ZappBug Room Bed Bug Heater for Beds and Couches | Real Reviews | Time-Tested | Excellent Customer Service…

We purchased this after my elderly parents had an infestation in their lift chairs. We originally paid an exterminator to heat treat the whole house, but within 6 months they came back. They have hard wood floors and just a few pieces of furniture so we decided to try this instead of another exterminator.Setup was easy enough if you follow the instructions and place the three temp sensors around and in the furniture you are treating. I like to make sure I have at least two buried in the folds of the furniture and one out on top. We would wait until the coldest one shows 120 and then we would set a timer for 1 hour. Treating the chairs the first time killed a LOT of them. We were supposed how many there actually was. The heat up time took us about 4hrs to get all the temps up to 120. We did this in a garage with an ambient temperature of about 85f to start. It does heat up the surrounding area as well, first time temperature in garage got up to about 124f inside and close to 140 at two temp spots inside the tent with the third hitting 120f. Well worth investment. We treated the rest of the house with that powder stuff and heated all the furniture a few pieces at a time until we finished. So far we haven't seen any live ones but we are going to re-treat all the furniture again in two weeks to be safe. I highly recommend if you don't have it spread through your whole house yet. If you do I would suggest having an exterminator treat the whole house and then getting one of these to treat specific furniture if it originates there.

This heat chamber works exactly as described. I set it up in my bedroom after disassembling my bed and moving it to the side of the room. I then put my mattresses and headboard in it. I turned up the heat in my house to 85 degrees in order to assist the heating of the chamber. It got up to 142 degrees inside it, and the bedroom outside it got up to 112 degrees (it comes with 3 remote temperature sensors that you can monitor remotely). Upon seeing these results, I got the idea to just open up the chamber to the rest of the bedroom. Within an hour, the entire room was at 133 degrees. I let it stay like that for 3 hours. Any bedbugs that may have been in the room were most certainly killed. I then took just the 4 heaters and did the same thing to 3 other rooms. This was 4 days ago. I haven’t seen any bugs yet, and don’t think I will. If I do, I now have the tools to fight them again and again if needed. One thing to know is that you have to put each heater on a separate circuit in your house. I had to map out all of my circuits to find what receptacles went to which circuits. Once this was done, setting up was easy. If you use just the heaters like I did to heat entire rooms, you need to make sure you get all medicines, liquids, aerosol cans, batteries, candles, and bullets out of the room before starting. The only damage this caused was any Velcro or sticky hangers are ruined. My iPad, computer, alarm clock, and Xbox all survived just fine.

This unit needs to be sold with more information. After calling the very helpful staff several times, I found that it wont really work outside, nor will it work on concrete. You have to put some type of insulating material under it (cardboard, carpet, wood were suggestions) to get it to even come close to 120 degrees. It can't be cold where it's used, they told me it's best to have it at room temp or higher. I never really got it to 120 even with the heat in the house set to 85 degrees. Highest I got was 118 and it takes a while. Don't lean anything heavy (mattresses) against the side, it will tip over. If it works, it was a good purchase. Not sure it deserves some of the rave reviews but if it kills the bedbugs, I'll take a little inconvenience.

Long story short - we got bed bugs after returning from an adults only resort in Mexico. The bugs were contained to our master bedroom only (thank everything holy). Before we decided to spend the money on this, we spent a lot of time using sprays and powders and even threw away our bed set - that didn’t stop them. This thing works though.It takes 2 people to setup so have someone help. It doesn’t have anything to help hold a mattress up so you will need to get creative (chairs, other furniture, the bed frame, etc).It has 4 heaters that come with it and lots of extension cords. Check your circuit panel and follow the instructions (1 heater per 15 amp circuit). The first set of heaters they sent have an auto shut off “feature” which is the most annoying thing in the world because it shuts off every 5 minutes as you approach kill temperature. So when you have 4 heaters and you’re trying to heat blast something for hours, it is extremely painful to have to babysit 4 heaters flipping off every few minutes. They start beeping and I can still hear them to this day. We had previously purchased their small heater product for suitcases and that one does not have auto shut off. We called them and they sent us those heaters without the auto shut off, free of charge! That made up for it.We ended up having to use it twice. The first time we used it, we were bed bug free for 5 weeks (we reintroduced a mattress pad that had been washed and dried but I guess they somehow lived on it). We used it again and they’ve been gone for 7 weeks now. Second time using it was nicer because we had new heaters that didn’t auto shut off.The great customer service and the fact that it was the only thing that worked was amazing. We didn’t have to throw out anymore furniture and it paid for itself when we had to zap our room again. Exterminators are about the price of this so if you think you need to use it multiple times, just get this.Also, another review mentioned that they were able to zap their entire room just by opening the zippers to the room. I’d say it really depends on the size of your room. We were able to get our bedroom up to 115 degrees but it took a very long time and I had the ceiling fan on to circulate the air. I wouldn’t count on it if you have a large room. So if you you’re trying to use this to treat a room, your mileage may vary.It comes with a big bag for storage that is nice quality. It won’t ever fold up as compact as it came but that’s ok.If you’re on the fence, just get it. Yes it’s expensive but worth it to be free of bed bugs.