do not react, and reactions can take up to 9 days to appear. Finding the insect is what confirms it.
Check suitcase seams and backpacks, and think about any second-hand bed or sofa that has come into the house recently.
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Write to your agent or landlord immediately. Do not relocate furniture or discard a mattress outside, because both spread them further. The question of who pays usually comes down to the source, and your agent or NSW Fair Trading can advise - see who pays in rentals and Airbnbs.
Act quickly. In apartments, bed bugs can move to neighbouring units through wall cavities and shared corridors, and an early treatment is far cheaper than a building-wide one. We can deal with the tenant directly and send you a written report.
Guests bring them in without knowing. Inspect mattress seams and headboards at every changeover, and block the calendar until treatment and the follow-up visit are both complete.
Do the unpacking in the laundry, not on the bed. High-heat wash and dry for the clothes, and inspect the case seams before putting it away.
Two visits, one plan: treat what is there now, then what hatches.
First we confirm it is bed bugs, going through the bed, furniture and room with a torch and mapping the spread into adjoining rooms.
You receive written preparation instructions covering laundry, clutter and belongings, so nothing is missed and nothing gets spread.
Heat and suitable products go onto mattress seams, bed bases, headboards and any upholstered furniture.
Targeted residual into the skirting boards, carpet edges, power point surrounds, bedside furniture and curtain rails.
The follow-up is scheduled to coincide with eggs hatching, so the nymphs that survived the first visit are dealt with.
A written summary, recommendations on encasements and monitoring, and what to do should activity show up again.
Good preparation is the difference between one follow-up and several. Your technician may add specific instructions.
| Approach | Strengths | Limitations |
|---|---|---|
| Hot wash and dryer | Above 45 degrees they die within the hour, and at 60 degrees or more immediately - Healthdirect's figures | Limited to washable items; no effect on the bed frame or the rest of the room |
| Professional heat | Kills bugs and eggs it reaches, no residue on mattresses | No lasting protection if bugs return from untreated areas |
| Professional residual treatment | Continues working in crevices as the hatch emerges and moves | Needs accurate placement plus a scheduled follow-up |
| Supermarket sprays and bombs | Kill bugs hit directly by the spray | Hidden bugs and eggs are untouched, and they can be driven into other rooms |
| Mattress encasements | Trap what is inside and make the mattress easy to check | An aid to treatment, not a substitute for it |
More detail in our guide to heat vs chemical bed bug treatment.
It sounds wrong, but sleeping in the treated bed draws surviving and newly hatched bugs across treated surfaces. Moving out lets them wait.
Work out of sealed bags for clean clothing, and leave the drawers empty until the follow-up visit has happened.
It is normal to get some bites early on while eggs hatch. Note when and where, because that is how we measure progress.
If after two weeks the bites are getting worse, or you find live bugs in an untreated room, call 1300 313 373.
We are around Westfield Burwood and the surrounding blocks regularly, including the apartment stock where bed bugs spread between units.
Hospital stays, student accommodation and shared transport all feature. It is movement of people, not conditions in the house.
They travel on things more often than under their own power: a bag set on an infested bed, a mattress carried down a Canada Bay stairwell, a couch moved between rooms. That is why we tell you not to move furniture out.
We locate the insect before treating, because bites alone are not reliable evidence.
The follow-up is scheduled from the outset, timed to the egg hatch.
Quiet, discreet service for rental properties, short stays and accommodation.
Written preparation instructions, a fixed price, and the warranty terms set out clearly.
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Get a Free QuoteBed bug treatment starts from $119. Two things move it: how big the place is, and how far it has already spread. We work that out on the phone or on site and tell you the figure before anything starts in Canada Bay. Bed bug work includes a follow-up visit and a 6-month warranty.
Same-day attendance is usually available. Canada Bay sits roughly 8.8 km west of the CBD, inside our Inner West run, so we book a time and keep to it.
These houses were built joined together, and they have aged that way. Party walls, continuous roof voids and shared drainage give bed bugs a route your front door has no bearing on.
Terraces and semis, often with a paved rear courtyard that traps damp against the wall - both of which shape the job.
We do all of those. A good share of the Canada Bay jobs we run are tenanted or strata properties, so the written record comes as standard.
It is, as long as you follow what we tell you on the day - usually keeping off treated surfaces for a couple of hours. Let us know at booking about young children, pets or an aquarium.
Most of the time you can carry on as normal. If a particular area needs to be empty we will flag it when we arrive and it is rarely more than a couple of hours.
Between one and two hours covers the majority of jobs. We do not book so tightly that a technician has to cut a job short.
Bed bug work includes a follow-up visit and a 6-month warranty. Call us if activity picks up again and we will arrange the return visit.
Yes. As well as Canada Bay we cover Concord, Five Dock, Croydon and Burwood on the same runs, so a job that crosses a boundary can be handled in one visit.
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