Cockroaches - Any Old Style tips?

Ajax18

We live above one of the most unhygenic and disgusting restaurants ever and do get a weekly cockroach or so coming up. My mum suggested putting bleach near window frames and the floor near doors but that does not seem to do the trick. Do you know any other tips that might help?
I don't want to use spray as it's only a one bedroom apartment and I don't want to breath in pesticides and chemicals all the time :-(

Thanks for your help...

fudgem

You could try reporting the restaurant to the health authorities and maybe get it closed down. I think it is impossible to stop cockroaches getting in, the only thing you can do is keep everything as clean as possible, which you obviously can't do in your circumstances. It is not generally known that these creatures fly, so nothing you put round sills etc. would help

flufff

good luck they are horrible things.I experienced them at school.I'm sure theres powder that can be put down.Report the restaurant and if you must walk round in the dark wear shoes!

ASG_2

According to my herbal book, eucalyptus repels cockroaches.
However, I agree with fudgem and fluff - report them!

flufff

Praps ring pest control at council and housing.You may be offered somewhere bette to live if deemed unfit

patchwork_cat

Hi
I would suggest reporting them to Enivormental Health at the Council.

Kazonline

Just reading about borax as have finally found it (boots chemist for me, also in homebase apparently). Found this article and it says Borax can be used to kill roaches. http://chemistry.about.com/library/weekly/aa091002a.htm

HTH
Kaz x

dronid

:eek::eek::eek::eek:
We have Cockroaches! Whoop-de-do.:rolleyes:

We've had some major building works on the flats in our block and it appears some happy and contented cockroaches have been disturbed and decided to go for a walk.
So far they've acended 3 floors and each flat seems to have been invaded.:mad::eek::mad:

After much pushing on the Council I have managed to get a block treatment planned (£66 - as I am a leaseholder!) and I think I've even managed to get them to do the treatment at the same time as they're doing my flat. It was planned that they'd be completely unconnected to each other:rolleyes:, thereby allowing the roaches to move to a neighbouring flat during the treatment. Gosh it all seems like hard work!

Also put down a 1:1 mix of Borax and icing sugar to, hopefully, poison the bu**ers.

Can anyone suggest anything else we can do? I swear there was one that was 2 inches long excluding antennae!

All help gratefully accepted!

ceridwen

Well....does this constitute "help"? - the thought that cockroaches are considered a delicacy in China:D

There's various clips on YouTube about it - there's a Chinese man there duly eating ones with every appearance of enjoyment :eek: Well - its very M.S.E.:money:

Visions of you now going off roach-hunting muttering "Right lads - time to earn your keep":D

cheap_charlie

I had them years ago when I lived in a HA flat and all I can say is I hope one treatment sees them off for you - it took three treatments for the sods to leave my place!

Softstuff

If you can get your place sprayed by the pest control all around with artificial Pyrethrum you'll be fine even if the rest of the flats aren't.... as long as your place is clean, tidy, with no hidey holes and no stuff on the floor.

Roaches are a commonplace thing here in Aus, I quickly got used to seeing the odd one. We moved to a complex of units and here they spray with that periodically... since then I've seen maybe 1 indoors in a year.