The bug guy came to kill the Cockroaches & gave me advice & bad news :(

[king2005]

I'm soaking all my dishes in hot water, drying them & then bagging them.

I tested the 3:1 bleach:water on some of the roaches on the sticky paper. I put a drop on 2 of them & both died. Then I put a drop beside 2 others & they died too. So I sprayed it in cracks, beside the fridge & did my best to spray under it.

I'm seeing a HUGE decline in the roaches. I sneek downstairs & flip on the kitchen light & I see NOTHING! I havent seen an adult roach in 3 days. Only the babies getting stuck on the sticky paper or crawling on the walls, but not very many.

A website I read, said to use many different methods to kill them & so far its starting to work.

oh I'm also washing the clothes in hot water & then bagging them once they are finished in the dryer

[Logan]

Laura, it is so interesting to read that you are allergic to roaches. Just a week ago, I had an allergy test done after multiple skin irritations, including "hives". My doctor told me it was time to figure out what was going on. You know what my highest allergies were? Cockroaches and Pigweed (whatever that is)!!!

[sasvermont]

I think I heard somewhere that roaches do not carry diseases and are rather clean critters.

I agree that I do not want them in my house....ugh. I lived in Falls Church Virginia for a few years. We had roaches and water bugs. We had to put boots on to walk to the bathroom at night. I had a nest of roaches living in my toaster in the kitchen...I seldom used it and when I did try to one day, out ran many, many roaches.

Anyway, I too would move. Usually roaches only live in warmer climates. Ewwwwww. Just thinking about them living with me gives me the creeps.

Good luck finding a new place to live.

Have you thought about covering your mattress in the standard plastic covering one would use if one had allergies?

I suspect once you begin the battle, the roaches will go find a new place to inhabit. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

Boy does this bring back bad memories!

[king2005]

plastic bag for a bed? never heard of it.

Well I found a roach flopping all over the floor this morning. I didn't know that the paste worked that fast. Lastnight I found 2 young roaches hanging around my fish tanks, so I got a pen & started to lay the paste all over the downstairs. I used the whole tube heheheh. The first bay roach I saw near my tanks ran right up to the paste & chowed down before I even finished squirting it out of the tube!

There is a HUGE decline in roaches. I haven't seen any traces of an adult Roach in a few days now. Just the odd baby. SO I know all is getting better, so that means when I start to pack things back up, we wont be bring any Roaches with us .

[sasvermont]

The plastic is for the mattress and box spring. They sell them for pillows as well. People with allergies are often allergic to dust mites and by putting the plastic around the bedding, it eliminates the problem. My guess is that it will also prevent .....ewwwwww....just the thoughts of roaches near my beds gives me the creeps. Anyway, it is just an idea. I bet you can find them online, somewhere!

[christa]

That does suck! But maybe you should get out of there. You never know why things happen . . . You should at least consider it . . . watch for new rental listings . . . go look at some places. I think I'd consider it after what that guy told you!!!

[king2005]

We are looking. We have been looking mostly at singal houses. cause if a roach does come with us, we can get a bug guy to spray the heck out of the house once a month for a while until we know there is no way they survived. We're even thinking just for the sake of it, spray the house anyways.