The Short Answer
The price is a fixed £220 for treating the home. There is one number, it is agreed before the visit is put in the diary, and it is the number you pay. If anything about your situation would make a flat figure the wrong answer, that comes up in the conversation when you ring, not at the door.
That is deliberately simple. Fleas are a problem where people tend to put off calling because they are unsure what it will come to, and in the meantime the eggs already in the carpet keep turning into larvae. Knowing the figure up front removes one reason to wait.
What Happens on the Visit
A technician walks the house with you first. The questions are practical: where the animal sleeps, which rooms it goes into, whether it goes upstairs, where people have been bitten, and when the pet last had its own flea treatment from the vet. The answers decide where the product goes.
The treatment itself is usually a residual insecticide applied to floors, carpets, soft furnishings and the places the animal rests, often combined with an insect growth regulator. The first part deals with adult fleas that land on treated surfaces; the second stops larvae developing into the next generation. Before leaving, the technician tells you how long to keep everyone out of the treated rooms and what to do, and not do, over the following weeks.
Why You Are Paying for the House, Not the Pet
It is tempting to think the vet’s spot-on or tablet is the treatment and anything else is optional. The adult fleas you can see on a cat or dog are only the visible end of it. Most of an infestation at any moment is eggs, larvae and pupae in the home, not adults on the pet, and those stages are down in the carpet pile, in the gaps along the skirting and inside the dog bed where no pet product reaches them.
We treat the home, not the animal. The animal is treated by your vet, or with a product the vet recommends. Doing one without the other is how people end up paying twice.
Our page on why the vet’s treatment and ours are both needed goes into that in more depth.
What to Ask When You Book
- Is the figure confirmed for my home? It should be, before a date is agreed.
- How should I prepare? Vacuuming and clearing floors make a real difference; the steps are set out in our guide to preparing your home for flea treatment.
- How long will we be out of the rooms? Until the treated surfaces have dried. The technician confirms the time on the day.
- Is there anyone or anything we should mention? Babies, pregnancy, asthma or other breathing conditions, fish tanks, birds, reptiles and small caged animals all need raising at the booking stage.
- What should we expect afterwards? Some fleas for a few weeks, which is normal and explained in how long flea treatment takes to work.
Getting the Most for the Money
The single biggest factor in how well a treatment works is what happens around it. A pet that has been treated by the vet a day or two beforehand, floors that have been cleared and vacuumed, and a household that keeps vacuuming afterwards and leaves the carpets unwashed for the period advised will get far more from the same visit than a house where none of that happens.
That is not small print. It is simply how fleas work: the treatment sits on the surfaces and waits for the fleas still hatching to meet it. Give it the conditions to do that and one visit is usually the end of it.
Booking
Ring 0118 336 1366 or use the form on this page. Tell us roughly how many rooms the animal uses and anything from the list above, and the fixed £220 is confirmed before a date is set.