Fighting cockroaches in the house is a rather laborious process, which, however, today can be done literally within one day. At the same time, the owner always has to choose how to deal with cockroaches, because there is no absolutely universal way.
Even seemingly safe and extremely effective insecticides for home use always have their pros and cons to be aware of.
It is important to understand that the fight against cockroaches in an apartment should not begin with the search for the most effective or fastest remedy, as is often the case. After all, if cockroaches wound up in the house, then there were reasons for this, which you need to pay attention to first of all.
Therefore, an effective fight against cockroaches implies, first of all, an integrated approach, which we will consider with you.
Look at the root: the fight against the causes of the appearance of cockroaches in the house
Cockroaches are, first of all, a sign of the presence of garbage in the apartment, dirty unwashed corners, food available for feeding on insects, and water constantly dripping and flowing somewhere.
Cockroaches are a symbol of unsanitary conditions.
On the other hand, in an absolutely clean apartment, in which there is no food, huge convenient cracks and puddles in the sink, cockroaches will not be able to live. This is a hint at the main and most effective way to deal with cockroaches: it is enough to make the apartment clean and constantly maintain this gloss, and the cockroaches will leave on their own.
It is done like this:
- a thorough cleaning of the apartment and minor repairs are carried out: cracks, lagging wallpaper are eliminated, skirting boards are replaced. A film of fat (by the way, very nutritious) is wiped off the floor under and behind the stove, bread crumbs are carefully removed.
- All products that are not currently consumed are hidden in the refrigerator or packed in plastic bags.
- At night, the remnants of water in the sink and bathroom are wiped off, glasses and mugs with juices and compotes are removed
- Dishes are washed after eating, not before.
But this approach has a major disadvantage: it requires serious work and regular expenditure of time. Even without financial investments, it does not suit everyone and gives results only after a month or two. That is why, as an alternative, there are other methods of dealing with cockroaches, fast, effective, but always leaving pests a second chance.
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“I read your forum, every three months I poisoned the apartment with a new drug, but until I put it in order, they constantly returned. But as soon as the repair was done, all the problems disappeared - I haven’t seen a single cockroach for three years already. I even forgot what remedies help them.
Lyudmila, Uman
Methods of dealing with cockroaches here and now
All effective methods of dealing with cockroaches can be divided into several categories:
- Independent use of insecticides in various forms - gels, aerosols, powders, crayons.This method is considered the most versatile today - it can be used at any time of the year in any premises. But before you fight cockroaches at home or in canteens and hostels with the help of such poisons, you should carefully study the instructions for using the drug. It explains how to effectively deal with cockroaches without risk and harm to other inhabitants of the premises.
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“In practice, cockroaches were poisoned in the canteen of the Polytechnic University. I didn't even think that there were so many of them somewhere. Imagine how many kilograms of food they ate every day. As we began to spray from spray cans, they just poured in batches. Then I read on the forum that the remedy is called Xulat. In short, there will be problems with cockroaches in the hostel - use ... "
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Egor, Novosibirsk
- Calling pest control services is perhaps the most effective way to kill any insects in your home. In addition, it is fast and quite safe. The only negative, due to which the fight against domestic cockroaches by specialists is rarely used, is the high cost of calling such teams.It ranges from 1,600 rubles for processing a 1-room apartment in the regions and up to 2,500 rubles for the same procedure in Moscow.
- Freezing cockroaches is a method that, in terms of simplicity, environmental friendliness and efficiency, cannot be compared with all modern methods of fighting cockroaches taken together. But it is not without drawbacks: only residents of the middle and northern parts of our country can use it, and only in winter. It is important at the same time to prevent freezing of water in the heating pipes, otherwise they may burst.
- The use of traps and baits is based either on attracting insects into a special "trap" from which they cannot get out, or on the use of a specially prepared poisonous mixture. However, these cockroach control measures are more often used as preventive measures - to protect the apartment from neighboring "stray" guests, as well as auxiliary - when destroying single individuals in the room.
There are other ways to deal with cockroaches - the simple physical destruction of insects, the use of repellers and folk remedies - but in most cases they are either ineffective or too laborious. Therefore, when deciding how to deal with domestic cockroaches, you should first study in detail the basic and proven methods.
Insecticide use: effective chemical attack
Insecticides produced today for home use combine qualities that were considered incompatible half a century ago.For example, many of them are capable of poisoning insects when inhaled, and therefore do not require eating them. Along with the effectiveness of most of these tools can boast of relative safety for humans.
It would seem, what else can the fight against cockroaches at home require? Indeed, in most cases this is enough, and preparations for combating cockroaches are used today more often than all other methods.
But even among them there is a classification.
- Gels from cockroaches, today - the most commonly used form of drugs. They do not require treatment of the entire premises with the removal of residents, they are applied in drops in secluded, but attractive places for pests, and are very effective: some means with one drop destroy up to five thousand insects. Insecticide gels are not dangerous for children and pets, and therefore it is possible to destroy cockroaches with their help without disturbing the usual way of life. Usually cockroaches die within a few weeks. The most popular gels today are Globol, Raptor, Brownie, Fas, Sturm. They are very inexpensive - a two-room apartment costs 150-200 rubles. This option is also great for fighting cockroaches in a hostel: each tenant gets a syringe with gel, and no one else will see cockroaches in the hostel.
- Aerosol products - the well-known Raid, Raptor, Tetrix, Fufanon, Combat, Executioner and others. Their main advantage is the speed of action. With a complete treatment of the apartment, cockroaches die in it within a few hours. However, for this, all inhabitants, including pets, must be removed from the room (after all, otherwise they would have to breathe poisonous fumes).In addition to the complexity of the use of these drugs are also quite expensive.
- Powders, which in common people are also called dusts. They combine the advantages and disadvantages of the previous two categories: they allow you to combine the fight against insects with life in an apartment, stretch the period of getting rid of cockroaches, and are in the middle price category. The most famous powders are Clean House, Brownie, Raptor and Feverfew.
On a note
Dust is originally DDT, the most infamous insecticide in the world. It was he who was used in apartments in Soviet times, locking the room for a week and leaving on vacation, away from the strong smell and dying insects.
- Pencils, of which Masha's chalk is the most famous today. Effective, but require a diligent approach to use. Their main advantage is the price. The same Mashenka will allow for 80-100 rubles to expel and destroy all the cockroach brethren from the house.
- Homemade poisoned baits are perhaps the most ineffective way. According to folk recipes, it is prepared using borax or boric acid, mixing them with egg, flour, sugar and vanilla. Before you fight cockroaches at home with the help of such recipes, you should evaluate your financial capabilities and prefer insecticidal gels - their essence is the same, but their effectiveness is many times higher.
Despite all the advantages and variety of these tools, there are much simpler, but no less effective methods. Not without their shortcomings, however.
Severe Siberian method: freezing cockroaches
Fighting cockroaches with folk methods has always been considered not the most effective solution. But frost is a factor that mows down mustachioed cohabitants quickly and cleanly. And even the eggs do not spare them.
The use of this method is simply outrageous:
- all inhabitants who may be uncomfortable with temperatures below minus 8 ° C are removed from the room
- windows open
- heating and hot water pipes are covered
- the place is closed for the day
- after the expiration of the pest control, the windows are closed, the apartment is heated, and the corpses of cockroaches sprinkled with frost are swept out from behind the bedside tables.
Of course, such disinfestation can only be carried out in winter and only in the northern regions of the country - cockroaches can tolerate temperatures above minus 8 ° C. In addition, such a procedure is fraught with the destruction of the heating and water supply system.
However, for residents of regions that freeze well in winter, who decide how to deal with cockroaches in a private house, this method may be optimal.
Physical methods of struggle
Everything that people try before they realize it's time to take insecticide could be included in this category. As a rule, this is the “sneaker and vacuum cleaner method”. Of course, both of them don't work.
However, among the physical methods of struggle there is a fairly effective way - the use of special traps.
In most cases, the trap works on the principle of "lured - stick". The insect runs to the smell of vanilla or chocolate, runs into a cozy house, and sticks to a special adhesive tape.
Let's make a reservation right away: it is impossible to destroy all cockroaches in a too infected apartment in this way. But keeping such traps in places through which cockroaches can enter the apartment from neighbors is completely justified.
On a note
Modern Chinese traps are perfect for those who are thinking about how to deal with red cockroaches: in some instances of such houses, a home-grown black cockroach in its prime will not fit in principle. So the fight against cockroaches in the house with the help of these tools has certain limitations.
And be sure to remember that if the fight against red cockroaches or their black counterparts has begun, it should be carried out with an eye to the sides. If insects inhabit neighboring apartments, explanatory work should be carried out among neighbors and insects should be fought with joint forces. And always remember that if the cockroaches were already happy in the apartment, they will return for pleasure. Therefore, the conditions for their sweet life must be destroyed immediately.
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For many years the whole family struggled with the invasion of cockroaches in our house.I read a huge number of articles on this topic ... We started with folk remedies ... when they didn’t help, we switched to drugs for bullying (gels, sprays, powders), but in a couple of months they didn’t give a result. And then my mother advised me to call specialists who have experience in productive victories over these unpleasant creatures. I followed in my mother's footsteps. Pah-pah-pah, we've been living for half a year, we don't know troubles))
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People, my point is not that the apartment is dirty, and in general we didn’t have cockroaches. It’s just that people do business, climb onto the roof, throw off the Prussians from there, and then write ads: “Let’s get the cockroaches out.” So the strangest thing is that there have never been cockroaches and Prussians, and then Prussians suddenly appeared, and these announcements. Tell me the means are good from the Prussians.
Absolutely agree with you! We live in a new house, the apartment is in good repair, there was no dirt and no, there is no dampness, and cockroaches suddenly appeared a couple of days after the announcement “Let's get the cockroaches out” was hung in the entrance.
We, too, first went, actively offered to poison cockroaches, no one had. And two weeks later they crawled!
We have the same.
After some time, cockroaches started up in the new apartment (they ran away from the neighbors). Then there were two mice in the kitchen. The cockroaches are gone. I caught mice - after a while cockroaches appeared again. Then the cycle repeated itself. Now no cockroaches, no mice. So try it and choose which is best.
We rented a guest room in a hostel, the house was perfectly clean, but the cockroaches attacked.But it turns out that water is kept in a thin layer under the linoleum in the bathroom: they checked all the pipes - they do not flow. But it turns out that all the condensate that accumulates drips from the pipes slowly under the linoleum, and, apparently, does not have time to dry out. Horror, fuuu ... They told the hostess - she ignored it.
We decided to buy chalk, it has become less, but there is. And my husband also said that they have a nest in a plate with cookies and sweets, which, supposedly, the housewife keeps for the housewife, I was shaken all over by such news. Time passed, cockroaches literally began to walk, I was hysterical, sounded the alarm. I went to buy a gel, I sit and wait for the result)
My husband and I bought an apartment, renovated, in an old house that is infested with cockroaches ((I realized this too late for myself when we stopped by and lived for a week. I fought on my own with everything I could: crayons, gels, and traps. I invited a sanitary service, gave a lot of money, but they did not help ((
We live in an old house, like a hostel. Cockroaches just attacked, especially in the summer. A neighbor on the other side of the house taunted the cockroaches, so they crawled through the windows and doors, I hammered them for about half an hour. I decided that I also urgently needed to poison, poured out the entire balloon of the raid, and what do you think, everything is pointless. I tried all means, I bought poison in the SES, sprinkled it, poured it out, and after 4 days the pedestrians came again. It's just a nightmare, it turns out, cockroaches bite, fly, jump, and recently killed one and he ate blood somewhere. People, I'm horrified, nothing takes them, they seem to evolve and get used to everything! What to do?
I have never used poison, I just set it on fire with a can, they are very sensitive to fire.
I am horrified, we have never had anything like this at home, but three days ago my husband discovered that we had guests. I can't put into words how disgusting they are to me, I can't even name them. You could say it's my phobia. They also treated the apartment with Raptor gel, we are waiting. I haven't slept since almost the day my husband discovered them. Here's the trouble. God willing, we are waiting for a positive result.
Houses are clean and tidy. I clean every day, a small child climbs everywhere. There were cockroaches. 3 times she called services to poison cockroaches, several times she poisoned herself, all kinds of aerosols, gels, boric acid. And it makes no sense. There seemed to be more cockroaches. I don't know what to do anymore...
I have a feeling they are smarter than humans.
The whole trouble is that these creatures climb everywhere: in household appliances, in wardrobes, in bookstores. And they are omnivores, you can hide water and food, but they are not averse to feasting on the binding of books or eating away badly washed food stains on clothes. It is because of this that these creatures are difficult to lime. They came to me from a neighbor, I live in a house, such as a hostel. I think to combine several types of bullying - I hope it helps. So far, there are few of them, but I'm afraid they will come running from a neighbor again. Share your victories over these creatures.
I agree with you completely! I remember with horror the time when I took them out. How much time and money was spent, how many forums about their extermination were re-read! At first, I did not want to apply anywhere, because. I read that a lot of companies don't do a good job. But after a long struggle, I think: “There wasn’t,” and called a team of professionals. They came and processed.So I have not seen this muck at home for 2 months!
Now I already think that it is better to contact such services right away, but you need to choose them wisely.
Ekaterina, how much did you pay for the service, if it's not a secret?
Oh, and don't say, such a nightmare - these cockroaches! A year ago, my husband and I took out this muck. We live in a private house, where they came from and I still can’t imagine! How many they tried, it’s scary to imagine ... And they tried with folk methods, and pencils from cockroaches, and other chemistry - zero sense, a month later they appeared again! The only convenient and practical thing that helped us was Inta-Vir. I sprayed everywhere a couple of times and pah-pah, until I remember this red abomination.
A month ago we stopped at a new apartment, and immediately saw the Prussians. Not many, but they were. And here is what helped us.
Egg, potatoes (cooked for an hour), a spoonful of butter and poison from the bear vofatoks. I mixed everything, made coils and laid them out in chopped candy cells. I laid it out at the tables in the kitchen, in the table, in the oven, on hanging cabinets, in the bathroom ... And you know, after 5 days there is not a single one. The main thing is to wait for these few days. After that, they pushed back all the tables and swept out the corpses that did not have time to leave.