Bug problem at my apartment.?
Question:So this is my first apartment, and my roommate and I went out of town this weekend. When she got back, she said that she had found at least 6 cockroaches in her bedroom and bathroom. So me being paranoid i went and checked my room and bathroom, and i found a huge *** spider. It was the size of a half dollar coin that was not there before i left.
So other than plugging the drains, and yelling for the apartment complex, is there anything i can do to stop the bugs? I am arachnophobic, i called one of my neighbors over to kill it and i freak out with cockroaches as i do spiders. I need sleep and nasty bugs to go away. Please any advise would be greatly appreciated.
And i am getting bug spray tonight.
Oh, and does pouring bleach down sinks and drains really help or is that just a wives-tale? Thank you!
Answers:
You poor baby! The same thing happened to me with my first apartment. I kept the kitchen really, really clean, sprayed and still had a problem. I approached the apartment manager and they bombed the apartment. Still had a problem.
Turns out that the lady who had the apartment directly behind me became senile. When someone finally took her away, her kitchen cabinets were so disgusting that they had to remove them. The construction guys watched the cockroaches DIVE into the wall where our kitchen pipes met! They had to bomb my apartment again, while apologizing profusely.
Your solution? The cockroaches are coming in from SOMEPLACE. Take a close look inside your cabinets where the plumbing goes into the wall. Do you see any gaps? Remember, it doesn't take much for them to get through. If you can, you can caulk around the pipes.
Next, get some diatomaceous earth and sprinkle it way back inside the cabinet underneath your sinks. Just make sure you put it where it won't be disturbed. Also, you should wear a dust mask while spreading it. Sprinkling a layer about 1/16 of an inch by one inch should do it.
This is a better, healthier method for getting rid of yucky bugs, and there is no smell. Since it is a natural product that operates on a mechanical level rather than a biological one, you don't have to worry about the bugs becoming resistant. They have no defense against diatomaceous earth. I use this around my peach tree to keep the pincher bugs away. It really, really works!
I would also make the apartment managers aware of the problem. The people on the other side of you problem have an infestation, too.
Best of luck!
Your landlord is required to pay to have the aprtment sprayed in there's cockroaches. That's a sign of filth, and could get him in trouble big time if you made a big deal of it.
Tell the landlord, and tell him you want it sprayed asap.
Having it sprayed will fix the problem.
EW!
I would talk to your landlord and see if they can spray. If not, get bug bombs and do it yourself. I don't know about the bleach thing, but it can't hurt.
I plug a Pest Defense into the wall socket and we hardly see any bugs at all.
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