ZappBug The Oven 2 XL Large Bed Bug Heater | Real Reviews | Time-Tested | Excellent Customer Service

Hey y’all. Like you, I hate bed bugs. They have been a source of major nightmares and PTSD. I also sadly had to seek therapy for not being able to sleep even after the bed bugs were gone. I’ll go over a couple things here, first of all, get professional help. Having someone who deals with these every day and knows how to defeat them is paramount. Also interview treatment companies. I must say that getting a company that does heat treatment coupled with insecticide is so important. Heat alone provides no residual, but chemical alone takes a long time. Having them both together means that you can sleep in your bed after one day of treatment and can know that any stragglers will be beaten by the spray. Many companies offer extended treatment plans and warranties. Here in Greenville SC, Procore pest control offers an indefinite warranty for only $30 a month after treatment and with quarterly spraying. Now for where the Zappbug comes into play. When heat treating you are supposed to remove some items to reduce clutter. If you are in a small apartment like we were, clutter can unintentionally occur just by the volume of belongings. You have to remove some items or the heat won’t be able to permeate some areas. Having the Zappbug and some heavy duty trash bags mean you can treat your items before they are removed. Just place them in the Zappbug, wait until they cook at 120 degrees for at least an hour and then bag them and put them out of the space. For good measure after treatment, I like to zap my items again before placing them back in our space. Now that we are free from bed bugs, we have purchased progressional grade spray and periodically spray our guest rooms to be safe. Additionally we zap our luggage and belongings at the end of any trip whether we stay in a hotel or not. We all love our families, but it can be their homes where we contract bugs even if they don’t know they have them. On a side note the heat units make excellent space heaters. If you have a room that’s cold, simply turn on a Zappbug heater on (just one) and your room will be toasty in 2 minutes. Now buy it and get some sleep!

So far, so good. We haven't had bed bugs, but know people who have. Plus we travel with fair frequency and they are everywhere. The bug oven is an insurance policy. It can be REALLY expensive to eradicate if you end up bringing them into your home. It does take up a fair bit of real estate in our garage, but I think it's well spent space. My husband is handy - he can build things and do electrical stuff... he built a simple stand for the oven to sit on - not too high so you can lift suitcases and such into it but keeps it off the epoxied floor of our garage. An "x" shape plywood stand with a top that is big enough for the ovens to sit on opposite sides. Your oven comes with 4 yoga blocks (foam bricks) to make sure the heated air is circulating and you get a sensor to put inside your bags - and then a sensor reader that sits outside the oven - allowing you to see what the temp inside is without opening the oven. We have been able to heat things thoroughly through within about 2 or 3 hours. The heat kills all stages. Haven't seen a single one... but I feel much better about taking things into the house AFTER the oven. You do need to plug in heaters into plugs on separate circuits - or you will pop breakers every time... they also include a heavy duty 25' ft extension cord to make the transition. We leave ours up in order to be more apt to use it - but like I said, we travel quite a lot. So far so good , however, I never hesitate to update my reviews should new info seem useful.

The media could not be loaded. It's not keeping the heat inside the box which is not efficient. Been running this thing a bunch of times today and the room is 100F.Space heaters are cheap. You could build a blanket fortress yourself and put some heaters inside yourself. Boom done. You only need the wireless thermometer. What the frig? Just watch your contraption doesnt burn the house down. Not sure if this is worth the money but to get rid of bed bugs it is if it works.I like the size of it. You could fit a 40 inch flat screen tv in there.Edit: Ok here is the moment you have all been waiting for. Does it kill the bugs? A few of them in there completely dried up that i wiped off the bottom of the oven. ONE OF THEM HIS LEGS WERE STILL MOVING! The thermometer said 140f so im honestly concerned now.

I’m an avid traveler who has managed to avoid bringing bedbugs home (including from two known infestations) with less conventional means. I was excited to try this now that it’s winter and I cannot rely on my car toasting the little critters. I was very disappointed.First, we set the oven up inside our home, since the directions say it works best with an ambient temp of at least 70 degrees. The unit put out toxic-smelling fumes that immediately had us concerned for our safety and that of our pets. We immediately opened doors and windows to the freezing cold, and that didn’t last long before we called it quits.Plan B. We moved the unit onto our patio, but its temp never got above 70 degrees. We placed cardboard under the unit, and it still did not get to the temperature it had to be at. We kept trying though, even waiting for the outside temp to hit 70 to run it again. The heaters overheated a couple times, and the temperature never reached a bedbug killing temp. We must have run those heaters for over 100 hours total, without ever achieving 120 degrees.To top this off, our electric bill jumped from $180 to $450. I knew this thing sucked energy and it would have been worth it— had it worked.Today, we tried to rebox the oven for return and it was near impossible. I wouldn’t be surprised if we picked up bedbugs that were never killed inside, just trying to fold the thing back into the box.Bed bugs used to be my biggest fear (until I was attacked by them in a vacation house and “survived to tell the story.”) I may not dread them as much as I used to, but they still give me nightmares. There is a market of people like me waiting for a product like this to get it right. Hopefully, someday…