can anybody suggest me how to get rid of cockroaches?

Question

my kitchen is full of small cockroaches.. i tried lots of chalks,anti liquids..etc.. but there is no change.. please help

its my own independent house. i live in india.

yes i have tried baygon, raids ,anti cockroack chalk..

Answer 1

Boric acid. You can get it at home depot. Put it around the edges of the insides of your cabinets, windowsills, doorways, anywherre the little suckers can get in or want to be. Be careful if you have small children or pets, though. Oh by the way, it's a powder. I have used this before for roaches, ants, and silver fish. Works great.

Answer 2

Lots of Raid, Boric Acid, and putty up where they are coming in at. If you live in a home you can by Raid bombs, You have to cover your funiture and everything you don't want contaminated, open all cabinets and such. But make sure all windows and exit doors are shut tight. even put some rolled towels or something to keep them from getting out. And set off the Raid bombs that way.Do this on a day your going to be out for some hours, say about 4 or 5. There will be alot of clean up afterward. But if you live in an apartment call maintence that is there job to take care of. Until then try the Raid Spray and Boric Acid.That is what I know works.

Answer 3

First you have to make sure your kitchen is clean and keep it clean every day. Don't give them anything to eat. Then you probably need to pull the fridge out and look behind there for roach habitats. They often like to live in the back of a fridge or come in through an old mouse hole. Look under your sink for similar habitats because they like water as well. If you find a habitat behind the fridge you need to get some boric acid and sprinkle it behind and to the sides of your fridge as long as that area is going to stay dry. Under the sink you will need to repair any places where the cabinets have rotted out, fog it real good with a fogger, and then follow it up with a roach trap. Combat traps work well. In about three months time you need to discard the Combat traps and try another brand with a different mixture. I can be the same poison as long as it is in different proportions, less or more of the active ingredients. Remember, always keep your kitchen spotless and you give them less to eat, so they will consume the poison you put down, and in turn consume each other and recieve poison from the carcasses. Be careful that you don't sprinkle the boric acid where children or pets might consume it because it acts in such a way as to dry out the insides leaving an empty husk. You certainly wouldn't want your child or the house tabby getting it into their systems.

Answer 4

Sounds like you have German Cockroaches. A professional exterminator is highly recommended in this instance.
There are many baits available that are very effective against this species. Start by cleaning the areas very thoroughly. You have to be sure to wipe away the sputum(droppings) from the corners and edges where they congregate.Newly hatched roaches use this as their very first meal. Then treatment will be more effective.
Also remove as much paper and cardboard from the kitchen and infested areas to take away places for them to breed. They love the glue that holds paper and cardboard products together.

Treatment should be a crack and crevice treatment- either with baits or a pesticide approved for the purpose ( here is where a professional would be recommended)

Answer 5

I think Baygon, BlackFlag and Raid have these flat thin contraption with holes in them where chemicals are placed (you won't see them) and they look like a smaller version of roach motels. What happens is the cockroaches go inside these things and eat the chemicals and then carry the chemicals on their feet back to their nests. The other roaches will eat the chemicals and kill them and some that survive will make them sterile. Believe me these things are the best. They got rid of our roaches in one day. I recommended them to a friend having infestation problem and it got rid of his roach problem in two days. We also tried boric powder, all sorts of antiroach chems, smoke bombs, and professional help. None kept the roaches from coming back.

Answer 6

The only way i know is by fumigation of the entire house at least once in every three or four months. U can also use kerosine on them. But keep the house extremely clean always. cockroaches don't like neat environments. They feed on all kind of thing including ur shoes & papers. They also like dark corners & too flaty to past through any hole.

Answer 7

Strip kitchen down to bare walls and start from scratch. Seriously. They are probably living inside the baseboards, the stove, refrigerator, etc. Best to scrape it down to the original surface, repaint and renovate with new appliances. If you live in a stand alone building tent & fumigate. One old fashion remedy is white vinegar. Geckos can help, they eat the small roaches but not the big B-52s. But

Answer 8

I had them when I first moved into my home and I used those little "roach motel" things and it got rid of them quick and I have never gotten them again and that was 5 years ago. However I know this doesn't always work I had a friend that had them so bad and she tried everything to get rid of them with no success.

Answer 9

First at all you must to find the source of infestation. That can be also outside of your house. Afther that, try to destroy this source by cleaning up the place and eliminate the source of their atraction.
Clean up your kitcen too, and close al food products in refrigerator or in plastic boxes; like this they will not be atracted.
You can also try to use cokcroaces traps with feromons; it allways works.
Good luck!

Answer 10

More info needed. Are you renting? is it an apartment? what area do you live? so on and so on. There are ways to control, even eliminate them, but I can't answer without knowing lots of info. sorry.