what's up guys garrett here and today i
want to talk about roaches
boy if that doesn't give you the
heebie-jeebies i don't know what will
it's going to happen at some point
especially if you are a landlord now
this video is for anyone that has
roaches but especially
landlords that own a bunch of units or
say apartment buildings or mobile home
park or you know conjoined units or the
tenants within those units i want to
show you how to identify the roaches
whether you may or may not have them i
want to show you what not to do this is
very important don't skip this step
i want to show you how to get rid of
them and then i want to show you how to
absolutely prevent them from coming back
all right so let's start with
identification
now there are going to be some times
where it is unmistakable you absolutely
have roaches you walk in and they just
scatter or they're just crawling up the
walls or they're on the ceilings and
literally dropping on top of you you
obviously know that you have it but
sometimes it's a little less obvious you
might see
a dead roach here and there and
generally if you see one roach there's
probably 20 to 50 of them that you don't
see now you probably have a problem and
you definitely want to do something
about it so when you are trying to
identify the roaches the best thing to
do is to look for their feces there's
going to be poop all over the place
generally you're going to see evidence
of them anywhere that there's a food
source an electrical source a water
source
or just some place that's very tight and
dark so i would start by looking behind
all of your electrical plates in either
your outlets or your switches or even
your main
box look in your kitchen as well you're
going to see them probably inside the
cabinets but you're especially going to
see them behind the refrigerator they
love that compressor down below so
you're going to have to pull that
refrigerator out
look behind there most likely they're
going to just scatter right when you do
this obviously you have a problem and
that is definitely an area that you want
to treat look behind anything that's
hanging on the wall it could be a tv
like tv mounted to the wall again it's
electrical and it's warm so you're
probably going to see poop behind there
anything again that is on the wall so
like pictures or furniture that's up
against the wall they like those tight
areas and they're especially going to be
behind the walls within the ceilings and
within your floors within those areas
they aren't disturbed it's a consistent
temperature and humidity
and they're really only going to come
out whenever they need to feed or get
water so with that said you want to look
at anywhere that there is
food or water so your kitchen and your
bathrooms are going to be the heaviest
concentration of where your roaches are
so those are the best places to look
look around your stove look around the
dishwasher
huge concentration is going to be behind
your refrigerator look inside your
cabinets above your cabinets especially
if there's just a tiny little gap there
they will get above the cabinets behind
the cabinets between the cabinets
underneath the cabinets look underneath
your sink
a lot of times you're going to be going
in and out of where there's pipe
penetrations through your walls if
you've looked through all of these areas
it should be pretty darn evident whether
you have an infestation or you just have
a few but regardless i would suggest
treating the same way the next thing we
need to talk about is what not to do
now this is very very important
especially if you're a landlord now i
own duplexes fourplex is a mobile home
park and i absolutely do not want any of
the other units to get roaches
especially if i'm treating one that does
have it
so pay attention to this this is very
important and if you're a tenant same
deal
follow these steps the first thing i
don't want you to do is to step on any
of them and the reason being yes you may
kill one you've got hundreds most likely
but
that one could have eggs within it and
those eggs can get embedded inside of
the soles of your shoes
so if you don't want it at your own
place especially if you are a landlord
don't step on them now the next thing i
don't want you to do is very very
important i've done this please learn
from my mistake
don't spray fog or smoke actually what
happens is these are great at driving
the roaches away they kill
some of them but they generally drive
them away so again if you are a landlord
and you don't want any more roaches do
not do those three things you're going
to drive them straight to the next units
and you're just going to start this
whole process over and over again now if
you've established that you do have an
infestation it's time to actually treat
them and there's really only three ways
to do it the first one is a fumigation
and that would be with the big old tent
and the professionals that come in and
that's really expensive and it takes
time and you actually have to move out
and it's just not practical for the
normal person the second way is if you
hit that like button down below they
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when you do now the best way to get rid
of roaches is with a gel bait
now we use a product called vendetta
plus and i've left a link to it in the
description
it works fantastic for us we've had
great luck with it and it basically it
comes in a little syringe and you put
little dabs in it in the strategic
places around your house now the adult
roaches eat this product and it will
kill them within a day or so but they
take it back to their nest they defecate
all over the place
and when roaches are developing they're
in that nip stage the nip roaches
actually eat the adults poop and so
those adults that defecate all over the
place their poop is contaminated and
therefore they actually poison the young
roaches before they can reproduce and
lay eggs again now remember roaches need
food and water and they really like
electrical activity so go to those
places first to treat
now this gel comes in a little syringe
and it's best if you put say like a
little pea-sized dab of it wherever you
are treating or even just a little
one-inch strip
so i would suggest doing it along your
baseboards anywhere that you have cracks
do it above your cabinets inside your
cabinets below your cabinets anywhere
that there's a penetration like a water
line or a sewer line pull your
electrical plates off and treat behind
those as well and then definitely
definitely treat around all of your
appliances especially that refrigerator
put quite a bit of it in the compressor
area behind it within a day or two you
are going to start seeing dead roaches
but you have to allow at least a week to
two weeks for this to work as
the eggs that they've already placed are
gonna hatch and they need to eat that
contaminated poop before they actually
die so you gotta kill the full cycle if
after 10 to 14 days you still have a few
roaches around i'd suggest treating
again but once you're fairly certain
that you've gotten rid of your roaches i
would suggest putting a very high
quality spray around your house do it
around the baseboards anywhere that
there's cracks openings like doors and
windows and then of course around the
outside perimeter of your home as well
up the side two feet as well as out into
the yard two feet this creates a great
perimeter around your house to repel
anything further from coming in we use a
product called side kick
for our spray whenever we are treating
our units
and we do this for for prevention as
well as after roach treatments a link to
that product is also down below now it's
time to talk about prevention and this
is probably one of the most important
things
make sure you take out your trash do not
collect trash inside of your unit if
your unit is trashed you're going to
have a heck of a time getting rid of the
roaches if you have them so make sure to
clean it out if it's empty
you're going to get rid of it much
faster than if you actually do have a
tenant in it but it is not impossible
with a tenant in it using that gel bait
just make sure that they aren't just
complete slobs and have trash and food
and water and beverages just anything
all over the place so your first
priority really should just be to clean
this whole place up sweep it up try to
eliminate that food source try to
eliminate that water source and try to
make the roaches as uncomfortable as
possible so let's say it's winter time
and you have a unit open that you have
not yet rented out
my suggestion would be to keep it as
cold as possible roaches like heat
and therefore
it's actually going to drive them away
they're going to look for a much better
suitable home for themselves so drop the
temperature i would suggest somewhere in
the 40s it's gonna seem kind of cold but
you shouldn't run the risk of your pipes
freezing or anything like that just keep
it nice and cool that'll help prevent
those roaches from actually coming make
sure that you also have a pest control
schedule lined out now you can do this
yourself again using that side kick that
i was talking about just make sure to
regularly spray the insides and the
outsides of your units i would suggest
at least once every six months let's
recap what we just talked about so first
identify them they want food and water
so look in your bathrooms your kitchens
and again they like electrical
activities to look in those areas first
second don't step on them and don't come
right out of the gate if you have an
infestation and spray fog
or smoke third
use a gel bait and put it in the most
affected areas as well as those that
have not yet been affected and fourth
prevention
try to keep your units inside and out
very very clean don't give them a water
or a food source
try to prevent any places that they can
possibly come in whether it be through
cracks in the foundation or penetrations
through your walls they're going to get
in in all of those places and then also
follow it up with a very very regular
pest control treatment plan again i'd
probably do six months use a
professional grade insecticide and make
sure that you treat both the inside as
well as the outside of your units
anywhere that there's a penetration like
a door or a window or water pipes going
through or cracks or whatever it is make
sure that you treat those areas
and again i've left links down below to
both the gel bait as well as the
insecticide that i use roaches are just
plain nasty and again they just give me
the heebie-jeebies just thinking about
them but there is a path to get rid of
them just follow the procedures that i
just talked about and
you will actually get rid of them hey
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