How to get rid of cockroaches in an apartment quickly and forever?

The appearance of cockroaches in the house is usually not a joyful event for the tenants, and they, of course, take all possible measures to drive out the insects. If this happened to you, then before you remove the cockroaches from your home, you first need to find out what factors contribute to their appearance, what can be destroyed and how to make them disappear forever. Since this problem is quite old, to date, many ways and means have been invented to combat this type of insects. Having familiarized with some of them, you will be able to choose the most acceptable method, taking into account the circumstances.

Causes of the appearance of

Cockroaches are planted in the house, if there are simultaneously several suitable factors:

1. neighbors in whose apartment these insects have become regulars;
2. crevices in floors and walls or other channels of movement, allowing them to penetrate from there to your home;
3. frequent mess in the kitchen in the form of food left on the table or its remnants;
4. free access to water, for example, not wiped drops on the surface of various objects;
5. other possible types of unsanitary conditions in your habitat.

Most often, cockroaches first appear in the kitchen and where you usually eat. At first you may not even notice their presence, as they creep out to their fishing at night. But as the population of these insects in your apartment becomes more and more, they will start to catch your eye in the daytime, so that their presence in the house will become obvious to you. In this situation, you involuntarily begin to wonder what to do to get rid of cockroaches at home and what methods to use.

If you killed several individuals caught unawares, do not think that the fight against them has already been completed. Most of the insects in the apartment are hidden from your eyes in various crevices, which are full of furniture or other objects of the interior, and there may be thousands of them. It is necessary to destroy cockroaches not only because their presence is unpleasant for us, but also because they can be carriers of infectious diseases. Just imagine that the insect that penetrated into your house before it traveled around the apartment in which a dysfunctional family lives, where one of its members is ill with something dangerous that is transmitted by airborne droplets or through food. If the cockroach crawled on the remains of food that this person ate, and after a time found himself on one of your foodstuffs, is it worth explaining that the probability of becoming a regular victim of the disease among members of your family is greatly increasing.

Some popular methods in the people to combat cockroaches

It should be known that there are both store and folk remedies for cockroaches in the house. But even resorting to one of the folk ways, you still have to buy something. For example, when destroying cockroaches with boric acid, which is a very effective remedy against these insects. This powder can usually be easily purchased at the pharmacy.

For better acid efficiency, it is better to use the following way:

• boil some potato and top it off;
• add egg and a batch of boric acid in mashed potatoes;
• all mix well;
• from the resulting mixture to blind the balls;
• decompose them in places of frequent occurrence of insects;

The potato in this case serves as a gluing agent, and the egg will muffle the smell of boric acid.

Having tried boric acid, cockroaches do not die right away, and they are still tormented for a long time, so they will disappear or their number will decrease significantly only after a couple of weeks. Another popular remedy for cockroaches in the apartment is ammonia alcohol, the action of which is not directed at destroying them, but rather at driving them out of the territory of your home. This substance, which can also be bought at the pharmacy, needs to be gradually added to the water during the washing of the floors. Like people, cockroaches are very unpleasant smell, which has ammonia, so they will try to leave the premises as soon as possible. If you have the opportunity to get arsenic, then you can offer "your" insects to regale this deadly substance.

Tip

Use rubber gloves to work with arsenic or boric acid. Do not forget also that ammonia is not an ordinary alcohol, so try to protect your hands and face while using it, and until its odor is eroded, it is better not to be indoors.

If you still do not dare to use one of the means mentioned above, worrying about your health, you can resort to a safer but not very convenient method - freezing. It was observed that, at very low temperatures, these insects quickly leave their homes because they can not bear the cold. Therefore, in order to remove the cockroaches from the apartment with the help of freezing, you need to move to another place for several days, leaving the windows open and the heating switched off when there is a lot of frost in the street. If the temperature in the room drops to 10-15 ° C with a minus sign, the cockroaches will run to a warmer place.

Board

If you have water heating, then do not forget before draining the dwelling, drain the fluid from the system that the pipes and radiators have not burst.

Cockroach traps

The industry also produces some poisonous substances from cockroaches, but they are often harmful to humans. Therefore, than to use poisons, it is better to apply one more original method of solving this problem. This construction of various traps, in which the insect freely climbs, but can not get out of them. So, on sale it is possible to meet some sort of houses for cockroaches, made of cardboard. The inner surface of the trap material is covered with a sticky substance. When an insect aspires to reach the bait, which is placed in the center of the box, its paws are bogged down in this glutinous compound, and it can no longer move.

But there are not only factory traps for these insects. Also, folk remedies for cockroaches include this kind of invention, and are not limited to the use of chemicals and exposure to low temperatures. Such self-made traps are made, for example, from a beer can, where a little beer is left. Its internal walls are smeared with petroleum jelly or vegetable oil. The smell of the drink will surely attract insects, and they will quickly get to it thanks to the slippery inner walls of the vessel, but it will not be possible to get out again. When enough of them are in the pot, its contents can be poured into the toilet bowl.

The above traps do not lead to the instant destruction of cockroaches, but simply help them to be sent to a specific place where they will wait for their further fate. But there are some traps of factory production that operate on a different principle. For example, to fight these insects, special bolls with bait are produced, having got into it, insects inevitably get an electric shock, from which they die. Other traps are equipped with a bait with a strong poison.

Final victory over cockroaches

It is clear that all the above methods are a temporary solution to the problem, since it is unlikely to get rid of cockroaches forever with their help. It is important to eliminate the causes of pests, and not just to deal with the consequences. But while these insects appear in your kitchen, you can protect yourself by using medical alcohol to wipe clean dishes before eating. Ethyl alcohol kills harmful microorganisms that can spread cockroaches. Of course, in order to completely defeat them, it is first and foremost to clear their homes, completely eliminating their presence.

If you know how to work with pesticides and are sure that do not cause harm to your family, then use one of the factory tools against cockroaches. Such compositions, which differ from each other in components and in the manner of application, can be produced as:

• powder intended for spillage in places of insect concentration;
• pencil or chalk, which is usually drawn along the perimeter of the room line, crossing the ways of their movement;
• spray sprayed wherever cockroaches most often appear;
• gel, intended for application along the supposed trajectories of their movement.

Of course, using these tools, you need to be extremely cautious, especially if the actions are performed in the kitchen.

Advice

Before you apply any of the factory tools, carefully study the manufacturer's instructions, and then clearly follow it.

To get rid of cockroaches once and for all on their own, it is important after their extermination by one of the ways described above to carry out the following preventive measures.

• Seal all cracks in floors, walls and ceilings, both in the kitchen and in other rooms, to prevent insects from penetrating from neighbors.
• Do not leave products or their remains on the table or in other places;
• Regularly do the cleaning in the kitchen, wiping all surfaces dry;
• Close the garbage cans tightly.

If all your efforts were in vain, then finally and quickly solve the problem, you can contact the disinfection specialists.