How to Prepare for Magic to get rid of bed bugs.

We need to be properly prepared for each bedbug job we perform. The customer must also follow exact preparation instruction and sign off on them.

The Customer should prepare the room in the following manner:

1. The following items should be laundered and place in plastic bags.
   • All bed sheets or linens and place in plastic bags. The customer must launder them.
   • The dressers draws, nightstands, and closets must remain empty after items are removed so a proper inspection and treatment may be performed.
   • The headboards, picture frames, or any items attached to the walls must be removed and placed on the floor for inspection and treatment.
   • Curtains should be removed and laundered.
2. There must be access to all walls and surfaces of furniture for inspection and service.
3. Plastic bags must be provided by the customer, for Magic Exterminating Co., to use, after treated items in the room.
4. After treatment all beds must have a zipper bed cover placed on them to prevent any new infestations.
5. The room must remain unoccupied for a minimum of four hours after treatment.

Often, a brief inspection is not sufficient to detect bedbugs	Proper preparation and cooperation is the key to an effective treatment.	You must be aggressive in your approach to get to the heart of the problem.

Initial Intensive Service

On the bed bug initial service, two technicians will be assigned to the job.

Each tech has an individual role and responsibility to perform.

The following steps will be taken:

1. The mattresses and box springs will be treated with combination steam and possible vacuuming as well. We strongly recommend that bedbug covers be installed at this time to prevent re-infestation of these items and quicker detection of new infestation in the future.
2. All beds need to have bed covers, we sell only the Protect-a-Bed brand©.
3. Rugs in the bedrooms will be steamed around all the edges of the walls. It is common for the bugs to live and breed all along the tack-less strips that keeps the rugs in place and creates a space for them to breed.
4. Photographs and mirrors will be removed from the walls and inspected for bedbugs and treated with as required.
5. Cloth furniture will be steamed, vacuumed and/or treated with an insect growth regulator and residual insecticides depending on specific circumstances.
6. Furniture will be inspected and treated, all drawers must be emptied and be ready to be removed by the technicians. The furniture must be treated on all surfaces both inside and out.
7. Cracks, crevices and voids will be dusted with residual pesticides to prevent movement of pests between rooms and eliminate harborage/breeding areas.
8. The use of a HEPA high-efficiency particulate air vacuum to quickly remove live insects.
9. The use of a steam machine to kill all accessible stages of insects.
10. These treatment techniques are proven to be effective, provide superior performance, broad-spectrum activity and minimal environmental and mammalian toxicity.