Why I hate Chicago.....Roaches!

What the hell...my place is clean, I take the garbage out regularly, wash the dishes every two or three days, clean the counters once a week, I just mopped. But now....roaches. I have seen quite a few of them in the last week or so. My place has been newly remodeled. So what the fuck?!?

Anyone have tips on how to get rid of them, besides calling an exterminator? I am calling my landlord tomorrow, but I want these things gone NOW. I already got the baits that they take back to their nests and poison the nests with...they don't seem to be working yet.

I was just beginning to like it here, too.

And it should be dusted whereever roaches may roam and anywhere they could possibly be coming in.

Also, the OP may want to make sure the dishes, sinks and floors stay completely dry.

house or apartment? Your neighbors might not be. I had the same thing happen to me. My apartment was clean but the damn things came into my apartment to check things out.


I stayed at a rent by the week hotel in San Diego for a few weeks that was infested. I had to sleep with the lights on to keep them off me. Unfortunately, it took me a few nights to figure that out. And the night I figured it out was really fucking bad.

They have been limited to the kitchen so far...except today I found the first one in my bedroom.

And my downstairs neighbor is clean as well. (my only neighbor in this building) I guess they're just all over this city.

until I woke up with one using my mouth as a drinking fountain.

Ok, now I won't be able to go to sleep tonight! :-)

Years ago when I lived in Texas, I lived in an old house that had been divided into 4 apartments; three on the ground floor and one on the upper floor. We lived in a ground floor apartment. Started having an absolutely horrendous roach problem, no matter how clean we kept everything. I'd turn on the lights in the kitchen and tons of them would scurry away to crannies and crevices.

We were friends with the other folks on the ground floor, but the woman who lived upstairs always ignored us, even when we tried to talk to her about threatening our landlord because he did not want to pay for an exterminator (he ended up doing so).

Well, the exterminators came, and when they went upstairs to this woman's apartment, she had an old steamer trunk filled with old newspapers and TONS of cockroaches. That's where they were coming from. The apartment was filthy, and the saddest thing was she had a little boy about 4 years old.

She ended up being arrested for child neglect (there were apparently other things going on besides cockroaches), and after the apartment was cleaned out and the whole place exterminated, we never had another problem. (P.S. The little boy went to live with his dad.)

at least YOUR roaches don't claim be COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVES

But, you know, roaches are a good reason as well.

Roaches are real bastards. You might want to try washes dishes more often, mopping more often, clean the counters every day...

We had a roach problem in NYC in every apartment we moved into, but after a week or two of really keeping stuff clean, that problem almost disappeared.

They'll never totally leave you alone, but I saw a roach maybe only once a month.

The biggest thing is to make sure you don't leave any food out - full foods, or even crumbs. Keep the place swept and mopped, the counters cleaned (and that only means running a soapy sponge or wash cloth, not scrubbing with bleach or cleaning agents), and also make sure you don't have any leaks in the sink leaving bits of water under the kitchen sink or the bathroom sink. If you take all their food and water sources away, they will find other apartments to go into.

Our landlord also sent in a bug spray guy every month, and in the four years we lived there, we only had him come in once. So the roaches actually preferred the apartments with the spray shit to our clean, sprayless one. Though I am sure the spray helped as well.

I want to live in Northern California so bad it hurts.

And yet, when I read your comment about Chicago I got a little offended. I guess because I don't think it's a cultureless shithole, I just hate the weather. Too hot, too cold, too windy, too humid. Too much. I also hate the fact that Illinois is so flat and boring.

But I love my neighborhood and I think it has tons of culture, good food, music, art. I just wish I could pick it up and move it to a better climate.

Rabrrrrrr's just trying to start something. ;-)

I'm not saying he doesn't really hate Chicago (I believe he truly does), but his need to publicly announce it at any given opportunity is highly suspect. He's probably just jealous that we've surpassed NYC when it comes to culinary expertise. }(

Hey, are we going to see you on the 16th?

a cultureless dirty shithole.

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE CHICAGO !!! :hi:

Now he's done it! :hide:

:rofl:

You must dwell in some kind of weird alternate universe!

Ignorant and ill-informed, since you obviously have no fucking clue about Chicago.

Even for a Gothamist.

in one apartment. But when I did, boric acid did do the trick. I also threw out all my pantry items (except canned/jarred food), scrubbed everything down, then put the newly purchased items in rubbermaid containers. I took out my garbage nightly for awhile too.

Haven't had them in any place since, thank gawd.

Good luck.

and they give all the credit to combat.

sprays and anything else.

They work, they're cheap, and in a few weeks you'll have no more roaches.

Don't spray, don't let your landlord spray, that shit will kill you.

Your nieghbors are infested and passing it on to you. Make your landlord spray THEIR apartment while you used the combat disks.

I lived in South Florida most of my life and I think those roaches were the biggest in the U.S. When Combat finally hit the store shelves, I bought it and I can say that it is the best invention for the South since air conditioning. I now live in North Georgia, and Combat controls the roach population in my house.

dust it under the sinks and fridge and in dark areas. Watch your roach problem go away.