How do I get rid of these FUCKING COCKROACHES!?
 

I'm in this old ass basement suite and I'm experiencing a cockroach infestation for the first time in my life. I always thought we didn't have them in Vancouver. Little 1/2 inch brown fuckers. They <3 my coffee.

How do I get rid of the fucks? I keep the counters clean but they still come around.

The coffee + jar trap isn't working for me. What does?

Bay leaves?

Baking soda?

Just get the fucking exterminator in already?

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The exterminator, and that doesn't always work. We lived at a shitty Valley apartment complex that had this problem, the only solution was moving.

I had a nice clean condo once in Buena Park. It was never dirty, we never left food out. But the neighbors did. That led hundreds of the fucks through our house as a bi product. You need to exterminate them - nothing you do otherwise will help. You could disinfect daily and have the shits scurrying everywhere.

move out of the projects

I heard it said that for every one you see, there's a hundred more that you haven't...

Oops I thought this was another thread about those muslim protesters in London :error

Got them once after returning a TV to circuit city for repairs - it came back with critters. I waged full on assault with them and eventually won the war without a bug guy who wanted a year long contract.

1. Boric acid along any counters, pipes etc.
2. Roach gel (its a poison that they eat and it like sterilizes them or something) check poison area's for it. Many varieties. Add lines of this to corners, seems, etc. where you seen activity.
3. Prior to above action get a few (like twice as many as listed on can) roach/bug bombs. Remove your food and open everything up. Then let them rip and bomb the place. Make sure you vacuum up everything and then wash everything - including vacuum after your done with it.

When I first moved to AZ I had em in a shitty apt... spray your counters and around trash cans with straight rubbing alcohol before bed. Keep everything sterile clean and they might go away... but yeah, dirty neighbors will keep em around

Boric Acid in all the corners and under cabinets.

There is a product that is now illegal in the US called Baygon.

It comes in a spray can and will keep killing cockroaches dead for months.

You have to be careful with it around pets though

god, there's no way... not trying to be a downer. It looks like Aftershock got to them before they made a million strong colony in the walls. Unless that's the case with you, ie you know they just got in there, you can't get rid of them without a series of full on structural exterminations - I mean the whole building, not just around your pad. Then it usually needs to be done again a few times...

good luck, feel your pain, fuckers love warm places, definitely dig the coffee maker

You can call in an exterminator, but they are just going to come back until the other units get rid of them too

There is a gel that comes in a big plastic syringe. Put this stuff all over and leave it there. It kills them and when they come back they eat it again and it kills them again. Very effective. Roaches used to be impossible to get rid of but not anymore.

I did catch them before a full on roach explosion where they were deep in the walls. Maybe a few colonies of a couple thousand each by the time I launched my war. It is fucking crazy how they can go from 1-2 roaches to thousands of them in a matter of a few weeks.


I did loose a bunch of electronics as a collaterial damage - fuckers ate the shit and ruined parts of it. They also killed my oven and my microwave along with about 80 books.

This product Bengal is one that they used in New Orleans, and I've seen cockroaches walk across a line of it and spit their guts out before they hit the middle of the rooms. It works for months, and when/if other cockroaches eat the dead, it kills them too.

Maybe that is the same gel I used cause it did come in a syringe.

I had a lot of low rent housing in the 90's. we could never even make a dent until this stuff came out. Your method above is extreme but effective.

I know it was extreme but fuck man I have seen where they had to tear down places that became to infected.

I did not mention that I also steam blasted everything while cleaning up as I figured that would of been seen as way extreme. Yet I did get a pressure wand steamer and blasted every crack and crevice I could find.

Sooo basically I should find a new place.

Until then how do I keep them away from my !@$ coffee maker.

I've heard they hate bay leaves? If I tape some to it will they leave it alone?

If your coffee maker is more than a jar with a handle - ie has anyplace they can get into or hide. Odds are it is already infested itself.

BTW you will have a hard time moving while your shit is infested unless your willing to leave it all behind.

exterminator he has to get them in the walls.

baking soda works just as well.

You know those things don't actually work.

Those riddex things were a joke. The roaches were living behind and around the damn thing just like almost all other electronics. It almost seemed to attract them.

This post is making me all itchy now.

It worked for me.

maybe your place is so nasty they all left. Or simply you're retarded.

get someone dirty to move in next door and maybe the cockroaches will move :)

this is going to creep me out when I make coffee in the morning... eek! good luck!

being in a basement definately isn't helping your cause....
do you have leaks and your dampness?

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You get naked......you spread peanut butter around your pubic hair and lay on the floor. When those fuckers come strolling over your body and legs towards the peanut butter you STAB them with an ice pick.

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I had this problem once before when a relative came to crash with me and brought roaches in her boxed up crap. I tried all the over-the-counter methods and had an exterminator come for 6 months... still saw roaches. Finally I cracked and brought in the more expensive exterminator and after one visit they were gone for good. He said you have to use multiple methods because some are immune to certain poisons. He used gels, powders, sprays, and left out those little roach hotel things. I imagine that living in an apartment building you would have to keep them coming regularly since your neighbors probably won't be exterminating.

My mom used boric acid.

move out... hehehe

When I first moved to Florida, the house had some cockroaches. I bought some little hotel type things from a source online that makes them die, and when they eat the dead, it kills them too. Got rid of them fast and never had them again after that. Roach bait gel or something like that, came in little discs.

That's the stuff I had to buy to get rid of the roaches in a vacation rental on Margarita Island in Venezuela. The place was infested with those small brown roaches.

It looks like peanut butter, right? I put dabs of that anywhere I thought roaches would hang out, especially in crevices and corners.

The owner just tossed some of that boric acid powder under the sink and thought that would do the job. It didn't.

It took me several days of spraying Raid and smearing that poison gel all over the place to get rid of them.

Good luck man.

remember "Joe's Apartment"?
"We've been around for 100 million years and we'll be here long after you!"

very true

Yeah that's a logical explanation.....For a MORON... :321GFY

Call Tony Montano

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Sounds like you need to move. Exterminators only kill whats in your place. As long as other apartments have them around you, you'll be living with them.

exterminators are expensive and usually do a quick fix :(

Bleach is the answer!

Try cockroach gel drops. Roaches can't resist them and they die very quickly. Bayer makes a version of these.

If that's unavailable to you, try borax chalk. Another name for this is "Chinese chalk" Use it to outline the area you want to protect. When roaches cross it their skin starts to burn.

Get a good exterminator, the only way to go.

Why give your roaches to the exterminator? go out get yourself a good bong and fire'em up!!!

This is the stuff and gets rid of them pretty fast.