OT--Roaches!!!!

I very seldom have roaches in my home, however, I just came down from doing some work in my attic and I saw MANY large black roaches!
What is the best kill method I can use?

They call it Roach killer

Roachpruf is a can of powder that Ace and other hardware stores sell.

Borax is the base of it I think.

This house had had some in it when I bought it but had been vacate for awhile so most left. I treated it in 1991 and have never had a problem with seeing any or evidence of any since.

Several brands but comes in a small one ounce botle. Contains cypermethrin. (spelling may be a little off. Best stuff I ever found. Used to sell it when I lived in city to alot of apartment owners. They swore by it.

Used to set the roach bombs off in the house a couple times a year... Hoarding grocery bags (and packing handmedowns in them is the best way to keep and transport roaches....Haven't seen one since I've been over here but would gladly trade you some roaches for these dam woodworms.......

Roachprufe works pretty good. It'll also get rid of crickets.

We didn't have roaches here until a son needed us to store some of his belongings for awhile. He had been living in an apartment.

Roachpruf, Roach proof what ever the proper name is ,is the best However, you can buy the ingredients and make your own. I can't for the life of me remember what the name of the powdered acid is but you can buy it by the pound. I would then suggest you mix it with diatomaceaus earth which helps the acid get into the roaches system quicker. I have cleared large area with this mixture when I lived in Florida.

Just remembered that the ingreient is boric acid. The diatomaceous earth is used to filter pool water

Go to www.doityourselfpestcontrol.com

Type in the insect you want to exterminate and it will give you the rundown on the best chemical they sell to kill it.
Cypermethrin works good I have read.

Many years ago I bought a house that had roaches because the people apparently sold health foods of some sort when they had it, and roaches. Didn't know about or see any until they moved, and then was like something out of a horror movie, but thankfully before I moved in...or else I would have hunted those people down, and be in prison for the rest of my lfe right now. Before touching anything, after discovering a roach, which means millions of them, was that I went and purchased bug bombs and set one off in every room. MAKE SURE THE GAS IS TURNED OFF TO THE HOUSE AND NO PILOT LIGHTS TO IGNITE THE VAPOR FROM THE BUG BOMBS...I saw a ladies house leveled in an explosion when she did the same thing that I did, but didn't turn off the gas, so either water heater of stove pilot, and KABOOM, leveled the house. Good idea to cut the power for the four hours too, so refridge doesn't startup and somehow ignite the vapor.

After I bombed the house overnight and went back the next day, dead roaches in every room, basement and first floor. Were everywhere, but got the living ones then.

NOW HERE'S YOUR LONG TERM PROBLEM that I learned from an extermnator. He said the bombs got all of the live roaches, which they did, but roach eggs incubate for like a month, and are coated with a waxy substance that poisons and stuff don't penetrate. But, from the second roaches hatch, they start eating, so you have to coat the eggs. You will find the eggs in cracks, for instance, around cupboards, wall trim, bottoms of drawers around the edges, and that goes for furnature as well, to include dresser drawers. There is a reason that they survived but the dinosaurs did not. You can bomb like I did, but be sure to TURN GAS OFF, EXTINGUISHING PILOT LIGHTS FIRST, but then have an exterminator come in and hit the places that hide those eggs, and after a month, or month and a half before any that live can lay eggs, bomb again. Maybe an exterminator will sell you something. They used to have industrial sized bombs of something called Pyrethian, or something like that.

I bought a bedroom set from someone that had roaches. Took them from their house to the exterminator, and he doused them right there. Pulled the drawers out, flipped them, showed me the eggs around the edges. Were grayish, as I recall. Then I stored the furnature in a shed for a couple of months, doused again with Dursban, when it was legally sold.

Good luck.

Mark

I second the pilot light and power being off, but with your fog method, is there residue left behind by whatever chemical is used ? Reason I ask is, similarly, in one of our barns when I was a few years old, my parents fogged it for flies, and like idiots, (I can call em that for this) they allowed me access, whereas I touched the wood, and absorbed the chemicals through my hands, it just about killed me, toxic poisoning, then pneumonia or some darned thing, I do recall the hospital stay. I have all the respect in the world for most previous generations, but people you would think knew better did not. I am fortunate to be here, but am bitter about the foolish use of chemicals, of which I'll never know what it was that got me, late 60's this was. Ironically enough, after having told someone the story, I'll start twitching and say that is the reason why I am the way I am today, jokingly of course LOL ! I would imagine the MSDS sheets and all the safety information is posted, too bad it was not back then darn it ! LOL