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Mikejelai
Joined: 01 Nov 2009
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 1:38 am Post subject: cockroach poison (boric acid?) available in Seoul? |
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| I have tried roach motels, different types of bug sprays, etc. but nothing seems to work. I read that boric acid powder is the best thing going. Anyone know if it is available in Seoul? |
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Son Deureo!
Joined: 30 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 3:03 am Post subject: |
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| You should be able to get it at any pharmacy. The Korean word for it is 붕산. Should be about W600 for a box the size of a pack of cigarettes. The stuff worked great for me. |
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Bruce W Sims
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Illinois; USA
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| Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2011 5:13 am Post subject: |
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Hi Mike:
Cockroaches are extremely fastidious in their personal grooming and are constantly cleaning/preening themselves. The boric acid is a VERY effect, VERY safe and VERY cheap way to deal with them.
I had a studio apartment in a rather dated part of town once that had chronic infestation throughout the building. I went to the local pharmacy ("Chemist") and bought a few ounces. I sprinkled it along the baseboards around the floor, in the backs of the cabinets and along the perimeter of the closet floor. For me, I stopped seeing roaches after two days. Other people still had them all over but I didn't.
The downside is that sprinkling the Boric Acid needs to become a regular part of your maintanence; each time you mop the floors/vacuum the rugs. You probably already know about keeping food-stuffs tucked away and the garbage taken out twice (once in the morning and once in the evening) until the problem is under control. I kept a very large plastic container with a snap top for my garbage even after the problem was under control. But, I tend to be a bit OCD about these things.
I have also heard that there is a shampoo which is suppose to be pretty benign that you can use in a rug shampooer, but since I had wood floors I never had a chance to use it. FWIW.
Best Wishes,
Bruce |
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thegadfly
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 2:54 am Post subject: |
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| Bruce W Sims wrote: |
Hi Mike:
Cockroaches are extremely fastidious in their personal grooming and are constantly cleaning/preening themselves. The boric acid is a VERY effect, VERY safe and VERY cheap way to deal with them.
I had a studio apartment in a rather dated part of town once that had chronic infestation throughout the building. I went to the local pharmacy ("Chemist") and bought a few ounces. I sprinkled it along the baseboards around the floor, in the backs of the cabinets and along the perimeter of the closet floor. For me, I stopped seeing roaches after two days. Other people still had them all over but I didn't.
The downside is that sprinkling the Boric Acid needs to become a regular part of your maintanence; each time you mop the floors/vacuum the rugs. You probably already know about keeping food-stuffs tucked away and the garbage taken out twice (once in the morning and once in the evening) until the problem is under control. I kept a very large plastic container with a snap top for my garbage even after the problem was under control. But, I tend to be a bit OCD about these things.
I have also heard that there is a shampoo which is suppose to be pretty benign that you can use in a rug shampooer, but since I had wood floors I never had a chance to use it. FWIW.
Best Wishes,
Bruce |
Mostly as Bruce says, though I must say that after two weeks, I have never had to re-apply the boric acid -- I would put it down, leave it for 2 or 3 days, then sweep/vacuum it up, then re-apply it...the longest it has taken to get 'em all was two weeks...in my current place, I have lived for almost 9 years without roaches coming back -- but then I keep things fairly clean, and all foodstuffs in plastic containers....
The boric acid will take care of the adults in a couple of days, but any eggs will still need to hatch, come out, and traipse across it for it to be effective -- hence the two-weeks-or-so re-application period.... |
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Bruce W Sims
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Illinois; USA
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 3:48 am Post subject: |
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| thegadfly wrote: |
| Bruce W Sims wrote: |
Hi Mike:
Cockroaches are extremely fastidious in their personal grooming and are constantly cleaning/preening themselves. The boric acid is a VERY effect, VERY safe and VERY cheap way to deal with them.
I had a studio apartment in a rather dated part of town once that had chronic infestation throughout the building. I went to the local pharmacy ("Chemist") and bought a few ounces. I sprinkled it along the baseboards around the floor, in the backs of the cabinets and along the perimeter of the closet floor. For me, I stopped seeing roaches after two days. Other people still had them all over but I didn't.
The downside is that sprinkling the Boric Acid needs to become a regular part of your maintanence; each time you mop the floors/vacuum the rugs. You probably already know about keeping food-stuffs tucked away and the garbage taken out twice (once in the morning and once in the evening) until the problem is under control. I kept a very large plastic container with a snap top for my garbage even after the problem was under control. But, I tend to be a bit OCD about these things.
I have also heard that there is a shampoo which is suppose to be pretty benign that you can use in a rug shampooer, but since I had wood floors I never had a chance to use it. FWIW.
Best Wishes,
Bruce |
Mostly as Bruce says, though I must say that after two weeks, I have never had to re-apply the boric acid -- I would put it down, leave it for 2 or 3 days, then sweep/vacuum it up, then re-apply it...the longest it has taken to get 'em all was two weeks...in my current place, I have lived for almost 9 years without roaches coming back -- but then I keep things fairly clean, and all foodstuffs in plastic containers....
The boric acid will take care of the adults in a couple of days, but any eggs will still need to hatch, come out, and traipse across it for it to be effective -- hence the two-weeks-or-so re-application period.... |
So, you reached a point (IE after two weeks) where you stopped putting it down?
Where I was at if I stopped putting the boric acid down I usually got re-infested from the neighboring units.
....and yes, where I was living was a bit of a "pit" 
Best Wishes,
Bruce |
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thegadfly
Joined: 01 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Bruce,
Yep -- had roaches when I moved into this place, put boric acid down for about 2 weeks -- didn't see any roaches after the first 3 days, but kept it out. About a week later, I saw a few dead roaches again, as I still had the boric acid along the baseboards. After two weeks, I swept/vacuumed it up and did not reapply it.
Haven't had the roaches back in the last 8 years here.
I clean the drains pretty regularly and keep every foodstuff in plastic sealable containers (gotta love 3 cans of tuna + a plastic container specials at E-mart). |
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jazblanc77
Joined: 22 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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| RAID makes some excellent raoch traps for small and large critters, spray (largely ineffective unless you are able to drown the buggers in a puddle of it) and goo that comes in aerosol cans. The traps and goo are very very effective when used in conjuction. With my roach problem 5 years ago (living above a samgyupsul restaurant), I laid a line of the goo in a perimiter all the way around the bottom of all walls, doors, and windows and anywhere else the buggers could enter and left traps where ever they were found scuttling aroiund in the past. After doing so, my roach problem ended cold turkey. |
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madoka
Joined: 27 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:53 am Post subject: Re: cockroach poison (boric acid?) available in Seoul? |
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| Okay so I found a cockroach about almost a fornight ago and later that night got it and got it good. The next day I found out how squashing cockroaches is the last thing you shoud do. |
Sorry, the other thread got locked before I could ask my question.
Why is it that squashing cockroaches is the last thing you should do? I don't see anything wrong with it. |
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Bruce W Sims
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Illinois; USA
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Cockroaches do not have internal organs (as such) so that smashing them ruptures the ecto-skeletal shell that essentially keeps them all in a package. Crushing their little body is like stepping on a milk carton full of milk--- the liquid inside goes everywhere. Now you have to get up-close-and-personal to clean-up cock-roach insides as well as the attendent bacteria, fungi and parasites that the late dearly-departed carried, from over a larger area.
No thanks.
Best Wishes,
Bruce |
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