Bed bugs can hide in the smallest cracks and crevices, they could be anywhere in your home!

Here is a by no means definitive list, but a good start on where to look.

• Beds, and crack or crevice, dismantle to treat
• Divan base, remove the hessian from the base
• Mattresses, check the buttons and seams
• Couches, sofas, chairs, remove bottom covering to treat
• Dining chairs, Kitchen chairs, treat cracks
• Cracks in plaster, walls and ceilings
• Torn or loose wallpaper, treat underneath
• Wainscoting, older properties mainly
• Wooden wall panels generally
• Behind skirting boards
• Architraves, doorframes, door panels, and window frames
• Inside and under boxes and trunks
• Under floorboards
• Under lino, and other floor coverings
• Curtains, curtain rails and pelmets
• Behind pictures and posters on walls
• Plaster mouldings, where not flush
• Pipe entry points and pipe ductings
• Electrical conduits, cable chases
• Wardrobes, chests of drawers, bedside furniture
• Castors on furniture
• Old nail and rawlplug holes
• Lamps and other free-standing equipment
• Spines of books
• Bird cages and pet beds
• Clothing and luggage
• TV sets
• Inside cavity walls
• Any ducting or dead space

You get the idea, don’t you? Bed bugs are likely to be anywhere in anything in a house or hotel, and these are the areas we have to consider when treating.