- Homeowners can detect conditions that will foster the development of infestations through frequent inspections.
Sanitation
- Proper sanitation, both indoors and outdoors, will led to a high cockroach populations.
- Do not leave unwashed dishes, kitchen utensils, and uncovered food out overnight.
- Clean up all spilled liquids.
- Areas beneath and behind cabinets, furniture, sinks, stoves and
refrigerators should be cleaned often, as should cupboards, pantry
shelves and storage bins where particles of food frequently accumulate.
- Kitchen waste and excess refuse should be kept in cockroach proof container and disposed of as frequently as possible.
- Dry pet food should be stored in tight containers away from the kitchen and other food.
- If pets are fed indoors, leftover foods should not be allowed to remain in the feeding dish overnight.
- Outdoors, garbage cans, racks, platforms or slabs should be cleaned regularly
Exclusion
- Discourage cockroaches from entering the home by sealing any cracks of 1/8 in or more in the foundation and exterior walls.
- Check the seal or caulking around air conditioning unit, windows, doors, pipes or other openings into the home.
- Inside the home eliminate all possible hiding areas and food sources.
- Repair cracks and holes in floors, walls and ceilings.
- Seal openings around plumbing fixtures, furnace flues,
electrical outlets, windowsills and walls, and along baseboards and
ceiling moldings.
- Leaky water faucets and pipes should be repaired.
- Thresholds on doors should be as tight as possible and cracks in porches and stoops should be sealed
Eliminate Hiding Places
- Paper, Cardboard, lumber, firewood and other debris next to the home provide excellent refuge for several cockroach species.
- Keep yard trash and stacks of firewood away from the home or garage to minimize the chance of cockroach invasion
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Eliminate Hiding Places
Paper, Cardboard, lumber, firewood and other debris next to the home
provide excellent refuge for several cockroach species.
Keep yard trash and stacks of firewood away from the home or garage to minimize the chance of cockroach invasion
Exclusion
Discourage cockroaches from entering the home by sealing any cracks of 1/8 in or more in the foundation and exterior walls.
Check the seal or caulking around air conditioning unit, windows, doors, pipes or other openings into the home.
Inside the home eliminate all possible hiding areas and food sources.
Repair cracks and holes in floors, walls and ceilings.
Seal openings around plumbing fixtures, furnace flues, electrical
outlets, windowsills and walls, and along baseboards and ceiling
moldings.
Leaky water faucets and pipes should be repaired.
Thresholds on doors should be as tight as possible and cracks in porches and stoops should be sealed
Sanitation
Proper sanitation, both indoors and outdoors, effectively limits cockroach populations.
Do not leave unwashed dishes, kitchen utensils, and uncovered food out overnight.
Clean up all spilled liquids.
Areas beneath and behind cabinets, furniture, sinks, stoves and
refrigerators should be cleaned often, as should cupboards, pantry
shelves and storage bins where particles of food frequently accumulate.
Kitchen waste and excess refuse should be kept in cockroach proof container and disposed of as frequently as possible.
Dry pet food should be stored in tight containers away from the kitchen and other food.
If pets are fed indoors, leftover foods should not be allowed to remain in the feeding dish overnight.
Outdoors, garbage cans, racks, platforms or slabs should be cleaned regularly
