What are home remedies to stop Cockroaches?

Every housewife, who faces the problem of cockroaches, wants to stop them anyhow. As usual people become embarrassed and helpless in such situations. There are a few effective home remedies to stop cockroaches forever.

But at first you need to find the exact location of large concentrations of cockroaches. It might be kitchen, bathroom and lavatory.

Checking the room

You need to make every effort to check each corner in the room. Cockroaches like warm places with food and water and usually it is kitchen or bathroom or both. After you found the place of insects’s habitat you need to find out all cracks and crevices in the walls and in the space between the baseboard and the wall.

Then you need to view the area near water pipes and radiators. Make sure you inspected the floor. You need to close all air gratings with the help of gauze to prevent movement of insects from a nearby apartment.

How to get rid of cockroaches with help of boric acid

• Using the boric acid only 

One of the most effective and popular home remedy to kill cockroaches is using boric acid. Boric acid is completely safe for humans and for pets too. That’s why it’s the best way to kill cockroaches and not to turn out households of the house at the same time. You can buy a boric acid in any pharmacy in your city. You need to get 100 grams of preparation and sprinkle it on all places where cockroaches were seen. Also all the washstands, baseboards, walls and places with water access must be worked with boric acid in a whole apartment.

Cockroaches would feel the apartment is worked with a dangerous poison for it and would try to find alternate routes. Withal if one of cockroaches was infected all other insects would be infected too.

• Using the boric acid with potato

However the greatest benefit of boric acid will be significant when you use it like a food poison bait for cockroaces. Also you can make special paste by yourself quickly. You need to cook 100 grams of potatoes than add 5 grams of cooking oil and 10-20 grams of boric acid. You need to mix all components well to make a homogeneous mass. Not very large balls must be made from this mass and laid out on insects’s habitat.  Also of utmost importance is laying poison balls not only in kitchen but also in lobby, in bathroom and lavatory.

• Using the boric acid with yolk

Boric acid has unique property to act during two or three months without losing its effectiveness. Also potatoes can be replaced with egg yolk. You need to boil one egg and put out yolk and mix it with 20 grams of boric acid and few grams of cooking oil. Egg yolk hides the smell of boric acid perfectly. It must be kept in mind that floors must be cleaned every day with the adding not much ammonia. Insects hate smell of ammonia. It try to go away and find new housing when it feel this substance. To achieve the desired effect floors must be cleaned with ammonia every day.

How to stop cockroaches with help of beer

You can do some tricks to catch and kill hateful cockroaches. You need some beer, one jar and vaseline. You need to pour not much beer into bottom of the jar then grease edging of jar with a vaseline overnight. There will be many cockroaches in jar in the morning. The smell of beer attracts insects very much so they will definitely caught on that bait.