Cockroaches - Any Old Style tips?

nesssie1702

If your local council doesn't offer a pest control service, then the staff in environmental health will be able to give you advice.

Cockroaches are horrible creatures that carry all sorts of nasties. They're notoriously difficult to get rid of as others have described. One thing though, they don't like the cold much. That's why they tend to be seen in communal buildings like blocks of flats - those heating ducts are just paradise for the critters. Same in hospitals and hotels. Warm and damp is just what the cockroach is looking for.

There are two types that are commonly seen here in the UK - the Oriental cockroach which is black and the German cockroach which is a brown colour and smaller than the Oriental.

6889joannew

Yeh i didnt realise i had them until i found 1 behind my fridge. I thought when u see one you must see more and i dint until today and i walked in my house and there was one sitting on the worktop these sort of things make me really ill im gonna be worrying about it all the time plus my house is very cold as me and my son both have athsma so we dont have the heating on as it affects us.
What it is they are right next to the back door i really just dont know what to do.
Im gonna chuck the fridge away as they have made me nervous about putting anything in there because thats the place i found the first one behind yukkkkkk the dirty little things.
They are the black ones so they must be the oriental cockroach
Thanks for all your help guys really appreciated

skintlass

You have to spray and then spray again in about 6 weeks to get the ones just hatching from the eggs - used to get them on the ships - disgusting things

D&DD

oh this thread brings back horrible memories for me,when we owned our own flat above a shop it changed hands and went from a body shop to a sandwich bar/restaurant then the owner did a runner and left a shop full of food..the police broke in as the smell was so bad they thought there was a dead body in there..:eek:

I was expecting our eldest and when I was getting into the bath,moved the mat and not one but two ran out..how I never gave birth there and then I'll never know :rotfl:
We battled the blighters with sprays and stuff for months to no avail and finally had to pay a private pest control firm..I moved a picture on the wall and one would run out,and when one fell on its back on top of our wardrobe it kept me awake all night til I turfed OH out of bed to find it..
Worst one was when eldest was toddling (thats how long we had them) and I caught him in the kitchen about to sample one!!!!:eek:

Pest control used sticky traps as when they die the babies apparently still 'get out' so they need to be trapped NOT just poisoned..

The whole block had to be treated (I remember DS1 finding one in the pick'n'mix in the corner shop 5 doors down...all in all it took nearly a year to get the !!!!!!s (28 properties were affected including many food shops..)
We had a yellow poison squeezed onto our door hinges etc too but think B&Q used to sell the sticky traps
HTH and sending big hugs!!!!
D XX

sandraroffey

a flame thrower??!!

failing that, call the council pest control, especially if you live over a food establishment and dont think twice about it. would you eat in there???xxx

D&DD

Sandra I'm wary even now still of eating out and this was nearly 20 years ago!!
We had a newsagent,bakers,fish and chip shop,chinese takeaway,supermarket,butchers and greengrocers in our block,we actually saw it as a bonus when we moved there.I didn't shop locally for long...

sandraroffey

had a friend who lived over an italian restaraunt which always looked so lovely and clean. out the back though was disgusting and this friend woke up one night to find something tickling his face and it was a cockroach on his face and they were in his bed as well. the flat became over run. pest control fought for months to get rid of them.

Hawthorn

Can I just say? Nyahhhhhh, urgh, *shudders*

wisbech_lad

Yep, get the council to do pest control.

Meanwhile, a good heavy shoe. Crush 'em. It is cheap and effective

donny-gal

I had never seen one until we got the place out here. We didn't have much bother until one neighbour opened upa drain when they had a blockage and did not know the routine (you must stamp on the drain cover so they fall off, and have a spray ready to zap any which come out). We now have the drains sprayed quarterly. However, as for self help, they are creatures with feelers which they do like to keep clean, so power, some ant powders say ant and cockroach power is very effective as if they walk through it they get it on themselves, clean themselves and die, so over anywhere you feel they can get in, a layer of powder. Out here they sell a Raid trap which works like the ant ones where they eat what is in it take it back to their nest and share it killing the nest. We now have insect netting on all windows and grill doors, so they cannot just walk in and haven't seen one inside in a long time.

As an afterthought I remember my Mum saying she moved into a place which had them when she was first married, and they had to put black treacle in saucers under the bed legs to trap them:eek: She soon moved out!
DG