What is the most effective way of getting rid of roaches?

Question

I have an infestation of roaches in my kitchen which must be comming from my next door neighbor who recently moved out. Being that I have had my condo for 4 years without a single ant or roach problem, how do I get rid of them?

Answer 1

Report it have the landlord come and spray the house next to you and yours and if not go buy some spray and some roach traps and some of that roach powder and line the walls and cracks of the house. Good Luck!!

Answer 2

Hints From "Heloise" gave this one years ago and it works!

It doesn't cost a lot to make, and there are no contracts to sign.

All you need is:

· 1/4 cup solid shortening or bacon drippings
· 1/8 cup sugar
· 8 ounces powdered boric acid (sells at Walmart)
· 1/2 cup flour
· 1/2 small onion, chopped (optional)
· Water

Cream together the sugar and shortening. Mix the boric acid, chopped onion and flour together and add to the sugar/shortening mixture. Mix well, and add just enough water to form a soft dough.

Shape into small balls, and put some into inexpensive sandwich bags (do not close). Putting the roach bait in the opened plastic bags helps keep it from drying out so quickly.

Place these bait "bags" throughout the house where roaches have been seen - it won't take long before your roach problem is just a bad memory. Check the roach-bait balls regularly, and when they dry and become hard, just replace them with a fresh batch. CAUTION: Keep out of reach of children and pets. Boric acid can be harmful if ingested in large quantities, or even small amounts over a period of time. -
Heloise
P.S. You can also sprinkle boric acid behind the refrigerator or in the backs of cabinets.

Don't fall for Foggers, baits DON"T WORK

Answer 3

Depending upon what state you live in, you may be able to purchase a product called Dursban. This is sold under the Spectracide label and is available in contrations up to 30 percent.

This is the same product used by exterminators and is not available in states where the "exterminator lobby" is strong.

It only takes a solution of about 1/2 percent dursban in water applied around baseboards, under kitchen cabinets, and other areas where roaches like to hide.

Don't use it on food surfaces or around dishes.

Now if your neighbor has them, you should do your best to apply this on all cracks that connect your home to the neighbors. Then seal them with caulk.

I apply this stuff with an old windex or any type of spray bottle.

One more thing....it will degrade in sunlight and become less effective. So if you have a sunny location where you need to apply it, you will need to repeat it every couple of months.

Answer 4

Bug poison, cover up any holes in walls you see and cracks in corners or wherever. Seal up the place, make sure nothing gets in or out. Clean up the house as well, if you have a really dirty room with old food in there for example, that attracts bugs. Do a REAL clean sweep of the house, and as mentioned seal up any possible spots where they can travel. I'm not sure what with.. you might have to go ask someone else for that. I'm not sure exactly how big your place is, but that's your best, cheapest bet. It'll look like you are moving out of the house if your place is big, and it can take a lot of effort just moving things around and cleaning up but after that, you shall be a lot better. Bugs are coming in from somewhere, you just have to stop that flow and stop the reason why they want in so bad. It's not like they magically appear out of nowhere.

Answer 5

1.) they probably left rotting food.

Spray all the door and window frames with raid for raoches, spray into every hole created by a pipe or electrical conduit, spray behyind and under every appliance and article of furniture. Then go get some roach Bombs. Use 3 times the number of bombs (or foggers) recommended and bomb the living **** out every room you have. Let it sit for about 8 hours without airing it out. Then, air it out, make sure you have thuroughly RAIDed every single possible entrance into your home, then RAID them again. Get that tube of food that kills roaches and lay that all over the place for future intruders



Wheni moved ot this APT my wife and i would find the occasional giant dead roach in our bathtub, so we did the above. We were roach free for almost a year, then we found ONE roach so we did it again.

Answer 6

Go to the home fixit store and buy a boric acid ( orthoborate ) powder which has sugar and pheromone ( attractant ) added. The best I've found is Safers brand. It's fairly nontoxic and quite powerful. Use as directed. In addenda, I place a little pile on their favorite food on a plate, and set it out overnight. Works great.

Answer 7

Mix boric acid with wheat flour, add a little water for consistency. Then make little balls about dime sized and place them in strategic corners of your kitchen. The roaches will run away and never come back.

It has always worked for me.
Hope this helps.

Answer 8

I once bought a gecko (a type of lizard) and turned him loose in a house that i rented. The roaches were gone in no time and the lizard was a good conversation piece.

Answer 9

control the water and food. empty trash often out of house, and fix all leaks, add toilet drop in tank to poison water in toilet, add a little bleach to all drains to poison the water in the bends of the drainpipes. then use roach baits(combat is my fav.) and place a few near the wall between the condos. defense defense defense

Answer 10

Have Bill PLemons move in with you. THe smell will drive them down the road.