CARPET BEETLE

Initial treatment

Firstly, it is highly recommended that the carpet be cleaned before any insecticide is applied.

The carpet should not be cleaned after the treatment because it would remove the treatment.

Secondly, all the furniture needs to be pulled out from the walls towards the centre of the room to gain access to the edges of the carpet.

Thirdly, the carpet has to be disconnected from the smooth-edge so that the treatment can be applied to both sides of the carpet, both sides of the underlay and to the floorboards and smooth-edge.

This treatment is applied up to 1 metre from the edge of the carpet.

Both we and other carpet layers have found carpet beetle that far under the carpet and underlay that when we’ve uplifted carpets.

Fourthly, the carpet has to be re-laid and re-stretched into place. This part of the operation you would need to get a price from a carpet layer.

This treatment kills all the existing carpet beetle in the carpet and acts as a preventative against future reinfestations for a season.

Part of our Pest Management job is to help you prevent carpet beetle reinfesting your carpet, so, as well as killing those that are in your house, we recommend a surface treatment of insecticide (the initial treatment) be applied every year to the edges of the carpet to kill the adult carpet beetle as it land on the carpet to lay its eggs.

Having this surface treatment applied in spring each year would keep carpet beetle at bay and avoid the need to have to go through such a major job in the future.       

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Our maintenance treatment helps prevent carpet beetles infesting your carpet.

The furniture needs to be moved out from the walls so we can treat the surface of the carpet for up to a metre from the edges.

Used annually after the initial treatment, it should protect your carpet from one spring to the next.

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Note: Average 3 bedroom house = 76m2 of carpet.

For example:

Lounge/Dining = 35m2,

3 Bedrooms = 36m2,

Hall = 5m2