Safe Home remedies for Ridding of ROACHS? (house, gated)

[hbennett2003]

I have 3 small children ages 3 years to 1 month. And have lived down here in GA since May 07. I want to know if anyone knows to to get rid of this NASTY things safely when having children. We have had the exterminators come like 2 times already and i swear this last time he came it was worse after then before. They are the HUGE ones but the small roaches. I want these things gone. Where im from we don't have roaches unless your house is utterly disgusting. I have OCD so im constantly cleaning and im still finding them in our kitchen. Hell there is one in our TV (which is a 52 inch flat screen tv) Not only is it making me disgusted to see these things, they freak me and my kids out but its annoying as well. no matter how well i clean they are still there. I have used everything from bleach, pinesol anything fairly safe for children to be around. but i don't know what else to use ... ANY SUGGESTIONS i will try it .. and hope it works. please help. MOTHER of 3 in dire need of knowing ways to get these things out of my house for good at least for longer periods... THANK YOU.. you can email me at hbennett2003@gmail.com as well..

[cool_mommy]

I remember reading something awhile ago on this forum about roaches. Several people suggested sprinkling borac acid around the perimeter of your basement. From what I understand it is safe for humans and pets to be around but roaches hate it.

[Blue Eagle]

While I was exercising in the evening, I would see roaches almost every day in some places. And there were stretches where I almost never would see any roaches. So I decided to take a flashlight with me and see if I could find where the roaches were coming from.

What I learned was that the storm drains were infested with roaches and were the major nesting places of roaches in the city. Occasionally I would see a lot of roaches where there was no storm drain. I investigated and found there was a hole in the ground where a shrub or plant had been dug up. The roaches were using the hole as a nest.

And when my father had a problem with roaches at his house, I used what I had learned to solve his problem. I looked in the storm drain at night with a flashlight and there were a lot of roaches. I used roach spray, but had to do so every two weeks or so. And I found a hole under a concrete slab in the back yard that was being used as a roach nest.

And the other interesting thing that I learned was if I walked around his house at night, there were roaches on the bricks outside. Better to kill them outside than inside. You can use roach spray, but I found a fly swatter worked just as well.

Of course this is only during roach season in warm weather. In the winter, you never see the roaches outside unless it is unseasonably warm.

I tried using boric acid, but it did not work. Boric acid may work on small roaches, but it does not seem to work on the large palmetto bugs that we have in the South.

[AmericanRoadGirl]

So sorry to hear about your problems. Couldn't help but post and suggest you check out using Diatomaceous Earth. I have not used it but have read much about it in the past. It is a natural substance, non-toxic, has been used in place of boric acid and has effectiveness against roaches. You can read a bit about it here.

Good luck!