omg please help

[Russian Doll]

cant believe im typing this but i have cockroaches...i found a 1 inch female in the kitchen yesterday...now i know they are common in flats and i know there coming in through the seriously crap sewr system we have

tom im blocking every single crack i can find but i need more tips please


thanx guys..also should add i promise im not dirty

[Rosendula]

How awful for you! Sorry, but the only experience I have of them is when I went on holiday once to Gran Canaria. The only thing I was told was not to stamp on them. Something about if you stamp on a pregnant female, you can get the eggs in the treads of your shoes, put your shoes in your suitcase and bring them home where they hatch. I don't know how true this is. So no good advice about how to get rid of them I'm afraid, but perhaps better not to jump on them.

[Green Aura]

Here you go honey

Roach Balls

1 cup borax
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 tablespoon water

Make a paste of the ingredients and roll the paste into little balls. Place two or three
balls into a sandwich-size plastic bag and leave the top open. Place the bag anywhere you
have a roach problem. The roaches will eat the balls and carry them away. The bugs die at
home, out of sight, and other roaches eat those carcasses and so on. The onion scent draws
them in. This recipe makes about 50 balls for about 10 applications. There is one caution.
Hide these bags carefully so that children and pets can't get at them.

You can still buy borax on fleabay - in the lab section.

[citizentwiglet]

*Shudder*........it's nothing to do with cleanliness - we had loads in our apartment when we went to Lanzarote, and that place was so clean you could've eaten your dinner off the toilet seat. I used to sleep with a hairnet on like an old lady because I was terrified of them getting in my thatch of hair.

How horrible for you. Are you a council tenant? If so, you should be able to get pest-control out, though I'm not sure what methods they'd use.

Not sure if this is any help:

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Roaches

Failing that, putting Jeremy Kyle on the TV each morning might force them to move.....

[Rosendula]

Are you a council tenant? If so, you should be able to get pest-control out, though I'm not sure what methods they'd use.

Our local council charge for pest control even when it's a council property (I don't know if that's the case with every council). I looked on the website and for insects it's £41 per application. So if you go down this route it may be wise to ask about costs first, and how many applications it would take. When a wasp nest was causing us problems and had to be removed, we found one (and only one) local expert who did it cheaper than the council, so it would be worth looking around.

[Millymollymandy]

In the meantime I would have no qualms at all about going out and buying a big can of roach killer. Where they are concerned I don't give a damn about spraying chemicals about with gay abandon! Pest control people are going to do the same thing anyway.

I'm really sorry for you. How do you know it is female though? They all look alike to me - horrible! They're one of my biggest fears - spiders no problems, cockroaches and I'm a big baby and have been known to stand on a chair and scream!

[Russian Doll]

well i spent all night scrubbing the kitchen with im sorry to say every type of bleach based chemical i could find...also have a very large can of roach killer now lol....

our council do not provide any type of extermination at all now...when the dog had fleas we had to pay 150 pounds to have the house sprayed as a precaution

going to order some borax and make some balls and i guess its just a case of keeping all foods out of the way


one thing thats quite scary though..i dont use bleachy based products normally and the killler headache i have at the mo must be asign of how nasty the stuff is

[citizentwiglet]

[quote="Millymollymandy"]I'm really sorry for you. How do you know it is female though? They all look alike to me - horrible! quote]

It had a handbag.......

[crowsashes]

my council house ( plymouth) has just changed hands they used to remove wasp nests free of charge if it was within so many metres of the house or in the house its self. i had a nest in the garden and it was a foot over the limit, thankfully it died off on its own.

they used to remove roaches free of charge but now the only pests they remove for free are those that affect the property. such as wood worm of birds ( i had both in the loft before xmas

ive heard that mint oil, moth balls, cedar wood, bay leaves, lime all help to repel them

http://www.eartheasy.com/live_natpest_control.htm#c

this has some helpful natural ways to repel various insects including cockroaches