Prep sheet
Before and after a heat treatment
Print this page, or ask us for copies for your building. Doing these things is part of the re-treatment terms.
The week before
Wash and dry bedding, curtains and clothes on high heat for at least 30 minutes
Seal clean laundry in bags and keep it bagged
Tell the super the date and where the crew can park
Don't throw out furniture or a mattress without telling us first
The night before
Pull furniture about a foot from the walls
Clear floors, closets and the space under beds
Take out heat-sensitive things (see the list below)
Arrange a place for people, pets and plants to be all day
On the day
Open drawers, closet doors and cabinet doors
Leave the unit when the crew arrives, with a phone we can reach
Don't come back in until we say it has cooled
After
Open windows when you return and let the unit air out
Keep clean laundry bagged until we say it can come out
Keep mattress covers on, if we put them on
Be home or reachable for the follow-up inspection
Take these out before the heat
Heat can melt, burst or spoil them.
Candles, wax and crayons
Aerosol cans and lighters
Medications
Vinyl records and some instruments
Plants and fish tanks
Food that melts, like chocolate
Please don't
Use store-bought sprays or foggers
They can scatter bugs into other units.
Move things to a neighbor's apartment
Bugs ride along, and the neighbor didn't ask for them.
Put a mattress on the curb unwrapped
Tell us first. We'll say how to wrap it and who to call.
A question about the sheet?
Text us. Yandel and Rufina read and write in English and Spanish.