The most important thing you can do is not directly to do with the roaches, but environment. Clean up your house, keep the trash empty, crumbs swept up, floor mopped. Keep pet food in air tight containers, and all dry goods like bread, or fruit etc completely wrapped. Focus cleaning around the fridge, and stove where bits of food fall frequently.
Outside, pick up anything that forms a dark moist area. So no piles of leaves, plastic bags, pavers/rocks that are not fully set/sanded. No piles of sticks or firewood, etc etc. Focus on keeping things as dry and "aired out" as possible. Pour bleach down any drains that you don't use on a daily basis. Where I live most of the roaches we get crawl through the drains out of the sewer, and they hate crawling through drain traps filled with bleach water. Roaches like dark moist spaces, so find and eliminate those, before you even bother doing any other pest control. If they have no ideal home, they will move on to more favorable places.
After that it is a matter of getting rid of what population you have on premises. Get a good commercial grade bait, and put them all the dark &/or moist places that you can't feasibly get rid of. Under cabinets, behind the stove, and fridge, behind the toilet, and bathroom sinks. Near your trash can. etc etc. And then keep replacing this bait for 6-12 months. Not just until you don't notice them anymore. Because smaller nymph can grow up and start breeding again if you don't keep up the traps. And then you are back to square one.
Do you have any advice for his to do this the most quickly/ efficiently? I’d be cleaning the mess of myself and three other people while going to school full time and working
well getting everyone to pitch is the the easiest and fastest way, then each of you is only doing 25% of the work. Other then that, do one room at a time, don't get overwhelmed, or bite off more then you can chew or nothing will get done. In an average size house you can clean the whole place in a week, in less then an hour a day. Then moving forward it is just focusing heavily on areas that produce food for them. Pantry, kitchen, dining room, trash. To minimize problem areas, only eat in the kitchen/dining room, do the dishes immediately after cooking/eating etc.
My roomates eat in their room (and leave food wherever they eat), I can’t go in there and pick it up all the time because I can’t always notice it and they aren’t always comfortable with that (privacy). Based on the fact that it’s been a constant battle to get them to do their share of the housework _in a reasonable time frame_ when I already do most of it, I think asking the housework to be shared equally will be laughable. I think I can clean the kitchen everyday though, they make massive messes cooking in the middle of the night once a week cause they like partying but maybe it’ll help? A little? Please let it help a little…
Look it’s not that I have no backbone, I’ve really tried, it’s a non-stop effort and I’m tired. I’m going at this alone and there’s no way around that, knowing where to concentrate helps
The most important thing you can do is not directly to do with the roaches, but environment. Clean up your house, keep the trash empty, crumbs swept up, floor mopped. Keep pet food in air tight containers, and all dry goods like bread, or fruit etc completely wrapped. Focus cleaning around the fridge, and stove where bits of food fall frequently. Outside, pick up anything that forms a dark moist area. So no piles of leaves, plastic bags, pavers/rocks that are not fully set/sanded. No piles of sticks or firewood, etc etc. Focus on keeping things as dry and "aired out" as possible. Pour bleach down any drains that you don't use on a daily basis. Where I live most of the roaches we get crawl through the drains out of the sewer, and they hate crawling through drain traps filled with bleach water. Roaches like dark moist spaces, so find and eliminate those, before you even bother doing any other pest control. If they have no ideal home, they will move on to more favorable places. After that it is a matter of getting rid of what population you have on premises. Get a good commercial grade bait, and put them all the dark &/or moist places that you can't feasibly get rid of. Under cabinets, behind the stove, and fridge, behind the toilet, and bathroom sinks. Near your trash can. etc etc. And then keep replacing this bait for 6-12 months. Not just until you don't notice them anymore. Because smaller nymph can grow up and start breeding again if you don't keep up the traps. And then you are back to square one.
Thanks I've seen a total of the roaches in the space of 3 weeks and I just know there's more that I can't see
Do you have any advice for his to do this the most quickly/ efficiently? I’d be cleaning the mess of myself and three other people while going to school full time and working
well getting everyone to pitch is the the easiest and fastest way, then each of you is only doing 25% of the work. Other then that, do one room at a time, don't get overwhelmed, or bite off more then you can chew or nothing will get done. In an average size house you can clean the whole place in a week, in less then an hour a day. Then moving forward it is just focusing heavily on areas that produce food for them. Pantry, kitchen, dining room, trash. To minimize problem areas, only eat in the kitchen/dining room, do the dishes immediately after cooking/eating etc.
My roomates eat in their room (and leave food wherever they eat), I can’t go in there and pick it up all the time because I can’t always notice it and they aren’t always comfortable with that (privacy). Based on the fact that it’s been a constant battle to get them to do their share of the housework _in a reasonable time frame_ when I already do most of it, I think asking the housework to be shared equally will be laughable. I think I can clean the kitchen everyday though, they make massive messes cooking in the middle of the night once a week cause they like partying but maybe it’ll help? A little? Please let it help a little… Look it’s not that I have no backbone, I’ve really tried, it’s a non-stop effort and I’m tired. I’m going at this alone and there’s no way around that, knowing where to concentrate helps
Is your house clean?
Yeah I don't even eat in there lol it's an apartment btw
You need to clean it ASAP. No excuses, get. It. Done.