RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
You have to think like a roach. There are many good suggestions but unless you know where to put them you can get frustrated fast. Check out the 5 favorite spots of a roach. http://pestcemetery.com/5-hiding-spots-revealed-by-a-german-roach/ and see if that doesn't help.
Good luck
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
8 ounces of boric acid (drug dept. of any store)
1 small onion chopped
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup sugar
milk
Pour boric acid, onion, flour and sugar into a bowl. Add milk slowly till mixture is just thick enough to make small balls with. Shape out as many balls as possible. Place these balls in hidden places all over your house.
Be sure that they are hidden, if kids or pets get them and try to eat them they will make you sick. The balls last about 6 months. You should see a big difference withing 2 or 3 days.
Also, make a solution of 1 cup borax, 1 cup powdered sugar and 1 gal water. Wipe on all your inside cabinets. Don't rinse. Gets rid of the roaches there too.
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
You can buy baking soda and place on floor around your house and around walls of your floor. There should not have any more roaches and fox news gave public Idea. Josh
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
If I were you, the locally owned family run exterminator would be my best friend!
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
I live in an apartment complex and my apartment was infested with roaches. They were everywhere in plain sight. I used a roach fogger bomb in every room on and monday and repeated that again on tuesday. I do this about every three months and I haven't seen one yet.
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
Hi this worked for us. Try it.
Take your old underarm deodorant subs those little chunks at the end of the product before you toss the container and line them in the drawers. We used the powder kind and mostly the mens. We discovered by accident that the roach poop and eggs were absent in these drawers so we started spreading this in the kitchen area and other areas. We were careful to line the drawers with paper over the top in siverware and in some cases used small porous containers to contain the crumbled or chunks nother food areas. Gosh! it worked and reduced some of the infestation tremduously. We were glad to be deordoring these areas and limiting the infestation of bugs.
It should help you. Tell other family members to be frugal and give you these rather than tossing.
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I live in a rural area that is mostly woods. Cow pastures are all around. I also burn wood and, at one time, had a problem with wood roaches. I solved this problem by using baking soda. You can get 2 boxes for a dollar at the dollar store. Just sprinkle along your baseboards, under cabinets, sink and around the perimeter of your house if it is not exposed to rain. This will definitely get rid of any insects that may be crawling. It is not toxic, good for the environment and inexpensive. Hope you have success.
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
You'd better believe that there's a way to get rid of them! Being the "frugal" one that I am, here goes. Guaranteed to work. Here are three "affordable" things to use. First, there is boric acid. It comes pre-packaged and ready to use for roaches and ants. Since it's a powder, simply squeeze the bottle around baseboards, corners, corners under sinks, and even behind light switches (disassemble). Not healthy for small children or pets, so be careful. Certainly not as harmful as the chemicals. Secondly, Combat has a roach "gel" that is awesome! Takes only a couple of "dots" of this stuff. The roaches carry it back to their nest and it kills them.
Finally, there is some stuff (I haven't used it, but I hear it is really good) called "Diatamaceous Earth) (hope I spelled it right). It can be purchased in the garden section of your local Home Depot or hardware store. Oh, one more thing about the boric acid, you can also use borax -- you know the kind you use in your laundry. Works just as well and is cheaper. Hope this helps!
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
Besides boric acid - Stop up all the cracks in your cabinets, walls, etc. to seal the roaches up inside. (Put some boric acid in first.) I would then use those sticky traps you can get at the 99Cent Store - You will catch the adults which are still around (boric acid kills the larvae in the nest(s)) and you can see where they are coming from for further action. Place near water, under sinks, near stove...I have found that most OTC insecticides don't work very well - the insects have become resistant - Boric acid is much better & easier on YOU - but keep away from small children & pets.
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
I use three teaspoons of twenty-mule team borax and one teaspoon of sugar, mix dry, place in low lid 1/2 teaspoon keep away from pets and people. also use outside around close to the house fundation in little piles every ten feet,It will also keep ants away.Just make it three to one. caution it will make a dog very sick if he eats it.The roaches take it back to the nest and die ,and the other roaches die eating them.It works great for me.It's the same twenty mule-team borax you use for laundry.
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Boric acid kills roaches. Mix it with some sugar and sprinkle it along baseboards, in cupboards, etc. They'll take it back into the walls with them and it will kill the colony off. It may take a little time and have to be reapplied, but it will work and is pretty cheap. They used to put it in the cement block when building homes in areas that had roach problems. It'll also keep ants at bay the same way. While a pet or child would have to digest a lot of it to get sick, it's best to keep both from this.
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
I manage a trailer park and the only thing
that ever worked was the roach gel.
It varies in price from 8 dollars to 12
dollars. It looks like a caulk gun and you
just squeeze a stream in cracks or
crevices especially in the kitchen. You
will not notice anything right away, but
gradually you will notice and then you
won't have any. This works really well
for us as I have had some really bad
trailers.
Teresa
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By Rob Larson (Guest Post)
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I live in Florida and we have plenty of roaches! To get rid of them I used Boric acid; it comes in a plastic bottle and you can put it under kitchen appliances, etc. Be sure to caulk all openings where they can get in and fix any area where they can get water. It really is worth the effort; I haven't seen a roach in my house in years, and it's less harmful to your health and the environment. There is also another 'natural' solution you can use, called diatomaceous earth, do a Google search to read about that one. I've never tried it, but it's another non-toxic remedy. Hope it helps!
http://www.greenharvest.com.au/pestcontrol/cockroach_info.html
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When we moved into our current home, it was infested with roaches. We tried everything. Then we used Combat Roach Gel and it got rid of them. They did not return. It is less than 10 dollars a tube. All we needed was one tube. It is toxic so if you have little ones make sure you use it in places they cannot reach. Here is a link so you can see what it looks like.
http://www.dialcorp.com/index.cfm?page_id=191&pid=5
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Buy Combat syringe roach bait. It is WONDERFUL you'll notice a difference. You just squirt it around they come out searching it. They eat the poison and carry it back to the den thus killing the whole bunch. Please try this.
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By Carrie Wilson (Guest Post)
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I lived in an old Brownstone in St. Louis years ago. We had roaches. When you actually see them in plain sight that means there are thousands throughout the home. All I wanted to do was not see them. I had a 12mo baby. I used diatomaceous earth, everywhere. Not harmful to humankind but very harmful to roach kind. Needless to say, it worked.
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
Chinese Chalk works very well. Sold in the RSA at Pick and Pay shops; maybe you will find it under another name in your area. Good Luck!
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
In Houston there are roaches all over the place .... I used to live in an area where roaches thought they owned the place. At night when I did the kitchen I would wipe the counters and fronts of the oven and dish washer with undiluted pine oil. I never walked into a kitchen full of roaches in the morning. I have also heard that hydrogen peroxide is good for cleaning counters.
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RIDEX: (sic) you plug them into your outlets, they repel mice and roaches and any other insects. They work great. Google them and check them out. IMA
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RE: How Can I Get Rid of Roaches?
dear god!! i would call anexterminator ask around someone might know one who comes unofficial my sister has a friend that works for a pest control but he comes on the side for like 50 i think then 25 each visit much cheaper!!! i am afraid i too like old houses and am currently looking at a few here in my town but the chance is older homes can have wood roaches which in that case it is an infestation and in walls and such not to scare ya but i think i would def want a professional good luck
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