How to keep the roaches out.

[Kefir King]

Discouragedcitizen,

Does the NYCHA provide regular extermination? Or are your parents the type that say "No, not for me, I don't want those poisons?"


Certainly garbage out evey night before bedtime is a terrific first step.

Have you considered that the holes in the wall are the way roaches are LEAVING your apartment rather than entering?

[JanND]

Lots of good advice. I thought I had a problem w/ fleas last spring, so did a lot of research. Lavander is something that bugs don't like. Neem oil is something that repels bugs. Also, at my daughters in Calif., I purchased "chinese chaulk" for a small dollar store. You draw a line w/ this at the doorways. I am not sure of toxicity you'll have to research if you try it. It worked great. I used it on sidewalk at their front door. Evidently bugs won't cross it.

[Fred314X]

Go to the supermarket. Pick up a bottle of Windex, preferably with a spray nozzle (even if your windows are spotless). Spray the next roach you see. Watch what happens. Windex is all you need to take care of roaches, once and for all--but they never tell you that in their commercials.

[nycgrl212]

Try some under the counter Chinese roach powder. They sell it in dollar stores. Combat gel is good too. And mop the floor everyday with ammonia.

[rlrl]

20 drops of peppermint oil, 10 drops of cypress oil in 8 oz water and a tsp salt mixed together is a good deterrent. they HATE the stuff. spray it in streams and spray

[john_starks]

there's no way

get it bombed every 4 mos

[ImCurlybelle]

YUK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You poor individual, if I saw a roach, I'd have to move, ASAP !

[Kefir King]

What works well are those creamy baits that used to be available only to exterminators. Most insecticide companies make them now for he public. It comes in large tubes, like toothpase and is odorless because it is a bait anot an aerosol killer.
Schmootz it around in hidden nooks and crannies and forget about it.