How do tiny roaches get in your tub? I have a pest control guy come in every month but they are still there.
Terrira from Liberal, Ks
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I guess they are coming up your drain pipe. Maybe they live in there and hide in the crevices between where the pipe and the tub meet. They would certainly need to be small. Perhaps you could have the bug man squirt a bit of the gooey substance in the lid of your stopper and then stop up the tub every night so they eat it. That is assuming the bug man uses the advanced stuff that the roaches eat.
I lived in Tucson for three years, and they are 3-4" long down there! I found out some interesting things about those little "evolutionary defects"!! Remember how when you turned on the light, they scattered? No More!! They can live a month without their heads! I looked it up, and it's true!! And yes, the former poster is right. They swim and do come up through drains and yes, even the toilet!! I had a perfect solution. In the drain of the tub, I found a full can of baked beans or something solid and heavy, but that fit just exactly inside the drain. I put it in a sleeve of plastic from a newspaper so the can wouldn't rust the tub surface. Every morning after my shower, I would get out, put 1/4 cup of bleach in the water that had collected, and lifted up the can just long enough to let the bleach water down the drain.
Just make sure you put the plug into the drain after using the tub. Roaches live in drains, and are probably climbing up from there.
This doesn't work. They can flatten and squeeze through. I found if you close it and put a thick liquid soap to seal and slight gap this helps. But it doesn't solve the issue. They are living and breeding in the Adrain pipes throughout the home. I'm currently researching and a drain sanitizer should help too?
Make sure your overflow drain is sealed too. Put some bait poison on tissue and push it into the drain and block the drain completely. Check frequently they will eat through the tissue I found.
Plumbers will tell you that roaches can't get into your drainage pipe system. Well, I have a big cockroach with his antennae sticking out of the bath tub "drain stopper" that is on the side of the tub! He was on the floor of my bath last night and I sprayed him with Simple Green.
They may be coming out of the overflow drain on your bathtub. We had a problem with large ants (in Florida) and that's where they were coming from. Try filling the tub with hot water and bleach and let it run out of the overflow for a few minutes. This took care of the ants - hopes it works for your roaches.
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Pour bleach and dishwashing liquid down drain daily, use a stopper every night to clog drain
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