Friday, August 12, 2011

Roach bombs/foggers good or bad idea?

We just moved into a single family home exactly 1 week ago. Within 5 days we seen 1 large male and about 13 babies. These are German roaches. I never had roaches and I think that they are so disgusting. My 5 year old son has asthma and I just cant live like this. I purchased some stuff at Home Depot: Boric acid, boric acid tablets, combat platinum bait get and combat bait traps (the things that look like houses). I put this stuff all over the house. For about 1 day we started seeing more babies and the next day nothing. Well late last night my husband found a huge adult one. It didn't even run when my husband turned on the light. Natural instinct, he picked it up in a paper towel, killed it outside and tossed it. We are keeping our trashcan outside the home until these jerks are gone. We have only cooked twice in our home in one week because im afraid to accidentally leave 1 crumb, literally. We sweep and mop at night with pine sol. I use clorox wipes for all other surfaces. Since we found a big roach last night which was after 3 days of applying the roach stuff that I mentioned earlier, im wondering if maybe these jerks are smarter than I thought and are avoiding the bait or am I just being impatient? My mother told me that the only thing that works is Roach foggers but I see mixed reviews towards these. I was thinking of letting the roach bait be for 2 weeks then bomb it once a week for 1 month. What do you think?

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