What criteria must be met for a cricket to chirp?

See, I’ve got this rogue cricket in the house, and it will not shut up. I’ve been trying to kill it (or them) for a couple of weeks now, but there are just too many places for it to hide.
I’d settle for the accursed thing to simply be quiet, and so I was wondering if there were any environmental factors that I could alter so that it wouldn’t feel like making an utter nuisance of itself.