Roach (and other vermin) Stories

[mark_wpduet]

I know this is a major problem

It makes me wonder that out of all the places I've lived, NC, TN, and KY, that I've never seen one......

I've seen mice a couple of times growing up, but never a roach.....

I remember my grandma always saying that she checked the grocery bags very carefully after being at the grocery store because she had heard that's how they end up in a lot of people's homes.

 

[mark_wpduet]

PS -

Roaches & spiders HATE eucalyptus oil

 

[dustin92]

Well I'm 20, and to this day, I swear I've never seen a roach. We had a nasty infestation of ants last summer, they got into the pantry, and I went to pour a bowl of cereal and instead poured a bowl of ants, which promptly decided they didn't want to be in a bowl, and scattered on the counter. I opened the door and threw what was left of my bowl of cereal and the rest of the box outside. It took several kinds of ant traps to finally get rid of them, but not before they could ruin everything that contained sugar or flour. Of course we have had mice, but suprisingly, we moved out of a new house, where we were always setting out mouse traps because somebody saw one, into a house built in 1950 that we have only had one mouse. I figured being an old, and pretty much poorly sealed house we would be naming them.

 

[tolivac]

The picture of the roach infested bathroom-CREEPSHOW scene for sure-never have I seen roaches that bad in my days.Guess I would try to suck up as many as I could in the NSS M1 vacuum and burn the paper bag afterward!Of course the M1 fan would chop them!Roaches can live just about anywhere-they are tough,hardy critters like mice and rats-when man is long gone you can be sure roaches,mice,rats will be still around.

 

[washer111]

Mark:

Thanks for the Eucalyptus Oil trick. I'll be sure to sprinkle some around tonight before I hit the hay to deter the nasty little cusses

 

[whirlpolf]

why fogging sometimes is not the best

and just for the fun part of it ;-)
watch this:

 

[whirlpolf]

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[whirlykenmore78]

Does anyone know a 24 hour exterminator?

Ecolab and Plunketts will come out at any time. However the service will not be cheap. Orkin also has this service.
WK78

 

[whirlcool]

Fortunately if you live in a house in Houston, roaches are very easy to control. You don't have connecting walls with your neighbors who may be less than clean with their sanitary habits. The only roach we see now are the one or two errant tree roaches than come in through the doors if they are left open too long. And that's two or three per year.

 

[danemodsandy]

My First Job....

....Out of high school was doing the shipping and receiving for a clock repair shop that did warranty repairs for General Time, makers of Westclox and Seth Thomas. We also repaired units out of warranty, as well as fine timepieces - a bronze Thomire clock in the Blue Room of the White House was maintained by our shop at that time (might still be - the shop is still in business).

Well, let me tell you - peoples' kitchen clocks are likelier to have roaches than not - particularly back then (1971-73) when they were usually electric, which roaches love for the warmth. You'd open a box with someone's old kitchen clock and the roaches would just pour out. Battery kitchen clocks - a fairly new development at the time - didn't have the problem as often, but they could also have it. I would spray with Raid and plastic-bag infested clocks overnight before passing them on to the repair techs.

Usually, newer clocks didn't have the problem, but there were surprises. I remember one time a clock that could not have been more than six months old (it was a style that had just been introduced) had one of the worst infestations of all.

When we serviced and repaired these units, they always went back to the customer absolutely clean and roach-free. No one ever - ever - thanked us for doing that.

Interestingly, this problem was pretty much confined to Westclox clocks. You almost never saw a Seth Thomas clock that was infested.

 

[danemodsandy]

P.S.:

Those Combat roach traps are excellent for ridding a house of roaches. They aren't a poison trap - they contain food that has an ingredient in it that messes with the roaches' ability to reproduce. Basically, they're industrial-strength cucaracha birth control.

You put those things down, and keep up with replacing them according to instructions, and you will soon be roach-free.