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How to keep cockroaches out?
Re: cockroaches
by scubydoo » Sun Oct 26, 2014 7:06 pm
Hi don't keep them out catch them they are great deep fried! a delicacy in china Yum Yum
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Re: cockroaches
by Jan » Sun Oct 26, 2014 7:10 pm
biddyegg wrote:Can anyone please give us tips on how to keep out cockroaches??:D
Thank you.
Hi biddyegg ,
Scubydoo is joking, I hope! I recently came back from China and we didn't have them to eat in our hotels.
The spray Dot mentions is called ORO and can be bought in most supermarkets .
They shouldn't be around in the cooler months coming up as they hibernate apparently.
Hope this helps.
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by mondo » Mon Oct 27, 2014 6:25 am
Simple answer is... you can't keep them out... not all of them anyway. A chap I knew had all the netting. ORO traps and stuff... he opened the door to go out and one flew in....
This is Spain, do your best but inevitably one will take a look around your house from time to time...
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This is Spain, do your best but inevitably one will take a look around your house from time to time...
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by Jan » Mon Oct 27, 2014 10:36 am
Yes, it's true there will always be the odd one in the house very occasionally, even after taking all the known steps to keep them out.
I can honestly say that in all the years we've been coming back and forth to Spain we have only had three live ones, one was staring at me as I came up the stairs one evening and he conveniently waited there until I ran and got the Oro spray, sprayed him and he ran down the stairs (those buggers are soooo fast). I managed to see him go in the corner by the front door behind some shoes and used my spider/insect catcher to pick him up and put him in the road outside (half-dead!). He probably flew or crawled in when we had the solarium door open during the day.
The other one was on the ceiling in a corner of the lounge and I know what I had done - That day earlier in the evening before we sat outside I had sprayed the porch by the front door but forgot to close the door and grille, with netting on, while I sprayed - He must have been running from the spray and came in the door without me seeing - Never sprayed without closing doors again! We despatched that one outside with the spider catcher which I would never be without in UK and Spain.
The other one flew in years ago, just before we put netting on the windows and we sprayed him and did the same with the spider/bug catcher.
They can be bought in numerous places including Amazon and Betterware etc. (not seen them in Spanish shops though!).
Jan
I can honestly say that in all the years we've been coming back and forth to Spain we have only had three live ones, one was staring at me as I came up the stairs one evening and he conveniently waited there until I ran and got the Oro spray, sprayed him and he ran down the stairs (those buggers are soooo fast). I managed to see him go in the corner by the front door behind some shoes and used my spider/insect catcher to pick him up and put him in the road outside (half-dead!). He probably flew or crawled in when we had the solarium door open during the day.
The other one was on the ceiling in a corner of the lounge and I know what I had done - That day earlier in the evening before we sat outside I had sprayed the porch by the front door but forgot to close the door and grille, with netting on, while I sprayed - He must have been running from the spray and came in the door without me seeing - Never sprayed without closing doors again! We despatched that one outside with the spider catcher which I would never be without in UK and Spain.
The other one flew in years ago, just before we put netting on the windows and we sprayed him and did the same with the spider/bug catcher.
They can be bought in numerous places including Amazon and Betterware etc. (not seen them in Spanish shops though!).
Jan
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by benji » Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:54 pm
i buy the red cans from Mercadona, I keep one upstairs and one downstairs. It's called Insecticida Cucarachas Y Hormigas. 3 meses de duracion. Aisla tu Hogar. It works instantly, woudn't be without it.
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by Norfolk-in-chance » Thu Mar 31, 2016 7:41 am
This may sound crazy but my wife bought an electrical plug in contraption about the size of a packet of cigarettes at Aki in Habanares and we have never had one cockroach inside our villa. They are in the garden occasionally but don't enter the house
Highly recommended
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Just do it
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by Espanabums » Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:24 am
Cockroaches can get in through the smallest of cracks.
If you can see daylight around your external doors then the cockroaches can get in, make sure you spray around the door jambs. They will still get in but you should only find dead or very groggy ones.
Do not forget that they can move around through the hollow walls and roof spaces so stuff gauze into the holes in the ceiling underneath light fittings and ceiling fans.
If your consumer box is not tight fitting try to seal it. Paint and polyfiila around light switches and power points.
Spray around air conditioning units as this is another place where the critters get in, especially if you have some ill fitting conduit running through wardrobes and cupboards.
Another place usually forgotten is the vents around some cooker hoods.
We use "zum" spray, only available from Carrefour and a tad expensive, it is highly effective and is supposed to last all year but we spray every 3 months to make certain. We also have one of the plug in contraptions but think that is probably not all that effective, good night light though.
If you can see daylight around your external doors then the cockroaches can get in, make sure you spray around the door jambs. They will still get in but you should only find dead or very groggy ones.
Do not forget that they can move around through the hollow walls and roof spaces so stuff gauze into the holes in the ceiling underneath light fittings and ceiling fans.
If your consumer box is not tight fitting try to seal it. Paint and polyfiila around light switches and power points.
Spray around air conditioning units as this is another place where the critters get in, especially if you have some ill fitting conduit running through wardrobes and cupboards.
Another place usually forgotten is the vents around some cooker hoods.
We use "zum" spray, only available from Carrefour and a tad expensive, it is highly effective and is supposed to last all year but we spray every 3 months to make certain. We also have one of the plug in contraptions but think that is probably not all that effective, good night light though.
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by freddo » Thu Mar 31, 2016 9:42 am
Since I moved out into the campo we have never seen a Cochroach the chickens get them before we see them
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by brownale » Thu Mar 31, 2016 1:00 pm
firstly. cockroaches are very clean creatures and the only reason they are there will be because of rubbish/food as they are constantly eating.
secondly. if there is no food for them they will leave of their own accord.
thirdly. if you clean as if your life depended on it they will not even appear as they will be in and out before you even realise
fourthly.do not squash them as most roaches are female and carry 40/50 eggs,these will spread easily
secondly. if there is no food for them they will leave of their own accord.
thirdly. if you clean as if your life depended on it they will not even appear as they will be in and out before you even realise
fourthly.do not squash them as most roaches are female and carry 40/50 eggs,these will spread easily
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Re: How to keep cockroaches out?
by Jan » Thu Mar 31, 2016 2:36 pm
brownale wrote:firstly. cockroaches are very clean creatures and the only reason they are there will be because of rubbish/food as they are constantly eating.
secondly. if there is no food for them they will leave of their own accord.
thirdly. if you clean as if your life depended on it they will not even appear as they will be in and out before you even realise
fourthly.do not squash them as most roaches are female and carry 40/50 eggs,these will spread easily
Agree with most of what you have said, except lots of them live in sewers, so 'clean' is not a word I would use.
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