Anyone dealt with huge roach problem?

[Prado257]

Go to Bug & Weed Mart. They have ‘professional grade’ stuff and will advise you on what to get. They have effectively helped me with previous bug issues. Also, make sure you do not have any plumbing or irrigation system leaks that are creating breading ground for bugs.

[Zippyman]

I had a bad wax seal on a toilet allowing then to come in- literally around the bolts that hold the toilet to the floor. Drove me nuts cause every spring & fall when the weather changed we'd get one inside once or twice a week. I tried everything available & could not get rid of them (including calling the city).. the city will check the manhole, but the "lateral" line to your house is where they actually nest & breed. I drilled holes in the bathroom cabinets, treated the perimeter of the house & had my pest guy hose the block wall down with pesticides. I hid growth regulator tabs everywhere.. chopped down my palm tree & created a "dead zone" free of any vegetation all the way around the house. Nothing worked until I found that bad wax seal around the toilet. The toilet didn't leak any water, just made a "thub thub thub " sound when you flushed.. with the new seal, we stopped getting roaches inside for a couple years..

I had a pest guy out multiple times for the first couple years in that house & he kept blaming the city sewer - even went so far as to shoot some Gentrol down the little hole in the manhole cover, which caused a couple roaches to pop up & run down the street.

I had new tile put down in that bathroom a few weeks ago & when I went to put the toilet back on (the line was capped), it was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie.. like 20 of them big bastardos waiting to come out and cause wifely screams.

I nailed them with raid & re-capped the line & a couple popped out of the shower drain a few hours later.. I had bought a shower drain with teeny-tiny holes, just to be sure they couldn't get in that way, but they managed to wiggle through..

Not sure if it helped or not, but I bought some of that two-part draino that foams up & dumped that into the shower drain. It made me feel better, even if it didn't get them.

Anyway.. sewer roaches are real, and they will pop out of the sewer, even if the city does their part. I've been irreparably scarred by the sight of roaches popping out of drains & I think it might be time to move.

Good luck!

[Voebe]

Get an exterminator. Two you could try are Allgon and Bee & Pest.


But don't worry about the ones outside.

[autism360]

There are chemicals that work like magic but you need a special license to purchase them . Use and exterminator to get them under control.

[Sevenohseven]

I had one almost every single day at my old house. The house was built in 1914 and had a crawl space. Sometimes it had a leaky pipe or two dripping into that crawl space. I heard that water attracts them. And they did seem to confine their territory primarily to the sinks and tub. Oh, but, wait, I forgot about how they would also climb the living room and bedroom walls. So much for the water theory. Or maybe they were crowded out of those areas. Oh well...

I set off insecticide bombs under and inside the house simultaneously. A couple of hours later, we counted over 150 dead sewer roaches! Half of those were in the kitchen! Unbelievable. But that still didn't stop them. We couldn't leave silverware or toothbrushes out. We didn't even have Thanksgiving at our house because we were afraid the roaches would get into the food. In fact, once one crawled on my foot beneath the dining room table while I was eating dinner! It was sickening. I could go on and on.

So, after years of this "abuse," I sold that house and bought a newer all-brick house across the street. I've seen only one sewer roach here in the past two years. So, I think it was just a combination of things: old house full of entry points, old/bad plumbing, irrigation, crawl space, manhole cover in the street in front, etc. (By the way, it has nothing to do with whether or not you are a good housekeeper.) Buy some of those baits for big roaches. But don't forget, they are designed to attract the roaches. So don't set them where you will witness their feeding habits. Yuck.