ZappBug Room Bed Bug Heater for Beds and Couches | Real Reviews | Time-Tested | Excellent Customer Service

Excellent, easy to use
This product was very helpful, easy to use and stores well. I work in a setting that supports persons of all walks of life and backgrounds and housing situations. This is an excellent safety precaution and easy to use.Just need to make sure that your electrical situation will safely support the use. Enough separate breakers with enough amperage for 5 units.Also, make sure you look at the dimensions of the product. As you can see in my photo, this tent is set up next to a full size garage door. 2 persons to set up is a plus.Overall, excellent purchase. Very happy I bought this item.

Long story short – we got bed bugs after returning from an adults only resort in Mexico. The bugs were contained to our master bedroom only (thank everything holy). Before we decided to spend the money on this, we spent a lot of time using sprays and powders and even threw away our bed set – that didn’t stop them. This thing works though.It takes 2 people to setup so have someone help. It doesn’t have anything to help hold a mattress up so you will need to get creative (chairs, other furniture, the bed frame, etc).It has 4 heaters that come with it and lots of extension cords. Check your circuit panel and follow the instructions (1 heater per 15 amp circuit). The first set of heaters they sent have an auto shut off “feature” which is the most annoying thing in the world because it shuts off every 5 minutes as you approach kill temperature. So when you have 4 heaters and you’re trying to heat blast something for hours, it is extremely painful to have to babysit 4 heaters flipping off every few minutes. They start beeping and I can still hear them to this day. We had previously purchased their small heater product for suitcases and that one does not have auto shut off. We called them and they sent us those heaters without the auto shut off, free of charge! That made up for it.We ended up having to use it twice. The first time we used it, we were bed bug free for 5 weeks (we reintroduced a mattress pad that had been washed and dried but I guess they somehow lived on it). We used it again and they’ve been gone for 7 weeks now. Second time using it was nicer because we had new heaters that didn’t auto shut off.The great customer service and the fact that it was the only thing that worked was amazing. We didn’t have to throw out anymore furniture and it paid for itself when we had to zap our room again. Exterminators are about the price of this so if you think you need to use it multiple times, just get this.Also, another review mentioned that they were able to zap their entire room just by opening the zippers to the room. I’d say it really depends on the size of your room. We were able to get our bedroom up to 115 degrees but it took a very long time and I had the ceiling fan on to circulate the air. I wouldn’t count on it if you have a large room. So if you you’re trying to use this to treat a room, your mileage may vary.It comes with a big bag for storage that is nice quality. It won’t ever fold up as compact as it came but that’s ok.If you’re on the fence, just get it. Yes it’s expensive but worth it to be free of bed bugs.

Everyone else here has glowing praise, but my experience so far hasn’t been so positive. Caveat: the results I am reporting right now are for the beginning of an Australian winter (late April).The instruction manual says that an ambient room temperature of 70F is the minimum temperature that will produce results, but this is clearly not true. It is likely that I will get better results in the summer. I will update this review in the summer, approx 9 months from now.I used this heater for 2 consecutive days, the first day for about 7 hours, the second day for about 11 hours. Immediately after treatment, I also put my bedsheets and clothing into the dryer for extra certainty.On both nights, I felt nymphs still crawling on me. On the 1st morning I awoke with about 3 new bites, and on the 2nd morning, only 1. But nymphs crawling either way.Conditions: ambient daytime room temp of 77F on average. Night time temp of 70F. In fairness to the manufacturer, on the first day, I didn’t use the circulation fan that comes with the product because it’s fairly loud and I’m in an apartment complex. On the 2nd day however, when I ran the room for 11 hours, I did everything as instructed, with circulation fan and everything.The 3 thermometers were placed deep into luggage filled with clothing, books and electronics.Full log of usage for first day:Monday 2020Apr20:15:09: started all 4 heaters.16:36: turns out only 3 were on, turned on the 4th. Sensors 82.4 – 88.817:56: sensors 97.5 – 103.220:19: sensors 112.6 – 120.521:09: sensors 115.4 – 123.622:00: sensors 118.5 – 125.722:30: sensors 120.0 123.0 127.0Unknown time: took off machines.22:53: sensors 120.9 125.2 128.82nd day log:2020Apr21: got at least 4 new bites last night. Yesterday I didn’t use the fan. Today I am using it.09:20: started heaters and fan.Sensors: 81.3 83.8 84.510:32: 86.7 99.1 94.811:20: 93.3 100.9 109.411:50: 99.5 105.6 113.512:00: 101.1 106.3 114.413:04 111.2 111.5 120.318:08: 118.0 125.0 130.619:31: 119.1 125.7 132.019:35: 120.5 125.7 131.920:15: 120.0 124.7 132.6,20:16: Mains fuse blew and all the lights went out in the apartment.Switched off all the transformers.Switched off the mains.Got 3 new bites on my arms soon as I put on a sweater that was in the chamber.Again, the product seems to work for everyone else, so I will just assume I need to use it in the summer.

It’s possible to set up by yourself but not a whole lot of fun. Have a helper (especially if you’re going to be moving furniture around).The room is NOT large enough to put a queen or king size mattress in laying down. You have to get the mattress and box spring to stand up. That’s how they intended it ’cause it will heat better standing up then laying down anyway. But if your mattress is plush like mine, you’re going to have a tough time doing this. Zappbug recommends (after the fact) that you should rig some structure up to prop everything up. Their foam blocks help a bit.Do NOT leave unattended. When your mattress falls over or it trips a breaker you need to be there to fix it.Very strong frame and tent. Did not tear or break when everything fell over inside.Make sure the first thing you do is set up the wireless thermometers and make sure they work. You really don’t want to have to try and find them buried in your furniture when it’s 110 degrees in the tent because they need to be reset.I was not too thrilled with the gaps around the zippers, but they swear that bugs can not climb up the fabric (another good reason to make sure nothing leans against the tent fabric while it’s running). I hope they’re right. Bed bugs are actually really smart and have excellent survival skills (no joke). They can walk right across those glue traps that will stop roaches stone cold. I caught one alive for professional identification (before I knew what it was) and put in one of those sealed glass lock jars. It took a day or so, but the darn thing found the gap and managed to squeeze half way through the rubber seal before it squashed itself to death. You have to be really careful when setting up your stuff for treatment and make sure that everything is sealed up and there are no hiding spaces which won’t heat up because they’ll find the cool spots and hide there and survive. That’s why Zappbug says heat it for an extra hour even after all the thermometers say 120+.Close the bedroom door when you’re running it. This thing actually heated up the entire room in an 8-hour treatment and I think I actually treated the entire bedroom and not just the stuff in the tent. Crank the house heat up all the way if you can.Their new heat chamber pro looks like it’s easier to set up and has a better heating system, but it’s not on the market just yet and who knows how much it costs and I couldn’t wait around to try it.I took notes with pictures when I was unfolding the tent but still could not get the thing back in the duffel bag.FYI: an 8-hour treatment will use up about 50 KWh.It saved my bed and so it’s worth it.