Bed bug treatment in Paris, in English —
same-day intervention, followed through until the bugs are gone.

Bed bugs are the size of an apple seed, flat, reddish-brown, and nocturnal. You will rarely see one. You will see what they leave behind.

If you have bites but none of the other three signs, the cause may be something else (mosquitoes, fleas from a pet, dermatitis). Send us photos of what you found: it is free, and we will tell you honestly whether it looks like bed bugs.

We practise all three. None of them is magic, each has a job it does better than the others, and each has limits we would rather state than hide. The choice depends on how far the infestation has spread, who lives in the home, and how quickly you need to sleep in your own bed.

A professional generator projects the steam onto mattress seams and buttons, box spring, headboard, skirting boards, parquet joints and sofas. Nothing is deposited, and the room can be used again as soon as the surfaces are dry — the method we recommend for homes with babies, pregnant women, people with respiratory sensitivity or pets, and the only one that treats a mattress or a sofa without making it unusable. Its limit, stated plainly: steam has no residual effect. A bug that was not reached survives, and steam does not go inside a wall or behind a socket. Its result depends on the thoroughness of the technician, so every steam job at ODF comes with a full inspection and a follow-up: if bugs reappear, we come back.

The strength of a biocidal insecticide holding a French marketing authorisation is its residual action: it keeps working for weeks on insects that leave their hiding places after the visit, and it reaches what steam cannot — inside skirting boards, behind sockets, deep cracks. Its weakness: insecticides have little effect on eggs. That is why a serious protocol always has two visits about fourteen days apart, the second one killing the nymphs hatched in between, before they can lay eggs of their own. Between the two visits you follow a written protocol (laundry washed at 60 °C, dried and sealed in bags); after each application you stay out of the treated rooms for a few hours — the technician tells you how long. Resistance to the commonest insecticide families is documented in bed bugs, so we choose products; we do not spray blind.

The probes are placed where heat penetrates last — inside the mattress, in solid furniture — so that no point of the volume stays below the lethal threshold. It treats what is impossible to steam one by one: bookshelves, piles of clothes, toys, electronics that tolerate heat. It is also the most demanding of the three: heavy equipment, fragile items to move out, the home unavailable for the day, and the highest price. Price on quotation.

Which one for you — five common cases.

• Recent bites, traces limited to the bed → dry steam alone is often enough, with a check-up a few weeks later.
• Bugs in several rooms, or in a neighbour’s flat → the infestation is established: a residual protocol, possibly combined with steam on the bed.
• Baby, vulnerable person or pet, recent infestation → dry steam first; chemical remains possible with the re-entry delays respected.
• Hundreds of objects to treat, refusal of any product → the typical case for whole-room heat, up to 60 m².
• In every case → no supermarket spray before we come: it scatters the bugs and hides the evidence. And do not throw your mattress out before asking: most of the time it can be treated.

On the ground, “steam or chemical?” is often the wrong question: steam removes what is visible and reachable, eggs included; the residual product waits for the ones that come out later. Depending on the diagnosis, our technicians steam the bed and treat the surrounding refuges with product, or use one method alone when it is enough. What never changes is the follow-up: the job is not finished until the bugs are gone.

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These are the prices our technicians actually charge in Paris and Île-de-France, confirmed before any visit — no surprise when the technician arrives.

Chemical treatment — two visits included

Dry steam at 180 °C — eco-friendly, no insecticide

One main steam visit is enough in most cases; a check-up visit may be scheduled according to the terms of your quote. Whole-room heat treatment (up to 60 m²) is quoted case by case. In French terminology, a T2 is a two-room flat — one bedroom plus a living room; a T3 has two bedrooms, a T4 three.

What makes the price vary: the surface and number of rooms; the level of infestation (a recent presence is quick, a colony settled for months needs a heavier protocol — acting early is also paying less); the method; the layout (heavily furnished flats, old buildings with service ducts); private home or business (restaurants, food shops and hotels have specific hygiene and discretion constraints, quoted separately).

Home insurance? In the vast majority of cases, no: standard French home insurance excludes pests. A few premium contracts include capped assistance — check your policy; our invoice in English is accepted by insurers when there is cover.

Full price list, including rodents and cockroaches: our prices page (in French).

For a host, a single bad review mentioning bed bugs costs more than the treatment. We work with short-term rental owners, concierge companies, hotels and hostels in Paris on that basis: a slot between two check-ins, unmarked vehicles and neutral clothing, dry steam so the room is usable as soon as it is dry, and a dated report in English you can keep on file or forward to a platform if a guest raises a claim. For recurring properties we set up a prevention routine: inspection of beds and headboards at each turnover, mattress encasements, an inspection protocol for your cleaning team.