How to get rid of a cockroach infestation?

[cthulhu_waves]

We just spring cleaned the house in a majorly way three times this June, and no matter how we try, we still keep getting a wave of small roaches attacking the cupboards and continue lurking around the hidden nooks and crannies of our kitchen.

Since we have kids, we don't want to use insecticides that might affect them afterwards. I've tried using water based bug spray, but it doesn't seem to deter them.

The strange thing is that I spray 70% isopropyl alcohol on these buggers and they die. But they still keep on coming.

Any good recommendation before I call the exterminators yet again?

[garce]

Boracic (or Boric) acid. At least it used to work.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boric_acid

[epitome]

If you live in an apartment or similar and your neighbors are the source you're going to have a hard time getting rid of them unless everybody gets rid of them.

[geedub]

Call an exterminator, repeat every 6 months forever, and stop being messy. Crumbs and a bit of moisture is all those pricks need to thrive.

[Dvae]

Originally Posted by cthulhu_waves

We just spring cleaned the house in a majorly way three times this June, and no matter how we try, we still keep getting a wave of small roaches attacking the cupboards and continue lurking around the hidden nooks and crannies of our kitchen.

Since we have kids, we don't want to use insecticides that might affect them afterwards. I've tried using water based bug spray, but it doesn't seem to deter them.

The strange thing is that I spray 70% isopropyl alcohol on these buggers and they die. But they still keep on coming.

Any good recommendation before I call the exterminators yet again?

If I had an infestation like that I move, like yesterday.

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by Dvae

If I had an infestation like that I move, like yesterday.

Summed up perfectly.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by Dvae

If I had an infestation like that I move, like yesterday.

Ditto. Get the fuck out of there. You can't just kill the roaches. You need to kill their eggs which they lay everywhere including your floors, cabinets, and inside your walls. You will never get rid of them completely, especially if you live in an apartment. Tell your landlord his building is a slum, that you're moving, and you're not paying the rent. Thats gross.

[DWB]

Holy fuck. Move the hell out of there today.

Living in a tropical area, we have issues with ants. If we so much as leave an empty pizza box on the table for 2 hours, we get raided. So we stay clean, don't leave open boxes about. Everything is sealed in containers or in the fridge.

Boric acid and roach traps work ok, but you need professional help for that sort of thing.

[CyberHustler]

Here's a trick I learned from living in NYC, aka roaches paradise. Get a cat, 2 is better. They actively hunt, kill and eat roaches. Bomb first, but that's just a temporary solution to get their numbers down for a while. Cats will eat the rest. And for a sidearm, use water and soap in a spray bottle. Catch one slippin, spray his ass and the soap will dry and suffocate it because they breathe through their skin or some shit. And put roach gel in all their nesting areas and cracks/crevices. Those are like landmines just incase. Calling an exterminator won't do shit as a permanent solution.

[BlackCrayon]

judging by the fact that your cabinets have the hinge on the outside like that, you live in a shithole.

[garce]

Originally Posted by geedub

Call an exterminator, repeat every 6 months forever, and stop being messy. Crumbs and a bit of moisture is all those pricks need to thrive.

They do not need that at all to infest your aparment and thrive. That's like saying "Do Moar Laundry!!!" to someone who has bedbugs, or "Shampoo More!" to someone with lice.

Not effective. Not relevant. Cockroaches are more than happy to live off the dead skin cells that you, your family, your friends, and your pets shed everyday. Its all protein.

Unless you intend on scrubbing your apartment - and everything/everybody that walks into it - with bleach every 24 hours; maybe you could just try a razor thin line of Boric acid along where your backsplash meets your counter, or where your floors meet your neighbours walls. Your animals won't eat the shit (unless you have free range rats or roaches as pets), and it would take a minimum of a quarter pound of boric acid to kill even a small housecat. And a cat is not going to eat that shit. A dog might inadvertantly snort it out of curiosity, but keep it inside cupboards and closets, or off the ground where your counters meet the walls.

If you are living in a rental apartment, call your landlord. Fumigation, evacuation, and poison traps are always an option - particularly when you have children, pets, and no place else to stay.

Or just try the Boric acid.

[pimpware]

Originally Posted by epitome

If you live in an apartment or similar and your neighbors are the source you're going to have a hard time getting rid of them unless everybody gets rid of them.

What he said!

This kind of shit when happens in apartment blocks it's a pain in the ass, no matter what kind of stuff you buy, including boric acid, will never work in long term. Only a "joint operation" will work with all neighbors doing the same, the best solution is getting some professional help.

[Barefootsies]

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

judging by the fact that your cabinets have the hinge on the outside like that, you live in a shithole.

[astronaut x]

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

judging by the fact that your cabinets have the hinge on the outside like that, you live in a shithole.

Looks like its a hinge on the inside of an open cabinet to me.

[astronaut x]

Originally Posted by Barefootsies

Looks like its a hinge on the inside of an open cabinet to me


Double laughs!! lol

[astronaut x]

Originally Posted by cthulhu_waves

We just spring cleaned the house in a majorly way three times this June, and no matter how we try, we still keep getting a wave of small roaches attacking the cupboards and continue lurking around the hidden nooks and crannies of our kitchen.

Since we have kids, we don't want to use insecticides that might affect them afterwards. I've tried using water based bug spray, but it doesn't seem to deter them.

The strange thing is that I spray 70% isopropyl alcohol on these buggers and they die. But they still keep on coming.

Any good recommendation before I call the exterminators yet again?

I would be embarrassed as fuck to post that pic.

No fucking way would I live anywhere near anything like that.

Do you live in an apartment complex? That is disgusting.

[BIGTYMER]

You need a specialist.

That's beyond what a regular person can fix.

[lagcam]

Originally Posted by astronaut x

Looks like its a hinge on the inside of an open cabinet to me

You think somebody climbed inside the cabinet to take that photo?

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by cthulhu_waves

We just spring cleaned the house in a majorly way three times this June, and no matter how we try, we still keep getting a wave of small roaches attacking the cupboards and continue lurking around the hidden nooks and crannies of our kitchen.

Since we have kids, we don't want to use insecticides that might affect them afterwards. I've tried using water based bug spray, but it doesn't seem to deter them.

The strange thing is that I spray 70% isopropyl alcohol on these buggers and they die. But they still keep on coming.

Any good recommendation before I call the exterminators yet again?

Forget what everyone has said so far.

This is how you do it :

Get Combat Source Kill!




Spend $100-$200 dollars on it depending on how big the house is.

Put them in every room, in closets, in the bathroom, in cabinets, in draws, on the floors,
everywhere.

Then you have to be patient, really patient, for about 2 months and then you will
never see a single fucking roach again for at least 5 years.

This works because it will kill the roaches in you neighbors house which is where they
are comming from.

Trust me!

I have done this several times while living in apartment buildings.
It was always amusing to hear my neighbors talk about how the building owners
got rid of the roaches without even sending exterminators into the apartments.

I simply used enough of that shit to kill all roaches in the aparment building, on the
outside of the building and the building next door too!!!!!!!

See, the roaches eat this poison that doesn't kill them right away. They then always
return to their nest(next door) and regurgitate the poison in the nest for other roaches
to eat. The poison also sticks to their bodies and ends up back into the nest.

I tried every other method.

This is the only way I have ever tried that killed all roaches permanently.

Fuck calling the exterminator to spray for roaches. They spray your house, but the
roaches are only traveling through your house. They actually have a nest in the ground
on the outside of your house many times.

People who say it doesn't work are cheap fuckers who only bought one box of it
for $10 bucks. SPEND SOME FUCINKG MONEY!! $200 for a 3 bdr house.

See you in 2 months. You'll be happy as hell!

[Jim_Gunn]

OMG, I would move out tomorrow if that was going on inside my house!

[blackmonsters]

Add to my above post :

Once you put the combat down don't spray for roaches anymore because then you
are only killing them before thay can travel back to the nest where they will kill the
other roaches.

[kazymjir]

Originally Posted by geedub

Call an exterminator, repeat every 6 months forever, and stop being messy. Crumbs and a bit of moisture is all those pricks need to thrive.

I just had to send a link to this topic to you, haha

[eroticsexxx]

Catch a few of these and let them loose in the kitchen/cabinets. Within a week they'll be fat and happy and you'll be rid of roaches and ants. Guaranteed. No chemicals, no exterminators and no cash necessary.



It's a trick I learned from an ex-gf from the islands.

[AsianDivaGirlsWebDude]

How to get rid of roaches?

Buy a bong...

Vaping is healthier, but I would imagine vaporizing burnt roaches would kind of defeat the purpose and health benefits of vaporizing.



ADG

[cosis]

Originally Posted by eroticsexxx

Catch a few of these and let them loose in the kitchen/cabinets. Within a week they'll be fat and happy and you'll be rid of roaches and ants. Guaranteed. No chemicals, no exterminators and no cash necessary.



It's a trick I learned from an ex-gf from the islands.

gecko's multiply pretty fast so get a male and only one

[brassmonkey]

gas and a couple matches burn it down problem solved

[Sly]

Originally Posted by lagcam

You think somebody climbed inside the cabinet to take that photo?

The door is open, perpendicular.

[BIGTYMER]

Originally Posted by eroticsexxx

Catch a few of these and let them loose in the kitchen/cabinets. Within a week they'll be fat and happy and you'll be rid of roaches and ants. Guaranteed. No chemicals, no exterminators and no cash necessary.



It's a trick I learned from an ex-gf from the islands.

We have them all around our house (outside). Great little guys!

[V_RocKs]

Roaches suck... I wouldn't even deal with it and would move.

[Mr Pheer]

Kill them with fire.

[GAMEFINEST]

I would exit the door.

[mce]

Looks like my first apartment after college lol

[ShoeBox]

Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

judging by the fact that your cabinets have the hinge on the outside like that, you live in a shithole.

Are you a horder? you probably have possums in your cabinets too .

[LiveDose]

What blackmonsters said. We use a similar product for ants and it works wonders. You need to use a product that kills slowly so that the poison is brought back to the nest.

[blackmonsters]

Originally Posted by LiveDose

What blackmonsters said. We use a similar product for ants and it works wonders. You need to use a product that kills slowly so that the poison is brought back to the nest.

Exactly, works the same for ants.

[Vapid - BANNED FOR LIFE]

Befriend them.

[CPA37710T]

Originally Posted by blackmonsters

Forget what everyone has said so far.

This is how you do it :

Get Combat Source Kill!




Spend $100-$200 dollars on it depending on how big the house is.

Put them in every room, in closets, in the bathroom, in cabinets, in draws, on the floors,
everywhere.

Then you have to be patient, really patient, for about 2 months and then you will
never see a single fucking roach again for at least 5 years.

This works because it will kill the roaches in you neighbors house which is where they
are comming from.

Trust me!

I have done this several times while living in apartment buildings.
It was always amusing to hear my neighbors talk about how the building owners
got rid of the roaches without even sending exterminators into the apartments.

I simply used enough of that shit to kill all roaches in the aparment building, on the
outside of the building and the building next door too!!!!!!!

See, the roaches eat this poison that doesn't kill them right away. They then always
return to their nest(next door) and regurgitate the poison in the nest for other roaches
to eat. The poison also sticks to their bodies and ends up back into the nest.

I tried every other method.

This is the only way I have ever tried that killed all roaches permanently.

Fuck calling the exterminator to spray for roaches. They spray your house, but the
roaches are only traveling through your house. They actually have a nest in the ground
on the outside of your house many times.

People who say it doesn't work are cheap fuckers who only bought one box of it
for $10 bucks. SPEND SOME FUCINKG MONEY!! $200 for a 3 bdr house.

See you in 2 months. You'll be happy as hell!

lol i saw all the action in my head on this story, this is like a horror movie

[leg4]

Boric acid.


That is all.

[notjoe]

Pull the baseboards up all along your apt and lay some some thick layers of caulking. Seal the place up tighter than a nun's cunt. Next, lay down some boric acid in the places that aren't sealed...doors, windows, etc.

to be honest though, I'd move the fuck out of that place making sure to trash most of your shit and leaving what you dont trash outside for a while before moving in to a new place.

[ottopottomouse]

House needs burning down. Don't forget to scrub yourself clean on the way out or you'll take the eggs with you.

[loreen]

You're one brave man, I'd be screaming hysterically while pushing everybody aside to get the hell out of that room

[directfiesta]

Originally Posted by **********

Ditto. Get the fuck out of there. You can't just kill the roaches. You need to kill their eggs which they lay everywhere including your floors, cabinets, and inside your walls. You will never get rid of them completely, especially if you live in an apartment. Tell your landlord his building is a slum, that you're moving, and you're not paying the rent. Thats gross.

Did that 12 years ago ... Nice apartment ( after divorce ) , good lokking building, but one new tenant brought it those bugs ( but I did not have aa much as being able to take pictures .. ) . Put a 'wall ' of powder as a perimeter all around the ' external walls ' to try to stop them from coming and starting packing . Put special powder in all my boxes to kill them so I do not bring them over , washed all clothes, linens, etc ... trowned out all food that was not a can , removed all labels from the cans ( to prevent bringing a single egg ) . etc ...

Told the landlord to fucking sue me as I did not pay my last month rent and broke the lease ( He didn`t ) .

Did not get any bugs in the new place , and never since .

If I was in the place of this guy, I could not sleep ...


MOVE !!!!

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by eroticsexxx

Catch a few of these and let them loose in the kitchen/cabinets. Within a week they'll be fat and happy and you'll be rid of roaches and ants. Guaranteed. No chemicals, no exterminators and no cash necessary.



It's a trick I learned from an ex-gf from the islands.

i know them from Thailand - cute little buggers


but moving seems to be the only solution to the original problem

[eroticsexxx]

Originally Posted by MaDalton

i know them from Thailand - cute little buggers

They're entertaining too.

I moved around a lot when I was single, so finding roaches in a new place was almost an expectation.

Would turn off the lights, put on my night vision goggles and watch them go to work as the roaches popped out. They're fast and relentless.

[Voodoo]

Originally Posted by CyberHustler

Here's a trick I learned from living in NYC, aka roaches paradise. Get a cat, 2 is better. They actively hunt, kill and eat roaches. Bomb first, but that's just a temporary solution to get their numbers down for a while. Cats will eat the rest. And for a sidearm, use water and soap in a spray bottle. Catch one slippin, spray his ass and the soap will dry and suffocate it because they breathe through their skin or some shit. And put roach gel in all their nesting areas and cracks/crevices. Those are like landmines just incase. Calling an exterminator won't do shit as a permanent solution.

Spiders work too. If you ever see a biggish spider hanging around... leave him alone unles he comes out and causes you some issues.

[Tom_PM]

I've had spiders, house centipedes, those oddball seasonal bugs that crunch super loud but never any roaches or roach like bugs.

Good luck!

[ErectMedia]

http://www.amazon.com/Black-Decker-D.../dp/B000SPAMA0

plug these in plus combat traps in the corners, electronic ones will make them come out more initially as the frequency disturbs them but combo of plug in plus regular traps will eventually drive them away

[Ramos]

woah, that picture freaked me out, I can't stand cockroaches, especially the huge 'palmetto bugs'.
Which are just gigantic, cracked out roaches that fly.

I would also (like many above me) move out of there asap.

Good Luck.

and Cats sleep at night, most house cats are lazy, and night is when roaches do their dirty work, keep the lights on, lol.