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    Angry serious roach infestation

    ok, in need of some help here. i have one bad ass roach problem. they're actually 2 crawling on my keyboard as i type this. anyways, other than the obvious calling of an exterminator- any methods i can use? i have tried the spray raid, the bug bombs (work for one week- they came right back!) and the traps. i'm really not into the spray stuff- it makes me sick. any secret remedies you girls know of. and yes i do clean, they just wont leave...
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    Ok, I am embarrassed to admit I know this problem well...

    1 Clean, every other day. (To remove/prevent egg laying)
    2 Borax powder ("Chinese Roach Chalk")
    3 If possible, take everything out of the house and set it on the lawn for a day or two while you clean, disinfect and use botanical spray (Raid has a new clove scented Earth Options bug spray I use)
    4 Store electronic equipment in plastic bins...roaches like to nest in these units due to the warmth of electricity.
    5 Store ALL food in Tupperware.....everything. Get a good set of bowls with lids and throw out food boxes- roaches can eat cellulose and paper glue too.
    We had an exterminator come out, but he has to do a repeat this winter. It's a tough deal. I just pretend I live in NYC and I feel less bad about the infestation.....

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    if you live in a row home, or apt. complex, you may have neighbor issues.

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    ^^^^ Yep, clean everytihng.. Especially all the dark places that you NEVER open, like the cabinets above the fridge and stove. Have a pet? Put the food in a tight container, put their bowls on plates or in bigger bowls that have water in them.
    There is also some great roach repellent that acts like caulk and comes in atube that you spread around the molding in the cabinets.
    It will take a little while to weed them out, but like I said checkall the dark areas and spray there with long lasting stuff. Behind and under appliances (fridge and dish washer and stove especially) are grat places for them to live.
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    Aslo check your lease and see if they offer free extermination some do. When I lived in a crap hole the slum lord offered free extermination, it didn't help that my neighbors were slobs though. Don't blame yourself they were probably there when you came, but you can do your best to make sure they leave.
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    ^What's the name of the roach caulk? I'd like to buy it.
    PS This is a great trick- leave the kitchen light on at night, and keep the plumbing fixtures dry (fix leaks, etc.) It does burn electricity but the roaches don't like to walk around in light. Oh, and NO clutter, no papers, no clothes, nothing they can nest in. Your place needs to be antiseptic.

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    Ahhhhhhhhhh! I feel for ya girl.. I really do. Our old apartment here in Memphis (Old, being the one we lived in from April to September), was infested. It was like a horror movie. Our daughter couldn't have slept in her room if she wanted to (Of course she didn't want to, luckily), because the dumpster was right outside her bedroom window, and her room was one of the hardest hit in the apartment.

    They weren't those puny little roaches either. These were horribly large and disgusting ones. I got so sick and tired of always having a can of Raid in my hand, ready to use, at night.

    The rental company would have the apartment sprayed, of course. Then they increased the spraying from once a month to twice a month. If anything, the spraying made it WORSE.

    Finally I had enough when I had killed about 20 roaches in 10 minutes one night. I had my Husband call the rental company the next day. Took them a few days to get back to us, but they finally did. We got out of there and into a nice duplex that has no bugs whatsoever (except for the occasional fly or cricket). It's a beautiful thing.

    I honestly don't know what you can do to prevent or rid yourself of the infestation. I used to think that it was only people that kept their houses dirty had roaches. But, after it happened to me, I realized this wasn't the case. I am the most obsessive neatfreak anyone could ever know. Apparently, all of my neighbors in that complex claimed that they didn't have a problem with roaches. After seeing some of their houses, I was quite amazed. They were incredibly filthy. It's pretty bad when a house is so dirty that even the roaches won't go in it---they head for the clean house instead. Ugh.

    I think that getting sprayed once or twice a month is pretty pointless, personally. Roaches simply multiply too fast, and they become immune to the "latest" mix of pesticide before anyone can blink.

    The only advice I can give you is to do what we did. Get out of there. Don't put it off. Be careful packing, make sure that the little fuckers didn't drop egg cases in your boxes or your things as a "move-in present" for your new place.

    You really can't beat roaches. They were around with dinosaurs. They're not going anywhere.

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    I wish you luck. Get out of that place!

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    Oh.. Here's a picture of one of the first we spotted in the old place. He dashed from the kitchen down the hallway at lightning-fast speed, all the while, I was chasing it, spraying it with Raid. I finally cornered it in OUR bedroom and finished gassing it to death. I even posted this pic in the Pets thread in the Pic section back then.. LOL
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    ^^^ I have been roach free for a few years now. I actually moved from a slum apt to a great one and I think they followed me (even though I packed everything and left it outside for days and even bombed my couch, appliances and mattress in the Uhaul), but I was able to beat them in a few months. And it was BAD for a while and being a rather neat perosn it was really an insult.
    But I found the name of the gel COMBAT Roch kiling gel.. I comes in a tube, but the tube is in a box in the store. It just acts like caulk and they eat it and die.
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    You could do what they do in Thailand..........
    Catch'em, deep fry them, and sell them on the street

    Sorry. I'm just joking I wish i had some advice. I know your problem well though. Instead of cockroaches we have ants! I HATE ants!!! they're everywhere! And if you leave just one little crumb on the counter 5 minutes later you have a 6 lane highway of the little bastards. AAAaaarrggghhhhh!!! Hope the others advice helps out.

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    ^Black pepper. Put black pepper in the doorway and window crevices, as well as any cracks you see around your house. Ants will not cross black pepper.

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    I feel ya girl!

    Our house is right next door to a trailor park with a reputation of haveing the not so clean and nicest neighbors.

    Whenever one of them moves out, we get roaches coming over here.

    The best thing I have have found to kill them is either 1 of 2 things.

    1. Take a jar of peanut butter and put like 3 cups of it in a large (throw away) mixing bowl, then add a jar of boric acid (can buy at Wal-Mart) mix it up really well to make little PB balls. You then just chuck them in every little crack and crevice that you have ever seen them in. (This also works for mice and ants as well!)

    2. Someone once told me to try alka-selzer tablets. Apparently raoches can't burp or fart, and the gas build-up will cause them to explode. I know this works for birds, but bugs I dunno about.
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    madmaxine-
    It's a tough deal. I just pretend I live in NYC and I feel less bad about the infestation.....
    I live in NYC and don't have roaches. *I know you were kidding, I hope*

    Seriously though, I've read all the above methods suggested here. Just wanted to remind you, if you have any pets make sure what you use can't harm them. Don't want any doggies, kitties or others ingesting deadly chemicals.

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    OMG. I really wish I hadn't clicked on this by accident. I read your post and screamed right in the middle of my office! And now everybody is looking at me like I'm insane. I have a huge phobia of roaches - if I were in your position I would leave my things behind and just move.

    I got an apartment once several years ago that turned into Joe's Apartment the first time I turned the oven on. I still had the old place for a few more days, so my ex and I set off 16 of those huge massive Hiroshima-type roach bombs (in a 1000 sq ft apartment, LOL!) and left the place for a couple of days. When we got back we had to scrub thoroughly and there were dead roaches everywhere, but we didn't have much of a problem after that. (This was in Memphis, where you are GOING to have a few roaches now and then no matter how clean you are - ugh!)

    If you're in an apartment and they're not spraying the whole building, though, there's not anything you can do. If you spray, they'll just go to the neighbors, who will spray, and then they'll come back to you. Call your landlord and demand that he have the whole building done. In some states he HAS to do it whether he wants to or not.

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    Rhiannon, ants won't cross cinnamon either and cinnamon won't make you sneeze.

    I've had a lot of success with the cinnamon trick to fight ants. Wish roaches could be eradicated that easily.

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    Never had a roach problem but crickets and scorpions in the house everyonce in a while . But I bug bombed the hell out of the place and have been spraying inside and out about every few weeks this has really worked but you cant get rid of all of them the occasional one slips past the barrier . I live in the Desert and I have lots of open land around me so this problem will not go away 100% .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah
    Rhiannon, ants won't cross cinnamon either and cinnamon won't make you sneeze.

    I've had a lot of success with the cinnamon trick to fight ants. Wish roaches could be eradicated that easily.
    I've tried the cinnamon.. But that didn't work so well. Black Pepper's the best.

    I don't have any problems with sneezing from it.. I think if you're not inhaling it, you'll be fine.

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    i'm gonna try that peanut butter borax thing. the problem: they want to spray the building but it makes me SICK! there is an alternative method that exterminators use. i had it done at an old apt of mine: it's a solution and they come and place little dots of it under the sink, in cracks, etc. it worked WONDERS and it much safer than sprays. the spray is really just a big pain in the ass- many residents arent happy about it. i cant afford to move. the roaches dont really gross me out more like they just annoy me...
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    Throw a little crystal meth at 'em. j/k
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    that was the scariest picture i have ever seen. I've honestly never seen a roach before...and i don't wanna. i think i would scream and cry until someone rescued me. I have a problem with ladybugs in my house, the fuckers are everywhere!!!

    i don't know what to do. i refuse to go near them b/c i'm terrified of them so i can't wait til it gets cold out and they die.
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    ^Heh.. He was a total fighter too, Hannah. Took sooo much Raid for him to finally die, and that was after I had to corner him. I'd never had to deal with them before we moved here. Ugh.

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    ^ Ahhh...yes...the roach on steroids. *segues to NM college* Yes, I've seen roaches before growing up in the Midwest...but nothing prepared me for the 5 inch long roach with a black belt in karate. (shiver) Since the weather there was so "temperate" (compared to Illinois) they never die, but grow to insane sizes. Who knew that roaches could grow biceps and have six-pack abs?? (j/k, of course) I would see one of those damn things and walk 6 feet around it.

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    roach baits always worked for me and non-invasive. just put enough.

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    VenusGoddess; Midwest? Pah! I saw one roach come into the bathroom in Miami and thought it was my man dressed in a robe it was THAT big! So big that when he stepped on it, it wouldnt crush. Now that's scary.

    We've got some kind of weird insects comming in the house now and then. It looks like a centipede, runs like a roach and is like abot 3-4 inches long but we dont know what it is. It seems to blend in with the wooden floor and can climb walls too. Any idea?

    As for roaches yes the gel stuff works. The raid is just a short term this, but also to find any crevices where they are comming in and stuff in wire wool. They cant get throgh that.

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    Ugh, I had this problem where I lived a few years ago, lol. One night me and my boyfriend came home and the floor was black with cockroaches, so we borrowed a friends vacuume cleaner and hoovered them up (well it was a better model than my own...) then got another friend to go empty it a couple of blocks away - we did this a few times until another friend put us onto the jail method which works brilliantly.

    You need several empty jars or tall glasses, some butter and a food that cockroaches love - I found Go-Cat dry cat food works the best - the roaches go crazy over it!!!!!!!! You can see them coming as soon as you open the box, no shit!

    1st grease the inside top couple of inches of the glasses / jars with butter taking care not to get any on the outside!
    Then put a few pieces of go-cat or food in the bottom of the jars and place around the house. Go to bed.
    Next day be amazed at how many roaches you have caught - they climb into the jars for the food and cant climb out again because of the butter. To kill them just boil some water an pour it over them - the die instantly so its enviromentally friendly and humane, hurray! Tip them on the garden and start again until the numbers are reduced. I even made little ramps up to the jars out of cardboard to help the roaches in.

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    omg Charlygirl I know exactly what your talking about with those weird lookin things... my bf's parents have them in their basement and we cant figure out wtf they are... they are harmless but shit can those buggers move and in a shadow they look super freaky... they're sneaky and quick and kinda nasty to see... first time i saw one it scared the living sh*t out of me..
    Anyone who knows what they are feel free to tell... they're long squiggly and some funky colour and as already stated move quicker then the blink of an eye...

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