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westy
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 11:00 am Post subject: |
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| There are firms that specialise in dealing with vermin such as cockroaches. In an apartment the problem is that you cannot just treat one apartment in isolation ! |
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RobertinOman
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Boric acid powder. they rub it on, die at home ,and others eat them. |
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scot47
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 12:51 pm Post subject: |
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| You will be reported to the International Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Insects. |
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ecocks
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 6:34 pm Post subject: |
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Other things which will work:
Cornmeal mix with a very small amount of sugar
Baking Soda Mix with a very small amount of sugar
Talcum powder
The Boric Acid idea works great as well, this was just in case you need alternatives. |
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Grendal
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Location: Lurking in the depths of the Faisaliah Tower underground parking.
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 4:03 pm Post subject: |
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Wow. I saw one in front of my building as I left some time in the morning and returning I had picked up the better half and she saw the same one, I think, trying to get up the front stairs but falling on its back because it was too big. We had to chase it away together.
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bulgogiboy
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| Posted: Mon May 28, 2012 8:42 pm Post subject: Re: Cockroach infestation - solutions? |
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| westy wrote: |
I just moved into an apartment near my school in Riyadh. I like the place a lot for the location and size of the rooms, but the previous teacher who lived there was very messy and the apartment has been overrun with cockroaches.
The apartment is on the ground floor. I have been staying temporarily with another teacher who lives upstairs, and have been spraying roach killer around the baseboards every evening before departing. In the mornings, I come down to see many dead ones, but am not seeing a real decrease in numbers the past few days.
Has anyone had this experience and how did you resolve it? Any exterminators in the area that really get the job done? Thanks for any suggestions! |
I had quite a serious infestation of cockroaches when I first moved into my apartment. I went through a few cans and tubes of 'Raid'; both the spray and the powder. I put the powder all over the place, and sprayed constantly, but it only eased the problem, without solving it. On top of that, I was always sweeping up dozens of dead cockroaches on a daily basis! If you try and fix it yourself you'll be spraying and pouring powder for the rest of your stay there. Things like 'Raid' are meant for the odd cockroach or two that finds its way into your apartment, not for a proper infestation, It took an exterminator company to do the job. They came twice, over a period of a couple of weeks, and did my apartment and some other apartments on the same floor. The result was like night and day. After the second visit, the cockroaches basically disappeared within a matter of hours.
You'll need to get on to your employer about it, and have them arrange with the landlord to get an exterminator company to do your apartment, and possibly the neighbouring apartments as well.
You have my sympathies! |
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posh
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| There is a Chinese powder that absolutely obliterates them. The guy who cleans my flat got hold of it and I haven't seen a roach in years. It comes in a gold packet. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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| posh wrote: |
| There is a Chinese powder that absolutely obliterates them. The guy who cleans my flat got hold of it and I haven't seen a roach in years. It comes in a gold packet. |
The really effective pesticides tend to be very dangerous. Have you developed any rashes? odd twitches? hallucinations? 
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posh
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| None at all. Mind you, I did have some wild dreams after drinking cough medicine. It was so trippy that I went back to the pharmacy and got some more. Certainly brightened up a dull day in the desert. |
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Grendal
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| Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2012 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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| posh wrote: |
| None at all. Mind you, I did have some wild dreams after drinking cough medicine. It was so trippy that I went back to the pharmacy and got some more. Certainly brightened up a dull day in the desert. |
I just smuggle in Listerine from the free world and drink that because it has real alcohol in it.
Grendal
ps this post has nothing to do with cockroaches by the way |
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Mr. Leafy
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I came across this thread in a search for something completely unrelated but I have had cockroach problems too and I hate them so;
Scot47 is right � if you live in an apartment, anything you do to your flat alone is temporary. The only way to get rid of them (semi)permanently is to do every room of every flat on the same day starting from the top floor and working down.
It might take two weeks of what you are doing to have an effect.
Different things work better on different types of roaches. Have a good look at one and go online to find its type. Lots of websites can give type-specific advice. I�ve had some luck with eucalyptus oil. Get some cotton pads like women use for make-up removal, dab with oil and scatter around high places and known routes. (This is maintenance, not extermination.)
If your neighbour ever uses a roach bomb they will all run into your place! (Not advice, but true.)
Good luck. |
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strangerthanparadise
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| just tell the buggers to go away.... |
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johnslat
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Or simply relax with a good movie:
Mimic
"An ultracreepy blend of horror and fantasy (think of it as Beauty and the Bugs) from Mexican director Guillermo del Toro (Cronos) about giant cockroaches in the subway tunnels beneath Manhattan. Like its DNA-altered spawn (the title refers to the way some insects evolve to resemble their predators), Mimic is not your everyday bug picture, but a more poetic (though quite gruesome) sort of film, literally crawling with bizarre, striking images. In this case, the mutant bugs are not the result of evil atomic experiments (as in Them!), but are the unexpected side effect of work done by an entomologist (Mira Sorvino) and her Center for Disease Control officer husband (Jeremy Northam), who, in a last-ditch effort to control a roach-carried disease epidemic that was killing children, released a genetically altered form of sterile cockroaches beneath the city. They stopped the virus, but... Also starring Charles Dutton, Giancarlo Giannini, F. Murray Abraham, and Josh Brolin. "
http://www.amazon.com/Mimic-Mira-Sorvino/dp/1558908323
Regards,
John |
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