Getting rid of Roaches!!!?
Geez…so I have cockroaches and have had them for a while now– about 6 months! Since day one we have been turning to our monthly pest control guy. But no luck, these nasty butt-heads are still holding ground. They are in my kitchen and dining room (connected)…sometimes I catch them on the carpet in the living room, but not often.
I want these suckers gone. The pro’s aren’t working. I tried water jars and roach motels, but those seem to just ease the extreme…
What else can I do??? I have household pets and kiddos…FYI.
I keep trying stuff and reading ideas of household remedies, but they all say that if they don’t work contact a professional, well what if a professional doesn’t work.
On another not, we are living in a rental in CA. does that mean anything in addition? We can’t go around fixing stuff to seal cracks and whatnot…
Oh, and just to let you know my house stays fairly clean…there isn’t garbage everywhere or anything that stupidly obvious!
Thank you!
July 19th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Wear pointy shoes , so you can get the ones in the corner .
Exterminator, NJ
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July 25th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
if it is not an apartment i would bomb the house seal everything up windows doors, cover up up foods,and leave for a day come back a few hours before actually entering and air it out. if in an apartment, sorry i will have to say your SOL unless you can convience the whole building to bomb with you. they are nasty trust me i know i lived with them for two years in the projects (gotta do what you gotta do to provide for your lil ones was my only option to get on my feet).. and i did absolutly every thing!!! and still had them because i lived in an apartment and when i did anything they would just hide in next apartment and come back. and i am clean freak so it drived me crazy but had to learn to deal with it.. bombs are about 7-12 bucks at alot of stores like walmart and walgreens for example.
personal experciance with the nasty fuckers
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July 31st, 2010 at 7:37 am
I had this same problem in a northern California rental home years ago from the moment we moved in. Our landlord refused to do anything and pest control WASN’T doing the trick. If I was you I’d contact your local health Dept; like we did they then forced the landlord to tent the property for 3 days and he had to pay to put us up at a local hotel. I wish you luck getting rid of these little buggers. GOD BLESS!
personal experciance with the nasty fuckers
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August 4th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
seal off every single holes in your house and make sure to shut every windows (never opens it).place small metal nets to cover water outlets in your bathrooms,sinks etc..buy lots of moth ball and place it everywhere.make sure to mops your floor with jeypine disinfectant 6:4(they hate the smell).get a cockroach spray and finish it..do it once for all and you wont see any crock in the future
personal experciance with the nasty fuckers
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August 7th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
find another professional…with the materials we have at hand there is no reason you should still have an issue, especially if he is coming around on a monthly basis. you should be able to get rid of them on your own by just using Combat roach gel, need to give it a couple of weeks and avoid using sprays around the baits.
me-22 years of doing pest control
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August 9th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
When spraying is done, some get away. usually in the walls and behind the sink and the closets and even the attic.
When spray is used, the kinds of sprays should be changed for each spraying. The hum hums get immuned to sprays.
When neighbors spray, some of the roaches get away and go to the neighbors.
You can buy boric acid tablets cheap from groceries stores and places like Home Depot.
These are good to put in hard to reach places and on shelves. Your glue traps are good in corners on the shelves.
Boric acid powder, made to kill roaches, from hardware stores and from places like Home Depot behind and in between things in the kitchen and under the sinks will kill roaches.
They get this on them and carry it to their nest and inside the walls.
This dries them out.
They crawl up pipes.
If they are in the walls, some along the base boards, very lightly, will get the ones that come out.
Some times the roaches are living under the house.
Nutmeg is noted for killing them.
Cucumber peelings are too.
We live in roach country. There are flying huge tree roaches living around here plus the other kinds.
I keep the powder out in case a roach decides to come in.
I lived in apartments and had experience with roaches.
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