Re: Help!! Roaches have taken over my kitchen!
sadly when you live in a complex.. unless the management routinely sprays every-ones apartments, you are stuck.
I lived that nightmare once, when I first went to Texas, and we rented an apartment while looking for a house to buy.
Although I used every spray and bait known to man.. it usually only got rid of them for a couple of weeks.
My daughters used to take turns to sleep at night, so that one could watch out for a roach.
A deliveryman once came to the door and darn near passed out from the chemical smell.. he asked me how I could even breathe :lol I HATE them.
That was the longest 6 weeks in my life.
You can check out the pipes around the kitchen and the bathrooms, and if you find any gaps, use steel wool to stuff in the holes and then fill with a spackle or any filling compound... But I know that in the apartment I rented, they came through the shared air vents.
The baking soda works because it gets on them, they eat it or lick it off.. and it dries them up.
And you are correct..
A roach can eat the drywall etc. they do not need dirt to survive.
You can get them in the cleanest homes.
We do not have them here... touch wood :lol but Einstein already knows.. that if I so much as see ONE roach.. we do NOT SLEEP until it is found and killed.. and the next morning the exterminators Will be called :grin
