How to get rid of roaches once and for all?

When I first moved in to my place it was a new building in a field. Because of the building disturbing the ground we had loads of problems with ants, and because we were near a field, we had loads of roaches.

In my experience, you can hide them, but you cant get rid of them. The only way to get rid of them that I have found, is to pay a speciallist to come and turn your house in to a heap of deadly poison for about two weeks.

If you’re in an apartment, you will want to call the landlord, because they’re probably in the walls. The whole building will need to be treated. They like damp areas, and places with glue, like liner paper inside kitchen cabinets.

Boric acid is generally used to kill roaches. You have to treat the house on a weekly basis and then do follow-up treatments whether you see them or not. you will need to treat all the cracks and crevices in the whole apartment.

It’s easy to get roaches. Generally they come into your house from the grocery store, either in the glue in on paper bags or boxes, or the tops of cans that are dusty looking have eggs on them which may hatch. The little buggers are prehistoric and survived the ice age.

A specialist is the only way to go and as @BarnacleBill says, if you’re in an apartment building, you need to get the manager involved. They will just run from apartment to apartment if the whole building isn’t treated.

I like roaches ^^
Though I do not like them going through my stuff or lurking through my kitchen. I use spray , i disinfect, i wash the floors and surrounding. After i try to keep it clean.
If the roaches persist [ and you live in a building ] it may be that neighbours have the nest. Tell them to clean too.

Hire a professional carpet cleaner. They are licensed to use strong chemicals and to apply chemicals more widely, and they can do so while keeping your family safe.

If it’s the small German roaches you’ll need to hire a professional… If it’s the larger reddish-brown ones I like @BarnacleBill ‘s idea. Use Boric Powder. Just sprinkle lightly around the edges of the walls, outside window sills, under, in and behind cabinets. Boric powder breaks down the protective oils on their exterior and makes them vunerable to natural enemies.

Your entire apartment needs to be professionally pest-treated. Yhey use a bait that the roaches ingest, and then go back to where they live and die. When the other roaches eat the dead one, they get poisoned too.

With roaches, for every one you see, there are ten more.

Keep your kitchen and bathroom really clean. Put all your food stuffs in canisters.

The thing is, everyone in the building needs to attack the problem, or they just go to someone elses apartment for a while until the poison in yours wears off, and then they come back to you after a while. There is a whole extended family of roaches probably living in the building. Roaches like water and paper from what I remember, this is why they like the kitchen and bathroom, so don’t leave out any folded brown bags and keep everything dry. Regularly spray the apartment (most buildings offer this service). Before you walk in a room always flip in the light, so at least you are less likely to have to see them.

I agree with all statements above about contacting your apartment’s management company.

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If you want to take matters into your own hands, I recommend a two-prong approach:

1. Use a real pesticide and create a perimeter around your home with something like Ortho Home Defense Max. One application and it lasts for months.

2. Deploy roach bait. Roaches think it’s food and take it back to their nest where a lot more roaches get in on the action. They all die.

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It can be frustrating trying to get other people to solve problems that affect you directly. My recommendation is to spend around $20 to implement the perimeter-and-bait approach so you can get some relief asap.

I don’t really think there is a way to get rid of them once and for all. They are probably one of the few critters that will survive whatever mass extinction event comes about on this planet.

That being said, controlling them in a non-toxic way is not too difficult.

Step 1: Clean out all of those little nooks and crannies under your cabinets. Yep, I’m talking about that icky spot in the corner under your sink.

Step 2: Spread a line of boric acid (available at your local mega mart) around the inside edges of all of your cabinetry where the cabinet meets the wall (where the critters usually enter)

It won’t kill them all, but it will definitely keep the population in check and make your home a bit less inviting to them.

We have the house sprayed every 2 months.
That keeps them out of the house, but I did see a nest of them under the roofing.
Completely disgusting.

Ah roaches are a pain. I’ve found what actually works are the Combat roach control systems. You place the trays all around the places you have seen them and it may take a minute say at least two weeks but they eat the poison take it back to the roach nest and spread it to the others. Before you know it no more roaches. For instant on the spot kills in between the Raid is good.

It’s not possible to get rid of them forever. Their eggs stay around and hatch after treatment, and they even come in on things you buy from the store and on your shoes.

We have a professional service that comes every two months, and they use products that are safe around children and animals.

The old saying is they have been here since the prehistoric days.