How to get rid of roaches in walls
The ONLY Way to Get Rid of ROACHES -- Tenant Left Cockroaches, Landlords Don't Make These Mistakes!!
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 will just disappear
it's just magic just kidding but please
do hit that like button there's a lot of
great information here and i appreciate
it 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
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