Some how these things got started in our house. Terminex has not seemed to help much. Going through the whole house cleaning, keeping dishs clean, trash taken out....everything I have read on the web. Thought maybe some one on the Green Screen might offer advice. Going to Lowes tomorrow to load up on poison, baits etc.
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You live in Texas, you will have roaches.
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Demon has worked well up here in the piney woods for us.Comment
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Durasban works great !
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I have lived in this house for 20 years and never had an infestation like this. They are getting into everything, its really hard to explain.....they are everywhere. I understand having roaches in Texas. Not like this breed thoughOriginally posted by MONSTERKEN View PostComment
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I have dabbled in pest control before, to include Terminex, and even if the tech guy knows what he is doing, it may take a while.
Keep doing what you are doing as far as cleaning the house. But you are going to have to clean more, trust me. Also, make sure to run the garbage disposal often, remove anything at all that can be eaten, by anything, from counter tops...Anything. Don't leave banana's and potatoes out thinking "roaches don't eat those". Put them in the fridge. Putting things inside the refrigerator is your best bet, even stuff that you don't normally refrigerate. This includes fruit, old chips, etc. NOTHING stays out. Clean surfaces, daily. Pull the oven out away from the wall and clean back there, you will be surprised what you will find. Clean behind and under the fridge too and use bleach in both cases. You have to clean in areas you may not have seen in years. Take everything out from under the kitchen sink and clean, with bleach, there as well. German Roaches will often "piggy back" in from farmers markets, and produce stands or regular grocery stores. Something introduced them, they didn't just "happen".
One of the worst problems is also pet food. It has to go in an air tight container or at least a container that is out in the garage/removed from the house. Do not leave an open bag or container of pet food, of any kind in the house. It ALL has to go.
Fast food, bags and letting kids take food to their rooms are also major offenders. All food has to be consumed in one spot (dining room only) and cleaned immediately after.
No food on the couch while you watch TV. Do not let the kids take food or drinks to their rooms. Period.
Zero fast food containers left overnight in the house. Period. If you feed your pets indoors, you are going to have to switch to feeding outside. I don't care if the wife or kids love fluffy and they are "on a special diet", dealing with German Roaches isn't like dealing with normal pests and drastic measures have to be taken. Pets leave crumbs and crumbs are roach food. It has to go outside and clean the food dish regularly. If you have pet birds, they will either have to go or go outside, or you will have to get rid of them, they are incredibly messy and one of the worst causes of attracting roaches/mice because of the mess they make.
Put the sugar in an air tight container and make sure that there is no water left out anywhere.
Clean all of this BEFORE you apply the bait/chemicals etc. Once you or the Terminex guy applies, DO NOT GO IN BEHIND HIM CLEANING, other than the normal surface/counter top cleanings that you would be doing anyway.
German Roaches happen even in "clean" houses, even in custom homes in high end neighborhoods, just like bed bugs, but no pest control guy in the world can help you if you clean immediately after he leaves.
Trash goes out daily, even if the trashbag isn't full, and scrub your household trash cans, all of them. Bleach is your friend when cleaning.
The "this is Texas, you will have roaches", thing is BS. The big water beetle/American roach that most people see and get freaked out by....yes, maybe. Germans, not so much. They are much worse but they are not in every home in Texas.
As far as what to buy, stick with baits and Boric Acid. Also, if you can get a shop vac, use it under the counters beside kitchen drawers, in the pantry, along baseboards etc. Shop vacs are also useful for scooping them up individually if you can catch them, it will kill them and keep them in one spot so if you have one, leave it plugged in the kitchen or nearby.
I know a lot of this sounds drastic, but you would be surprised at how little some homeowners are willing to do to get rid of roaches or pests. They thing the bug guy can just "come spray". It doesn't work like that.Last edited by RogueSamurai; 07-01-2017, 03:09 PM.Comment
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There's a great joke here somewhere. (Obviously I am no help).
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Roach Prufe
It works.Comment
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Man Germans are the worst, we got them from some things we put in storage when we built a house 12 years ago, you gotta just poison, poison and poison
They are a royal pain. Germans are nothing like the cockroaches that most people know of.
You may want to take the family for a long wknd and bomb the house a round or two
Good luck
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Not German roaches, they are usually a product of poor sanitation. OP keep doing what you're doing keeping everything clean and get you some good contact killer and spray every Crack and crevice, that's where they live. Electronic devices too, microwave, blender, toasters, etc. They love to hide in them.Originally posted by MONSTERKEN View Post
Get something with gentrol too. It's a growth regulator that will stop reproduction.Last edited by RickH78; 07-01-2017, 03:28 PM.Comment
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Well this might work.
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This, but not always. German Roaches show up in clean houses if they are carried in by produce from a grocery store container or some such. What keeps them there is finding a food and water source.Originally posted by Irish_25 View PostNot German roaches, they are usually a product of poor sanitation. OP keep doing what you're doing keeping everything clean and get you some good contact killer and spray every Crack and crevice, that's where they live. Electronic devices too, microwave, blender, toasters, etc. They love to hide in them.
Get something with gentrol too. It's a growth regulator that will stop reproduction.
For the "this is Texas, you're going to have roaches crowd",
German Roaches are the little fast ones that get restaurants and bars closed down, they are not the bigger ones that 80+% of housewives see and freak out over. The bigger ones are actually fairly clean compared to the German Roach. The German Roach carries diseases etc, the bigger "water beetle"/"tree roach" version is fairly clean compared to the German version.
The active ingredient in Roach Proofe is Boric Acic. Look for the ingredient, not the name brand.Comment
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Let loose a couple of green lizards.Comment
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I used powdered boric acid when we were living in an apartment while our house was being built. The apartment was infested with them. I had boric acid along every base board, around the fridge, on top of cabinets, on countertops where they meet the wall, anywhere I could imagine one of them crawling. It seemed to help, I would find dead ones in the powder almost daily.
One thing it was really effective at, was convincing my wife they were getting killed and that made her feel better.Last edited by JES; 07-01-2017, 06:42 PM.Comment
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Best stuff ever
DuPont Advion Cockroach Gel ...after you clean up and sanitize. Work wonders in my rentals.Comment
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