cockroaches
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- pastpastdue
lived in this apartment for about 4 months now, just spotted first cockroach. bummer.
if there is a cockroach problem in the building, wouldn't i have seen a few more by now? it is an old building (1950s and severely outdated) could it possibly just been one that found it's way in?
either way, i informed my landlord and she better call in the calvary. this is her problem, not mine, right?
- ETM0
You know what they say, for every 1 you see there is a 100 you don't. :(
- instrmntl0
clean as much as you can, make sure all food is sealed. any that isnt, throw it out. scrub your cabinets. then get some roach hotels. you'll be good to go.
- Douglas0
assuming there is no getting rid of them completely, we keep a spray bottle handy with soapy water inside. the soap breaks down their oils so they can't move as fast, because some are like lightning. Keep spraying them until immobile, then kill it really good, because they like to play dead sometimes too.
i've had no luck with roach motels or any store bought product. i've seen exterminators use this stuff that sorta looks like sawdust which seem seem to work pretty well.
- Probably boric acid.pastpastdue
- Also, fellow Detroiter, I'm in Grosse Pointe, which since moving here, I've learned has quite the cockroach problem.pastpastdue
- i actually live in brooklyn these days. roaches in NY seem much more common than Detroit.Douglas
- douglas, I'm impressed, you sound like an expert.
respect.Miguex - I dont know if this is true or not, but I believe you hahahaMiguex
- yeah man, dishsoap!Douglas
- pastpastdue0
Thanks, friends. I really don't want to have to deal with them, and I haven't seen any save this one, so I'm really hoping it was some weird straggler.
Let's hear everyone's residential cockroach stories now.
- did you kill it?sea_sea
- I killed the fuck out of it. There was guts everywhere.pastpastdue
- i have a good story from a few weeks ago. one crawled on my wife in the shower. she freaked.Douglas
- hahaha i don't blame you.sea_sea
- Gross. Couldn't handle it. I can't even bring myself to go to bed out of my new found fear.pastpastdue
- Worried they'll crawl on your face, in your mouth etc?
Sorry :DETM
- sea_sea0
leave NO water around either, they love water. make sure your cups, dishes, etc. are dry before you put them away.
there's some crazy chalk you buy in asian stores, yes, it works.
- Douglas0
you can always embrace them as your friends as well!
- Atkinson0
Roaches are the only living thing known to survive nuclear fall out. I'm sure that's true.
- sea_sea0
that's why we should kill as many as we can now!!
- sea_sea0
i'm right there with ya, nothing grosses me out more than roaches. (ok maybe jerusalem crickets!!! noooooo!!!) having to kill those huge ones freak the hell out of me.
- Miguex0
- fuck! i thought that was really on my screen. LOLpango
- nice! hahahaMiguex
- Holy shit, me too! I saw that GIANT motherfucker below first, and this one out of the corner of my eye! My heart skipped!elahon
- miguex you are going to get some one to
a)flip flop the creen
B)spray their screenCALLES - i almost punched my screen.....pango
- Miguex0
- DAMN! i thought this was really on my screen!iCanHasQBN
- HAHAHAHAAHMiguex
- ETM0
- d_gitale0
been living in Singapore for a year now... quite often I see thumbsized cockroaches in the street, and they can fly as well. There is a pestcontrol once a month to fume out the garbage chutes of my block, but once I came back from work I found loads lying around the garbage chute flap in my flat. Luckily only the little ones managed to escape through the small gaps when their kingdom was fumed. And they were all really dopey so made no big attempts to flee when I sprayed them... Had bigger ones on 3 occasions but slowly getting used to it. Food is really cheap here so I never cook and I keep my cereals in the fridge.
- Usually I keep my windows closed in the evening and at night, and the weekly cleaner helps as well :-)d_gitale
- we used to have those when i lived in mexico too. i think it's the warmer/humid weather. they come out of the sewers. cover your drains too. that helped.sea_sea
- your shower and sink drains. that helped kinda. have you ever seen a white one? that's freaky.sea_sea
- whatthefunk0
when I lived in China every apartment I had (3) had cockroaches when I moved in. I bought a caulk gun and sealed every gap in the apartment. Door jams, window jams, around kitchen cabinets, around pipes coming through the walls (bathroom/kitchen sink). I covered larger holes with cardboard and caulk. That really did the trick
- CALLES0
living in florida there are plenty. I am 6'2". But if i see a roach in my apartment i have to leave. And if i am with a girlfriend she has to kill it cuz i cannot bring myself to. They are warned at the beginning of the relationship
- the girlfriend.. not the roachesCALLES
- CALLES is a sissy?benfal99
- i dont care about rats, snakes, trannies & other shit. but a roach the size of the pinky finger nail and i am freakingCALLES
- CALLES' a sissy.
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Case closed.benfal99 - =:::(CALLES
- 6'2" huh? i never realized human height could correlate to the fear level towards roaches.iCanHasQBN
- i met this girl once, five-fucking-feet tall. a roach zoomed right passed her shoe and she didn't even flip out!iCanHasQBN
- benfal990
The only place I've ever saw cockroaches is in the Montreal's metro (subway) and they are very small. I guess the roughness of the Quebec's winters are not very good for cockroaches.