Roach Extermination Guide

This article is all about answering one simple question: can you really ever control roaches? Many people who live in roach infested areas would probably say that you can’t. For these people, there is a familiar cycle where roaches are seen, a roach war begins, roaches die, and then roaches come back again a few months later. In this seemingly futile battle, it would appear that winning is impossible. Let’s see what awesome roach extermination tactics we can pull this time.

However, it may not have to be this way. Roaches, despite appearances, do not have magical powers that allow them to appear inside your house. Rather, they must either crawl in through some sort of opening, or hatch from eggs inside the house. If you kill all the egg laying roaches while making sure your house is roach tight, you stand a chance of never seeing one of the filthy creatures again.

Of course, this is all easier said than done. The first challenge is killing all the roaches. Be sure to read around the site and learn how to kill roaches. To briefly summarize, though, you’ll basically be soaking your house in boric acid, which is toxic to roaches. If you need an all out roach extinction (which you do), those less diligent with the borax might do well to find a roach exterminator, who will be able to lay down some series smack on those roaches. This is more expensive, sure, but it can be very thorough.

Once you’ve killed the roaches (or more like during the killing process), you need to get every single little hole in your house patched up. Many exterminators will offer this service, which can be great as it is super tedious. However, if you want to do it yourself, simply look over every square inch of your exterior and be sure that nothing, not even the smallest thing, can get inside. Thoroughly seal all the cracks with an appropriate material. If this is done properly, no roaches should be able to get inside.

In reality, achieving all this is quite difficult. Killing every single roach in the entire house might not be possible, and finding all the little small cracks in your house might be even harder. Still, if you take solid action in both these areas, you should at least reduce your problem down to at least a somewhat manageable level.

Many who look into roach exterminators fear that the extermination process will have negative healthy consequences for them. This is a fair point, since it is indeed true that exterminators do use many different types of chemicals to kill the roaches in your house.

Be comforted, though, that most exterminators won’t start out by simply gassing your whole house. To begin the process, most roach exterminators will simply start with all the common sense measures you could do your self (in theory). They will block of entrances, and place boric acid in strategic locations, all safe and proven methods. Because of their expertise and skill, they can often to all this much more efficiently that the average person, which can make them worth it. Plus, who wants to go crawling around the dark corners in the basement doing this stuff?

If the above techniques prove ineffective, then they have to bring out the big guns. These chemicals are often proprietary, so there’s no way anyone can say exactly what level of harm they might cause. To make matters worse, many exterminators have contracts that remove them from the legal consequences of their spraying system. Fortunately, many thousands of people a year get these sprayings done without any serious ill consequences. There are exceptions, but keep in mind that these roach exterminators do want you to be pleased with their service, so they make great efforts to reduce toxicity.

However, if you’re unusually sensitive to chemicals, you may want to consider more natural roach extermination methods. If you just want them dead, and feel like you’ll be OK with a little bit of residual chemicals, go ahead and call up that local roach exterminator.

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It’s inevitable:  when you see a roach, you start to assume the worst about the state of your house.  Have you been such a slob that these filthy creatures have suddenly started to invade your house?  Have you utterly failed beyond redemption as a housekeeper?  The answer to these questions is no.  You’re house simply provides roaches with one thing they love:  cool, damp places.

You can have the cleanest house in the world, with spotless counter tops and a basement floor clean enough to eat off of, and still get roaches.  As long as they can find some moisture (common in even the cleanest of houses) and some coolness (you probably enjoy this coolness as well), you can still get roaches.  You shouldn’t necessarily assume you need to fix your  housecleaning habits if you see a roach.

However, it turns out that house keeping can play a role.  If you’re creating tons of cool, damp places with trash and clutter all over your house, you might be able to mitigate much of the problem by simply cleaning up a bit.  Of course, there is no way this will fix your problem completely (you’ll need to undertake a full roach extermination campaign), but it should help.

So, don’t fret to much about the cleanliness of your house in the event of a roach sighting.  Roaches well live anywhere, not just in the dirt, so be sure to learn more about how to kill roaches, or simple hire a roach exterminator.  Best of luck in your quest!