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You wake up without bite marks covering your arms and legs. Your family sleeps through the night without constant scratching or checking sheets for blood spots. Your home becomes truly bed bug-free, not just temporarily knocked down.
Most people don’t realize how much stress bed bugs create until they’re completely gone. The constant anxiety about sleeping in your own bed, the embarrassment when guests visit, the sleepless nights wondering if you felt something crawling—all of that disappears with proper professional treatment.
We don’t just reduce the population or control the problem. We eliminate the entire infestation, including eggs and hidden colonies in wall voids and furniture crevices, so you never have to deal with this nightmare again.
First Choice Pest Control has been serving Hartland since 2005, celebrating our 20th anniversary this year. Roger brings 26 years of hands-on pest control experience to every job, backed by integrated pest management training and awards from Angie’s List and Home Advisor.
We’re one of under 100 companies nationwide offering canine bed bug detection—a service that gives you 95-98% accuracy in finding even single bed bug eggs. While other companies rotate different technicians or use part-time college students, we keep the same experienced professional on your account year after year.
Our family-owned approach means you get personal attention and honest recommendations, not corporate sales scripts. We offer discounts for seniors, veterans, and first responders because we believe in taking care of the people who’ve taken care of our community.
First, our canine detection team inspects your property. The dogs identify every area where live bed bugs are active, including spots human technicians typically miss. This eliminates the guesswork that causes 70% of visual-only inspections to fail.
Next comes targeted treatment using heat therapy, chemical applications, or integrated methods based on your specific infestation. We raise room temperatures to 140+ degrees—lethal to bed bugs at all life stages but safe for your furniture, electronics, and belongings.
The entire process takes 3-6 hours depending on your home’s size. You can move back in the same day, and the bed bugs are gone permanently. No follow-up treatments needed, no waiting weeks to see if it worked.
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Your bed bug control service includes comprehensive canine inspection, customized treatment plan, and follow-up monitoring. We use the safest, most effective methods available—from heat treatments that penetrate deep into furniture to targeted chemical applications for severe infestations.
Michigan’s humidity and seasonal temperature changes create perfect breeding conditions for bed bugs. They hitchhike home from hotels, movie theaters, and even office buildings throughout the Hartland area. Our two decades of local experience means we know the common entry points specific to Michigan homes and the seasonal patterns that affect our community.
You’ll receive detailed preparation instructions that actually make sense, complete treatment documentation for your records, and scheduled follow-up appointments. We also provide prevention education so you can avoid future infestations when traveling or purchasing used furniture.
Our specially trained detection dogs achieve 95-98% accuracy compared to just 30-50% for human visual inspections alone. Dogs can detect the scent of live bed bugs and viable eggs through mattresses, inside furniture, and within wall voids where human inspectors typically miss them.
The canine detection process eliminates guesswork and ensures treatment targets all affected areas, not just the obvious spots where you’ve seen bugs. Our dogs complete room inspections in minutes rather than hours, and they only alert to active infestations—not old evidence from dead bugs.
This early detection capability can save you weeks of discomfort and hundreds of dollars in treatment costs by catching infestations before they spread throughout your home.
Heat treatment kills bed bugs at all life stages—adults, nymphs, and eggs—in a single session, while chemical treatments often require multiple visits because pesticides can’t penetrate deep into mattresses and furniture where bed bugs hide.
Heat reaches 140+ degrees throughout the treatment area, which is instantly lethal to bed bugs but won’t damage your belongings. Bed bugs in Michigan have developed resistance to many chemical treatments since the 1980s, but they can’t adapt to lethal heat.
Heat penetrates every surface in your Hartland home—mattresses, furniture, wall voids, and electrical outlets where bed bugs hide. Chemical sprays simply can’t reach these areas effectively, which is why heat treatment has a 97% success rate compared to traditional chemical methods.
Most heat treatments in Hartland homes take 6-8 hours to complete, depending on the size of your home and severity of infestation. We can typically finish everything in a single day, and you’ll see dead bugs within hours of treatment.
Heat treatments work immediately, killing bed bugs and eggs on contact. Chemical treatments may take 2-3 weeks to eliminate all bugs as they contact treated surfaces. Most infestations require follow-up inspections 2-4 weeks after initial treatment to ensure complete elimination.
The timeline depends on infestation severity and treatment method. Severe infestations in large homes may need multiple treatments, while early-caught problems often resolve with single applications. Our canine detection team can confirm when your home is truly bed bug-free, not just when visible activity stops.
Check your mattress seams, box spring, and bed frame for small blood spots, dark stains, or tiny brown bugs about the size of an apple seed. You might also notice a sweet, musty odor in heavily infested rooms, or find small groups of red, itchy bites on your skin that appear in lines or clusters.
However, you can’t rely on bites alone for identification since bite reactions vary dramatically between people, and some don’t react at all. Visual inspection by homeowners misses about 70% of infestations because bed bugs hide during the day in cracks, crevices, and furniture.
The only way to know for certain is finding live bugs or clear evidence through professional inspection. Our canine detection service offers 95-98% accuracy and can detect bed bugs at the earliest stages when treatment is most effective and least expensive.
When treatment is done correctly by professionals, bed bugs shouldn’t return from the original infestation. However, you can get new infestations by bringing bed bugs home from travel, used furniture, or visitors. That’s why we provide detailed prevention education with every service.
Our heat treatment comes with a six-month service guarantee—among the strongest offered by any Michigan pest control company. If bed bugs return anywhere in the treated areas during this period, we’ll retreat your home at absolutely no additional charge.
The treatment targets the entire infestation simultaneously, unlike chemical treatments that might miss hidden populations. Our canine detection ensures we find every hiding spot before treatment begins, and follow-up inspections confirm complete elimination so you have confidence the problem is truly solved.
We’re one of under 100 companies in the United States offering canine bed bug detection, giving you 95-98% accuracy versus 30% with human-only inspections. This prevents costly misdiagnosis and unnecessary treatments that other companies might miss.
You get the same experienced technician every visit—no rotating staff or part-time workers learning on your property. Roger brings 26 years of expertise to every job, and our family-owned approach means personalized service rather than corporate scripts.
We combine advanced detection with proven heat treatment methods, offer price matching and military discounts, and back everything with our six-month warranty. Our 4.7-star rating from over 363 customers speaks to our commitment to getting it right the first time, which is why Hartland neighbors call us when they need bed bug problems solved completely.
