What is the best ways prevent roaches from showing back up in a apartment ?

Question

Morning all,

I'm from Madison,WI. A few months ago I posted about having a roach problem. The roaches are showing back up,even after the landord and handyman sprayed all of the areas where they'd show up. I am trying the boric acid part now here as we speak. I want to know what are the best ways to prevent roaches from showing back up in apartment ?

Thank for your time and help with this.

Answer 1

Once your place was treated, the Roaches moved on or receded to your neighbors place. Now that the Danger has passed- they are simply re-occupying. The entire building has to be treated, to get rid of them for good.

Answer 2

You will probably not be able to get rid of them completely, especially being in an apartment building. There is no controling what your neighbors do and how they live. If they live like pigs, you will get roaches in your building, and every building has at least one. However, you can minimize them. Keeping a clean house is the best way to help minimize them. Never leave food out, always store opened items in containers with airtight lids. Wash your dishes immediately after using them. Take your garbage out every night before going to bed, if not twice a day. Use small trash cans that have to be emptied more often verses larger ones where the garbage piles up for days.

Try to find where they are coming in the house at. Seal all holes and cracks in the house. Even using simple all purpose glue will help prevent the from re-entering the apartment. You can also try bombing your house every two weeks for about six to eight week to kill the bugs and their egss. In some areas, like Texas, you just have to get used to them.......they never completely go away.

Answer 3

You have to follow a three point program for this problem. First, you have to spray for the roaches that are there, you bomb.
Take everything out of the cabinets and put these on the table, everything, under the cabinets, the same. The linen closets, the clothes closets.

Believe me, after living in Las Vegas, Nev. it happens to be the roach state of the union, they even have contests for the biggest roaches and contest with Texas,Texas was the winner with four inch roaches.

After you bomb, you spray in everything, you have to drill holes into the bottom of the cabinets and spray into there. This is what the exterminator does, I would have them out for sure.

Then every six weeks you have to spray for three times to make sure you have all the eggs that have hatched and then spray every six weeks after that.

Get someone like "Rose" exterminators or "Orkin" out, it's bast to pay.

Answer 4

ok if there already showing back up then spray you apartment down again and then after that just keep it clean don't leave food lying around for days at a time alaways wash the dishes and make sure you don't leave them in a sink for days at a time and whenever you spill or drop any type of food make sure to clean it up good and if you just keep your place clean then the roaches won't show up and if ur place is clean and the roaches r still showing up then I'm not sure what to tell you hope I helped

Answer 5

Contact them "How clean is your house" ladies they would scare anything away.
Cleaning products do help and remember to defluffinize the trap under the sink which gets scummy and check the sewer pipes are flowing good cause they love to feed off poopy stuff.

I don't get roaches, I think it may be something experienced in more built up areas which have many underground drainage problems and warmer conditions.
Find the sources. Are neighboring houses suffering too?

Answer 6

They will probably need to re-spray your apartment several more time to get rid of them.

Answer 7

If they are in other apt's there is not much you can do, it's a common problem.