what's the best way to kill roaches?

Answer 1

Here is my answer based on my experience of living in an apartment where no amount of chemicals, poison, boric acid, or whatever would get rid of them. Here is how I did it.

The key is using caulk to seal up all the places that roaches like to nest. These places are always near water, like the kitchen or bathroom. The most likely places are the cracks between the floor and the baseboard moulding on the wall, and at the top of that same moulding. Seal it up everywhere. If your roach problem is bad enough you may have to go around the entire room.

Next is the long crack where your kitchen counters meet the wall, especially near the sink. Roaches like to nest where it is dark and where there is very little headroom above them, so the space between the kitchen counters and the wall is paradise.

There is a way to use boric acid without danger to your loved ones. If you find cracks to seal at the baseboards, before you seal them, you can brush some boric acid through the crack before sealing it. Likewise, you can put some behind the counter before sealing it up. Boric acid does work great. It is not a poison, so roaches cannot become resistant to it. Instead, when the powder gets on them they ingest it when they clean themselves, then it swells up in their stomachs and kills them when they drink.

The key is sealing everything up. After that you can place small amounts of the various poisons and traps to kill the roaches that are still there, i.e. the ones that now have no place to nest but are still hanging around.

If you believe that you have sealed everything up and still see roaches, then you have missed something. If you see a roach, instead of killing it, just follow it to see where it goes. Then seal up that spot. If you can't seal that spot then place a small amount of poison there. (There is a small tube of roach food poison sold that is good for that.)

Finally, if you have sealed everything up and still have roaches, do you have carpeting near the problem? The roaches can nest under the carpeting, although in my experience it was under the baseboard and under the carpeting right next to it.

Good luck.

Answer 2

Bait rather than poison. But first you must rid the area of what is attracting them like garbage, open food, filth. Clean first then bait. The poison will only kill the ants traveling for food but not the hundreds in the wall! If you bait then each roach that thinks its has some food will take that back to the nest and feed it to the rest by regurgitation. Do not poison over bait ,it will loose its effect.I have also found that wiping areas with Windex helps keep them away b/c of the ammonia. Finally, to keep them away once you killed them off, you must keep up the housekeeping!

Answer 3

The Vegas roach trap or Las Vegas roach trap refers to the serendipitous discovery, in Las Vegas, of a cockroach trap consisting of a jar, coffee grounds, and water, placed against a wall. Reported as extremely successful in eliminating cockroaches by Las Vegas local news and the KVBC bugcam [1], the homemade trap is made from any glass jar containing coffee grounds and water. Placing the mouth of the jar next to the wall, the roaches are able to crawl up the wall and into the jar, to drown, or at least never escape since they are unable to climb the glass walls. Apparently, only cockroaches are attracted to it. The Vegas roach trap is so called by the popular name of the city of its discovery

Answer 4

I like that gel you get from the supermarket, i think it's Combat or something. It actually works, but you have to put it everywhere, every crack and crevice you see, buy plenty of the tubes (they look like a big syringe) Just one won't do the whole house. and the best thing is the roaches are attracted to it, they will run up and eat it. i had an infestation from storing my stuff in a house that was infested but the gel got rid of all of them.

Answer 5

I spray around plugs and light switches (making sure I do not get into the wiring). Then I put down the traps by every door (usually at the hinge side, so I do not see them).

I only see about 1 a year.

Answer 6

I think the best way is to place roach traps in closets,under stoves,fridge.Anywhere that they can hide.

Answer 7

Step on them as may times as possbile. They just run away from the spray and scramble away into your closet and sneak into your shoes.

Answer 8

what are "roaches"... Really i don,t nothing about them.....

Answer 9

step on them

Answer 10

Step on it!