What is the best way to get rid of roaches without hiring an exterminator?

Question

I have carpet in the kitchen and he neigbors sprayed for roaches and they came over to over apartment, Do you think taking up all the carpet in the kitchen and all over the house and putting tiles will solve the roach problem? Nothing else works, no sprays, no boric acid, no nothing.

Answer 1

if youve got roaches you need a professional exterminator. they multiply very fast and it may take several treatments to kill all of them.

Answer 2

The absolute best way to get rid of those roaches without having the hire an expensive exterminator is to use this roach bait: http://www.amazon.com/Cockroach-Killer/dp/B002Y2GNVM/?ie=UTF8&tag=600673-20

This is the number 1 best selling roach killer. This stuff is a life saver. I'm not familiar with what sort of things roaches are attracted to but whatever is in this product, roaches absolutely love them. Put this stuff out overnight and you should see a huge reduction in the amount of roaches in your apartment.

The reason normal sprays sold in the stores aren't very effective, aside from infecting your neighbors' homes with roaches like in your case, is because you're mainly killing the ones you can see. The ones you don't see are the ones you need to kill. They're the ones making babies and multiplying. So instead of you finding them, use this bait and have all of them come to you.

Over a few days time, you'll see their population quickly dwindle down until they're all gone. I definitely recommend using this before spending money to hire an exterminator.

Seriously, try this roach killer out, you'll be surprised how well it works as I was...

Answer 3

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 4

Sorry but the only way to truly get rid of and keep them out is an exterminator. When we bought our house we didn't know it but we also bought a family of roaches. Roach families are VERY VERY big. We tried every chemical we could buy and even some old time remidies like hedgeapples. Nothing at all worked. The first time they sprayed cost $60 and now they come every three months for $25 ($8.33 a month). I have not seen a roach in 5 years and for $8 a month I'll keep having them come as long as I live here. They also kill the spiders and waterbugs and fleas and anything else you need killed, bug-wise. Will even put out mouse bait if you need it and it's all covered under the $25.

Answer 5

Cleaning the whole house would be the first step in getting of roaches. Second step would be sealing all the cracks and crevices. Make sure you cover the electrical outlets. make sure the fixtures attached to the wall are sealed .The best way to exterminate roaches is to use bait.You wanna make sure before you go to bed the only food source around is the bait.

Answer 6

No, it won't. The roaches will just walk their disgusting bodies over the tiles. If you live in an apartment building, the whole building will have to be treated. Otherwise, the nasty creatures will just keep moving from one apartment to another.

When I lived in apartments and had a similar problem, the only thing that helped even a little was getting those roach baits that sterilize and kill them. I'd start a massive assault on them with the boric acid and the roach bait and lobby the landlord to treat the whole building at once. Call the health department if you have to.

Answer 7

First off, when I lived in an apartment, we had them bad!

What I did, was SEAL EVERYTHING! I took that foam, that expanded, and went around sealing up all the cracks and crannies that roaches could use to come into the apartment. (Around water pipes, drain pipes, cracks in the wood, baseboards that have excessive gaps in them and all other cracks that I could see.

I put weather stripping on the door, so that none could get into the apartment..(I used to watch them, waiting for me to open the door! Waiting to get in...sheesh!).


Then, I went and got a "sulfer bomb", (but they dont sell them anymore, because there was too many problems with that).

Then, I put the boric acid down, around all the baseboards afterwards to keep the roaches down, and I was the only apartment that DIDNT have the critters running around the place!!

So, do the sealing up first, then put the boric acid down, because they are coming from other apartments, into yours, and you will think that the boric acid isnt working, when, it really IS working!

I wish you well..

Jesse

Answer 8

Same here, neighbors sprayed and days later, I had some in my garage and there is a door connecting to the kitchen .I did NOT want them in my house. I did TONS of research and put down all kinds of traps. I mopped my kitchen with vinegar, cleaned the counters with vinegar and sprayed the perimeter of my garage with poison keeping them in the garage. I havent found a pile of dead roaches, but I havent seen any in weeks and never saw 1 in my house.

I know you said you have carpeting, if you have the money, I would get rid of it. You can put down vinyl for pretty cheap. The carpeting holds moisture that will cause mold to grow and you cant wipe up spills that have germs (spilled juices from chicken, meat, or milk). The roaches like moist enviroments close to a food source. Which is your kitchen in this case.

Either way, I would spray the perimeter of the kitchen with Raid Roach and germ killer (gold bottle). Do the bathrooms too. Put baits down. ALOT like 10 in the kitchen. Clean with vinegar because its unappealing to them.

Hope that helps.

Answer 9

Good news first... You can use combat roach disks. All you have to do is place them in your cabinets , behind the stove and fridge, and in the bathroom behind the toilet and under the sink. Pulling up the carpet in the kitchen won't hurt either.

Now the bad news.... Your entire apartment complex is probably infested. They are most likely nesting in the walls. It would take a concentrated effort on the managers part to totally eradicate the problem.

Answer 10

Oh yeah, get rid of the carpeting because it holds moisture and the kitchen is a damp environment. Roaches are attracted to moist dark places. Clean extremely well then try sprinkling boriac acid in places they may hide and out of the reach of children and pets.

Answer 11

If you live in an apartment block, it's going to be very difficult to keep them at bay. For your apartment , first you need to clean throughly all the kitchen cabinets with floral disinfectant and, secondly; hang some moth balls in a aerated bag over the pipe underneath the sink and have one or two in each corner of the cabinets. Lastly, put some at the corner of the room. It will for sure stop them coming. I tested this. I put some in one cabinet and left the others without. The one with the mothballs never had any sign of bugs , the others did. Best of luck !!