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You live in an apartment?

Your apartment landlord is responsible for the common areas of the apartment (landings, stairwells, storage areas. basements etc) and should be aggressively treating those areas. Treating the common areas will isolate the roaches to a single apartment and over time will reduce or eliminate the bugs in that apartment.

Even if your apartment is dirty and attractive for roaches, we can pretty safely asume that your entire apartment complex is infected.

Your local goverment agencies (Health Dept, Housing Dept etc) can help with this issue.

BTW, bombing the apartment will do little good as the noxious fumes will just cause the little guys to move to another apartment temporarily and then return to your friendly confines at a later date.

Really, Id be more worried about the bugs getting into my clothes a bed than I would about my PC.


CALL THE FREAKIN CPS. please.

what about antz ? dont ask

Check out this link.

http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Roaches

Thanks for all the help guys. I'll look into all of these. I do have a question about the Scotch Brite scouring pads, though. This really looks like my best bet. If I put them by the case, I cant see how anything can get through at all. But they look so thick, would my pc really be safe blowing the air out with these pads on the outside of the case? Also, is this just for side vents or can I put it in the back of the case as well?

I bought some scouring pads, they look very thick, I don't know if much heat can go through it. I really don't know if its a good idea. However I did buy some swiffer pads and they look so thin, when I breathe on it I feel the air coming through on the other side onto my hand. These are great. I really think these will help a lot. Any comments?

How about getting a furnace filter, then cutting out the shapes you need?

Roaches hate fire, so burn them.

I tried this my self. First they scurry around a lot and then flip over and twitch alot... Then they stop moving, it's the damnedest thing. Still trying to figure out why they hate fire so much. >_<

Lol

Move the refrigerator and look underneath for roaches. That's where they like to hreadquarter.

Lol

Hmmm, seriously dude, someone needs to clean. I say it should be an entire family activity though, and not just on one person. I hate to say it, but before I moved down to Texas a couple years ago I lived in a similar situation while renting from some friends. The guy wouldn't clean up the house most of the time, and he even had his kid their on weekends and stuff. Weekends were even better since thats when the guys parents showed up to watch said kid. Me and the other guy that were renting rooms from him would at least try and clean and get the dishes done during the week, since clean dishes are nice to have for eating off of and such. But whenever the parents would show up they'd almost completely destroy anything we'd done to clean the place up. We're talkin people who can't understand the concept of using an ashtray for their cigarette butts, can't say how many times I went to wash a cup to find a butt in it. Don't know how many times I went to the kitchen to find the garbage can stacked a good 2 feet higher than the rim because they were too lazy to empty it. I'm just thankful that one thing we didn't seem to have there somehow in that situation was roaches, we'd get odd never before seen breeds of house centipedes though.

Now since I moved to Texas it's a different story, if you even let your cleaning go for a week or two you gotta watch out for em. The little pests are smart too, the few I've seen in my apartment will sit there and watch you, and they know when I grab the jug of home defense max to run like hell.. Kills the buggers within 5 mins if you get a direct hit on em.

As far as short time goes. Go buy a gallen jug of Ortho Home Defense Max, it's pretty to use, it comes with a sprayer attachment. Ventilate the room, and spray that around the perimeter, and around any doorways and windows. Also spray around or in any places where there may be holes or cracks in the walls or floor, such as floor heater vents. 95% of the time, they won't cross the area's where you sprayed, the other 5% of the time is usually the tree roaches that can fly, or some times in the area where I live for example you get those big palmento bugs(water roaches), those are a bit more resilient. And even those most of them that manage to walk across it end up dead anyway. Only other thing I can tell you, is that if your case is on the floor, find something to set it up on like a small bench or sturdy small table. Roaches like to get inside of computers and tv's and eat on the wiring and pcb's, as well as cause short circuits the computer is turned on with one in the psu. Be thankful you don't have fire ants though, they wreak real havoc on electronics, as well as people.

I Lived in New York City in the Housing Projects in Queens growing up, and those evil cralwers were Immune to just about EVERYTHING!!!

BUT THIS STUFF REALY WORKS GOOD:http://www.alwaysbrilliant.com/aa/ [...] 0Chalk.htm or if you have a chinatown where you live ask a shopkeeper for Roachchalk or google it and get some.

Those critters ABSOLUTELY HATE IT. They avoide it like the plague.

Get that and some boric acid power http://www.alwaysbrilliant.com/aa/ [...] 0Chalk.htm and like the guys said some roach motels and you will be ontop of this thing in about 4-6 months....

unless they are the nyc housing projects kind---then just give up and move---make sure you check every possable hidingspace in all your funiture and spray whatever you see, before you load it on the truck though or they will come back.

buy the fastest computer fans on the market so when the roaches crawl in they get there head choped off buy the fan and the light your computer on fire and watch them burn

eeeww i hate roaches i live in rochester, ny so i never seen one where i live. i would be completly grossed out and would keep a tourch around me all the time. i wouldnt be able to sleep knowing that they were all over my house

hahaah i laughed at the part saying they run away when you grab the spray.

But honestly if your living with cockroaches get those suckers out of there,it makes me shudder thinking about thats.

put one of these bug zappers over all the air intakes of the case:

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